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THOMAS HARDY 1S " DEAD IN ENGLAND ‘Was Noted British Nowelist and Pogt Dorchester, England, Jan 12 (F— Tpomas Hardy. regarded by v the grestest English writer of h .period and one of the last great Vic- torians, is dead at the age of 2 | last in 1ed The mnovelist died niz the countryside where he had for most of his ters and depicted in his| books. He had a chill December 1 and age imposed heavy 0dd doubtenl fo- itten it , voctry will ever he printed w day. He 1s faid to hay mostly for himself and his friends feeling that he had. completed lite work for the public at 13 More than forty vears a novelist planned and tuiit the hou n which he died Through the tervention of the then Pri Wales, later Edwa allowed to purcha - the prince’s estate for the hom Londen, Jan. 12 A — London newspapers today raized t 8 as to whether the Hardy would be a honor of burial in W bey. At the Abbev the question of burial of the novel- ist there had long been Final word rests with the Rev. Wil- ‘lam Foxley Norris, dean of ‘West- minster, who was absent from Lon- don this morninz. He will . this afternoon ecpecially for a con- ference with his cancns on the sub- ject. The dean'has s authori! regagds to burials at the ahbes ke confers with, his clerzy vice in some cases Canon Woodward #xpl th was no uncertainty in regard to bur- ial at the abbey for some men owing to their position and that such bur- 12l was decided long before their death. In the case of . writers and artists, he said. their position relative and therefors more difficult to determine. It the decision of the dean is in favor of burying Hardy at the ab- bey, it merely amounts to an offer to the novelist's family of the a bey for this purpose. Many follow- ers of Hardy believe that his family will refuse: the pomp of an abbey burisl, preferring a simple burial in his beloved Wessex country which Hardy seldom left. EGYPTIAN COTTON ESTIMATE Alexandria, Egypt, Jan. 12 (P— The Egyptian government today es- timated cotton ginned at the end of December as 1,586,524 cantars (roughly 75,549 tons) of the sakel- laridis variety and 2,534,229 cantars (120,678 tons) of the othet varieties. tion retuen Mrs. % <0 is the a0 B8 R“txg heard of! 1 pity wom «Why. all ¥ ot Rinso suds - right “Just s0afir sm;bbmg an 1 find th X t's s ecauise v b bit _them.2 atall” . Millions o is fro whie Ric 1o hard WAt an't durt qust <nch That's Rin More the charac- | high |1 it was stated ‘that | debated. | out so yoU 1on fothes NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1928, FLASHES OF LIFE: THOMAS EDISON * DECLINES TO FLY IN AIRPLANE —_— West Orange N, J.—The great in- veptor will trust no new-fangled contraptiens to get him to Flerida quickly. “Airplanes are the great- | est marvels of the age,” said Henry Ford when, visiting his friend Whereupon Thom~= A Edisen wrote | [with the stub of a pencil: “"Take no| |interest in aiwrplanes till thev're fur- {ther perfected™ 'The friends are [ goinz to Fort Mvers together close all the way. [to terra firma i | Wew ‘Tor ecrets abont airplanes hibitors of pictures of carrier Saratoga re- veq orders from the distributors 1ete howing the deck I ascommodate pla Uncls Sam a1~ fabon the airplane portians Fhifadelphia — Autsmobil 8 knocked | the pohice in tolen. | prece Two e Diorine ha “-aved o nk Anwr At Buyer ve dealers e York—Miss Peck fwn teet have taken her Epirit of §. Lowss Mount Hua feet, which Annie § | thinke hey her than the | he A 1= to be renams name “Chlumbidhe n order to avo 1 by “Americans comes from the ' Thel Rodyiguez | national h- tor of and Mendel | truek, come. | with another car but landed in. hos- - Tork—Willie Collier n, is amenz those shocked by the Pital anyway when their from the Giauts to|turned over and dumped them into shift of Horneby Tunne th Tust 1 Partley e trading Gone | Madden* he Springfield. Ma Adoniram *ho 15 dead at 95, attribut- lone life to the fact that bars wheney B ed h vent adl= nezsibl — | England—Decreased earnings in'the candy business have tean explamed at a meeting of {} hamber of commerce as follo “Gallants used to buy chocolate their fricnds, now it's cigarettes Lady Georgina Shol- 0 had had four hus- but i ow_here’ seeking in the cars s 1 shoes Manchester, New York | to Dou bands, career number movies son 15, her adult ass ithat she knows more about the bus- iness than they do. produet, colored, transparent plates for railroad displays. is largely the handiwerk of Miss Day |Croix vouths riding in a tolen car, but he {had to empty his revolver at them to do it brother-in-law of Gray. says |demned man is resigned to fate an will face execution calmly smoking ruins of, hou Frank Couter., much alive from hiding |woods where he fled