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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1925
Page
15
Numerous homes and lots listed for quick sale around Stratford and neighboring towns. Six to eight room houses with improvements, garages, steam heat, and varying prices from about no 4 000s to 46 300. Listings mention Fairfield Center, Maiden Lane, Beardsley Park, and OakMall area with agents Casey Marshall & Casey and others.
M. J. Jordan Co. advertises space at 1188 Main St N for shoe making upholstering or wholesale trade. Low rental terms include free rent options and access to a night party. Contact 4513-2 for details.
Classified items list a range of salable goods including lumber plumbing fixtures doors windows and fenceposts at Grand and Lexington corner. Also show cases jewelry cages grapevines fruit trees and nursery stock with prices and contact numbers in Bridgeport and Stratford listings.
A brief note urges readers toward purchasing a musical instrument, suggesting a decision may come soon. It frames the item as a desirable purchase and hints at ongoing availability or promotion. The text emphasizes personal choice and timely consideration in acquiring an instrument.
Multiple classified notices advertise storefronts for barber dry goods and meat markets near Stratford and Milford. Also listed are a moving picture house opportunity near Bridgeport, a fruit confectionery grocery for sale, a hardware supply need in a city, and bids for Congregational Burial Ground care. Various contacts and locations include 18601 this paper 169 Pequonnock St 60 Grand St New York 60 Grand St Stratford Ave Post Road Walnut Beach and 1296 Boston Ave.
Classified notices read like a roundup of buyers seeking all kinds of used furniture and household goods. Names and addresses appear with contact numbers such as Barnum 7900 and Noble 1721, plus services for clothing, gold, jewelry, room rentals, and painting.
Broadclassified items advertise builders and contractors, rent notices, legal services, sales agents, land lots, and instructional ads. Listings include a building moving/rigging firm at 104 King St Stratford, an Edwin A Johnson contractor ad, a Nobles rental space at 920 East Main St, a loft for rent at 463 Stratford Ave, Wooster and Davis attorneys at 1115 Main St Bridgeport, sale of silk knitted garments, a lot for sale at corner Boston and Farmer Ave, and music lessons with Prof Louis Consoli.
For sale or exchange a car listing states a 7 pass first jeep condition with new tires at 504 Thorne Street. Will exchange good building Tos in Stratford on Huntington Road for a Dodge Coach or a sedan. Contact Chas Markham Woodbury Cogan.
Two meetings will be held in the Board of Recreation offices this week. The Industrial League will convene tonight to adopt a schedule for the 1925 season and plan the opening games next Saturday. Tomorrow night the Fairfield County Board of Approved Basketball Officials will convene.
Multiple rental listings describe detached and semi detached homes in central locations. Properties include a high room half house at 375 Maple Street with modern fittings. a high glass roomed residence on Clinton Avenue near Maplewood Avenue with baths and a sun parlor. a nine room house at 22 Elmwood with garage. North Wains corner Salem eight rooms with porches, fireplace, laundry and vapor seating. a single house opposite the Armory at 44 Franklin Street. a furnished six room bungalow with garage and screened porch available May to October. Contact details include William M. Hotchkiss, 06 Bank Street Noble 4560. Fairfield 69-13. Barnum 206. Strand Theatre RNISHED. K. P. O. box 338 Black Rock.
Classified style listing includes various typewriter brands sold rented or repaired at Flummer Typewriter Exchange 156 Fairfield Ave and a personal notice seeking a young lady helper. It also details 1924 Grand List taxes due in Trumbull with payment sites and dates May 1 to May 18 1925 plus late interest. lien notices follow with pay-by date May 14 1925 and penalties.
Obituary notices for Sidney Beardsley Julius Derrick Helen Dignes Jennie Fairclough Alfred James Barber Martin Charles Wust and James Boyden in Stratford and Fairfield Connecticut. Deaths dated April 1925 to April 1926. Details include funeral times addresses cemeteries and burial plans. Major figures include Beardsley Derrick Dignes Fairclough James Boyden Martin and Wust with residence locations and burial sites.
Race card lists purses from 1000 to 1200 with multiple events for three-year-olds and up, including the Hartford County Steeplechase Handicap and several claiming races. Entrants feature horses such as Isia, Jim Coffroth, Slippy Sam, Rin Tin Tin, and Doctor Joan with weights and odds noted, in a dense values-packed program.
Lexington entries outline purse races for three-year-olds and up across distances from four furlongs to a mile and seventy yards. Names include Tay lor Hay Foxmore Ten der Seth Queen Tick jer Impossible and more in the claiming and maiden fields with odds and weights noted.
A racing card lists horses Elusive Hugo Richelieu and others across fifth sixth and seventh races. Purse amounts range from 600 to 9800 with entries such as The Traceland Nine Sixty Mastin and Georgie plus apprentice allowances noted. Camden entry appears in the mix.
The list outlines seven horse races with entries in each, including horses Tassel Isis Her riard in Race One, Freedom's Call Oakwood Mable K in Race Two, Trapase Imy Way Charlote in Race Three, Sunny Man Prince of Burbon Primroge in Race Four, Modest Flying Cloud St Valentine in Race Five, Julia M Log garth Aroon Nomana in Race Six, and ALucky Antoine Masquereado Stevens in Race Seven.
New York April 26 Only standard distance marks from Paavo Nurmi and Willie Ritola are recognized by the A A U in indoor track. Nurmi earns three official marks and Ritola two. Unofficial tallies had listed 31 for Nurmi and 21 for Finn. Official mile 4 12 shared with Jose Ray, plus 8 58 1 5 in the two mile and 8 28 2 65 in the 3000 meters. Ritola gains 13 66 1 5 in the three mile and 14 22 1 5 in the 6000 meters.
A Northwestern University policy bans smoking on campus. In a population survey of 6,700 Brazilians over 100 years old, 4,100 are women and 2,600 are men.
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