21 Aug 1923
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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1923
Page
1
Tax Board keeps fate of city education program in suspense by failure to act. Local officials warn budget gaps could delay school renovations and teacher hiring while awaiting state guidance. Community leaders urge decisive action to preserve academic programs amid mounting funding uncertainty.
The Board of Apportionment and Taxation met in executive session after postponement. The Board of Education’s request for 20000 for next year’s fines was not acted on and will be reviewed later. The meeting discussed fuel needs and potential school closings, with actions on clerk salaries tabled. Funds for a city charter mailing and other transfers were approved, while compensation for a deceased man’s wife and related items were noted in the contingency accounts.
Mayor David E. FitzGerald of New Haven was stricken by ptomaine poisoning after eating lobster Friday night. He was deemed out of danger and resting in bed under the care of Dr Norris D Slattery, with orders to stay there several days. First symptoms appeared Friday night. he reported to his offices Saturday then was taken to bed at once.
Bridgeport radio described a kidnapped infant named Lilien, a six and a half pound girl with blue eyes and light brown hair. Nathaniel Bishop of 301 Park Place broadcast the description from 11 30 o clock and urged listeners to relay the message across broad distances.
Fire threatened a cluster of wooden Main Street shops at the corner of Main and State in Bridgeport last night. Patrolman Hockheiser alerted the alarm at 10 oclock and firefighters confined the blaze to the Traveler Shoe company basement at 914 Main Street, causing likely under $100 in losses while sparing stock and fixtures.
A 53 year old woman, Catherine Payiewek, attacked city attorney W Parker Seeley at his Main Street office after claiming laws would allow her husband’s wages to be attached for their hungry children. She weighed 220 pounds and was arrested after a struggle, with Seeley attempting to calm her and seeking to withdraw the case while police intervened.
Attorney W Parker Seeley is injured when an enraged woman lands a right jab after Learn about a salary attachment on his husband’s earnings. Fire threats near Main and State streets prompt swift police action to avert destruction and protect aged wooden structures.
Atlantic City session of the anthracite coal industry conference adjourned without agreement on wage demands. President Coolidge discussed potential eventualities with Chairman Hammond as talks focus on demand No 2 water increases. Massachusetts lawmakers received details of a plan by bituminous operators to supply New England in case of a strike.
NEW YORK August 20 Tred Walters famed for blue skin dies at Bellevue hospital from heart disease. Doctors report his organs matched skin color due to arcyria from chronic silver poisoning. Walters, about forty years in sideshows, allegedly worked in an Australian mine.
The Post Office department announced regular city delivery for Tunxis Hill and Lenox Hill sections of Stratfield. Address mail to Bridgeport, not Fairfield, as Stratfield is part of Bridgeport. Streets added include Buena Vista road Tokiyome Hill road Montauk street New Jean place Senior place Churchill road Newtown avenue Flushing avenue Tunxis Hill road York road Old Stratfield road Greenfield road Knapp highway Bogart avenue and intersections. Residents previously used rural delivery boxes. route will depart from Broad Street main Post Office. Waterbury August 20. News of death of William E B Curtis, 68, director of Seaville Manufacturing, former assistant secretary of the treasury under Cleveland, with homes in Watertown and York Harbor.
Secretary Wallace warned that thousands of American farmers may go bankrupt as wheat prices fall below production costs. He urged price alignment between farm goods and other commodities and suggested rail freight cuts could aid agriculture. He cautioned any remedy must avoid harming farmers further and questioned government agency options to stabilize farm products.
A bus traveling from Nice to Evian plunged 300 feet into the river, killing Reverend Hiram Grant Person and Mrs Person of Newton Massachusetts, Charles H Gray, two unidentified women, and the driver Louis Valerine. Several others were injured. some taken to Nice hospital. The crash prompted rapid ambulance response. witnesses aided victims before help arrived.
Walsh and Rose of Bridgeport were held in Winsted jail after pleading not guilty to transporting liquor. Police stopped their touring car containing 690 quarts of Canadian ale. They face federal prohibition transfer charges. Walsh known locally as Jigger.
Sir Thomas Lipton arrives aboard the Cedric and confirms plans to build Shamrock V. He aims to reclaim the America’s Cup and mentions tuning 23 metre Shamrock for British races while preparing to lift the cup again. He jokes about a water-tabled plot against him and recalls welcoming reception in New York.
A girl living near 574 Broadetreat observed a man leaving Aman g0 Into the Will house Sunday afternoon after a handbag was found stolen. She and police followed him, met Policeman Reilly, and Claud Jackson of 71 French Intern custody. Jackson, still with the handbag containing nail water could be held on $50 bond for theft trial.
A spate of air crash reports from New Haven to Syracuse details Albert E. Bradley of New Haven and Albert J. Bradley Jr. die in separate flights. Bradley of New Haven, a Rochester Air Corp pilot, perished near Cato New York after his plane dove into woods. Another Bradley, age 26, son of local residents, died in a Mansfield's Grove flight while a companion’s identity remains unclear. Casualties also include Alfred Mesquite and Eximund Reece in Fayetteville and Yak City incidents.
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