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Newspaper

Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Apr 27, 1926

Page

21

Rare opportunity for Bridgeport home sale with many listings

The owner of a splendid nine room house in Enat Bridgeport plans quick sale, including furniture if desired. Listings include Colonial six room homes with hot water heat, garages, built in bookcases, fireplaces and slate roofs. price ranges from seven to eighteen thousand plus. Various streets and neighborhoods feature single and two family houses with multiple garages, terraces, and improvements.

Enat Bridgeport

Musical Instruments No Down Payment For Used Upright Pianos

Bridgeport dealers offer used uprights including Steinway and Duo-Art pianos with Steinert guarantee and easy weekly payments. Also sale of a baby grand piano with mahogany case and new terms in Bridgeport and New Haven area listings.

Steinway Battle Ebo Marshall Shoninger Wal WAL COTE Jewett Bridgeport Conn Ray M Hemming P.O. Box New Haven

ATTRACTIVE STRATFIELD AREA 10 ROOM HOME FOR SALE

Real estate ads describe Stratfield area properties: 10 room houses with 3 baths, large verandas, fireplaces, high ground views of golf grounds, and substantial lots with trees. Multiple listings include 2 family and 1 family homes, cottages near North Ave and Stratford centers, garages, modern improvements, heating, copper screens, sun porches, and terms or cash offers. Contact agents John J. Ryburn Agency, Crehan, or local owners for details.

Stratfield Road C. A. Newman Mata Rt. Noble _ 50 Stratfield Noble Pacific St Peterson Anmdia Ave Beria North Ave Wood P. Anderson Fairfield Ave Barnum Black Rock Falow Crehan Barnum Ave Wiliam Jami Loyse Wilse Rehan Cleiston Ave Whittier St Louis Bispane Laurel Reach Milford Cone Térand Barnum Hanover John J. Burbun Agency Stratford H. Wehmeier Gilpatric Lavell Brooklawn Belonk Pesidendal Improveminta Clark & Sr. Cor State and Lafayette Sts Tong Will Rt Vincent's Hospital John a_Ryburn Fark Pennsyl P. Maalek Bylvan Ave John J. Rytum Agency Tel Ramurm Sthatford Main St Main St Huntington Largain Hutchinson Marin St Fumlttes Prica Gord Tartenth Qaner Stratford Tate WU House John Joy Steapfoli Toom Chay M Serkhaw Woospurr Conn Amily William Stone Nabie Avenue Clark & Senior State Lafayette Sta Bar Ey Park

Farms and Lands for Sale in Connecticut Area

A classified listing offering multiple rural properties for sale. Items include an 83 acre apple orchard with a 22 room house, barns, and live stock. 12 acre on running water with house, barn, hen houses. a large poultry farm with fruit trees, spring water, and outbuildings. various 30 to 83 acre tracts near Stratford and Stepney, all with houses, barns, fruit trees, and farming tools. Prices range from $3,500 to $7,000, with terms and contact details for Clark & Son, J. Bl Snyder, and others.

Clark & Son Cot State and Lafeyette Sts Bar J. BL Snyder Long Hil Tigeren Bridgeport Stanley Rotstont Stepney Depot Conn Tel Trumbull John J. Ryborn Huntington Rd Stratford State Road Clark and Son State Lafayette St Warnum Hougatonle River Clark Malawi Barna Bobstock Hazlett St. Barnim Stetrey Waler Nolan Stepney

MOVING SERVICES AND VAN FURNITURE SHIPPERS LIST

Local and long distance moving firms advertise large padded vans storage and packing. Companies include Miller Trucking and Storage PF Barnum Moran and Harswell with daily trips to New York Stratford and Boston. Operators promise reasonable rates, fireproof storage, crating by experienced men, and connections in major cities.

Boca Toile Aia Bane Et Jones Howe Hyceljent Best Residentiat Aeetton Barun Brond St Noble Tecal Aid New York Stuvtford Scott Trucking Lords Tony Wallace Pina Huftula Stratford Springfield Providence Ula Regiarlo Hery Vanson, Jr Barnum Stowe Newfield Ave Walewakt Clarence Barnum P. B. Turner Newfield Ave Beaton Cath N. Arin Tewitt E J. Moran WOOM Terry CO. Barnum J. A. Begley Strat Thomas Tlasaga Ature Pinuoe Tong B. C Haskell Tel Noble van Shrvich

Business opportunities seek stable partner for venture

Classified ad items describe openings and sales pitches for business opportunities and rental spaces. Mentions Mary Ants, age 25 to 40, marriage preferred, seeking trustworthy man with education and character to manage a title work venture. Also lists several sale and rental notices for bakeries delis groceries and storefronts, with contact notes and locations across various streets and avenues.

