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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1919
Page
2
Greenfield Country Club presents a series directed by the House Committee with governors’ support. Aiming to host various lectures and two debates, entertainment includes a Stratfield program with Elizabeth’s Young Comedy and Tom’s Arrival on June 5.
A tragedy staged at a Sanfrisco venue followed by comic readings by Rev Hugh Shields and Stratheld, with the evening winding up in dancing by the club orchestra.
About 200 members and friends of St. Vincent hospital alumnae hosted the first benefit dance at the Elks ballroom on State Street last night. Proceeds go to St. Vincent's nursery on Barnim Avenue. Speidel's jazz outfit performed. committee members included Mrs. J L Carrot, chairman, with Mrs. Anna Prynn, Miss Mary Brady, Miss Josephine Lillies, and Miss Majory Quigley. YVLER S TRACK TEAM. NEW HAVEN June 3 Frank F Aleffelfinger of Minneapolis was elected captain of Yale University track team for 1920.
William J. Flynn former Secret Service chief was tapped by Attorney General Palmer to direct the Justice Department Bureau of Investigation efforts against anarchists responsible for bomb explosions in multiple eastern cities. Police traced fragments and a Washington plant’s hat to link operations, while noting two bombs exploded at Palmer's doorstep.
Rev. F. Clarence Van Buren pastor of Walters Memorial A M E Zion church Broad and Gregory streets left yesterday morning to attend the annual session of the New England Conference at Waterbury Conn Rev Van Buren will preach the annual sermon Lucius J Jordan church clerk will represent the church at the conference
E G Anderson of Birmingham recounts two years of illness with severe jaundice. He describes yellowing of nails and body, constipation, and dizziness. After two bottles of Cinot, his bowels improved, liver revived, and energy returned. he plans to work again. Cinot is marketed as a natural herb medicine at Martigan's Drug Store in Bridgeport.
Berlin note from the armistice commission protests French support for the Rhenish republic calling it high treason and denounces Colonel Pinot’s actions in Wiesbaden as violations of armistice terms. Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau denies rumors of territorial sacrifices for peace talks.
A London dispatch notes counter revolutionary uprisings in many towns and villages of western Hungary. Reports state hundreds of refugees are crossing into Austria as the Austrian frontier receives influxes of those fleeing the unrest.
The Standard Telegram campaign to lower ice prices wins broad praise in Bridgeport. Residents including Mrs J J Rose and Mrs Roy H Clark credit the paper for the success while many plan to pick up ice at stations for 40 cents per hundred, as a protest against higher costs. The public cheers the reduction and phones flooded the office with congratulations on the victory over the ice trust.
Tiremen were summoned to extinguish a fire around the cupola of the Automatic Machine company shortly before 8 o'clock last night. The damage was slight, with an alarm from American District Telegraph box 4414. The blaze is believed to have started from sparks in the foundry.
New York June 3 transport Argentina arrived with 1183 returning soldiers from several units including 805th engineers and the 80th division. The Troy carried many Texas Oklahoma National Guardsmen from the 36th division plus officers and men from New Jersey Virginia Maryland Delaware and DC.
Obituaries report the deaths of Mrs. Ethel E. Wilson and Mrs. Elizabeth Meyer along with Harry H. Lane Harriet Hall and Mrs. Catherine Fitzgerald. Services were conducted at local churches with multiple bearers and burials at Mount Albion Lakeview St Michael's and other local cemeteries. Funeral details include dates, home addresses and clergymen names such as Rev Archibald Campbell Rev James Nihill Rev Matthew Judge and Rev Joseph Ganley.
June forecast shows continued warm weather across New England and the Mid Atlantic. Temperatures may match or surpass June records in southern New England with highs around 96 degrees in Albany and Hartford and 88 in Boston. Winds are moderate from the north and middle Atlantic with fair skies through Wednesday and Thursday.
The Americanization committee of the West Wind Educational alliance formed at a meeting to promote American spirit among neighbors. Over 100 attended as Alvin Breul led singing and Helen Duray sang, aided by Connelly. By laws were adopted, committees chosen for music drama literature athletics and industrial work. Folk dancing followed. next meeting Monday and an entertainment planned for month end.
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