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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1919
Page
11
Two young men aboard the steamship from France remained held on arrival due to incomplete papers. Teresa De-Tance, wife of a former Colombian minister, and her three daughters were allowed to land last night on special State Department orders.
London reports the ministry of health plans to build dwellings using wood reinforced concrete asbestos and other non brick or stone materials. Each bungalow aims at about 8000 dollars with a goal of around one thousand annually.
In Paris the National Lutheran Council asked to replace Protestant missions in former German colonies as allowed by the Versailles treaty. The council offered no decision on the request. Also reported are Budapest exchanges reopening after Soviet shutdown and Captain Walter R. Sexton named American naval attache in London replacing Rear Admiral Harry S. Knapp.
Washington Oct 22 The Senate passed a bill extending wartime passport restrictions for one year without a record vote. The measure would exclude radicals and other undesirable aliens from the country and was sent to conference for consideration.
A vintage health ad touts Marmola Prescription Tablets as a fast fat reducer. It promises fat disappearance after meals and at night, claims harmlessness, and offers purchase by druggists or direct mail from Marmola Company in Detroit.
New York trading saw stocks push higher as easier call money and improving demand boosted steel and iron sectors. Republic Iron jumped 18 1 4 points to a record. Texas Co Mexican Petroleum Pan-American Petroleum and Baldwin locally gained amid broad advances. Total sales reached 74,300,000, with rail shares uneven on reaction in speculative trading.
Lowell Mass October 22 Joseph Portuna divorced husband of Mary Fortuna whose mutilated body was found in underbrush on Ledges Hill Dracut last Sunday was detained today by police when he came here to attend the woman's funeral. Mrs Fortuna had been missing since September 5 when she left home to go to her usual work as a cotton mill operative. Autopsy shows death due to skull fracture.
Three Department of Justice agents were indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to blackmail liquor dealers in New York to hinder wartime prohibition. An former agent and other men face similar charges in the case. the report recalls Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley assassinations as historical context.
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