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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1927
Page
18
Advice urges rest over overeating after long work periods and suggests cold showers and light meals for easier digestion. Emphasizes that fatigue requires sleep and relaxation, not more food, and notes benefits seen by firms who schedule brief rest times for workers.
Bridgeport Telegram invites readers to write about intimate problems and receive a personal reply. Include a self addressed envelope for a response. Mail to Dr Frank McCoy at Bridgeport Telegram.
Fric Westberg 75 of 236 Lafayette street died at 3 20 am after attempting suicide by razor last Friday amid long term low mood. He lived with his married daughter and was retired. His death followed another city suicide the previous day as James Kelly 55 of 430 Bond street, a Warren Harding High janitor, swallowed carbolic acid.
Twelve children yesterday were sent by the Department of Charities on a two week vacation at Camp Omans. The group traveled by bun. Named participants include Mary Kazimer Julia Kazimer Emma Jusso Laura Jusso Carmella Jusso Florence Melito Mary Melito Gertrude Melito Helen Halligan Cathe Halligan Rose Delvecchio Maty Gorks.
Two French fishermen Jean Menguty and Louis Lebreton drifted eight days in an open boat after their schooner Theresa was lost. They survived on three biscuits, drank tea, and were picked up 160 miles from the Newfoundland coast by the steamer Nova Scotia. They will be sent back to Newfoundland.
Deputy Corner H C Stevenson found no criminal responsibility in the August 4 death of Arthur Hawkins at Bridgeport Hospital. Hawkins, 32, of 1 Howard Court, died from burns after a ten foot iron rod touched 12,600 volt overhead wires while he worked atop a tank car at West End freight yards. The resulting explosion occurred as fumes from the tank car escaped through a man hole. Hawkins, an employee of Bissell Varnish, was measuring contents of the car. turpentine had been unloaded the prior day.
Walter A. Brooke of the aeronautical division of the United States Department of Commerce is in Hartford this week testing commercial and civilian airplanes and pilots under government regulations. About fifteen pilots and more ships will undergo tests, including physical, typing, and written exams on construction, handling, and repairing planes and parts. Inspectors say aviators operate under temporary licenses as Brooke plans to move on to Buffalo Thursday.
Harold P. Green 36 of 149 Henover street had a wrecked auto at State street and Wordin avenue after stalling on trolley rails. The eastbound Bridgeport Norwalk trolley could not stop and struck Green’s car, pushing it across the street and into an electric pole. Green escaped injury.
Manuel Wager 42 of 143 Linen avenue Portuguese was riding to work when the bicycle fork broke at Washington avenue and Catherine street. He was thrown head first against a curbing and suffered facial gashes bruised lip and other injuries before reaching Emergency hospital as two boys brought the bike to the Welfare building yard.
Recent personnel transfers at the local post office became effective yesterday. John Murphy, formerly special clerk, becomes foreman of the registry division. William Cronin transfers to Murphy’s former post as bookkeeper, and John H. Fitzgibbons moves to Cronin’s place in the bookkeeper’s office.
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