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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1919
Page
22
A compact price sheet lists Bluefish at 25¢ per pound and 1 Yb each, Block Island swordfish offered by the house, sliced fish at 38¢ per pound, Green Steak Tilefish at 25¢ per pound, opened oysters and opened long clams priced at 45¢ per quart. Prices reflect a casual coastal market.
Sid Challenger announced part of the schedule at the Athletic association executive meeting. Three away and two home games are set with Naugatuck New Haven Waterbury Hartford and Kent as rivals. Final schedule to be announced later. Coach Fred Hunt said equipment plans are complete with fifteen shoulder pads five pants and three footballs received. eighteen jerseys are en route. Jerseys will be orange and black. Walter Stapleton Louie Hill and William Sabin were nominated to replace custodian Martin Ryan. Stanley Benjamin leads the Criterion staff preparing to publish a newspaper form issue and a literary issue three times this year. Final AA meeting looms before fund drive Monday with room representatives to be elected.
Stanley Mattarson of 282 Catherine Street slipped on a broken bottle at the American Bottling Company's Sedgwick Avenue works where he was employed. He sustained a gash in his right arm, closed with two stitches by Dr. B C Pasuth at the Emergency Hospital yesterday afternoon.
Glasgow Sept 11 The trades union congress, after a three hour debate on direct action to press political demands, voted by a small majority to reject that demand. The decision blocks a potential triple alliance of railway men, transport workers, and miners from precipitating a national railway and industrial paralysis. The congress pledged support for nationalization of banks and the creation of an industrial labor parliament to unify trade union action on national and international issues.
James Middleton, 17, colored of Norwalk, pleaded guilty to assaulting Laura Martin, a young white girl from Norwalk. He was sentenced to five years and one month in the State Reformatory by Judge Webls in the Criminal Superior Court after prosecutors showed Martin was attacked as several children cried for help. Passersby aided the girl and Middleton was turned over to police.
Three men from different states were arrested yesterday in the East End freight yards while trying to steal a ride to New York City. Thomas Brophy, 21, of Portland Maine. James Planagan, 22, of Lawrence Massachusetts. and James J. Murphy, 22, of Dover New Hampshire were taken into custody by Railroad Officer Corsale.
A military medical report describes a neck injury recovery using a rigid head support devised by the army surgeon in charge. The apparatus stretched the neck to separate vertebrae with a leather chin pad, a metal yoke on the shoulders, feather pads, a body harness, and adjustable wing nuts to increase tension daily.
A family in Indiana celebrated a son returning home after earning a diploma from an Eastern college to begin law practice. The father prepared an office, while the mother and sisters visited the sanctum. A sister recalled their reactions, noting tears from mother and sisters, and even the brother, Leo. The father joked he did not cry, but claimed the dad cried seeing the setup.
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