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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1919
Page
22
The Lyric last night presented Lucia di Lammermoor by the De Feo Opera company. Attendance remained thin though the few seats filled, the performance earned favorable notices with solid singing and stagecraft despite uneven sections.
The Mati Nee company rehearses for today with Faust and Aida bookings as the afternoon and evening plans. Helen York’s lead night power delights audiences, while Silva Sciaretti and Alfred Valenti give strong performances in key roles. The ensemble chorus shines under Rossi and Votpi with Pugna directing. Tomorrow’s Carmen benefit aids tuberculosis efforts led by Miss Wakefield.
Devon report notes Clark Baldwin 78 died from injuries suffered after a fall on the Howsatanis river bank in front of his Baldwin's Station home. Funeral at Smith Mortuary chapel Milford Saturday at 2 pm with Rev. G W Simonsen officiating. Burial in Milford cemetery. He leaves two daughters and four sons.
The consolidated show features May Wirth Australia’s top rider, Bird Millman, Ernest Clark, Hanneford family, Siergrist Libon troupe, McPherson Scottish horsemen, Signor Baghonghai, Mailla troupe, Hillary Long, Alf Loyal’s dogs, trained seals and animals, and Shetland ponies. The famed combined circus opens Friday June 24 in this city.
The Bridge Commission Traffic Commission and city officials including Mayor Wilson will attend the 10 am opening of the south side of the Stratford avenue bridge. The trolley tracks are finished and the Warrenue is laid enabling city traffic to cross Pequonnock. Lighting on this side is not yet finished but expected next week. The north side cleanup may begin soon and the halt section should be ready for pedestrians and vehicles by mid July.
Four men were arrested by federal agents in El Dorado as part of a secret service operation exposing a plan by inmates at Fort Leavenworth to counterfeit checks and defraud the government. The scheme used prison presses and paper to pay convicts at the farm, with most notes drawn on United States sub treasuries and involved losses exceeding $100 000.
The note suggests a brief upcoming summer with a likely short period of hot weather. Forecasters point to patterns that imply limited heat duration and a quick transition to cooler conditions.
An advertisement extols Dr True's Elixir as a stomach tonic and laxative that restores bowel action and expels worms such as pin and tapeworms. It targets adults and children and urges daily use to prevent sickness.
Paul Olsen and John Winter, both 27, were held without bail as detectives presented a bag of 126 steel jacketed dumdum cartridges, maps and street guides of Philadelphia and nearby cities, radical literature, and two phials of suspicious liquid. The suspects are naturalized aliens.
Devon June 13 Mrs J J Fons of Bridgeport avenue hosted the Colonial Heights Sunshine Society meeting. The group completed patching three quilts and then enjoyed cake and tea after the session.
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