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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1919
Page
50
The De Feo Opera company presented Lucia di Lammermoor earning a decisive success as audiences enjoyed the Morceaux highlighted by strong cast performances and staging.
Moor at the Lyric drew a larger crowd last night with near full seating while attendance earlier in the week was only fair, signaling growing interest as the run continues.
The company presented Lucia di Lammermoor with strong performances by Miss Helen York and others. Faust airs this afternoon followed by Aida tonight under Rossi’s direction with a fine chorus and orchestra. Carmen benefit for soldiers TB Red Cross stars Wakefield in leads tomorrow.
Devon June 13 funeral services for Clark Baldwin 76 held at Ilsmanth Mortuary chapel Milford after his death from injuries from a riverbank fall at his Baldwin's Station home. Survived by two daughters and four sons, burial in Milford cemetery. Also report from Vaucresson France of Damar Ferid blaming Germany for Turkish deaths in war.
The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows bring a huge world class program featuring May Wirth Bird Millman F Ernest Clark the Hanneford family and many others. Acts include Alf Loyal’s dogs Toque the amazing canine and troupes of seals dogs and cats with Shetland ponies. The show opens Friday June 27 with a mammoth main tent pageant and spectacular exhibitions.
The Bridge Commission Traffic Commission and city officials including aldermen and Mayor Wilson will formally open the south side of the Stratford Avenue bridge this morning at 10 o'clock. The Warrene has been laid and trolley tracks completed to allow full city traffic across the Pequonnock. Lighting on this side is not finished but expected within a week. City Engineer Maurice F. McKanna said cleanup of the north side would begin, with pedestrian and vehicle traffic planned mid July per latest estimates.
Chicago June 13 four men arrested by secret service operatives uncovered a bold scheme at Fort Leavenworth prison. Convicts reportedly counterfeited checks and defrauded the government of more than 100000 dollars using prison presses and special paper to pay fellow inmates at the farm.
A terse forecast notes that a brief summer spell may arrive with warmer days and light breezes. Forecasters say typical June patterns hint at a stretch of dry, pleasant weather ahead, with no strong storms in sight.
A health advertisement extols the stomach and bowels as the body's main working system. It urges regular movements and worm prevention, promoting Dr True's Elixir and Dr True's Worm Epeller as family laxatives and dewormers for all ages.
Philadelphia June 18 Paul Olsen and John Winter both 27 were held without bail. Detective Mahoney presented a bag containing 125 steel jacketed dumdum cartridges, maps and street guides of Philadelphia Camden New York Cleveland and Pittsburgh, radical literature and two phials of suspicious liquid. The men are naturalized aliens.
Devon June 18 Mrs L Pons of Bridgeport avenue hosted the Colonial Heights Sunshine Society meeting yesterday afternoon. Ladies completed patching a quilt. A social hour followed with cake and tea served by the hostess.
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