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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1926
Page
3
Six new members were inducted into the Rotary Club at a recent luncheon at the Stratford Hotel. President Bodine outlined Rotary’s international scope and the ideal of service, ethics, and community life, noting the Denver convention and emphasizing the one member per profession rule during introductions.
Despondent over divorce, Joseph Stankawits shot himself in Norwich after his wife refused to reconcile. He was taken to William W. Backus Hospital and did not recover. He had previously moved to Youngstown, begged his ex-wife to take him back, and followed her after she remarried. Neighbors said he wore a necklace, and police investigated the attack.
An accident at Kempston air field, Bedford, killed three passengers when a captive balloon basket dropped after a gas ban netting failed. Only one survivor escaped. The incident is attributed to a gas ban breaking lapse during tether, causing the basket to detach and fall.
Chautauqua New York August 3 1 AB A good newspaper read regularly and with discrimination has been described as a source of piness and the origin of a pirose pay of Ule that will stand up Edward McKernon superintendent of The Associated Press Eastern division spoke at Olderst Night celebrating the anniversary of the founding of the Chautauqua Assembly Read and contemplate for this is the beginning of w dom The one Institution that reflects human nature and presents the bare cold facts of life is the data press You are not well informed nor patriotically equipped for citizenship unless with diligence you follow succeeding events as the pass In review on the printed page The problem of our society is not the ignorance of the uninformed but the more thinking of the o us intermined The man who does not think at all is a lesser liability The one who thinks that has not listened to think straight is a social menace We cannot think straight until we have a comprehensive knowledge at things as they are and this is to be had only from the newspapers Make Masses Think The intellectual independence of the editorial page has been established The advertising columns have been purified ... The Associated Press was organized by newspapers to give their readers bare facts of life and invite them to do their own thinking The effect has been a stall utauph Today the masses are thinking for themselves and naturally there is a revolt against the fis alas
London August news reports Britain closely watching the Balkan issue involving Bulgaria and Jugoslavia. Foreign Secretary Godfrey Locher-Simpson told the House of Commons that Jugoslav troops likely would be ordered across the border. Macedonian bands entered disputed areas in large numbers, aiming to push into Bulgarian territory until at the frontier. The government had not confirmed Jugoslavian forces crossing the border.
Bath, Mune August 3. Morse, Charles Wo Morse, suffered a paralytic stroke twenty seven months ago. He vomited but this morning he was able to converse briefly and rest. His wife Jennie Morse and relatives describe his mental state as improved though he shows periods of drowsiness and difficulty in understanding those around him.
Connecticut Tobacco Co schedules a significant sale of tobacco plant stock with about 2.0 million dollars at stake. The auction, set for Thursday at Connecticut Valley Tobacco Association offices, features samples as well as 38 cases of fair-eight lots to be sold to the highest bidders. The sale marks a pioneering dispersion by associates of officials in this country, with items ranging from 1924 short second to 134 cases of short seconds.
Historians in New Hampshire recount Howard Gove as an early rebel and possible precursor to the American struggle for liberty. A planned Hampton Beach carnival pageant will dramatize Gove’s small loyalist band, his capture, trial, attempted treason sentence, and eventual pardon, alongside the dissolution of colonial assemblies.
Chicago August reports a convention of beauty specialists declaring men increasingly patronize beauty parlors. They note men spent eight million dollars on grooming last year and this shift reflects a business culture valuing appearance and youth.
An obituary notes the passing of Mrs. B Stevenson aged years in Por Hale cemetery. Her daughter Grace Stevenson vanished in the night of April 26 and never returned. The long unresolved mystery from the late 1800s is touched on as a family tragedy and public intrigue.
Edward Douglas Lluward, a Willan College junior, sustained a broken back after diving into a pool and later leaping from a third story infirmary. He wore a specially made apparatus and was sent to his father's summer home in Chautangida to recuperate, with recovery hoped for by fall 1927.
About a thousand people fled their homes in Brooklyn early today as ammonia fumes spread through a flooded area. Fire crews wore gas masks and plugged leaking seals to contain the danger.
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