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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1927
Page
5
A clock at the Zurich Polytechnikum operates without winding its mechanism. It is powered by a sun or temperature driven system that triggers its motion whenever the air temperature changes by two degrees.
Warning about child neglect and urine crystals in diaper rash. Doctors cite high rates of irritation risk and advise preventing crystal contact through proper care beyond frequent diaper changes.
The body of Elbert H. Gary arrives in Illinois from New York and lies in state at Gary Memorial Methodist Church in Wheaton. Ten football stars including Garland Grange and Vic Gustafson attend, pallbearers named, funeral at 10:30 AM with music by the Oriental Oustet. Burial follows at Gary mausoleum in Wheaton Cemetery.
Danbury August 17 By Associated Press headquarters for the 9th annual American Legion convention department of Connecticut opened at the Legion home today with Edward L White of New Haven department adjutant assisted by secretary Mrs Gail W Panzer and a local Legion and auxiliary committee The convention will be called to order by Kenneth F Cramer of Wethersfield department commander tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
Secretary of the Interior Work said Coolidge is happy about the prospect of running for president in 1928. Work, returning from the summer White House in South Dakota, said the president meant his earlier statement about not choosing to run in 1938, and that anyone who has seen him would doubt his position.
A Washington report from the Associated Press highlights a surge in forestry activity in 1927. The American Tree Association survey notes 79,000,000 trees planted and state forests expanding to 6,836,036 acres. Pennsylvania leads planting and funding, while floods spur emphasis on headwaters and reforestation advances via nurseries and seedling distribution nationwide.
In Winona Lake Indiana the World League Against Alcoholism opened its seven day congress while the National Anti Saloon League neared the end of its meeting The executive committee declined to urge Republicans and Democrats to add prohibition enforcement planks to platforms A delegation went to Columbus Ohio to attend Mrs Wayne Wheeler funeral and student delegates held an intercollegiate prohibition rally today.
Paris August 17 Associated Press report says pilot Maurice Drouhin and manager Charles A. Levine failed to launch their planned cross Atlantic flight as bad weather kept aviators at Le Bourget from departing for America. Drouhin waited all afternoon for Levine with two magnetos but Levine did not arrive.
Clement T. Butter seven falls from railroad bridge in Enfield Massachusetts while walking to see his father in a field. He drowns in the swift river late Tuesday afternoon, authorities report.
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