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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1925
Page
9
An old advertisement touts Swamp Root as a cure all praised by doctors and customers. It claims kidney and nerve relief, urging readers to mail ten cents for a sample bottle and to visit Wilkin & Co druggists to obtain the product.
An old musterole advertisement touts its flu relief, claiming warming penetration and quick soothing relief. It markets adult and children’s versions, including sizes 350 and 650, and urges mothers to ask for Children’s Musterole.
Real Cause-Take Dr Edwards Olive Tablets claim to fix 18 sources of indigestion by stimulating liver and bowels. Ads tout a soothing, non griping vegetable mix with olive oil, advising one or two tablets at bedtime for quick relief and better appetite.
Two alleged Rum Row agents, Harry Murphy and J. Maloney of Manhattan, were held on $2,500 bond for grand jury action by Federal Commissioner Rasquin in Brooklyn. Coast Guard officers, posing as dealers, seized whiskey and champagne worth $109,000 to $150,000 aboard a government boat, delivering the duo to authorities. A supply ship named with hell, flying the British flag, escaped.
General William Hooyer Hyler, eighty, former dragster proprietor in Bridgeport and Civil War veteran, died at home in Greenwich. He served in Company 4 259th Infantry and was Assistant Adjutant General of UV State troops with Colonel A. McAlpin. He led Company peo 1 327th regiment. He attended Packard Vonwunres College and a college of umne. Earlier he worked for C. G Pen Cetonoa druggint and Brookive drug store. Survived by two daughters and several grandchildren. funeral arrangements noted.
A distressed postmaster, identified as Postmaster III, was found dead by hanging in his home after weeks of apparent trouble. Neighbors and family report attempts to help, but he remained in bed for days before the tragedy. The wife found him at breakfast and later notified authorities. Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death.
Arteord reports Senate Bill 483 amendments to the State Prohibition Act drafted by Chief Justice Wheeler and aides. Attorney leaders will push tough provisions including equal guilt for buyers and sellers, seizure of stills, three fold penalties, public nuisance actions, and mandatory sentences for a second offense. Hearing set in the House chamber at 1 30 tomorrow with bootleg interests anticipated to oppose.
New York April 13 Cant. Vons in the United States says liquor is as plentiful as before the war despite widespread talk of shortages. Johnson aide Wim Boot Pengsy said in a state ment that observations in the Midwest show liquor supplies are ample through the coming period. U.S. District Attorney Buckner’s crackdown on cases related to the Lauer Laws receives endorsement as the sensible course under current circumstances.
A woman in Atlantic City wrote to a Camden physician urging him to murder her husband with powders. The letter, turned over to police, prompted suspicions of medical malpractice involving sedatives and forged documents. The case centers on a seven year old daughter and a sworn statement, with the doctor under arrest as investigators probe the alleged plot.
Francs April 13. Antoinette Leterrt, arrested after a series of six deaths in Saint Gilles, confessed to poisoning three patients she cared for as a nurse. She named Rosalie Gire as accomplice and accused Mile Gire of suggesting a poison used against grapevines. Police say Mile Seferri, a nurse, carried out multiple killings for money, with at least eight victims noted in the affair.
Newtown April 16 two post office clerks were fined and placed on probation and a New Haven woman placed on probation for sending improper literature through the mail. Tari Eneel a clerk at the Storrs post office pleaded guilty to taking 14 72 from the postal employees fund. He requested clemency. fined 100 dollars and placed on probation six months. Abraham E. ludders of Hartford post office after a letter bearing unproper words was sent. he pleaded mimity to sending pinetal candy and received a probation period. Several other minor offenses were disposed of with fines.
Albert Jones of the firm reported to the Detective Bureau that a boat moored at the pier suffered theft over the weekend. Brass and copper fittings disappeared, robbing the vessel of valuable cargo. The incident is being investigated.
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