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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1923
Page
18
On the night of M a car collision occurred with a vehicle driven by Thomas Bourke of Stamford in Norwalk. Bourke has filed a suit in the Gemines Pleas court seeking damages.
Paurkield Aug 16 The commission of the First Heelesiastinas faces petitions to silence church bells from seven P M to dawn. A special committee reviews protests from year round and summer residents. The bells gifted by Frederick Sturges Jr memorialize his father with ties to J Pierpont Morgan.
State and local officials including Hartford’s E Marle, Commissioner Stoeckel, and Roebbins V. Staeckel announce a coordinated drive against reckless driving amid six pending manslaughter cases. July records show 97 licenses suspended for DUI and 33 suspensions overall, with fatal accidents averaging two per day.
Harbor news notes special races at Pequot Yacht Club tomorrow with more than 20 entrants. A social dance and tea follow at the club house. Tow ing company lugs have done outside work, and harbor coal deliveries are expected today. Springfield will stage a baby show with about 1000 entrants.
An old advertisement touts Zgsmo Gbinited as a health kiln for skin troubles. It claims to remove pimples, elinds, bilotehes, eczema and itchy problems with a clean penetrating antiseptic liquid priced at about one dollar per bottle and available at drug stores.
Kiwanis members recalled Warren G Harding as a leader who blended war time resolve with peacetime governance. The address praised his world security work, entry into world court discussion, and steadfast respect for law while noting public grief at his death. Generals Dawes and Bone offered elegies as readers reflected on his personal kindness.
The article argues that only those who have lived lives of service and devotion to country deserve top honors. It predicts War ren G. Werding will join heroes like Lincoln Garfield and McKinley in the hall of fame as a martyr to his country.
Park property will be closed to all carnivals after an announcement by FL Cooney clerk of the Park board. The eighth District Democratic club was given permission for a Beechwood park arrival next week but no further permits will be granted. The action follows complaints citywide about unsanitary conditions and disruptive elements at carnivals. Commissioner Philo C. Calhoun said the police board will back the Park board on park permit refusals.
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