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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1919
Page
10
New York Sept 21 Plans for the funeral of Theodore P Shonts an executive of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co and a prominent electric railway official were announced for release tomorrow Services had not been completed by day’s end Shonts had suffered a lung illness of some weeks and died early today at his home
Theodore Perry Shonts, born May 5 1856 in Cranford County Pennsylvania, rose from Iowa accountant to railroad builder and Isthmian Canal Commission chairman. He later led the Panama Railroad Co and Panama Railroad Steamship Line and became president of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co after resigning the canal post in 1907. Shonts married Harriet Drake in 188? and earned a salary around $50 000 as IRT president.
A Romanshorn dispatch says Germans continue airship construction with a new airship that flew from Lake Constance to Berlin in four hours. It carried 38 passengers and their baggage.
A Bridgeport stock market summary lists numerous tickers and prices from private wires of JT. L. Watson & Co. Brokers. Separately, Leonora Clampett Tice sues James Croydon Tice for a divorce and alimony with custody disputes, notices to be published in The Bridgeport Post.
Workmen construct a one story brick addition 36 by 14 feet behind the Birmingham National Bank in Derby. When finished it will be used as a bookkeeping department and housed on the rear of the building.
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