to escape em- charge Goose, levy McKay, ‘Norwich — ary 23.or I'ebruary Thomas E, Donohue, 1 1ates’ explain, The company’s Branford — Police Chief Victor La captured two Charlestown Danielson — Bernard Beauvais and Earl Glockner went riding. but unfortunately th mission of the o |both were turned over to Worces- ter policemen torget to ask per- er of the car so Norwalk — Two reporfers at. {tempting to wring story frem wife | |of Henrv Judd Gray. are locked up lon disorderly condnet charg Norwalk -— Frank Brundage cor Middlstonn — Middlesex county's smallpox total continues to rise but all cases are still of a mild form Danbury—While neighbors eearch for bedy of up vers place in he turns |plover's wrath, New Haven — Israel Kaplowitz succeeded Weism riding machine road tew Haven — William Boyd is enced to state’s prison for from © to four years on manslaughter Boyd, also known as ''Blue ~as held in death of We Interscholastic grid edule for eastern Connecticut and western Rhode Island is mapped out or At Norwich Free academy meeting vew London — Frenchy Belanger of Toronto and Frankie Genaro of New York city will meet in N. B. A. yweight: title bout on either Janu- ecording to B. A pres- ident | - London—A 2 the flood causes faith in the futare | English people. an inquest how Marjorie Franckeiss dived through the window of a| submerged house and rescued a mother and baby. Cuts | glass caused her to nt to a hos- | pital vear old heroine of | a coroner to have | generation | SR e 1 New York—Charolette Day. 17 | president of a corporation. Paline of commission votes to purc If was described at acres in Thomaston to add fo Bl Rock state forest. ck ‘ Stanly Hartford — State park and forest ase 125 Hartford — Arthur C. Mason 4o Brainard fleld. Plane got “all , is {wet” but Mason was tossed on river The rea- [bank. wash clothes ¥ who ou do is a2 while, af don't have 10 p whiter clothes rd rubbing: y wash it. 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J. and she tells parents on telephone that she “wants to go home " Her father says “she didn't leay anything to him when she left, {and he hasn't anything to say about her coming back.” Hartford — State board of educ tion in busy session reaffirms die- missal of two trade school teachers, appoints fwo new ones and orders | five.year data compiled. Bridgeport — Two men. ene a dis- |couraged real estate operator. the {other, a man out of a job, end lives lby hanging. Louis Salwitz the real| estate man, is said to have lost heav- ily in Florida. - John Spodnik, Wad a family fo support and no pay en- | velope coming in Bo! han = in the cellars of *their | Hartford — Clark Belden execu- five vice.president of the Connecti- cut Chamber of Commerce, in letter |to President A R. Kimball of Water- {bury, says he will resign at the next {mesting, January 23 Belden a mes post on Financial Digest on | February 15 Hartford — Nicholas Archangeln, {wanted for complicity in attempt to awrence W.. Farrona from | prison is surrendered to state | Jerse by M Hartford — “Flaming” Milka Sab- | ch and “Mother’ Bloor plead for | support for striking miners of Colo- | |rado, Penn. and Ohio. [ New Haven — Representatives of | {New Haven road and Winchester's | frown ‘on proposition of municipal |ownership of water company here PLUMBER IS FREED {John Culligan Dropped as Defendant | in Complaint Resulting From Al- | teged Faulty fcebox. | Bridgeport, Jan 12-—John '?um.! |gan, a Danbury plumber, was | dropped as a defendant in the so- | called Danbury “ice box” suifs now | I being tried before Judge Brown in superior court today. dismissal. of that- portion of complaint agamngt Culligan agreed to by all parties, } | A the | was | The damages suits are for $45,000 because of the draths of Frank W. Torce, 58, -and his grandson, War ren Force, as a result of escape of | |Fas from a refrigerating apparatus in the kitchen of their apartment i | Danbury, October 14 | | The allegation is that the appara- tus was defective. | | The suits are brought by Mrs | Margaret F. Force mother of the child and Mre, Clara R. Foree th widow The British telegraph never has paid expenses since it wo: taken over by the past office |vears ago. most women i buy the ldl’gf package ) Allyn L. | - Come on and hear! Come on and cheer! — The — SENSATION of the YEAR! — The — BIG LIONS’ FROLIC+1928 Nothing Can Compare With This Wonderful Aggregation of ‘Singers Dancers Fun Makers The Chorus Will Astound You With Its Marvelous Harmonious Melody GOOD TICKETS for the Lions’ Frolic are waiting for you at Crowell's Drug Store. The reserved seats are now selling. By all means buy vour tickets at once. The Blind, the Crippled and the Orphans need your help. 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