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Bridgeport Standard Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Jun 19, 1919

Page

17

Acting barber to lion unique job with circus

A 69 year old man serves as the lion valet for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Shows Combined in Bridgeport. He tends 22 big lions, three cubs, and other big cats, handling nail trims and grooming between matinees and evening performances amid the circus’s merged, expansive menagerie.

Sequpacian Ringling Brothers Barnum & Ley Bridgeport Great Zoo Ike Frank Howland Frank Zowland

Bonds for Permanent Highway Approved at Milford Meeting

Milford voters approve a $60 000 bond issue for a permanent road from near the Devon railroad station through Naugatuck avenue to Electric avenue and to Broderick's corner Myrtle Beach. Bonds dated August 1 1919 will be $1 000 each with annual interest and redemption.

Walnut Beach Milford Devon Broderick's Corner Myrtle Beach Grif Strest Ford Finance Board First Selectman M. J. Cheney J. D. Brown Charles Gaylord William H. Woodruff Herbert Pelorosa J. J. Bennett Charlies L. Doherty B. H. Washburn Benjamin Cordes Stephen Bent Perry Duncan J. J. Toomey Lewis P. Baldwin D. J. Sullivan

Sheriff Pease Returns From Extended Trip

Sheriff Simeon Pease returns to New York State after a long trip through dry country. He travelled 800 to 1,006 miles by automobile with Mrs. Pease and their two daughters, visiting Oneonta Owego Elmira Binghamton and other smaller communities. The sheriff recalls teaching in the region during his youth.

New York State Simeon Pease

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