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Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Apr 14, 1927

Page

5

Robertson Hartford business man dies suddenly

Hartford April 13 AP Willam Post Robertson sixty nine prominent local business leader in Newton Robertson and company wholesale and retail grocers died suddenly from a heart attack shortly after 3 20 this afternoon He is survived by his wife three daughters and one son Funeral will be held Friday at 2 p m A member of the Chamber of Commerce Get Together club Masons and active in local politics since moving from Columbia Conn where he was born February 14 38

Hartford Apy Willam Post Robertson Len Newton, Robertson and Company Froccers Robertson Chamber of Commerce Get Together Club Masons Columbia, Conn

G A R Veteran Huckins Dies in North Grafton Mass

Francis E B Huckins 84 Civil War veteran and former town official died at his home in North Grafton on April 13. He served in local posts throughout his life, leaving a lasting imprint on the town's civic affairs.

G. A. RR North Grafton Mass Huckins

Fires and Police Officials Attend Bridgeport Siren Conference

About 35 members of the Eastern Association of Fire Alarm and Police Signal superintendents dined with Bridgeport officials at Stratfield as part of a two day conference. The program featured talks on coding sirens and traffic signal developments, with a schedule of meetings and demonstrations across yesterday and today.

Eastern Association of Fire Alarm and Police Arthur Larry Spar Hamien Boston Maas Russell Ginn Bridgeport Fire Department Edward Mennuer East Hartford Edward Cooley New Britain George Peacock National Board of Fhe Underwriters New York George Ames Providence R. L Robert Wight Stamfor Vonn Frank Gillooly Sterling Siren Fire Alarm Company Middle Street Sullivan Hartford W H. Reade Stta'field Regan

Man, 65, Admits Lewd Letter Guilt

Portland Mo April 18 Arthur Milne 65 admitted guilt in a two year postal harassment case involving obscene letters and drawn lewd sketches sent to New York Brooklyn Boston Brookline and Portland. He pleaded guilty before US Commissioner Jacob H Berman and paid a 1000 bond for the September term of the US District Court. Milne used a mailbox at Congress and Myrtle streets and claims he did not know any recipients, selecting addresses from city directories.

Portland New York Brooklyn Boston Brookline Arthur Milne United States Jacob H. Berman Milne United States District Court Congress Myrtle Disctase

President Coolidge pardons three stock fraud defendants

President Coolidge pardoned Samuel Safir Samuel Rosenblatt and Warry A Sideman, three of the seventeen jailed in 1924 for misusing the mails in a stock sale scheme tied to the Altsor Glas Casket firm. Rosenblatt, a Chicago attorney, received motifs. Safir faced 2½ years. Sideman and Dorn one year plus.

New York Coolidge Samuel Safir Samuel Rosenblatt Warry Altsor Glas Casket Corporation Jogepn L Judae Hand Dorn Safir Atlanta Rosenblatt Sideman Rulieg Tudge Hand Becaus

Women and Children Killed in Shanghai Demonstration

A Shanghai march by Chinese workers at General Chiang Kai Shel's Cantonese troops ended in a massacre as soldiers fired on a crowd led by women and children. Twenty were killed and many wounded in front of the union headquarters, with the crowd attempting to shield itself behind a women and children screen.

London Shanghai Chaplen

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