Mary Ant Hu Han LASS Gobdenrod Aves Washington Avenue Gale Sal Stratford Aye Fairfield North Avenue Oai Oai Stationery and Confectionery Paly

Painting and Decorating Services Advert

Painting and decorating services offered with experience stated as 22 years. Home painting power hanging wallpaper and wall papering. Local contact numbers and addresses provided for Brickport area. Includes spiritualist meeting notices and several property listings with lot descriptions and shore lot sales.

el Anthony Detuses Grang Noble H Frank North Ave Arenes

Houses Wanted for Rent in Maplewood or Stratfield District

Bridgeport Land & Tita Co lists 9 of 10 rooms with baths for rent in Maplewood or Stratfield. Several buyers seek 2 family homes. contact at 875 Main St Barnum 270. Also multiple poultry and dairy ads including White Wyandottes, laying pullets, calves, and farm supplies.

Maplewood Stratfield District Bridgeport Land & Tita Co Main St. Barnum Lark & Fon State Lafayette Sta. Berpum

Wanted to Buy and Clothing Advertisements

Wanted to buy used furniture and rugs misc items. Ads mention W Ranker 320 State St Barnum 1846 and Mr Meyers 419 Main St N SRO Pay A Fain Price for used furniture tee boxes rugs and carpets. American couple seeks to adopt a child age 2 to years old. Address No Box 6 this paper revitae a ont Towne ao each laborer 10 Walter Benautford Coma.

Talwats PAI Prich W. Ranker Barnum Mr Meyers Jasmin Barnem Tang Adies Ami Gente Addrona Walter Benautford

Lumber Company Stead DIES In Worcester Mass

Pany W Wood, 77, president and treasurer of P W Wood Lumber Co and founder of the Massachusetts Retail Lumber Dealers Association, died last night in Sea Breeze where he had been since January. He was long a central Massachusetts lumber figure.

Worcester Mass Pany W. Wood P. W. Wood Lumber Company Massachusetts Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association Massachusetts

Obituary notices from Bridgeport area April 1926

A string of death notices lists Mary A Bell Amelian Mincent Maconi Adolph Palmberg Stephen Szabo Mary Talmage and others with funeral plans at St Raphael's First Hungarian Reformed Church Mountain Grove Oaklawn Milford and local family homes. Public notices include card of thanks from the Christie family.

Bhli Mary A. Bell Harral Avenue St. Augustine’s Church St. Michael’s Cemetery Fagan Mary I Thomas J. Fagan Greens Avesnue Brooklyn N. Y St. Michael's Cemetery Bridgeport Conn Gillette Milford Charles William Gillette Welch's Point Road Bayview Goodsell Elizabeth Jennings Brindley Goodsell, Jr Greens Farms North Avenue William Mason Laurel Avenue Mountain Grove Maconi Amelian Alex Street St. Raphael's Church St. Michel Frank Polke and Son State Street First Hungarian Reformed Church Talmadgh Mary E W. Scott Talmage Monroe Street St. George's

Wall Street Notes A roundup of 1926 rail earnings and finance

The market report lists earnings from St Louis Southwestern, Southern Railway, Winchester Repealing Arms, Superior Steel, and others for Q1 1926. It notes net profits, gross revenues, and per share figures, with new bond issues by Hudson River Navigation and Canadian Rail and Harbor Terminals. Also covered are auto industry demand signals, steel output in Youngstown, and rising industrial averages indicating partial recovery from February-March declines.

New York St. Louis Southwestern Railway Hudson River Navigation Corporation Canadian Rail and Harbor Terminals, Ltd Toronto Southern Railway

Caught in Act of Robbing Broker's Home Chicago ManWeeps

April 26 AP report details Vincent de Pascal captured while robbing Evanston broker Georges Williams's home and breaking down when police arrived. Found in his hotel room were $26,000 in stolen funds and jewelry with stones missing. De Pascal, once in a New York reform school, sought money for his ailing wife. He described modern robbers as suave and self-possessed, urging others to keep cool.

Chicago Welf Vincent de Pascal Evanston de Pascal Bimba State Reformatory New York Georss BR. Wiliams Hvanaston de Paschal Elmira St. Louis Williams

Racing Results and Entries From the Card

RACING RESULTS AND ENTRIES list horses such as A. P. Canale Landlord Courting Porto Bello Gold Combat Jack Horgan Painted Lady and Sagamoré Stable in the Greenwich purse races for three year olds and up one mile and a sixteenth and a claiming race for three year olds with entries including Special Account Columbia IV Pempest Green Blazes and Charicle.

A. P. Canale Landlord Courting Porto Bello Combat Jack Horgan Painted Lady Sagamoré Stable Greenwich Dward Gray Prince Humie Redstone Loved One Goldbeater Columbia IV

Lexington horse results show multiple races and times

In Lexington track results for eight races, three-year-olds and up compete in Futurity and other events. Notable times include 1:10 3-5 for a Futurity course, 1:47 4-5 for a half mile two-year-olds, and 1:38 4-5 for the mile race. numerous horses and jockeys listed with payouts and entries.

