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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1919
Page
53
By Percy L. Crosby, the item notes a prelude to a Berlin raid with a terse, cautious tone. The fragment hints at wartime actions and the mindset of leaders or soldiers preparing for a significant operation.
In this tale Jenny Wren and Peter Rabbit discuss Redhead the woodpecker. Redhead boasts about ground foraging, beetles, fruit, and nuts, while Jenny and Peter hint at his less savory acts and gossip about local birds. The scene ends with Redhead departing.
Frank Mc Cullough, a farmhand from Otsego county New York, was executed for killing Detective Williams. Crowds protested overnight outside the jail prompting police to deploy reserves after a brick toppled a mounted constable. Several arrests followed the tumult.
The T C C ordered a revision of paper rates across trunk territory to conform to a uniform basis. The move follows a case by the Michigan Paper Mills Traffic Association against the New York Central and others. The commission stated that eastern rates were often set to favor mills located on carrier lines in competition with better located mills.
Baroness de Larothe flies a small biplane in Paris and reaches 15 700 feet, a height record for women. The ascent surpasses Ruth Law’s previous mark by over a thousand feet, with details checked by a French Aero Club commission.
Letters between league officials for William I protection are printed by Voerwaerts. One refers to a 20 000 marks remittance to Holland to cultivate the Dutch press. The paper notes this is small given current valuations but warns the league may spend more as entente pressures push for the emperor's surrender.
An ancient oil burning locomotive, Unit 101, drew attention yesterday afternoon at the railroad station while refueling. The engine, about the size of a pay-as-you-enter trolley car, has been in operation for two and a half years and is en route to the Master Car Builders' convention in Atlantic City.
Demostanis Kontsouris was barred from $500 damages against Bernard Koblenz due to contributory negligence after boarding a jitney while it moved. Judge John J. Walsh of the Common Pleas court handed down the decision. The accident occurred on Boston avenue on October 12, 1918, when Kontsouris fell under the wheels.
Physicians prescribe medicinal iron to build up the blood but bowels suffer. J T Lantagne created Iron-Lax-Tonic tablets with a laxative effect, praised by Lowell and Bridgeport locals for quick tonic action, improved appetite, sleep, and bowel regulation. Hindle Pharmacies and leading druggists carry it.
Squeeze juice from two lemons into three ounces of orchard white to make a quarter pint freckle and tan lotion. Grocers supply lemons and three ounces orchard white for a few cents. Massage daily on face neck arms and hands to fade freckles, blemishes, and whiten skin harmless and non irritant.
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