Finstrach Glad Rags Benham Bobbie Shea Abel Secrets Dubois Algoran Jane c Queen Navarre Arlo Boodie Green Hills Vendel Legere Floranada Wiliams Mary Helen Skyrm Rani Engadine Marion Elizabeth Edna Mae Ethel Dear Hella Jessie Belle Predominant Juliette Esquin Clivenna Bixty Pinchon Qed Sporty McGee George de Mar Dillon Firetoma Chuk Vale Pourth Pigeon Wing Picton Robert Marxwell Poole President Blind Ed Burke Malcolm B. Jr Huntsman Winter Street Rookbinder Buttress Happy Top Massillon G. Johnson Son Hoagland Ali Baba Devon Scotland Jones Bonaire Peter I. Jeanette Khallis Gav Mallle Gale My Sunnyland Comrade Need Podena Seventity Mrs. Moore Marial Barton Teibois Broken Toy Normile Yan

Nichols Nichols Ladies Night at Nichola Men’s Club

Nichols village welcomes new residents with a newcomers night at the club house. The program features the Thoven quartet with Mayor Hehe vans and Senator Black delivering a monologue, plus a prize in dancing and entertainment for the evening.

PERSONALS AND EVENTS IN BRIDGEPORT SOCIETY NEWS

The item lists numerous social happenings and personal announcements. Notable entries include recitals by Mrs. Albert Baldwin and Mrs. Arthur Baldwin of Milford, a Round Table banquet planned for May 21, and Mrs. Isabel Gregory Kirkby resting post appendectomy at Bridgeport hospital. Also noted are a whirl and pinochle event at the Ninth District Men's club, wedding attendance in East Orange, club meetings for Business and Professional Women, a birth announced for Theodora Belle Kaplan, Morris Court Busy Workers meeting planning a May 4 event, a Florence Elizabeth Alling Ashmore marriage, a North End Talmud Torah tea and whist, and engagements between Beatrice Kohler and Edward B. Corning with no wedding date set.

Liberty Bell 2 Cent Stamp On Sale May 10

A new two cent stamp, commemorating the anniversary of American Independence, will go on sale here shortly after May 10. The stamp will use the regulation two cent design in a rectangular horizontal shape, bearing a Liberty Bell engraving in harmonious surroundings and measuring about 1.5 by 0.8 inches.

Philadelphia Nwe Uberty Bell

Auto Carrying Alcohol Caught Near Danbury

State Policeman Leo Carroll from Ridgefield chased a freelix limousine from east of Danbury through Newtown to Sandy Hook early this morning. He stopped the car and found 120 one gallon cans of alcohol. The driver, Rosario Terrase of 5 Central Street Angents, was taken to Danbury and jailed.

Danbury Leo Carroll Ridgefield Barracks Newtown Sandy Hook Rosario Terrase Central Street Angenils

Norwalk Girl Seeks 35000 in Heart Balm Suit

Miss Hilda F Jones of Norwalk sues James Napoleon a local garageman for breach of promise claiming he proposed marriage on January 15 1919 and failed to wed. She seeks 35000 in damages.

Norwalk Hilda F. Jones James Napoleon Milay Jones Napoleon

Man 1 Crushed By Truck In Norwalk

Norwalk April 26 Charles Haig local resident is in Norwalk hospital with fractured ribs and possible internal injuries after a truck driven by W R Baker of Gates Ferry crushed his parked car against a pole. Baker is jailed on charges of reckless driving and driving without an operator's license. The page also contains stray, nonrelated lines about radiotelephony and a daughter practicing scales.

Norwalk Charles 0. Haig Norwalk Hospital WR. Baker Gates Ferry Baker Reckleas

Empire Builder of Texas dies leaving vast rail legacy

ABILENE Texas April 26 A pecular old man Col Morgan Jones died here rarely known in town of thirty thousand. He built rail lines across six Southwest states and invested in California timber and Colorado fuel. Jones started as a contractor, joined Fremont, then fretted over publicity, never married, and dedicated life to building and financing rail projects from Fort Worth to Denver and beyond.

Abilene Tex Col. Morgan Jones Wall Street Bank of Texas James J. H. Jay Gould East Middle West Colonel Jones Southwestern Texas Arkansas Oklahoma Missouri New Mexico Colorado Amusa 4 Fortune California Redwood Timber Southwest Wales Jones Alp Davis Mountains Mexico Fort Worth Denver Fort Red River Taeling Santa Fe Atchinson Purcell Wnally Umit M. F. Thomas Superni Nv Breat Selig~man, Mo Eureka Ark Maj Rk. M. van Zandt Thaull Chicago Sulu Ballinger Hamilla Meon

Editor Attacked During Chileans Parade Over Territorial Plebiscite

Chileans staged a patriotic parade in Arica to push for a plebiscite on sovereignty north of Peru and Chile. During the event editor Vilena of Voz Del Sur was assaulted by a marcher claiming to be demon Stratton. Vilena was not seriously injured.

Aria Chile Peru Senor Vilena Voz del Sur Peruvit Sayle

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