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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1925
Page
5
An advertisement touts Cod Liver Oil Tablets as a strong health aid for summer. It claims the product boosts endurance, digestion, and strength, with testimonials from Mrs Juth Dorn of Clarks Hilly praising its effects and money back guarantee if not satisfied.
An old fashioned root and herb remedy claims to restore health to women worldwide. The advertisement asserts many thousands of women have benefited and urges those suffering from sore womanly issues to try Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Westerdas more than 400 employees of the Connecticut company and officials with families gathered from Bridgeport Norwalk and Stamford to Roton Point for the annual outing and field day. The program featured twenty events, lunch, a hotel meal, tug of war, dancing, and music led by a band. Events included track races, footraces, diving and swimming contests, followed by baseball, more races, and evening dancing. Company officials from Bridgeport New Haven and Norwalk attended, including superintendents and officers such as Henry Downs and Thomas MacLean.
Eugene C J Kelly former alderman from the Third district and members of the Democratic executive board have the Florida bug. He works in publicity for a Boca Raton real estate firm near Palm Beach. Some reports say he will remain in the sun for at least a year, but no successor has been named for his executive board seat. Town Chairman John F McGuinness spoke yesterday.
Two divorce petitions filed in Superior Court reveal Roupen Keoshgerian of Bridgeport Deserted wife Anna Gallagher Tacinell in New York City after five years of marriage He abandoned on November 4 and custody is sought for two daughters and a son They were married August 23 1918
Democratic candidate Tom Cerh Joseph Wieler, elected in 1923, is expected to be the party nominee for a second term. Judah Jewets stated Wieler has no apparent opposition. Wieler, from the Fifth district, and Edward A Grew were the only Democrats elected aside from aldermen in Behrens’ era. Drew was tax collector at that time and is now an appointive post.
The Connecticut billboard licensing act, approved this year, taxes outdoor sign space at three cents per square foot. In Superior Court, Bridgeport Poster Advertising and United Advertising Corporation of Connecticut challenge the law as unconstitutional, claiming it interferes with business rights and targets billboard advertising under the guise of taxation. They seek a ruling that the act is null and void, with several firms named as interested parties and substantial anticipated tax increases cited.
Washington reports Dr Henry C Taylor chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics resigns at the request of Secretary Jardine. Thomas P Cooper of the University of Kentucky Agricultural College will succeed him. Taylor served since 1919 and resisted early hints to quit, consulting a lawyer on the secretary’s power to remove.
United States and Canadian government officials met to draft regulations under a new treaty to curb border smuggling. Secretary Kellogg praised law enforcement cooperation between English speaking nations as vital to suppress crime, while Canadian Deputy Minister Farrow stressed joint efforts to enforce the treaty and bring offenders to justice.
Officers of the Harry W Congdon Post American Legion announce about 100 legion men from the city will join the parade at the state convention in New London on August 29. Prizes will go to the post with the largest representation and to the best band. Delegates Include Commander W Parker Seeley Second Vice Commander Edward Driacoll Fairfield County Commander P G Moore Adjutant James Sheehan and Jay Smith of the Welfare committee. convention runs August 26 to 29.
Mary Ann White a sixty seven year old woman died in Worcester after being attacked in her bed Monday morning by her husband Walter F White. She suffered a fractured skull and about a dozen head and neck wounds. White remained jailed on $10030 bond on an assault with intent to kill charge. case continued to next Monday. If death was confirmed the charge would be changed to murder.
Bids for sewer construction on several streets will be opened at 2 p m this afternoon by Alderman Henry Koehler sewer committee chairman in the mayor Behrens city engineer James A McElroy and bidding contractors. The sewer committee plans to meet next Monday to award the contract per Alderman Koehler.
Pittsburgh Aug 20. Four firemen narrowly escaped injury when a wall collapsed during a blaze at Stewart Provision Company plant in Bridgeville nearby. The fire caused estimated losses between $125 000 and $175 090.
Henry Bell aged 68 of Boston was arrested in Chester on a charge of illicit transporting liquor. His car ran into a bank and overturned while he was being treated for injuries. Constable Arthur Bautleigh found 95 gallons of alcohol in the car.
A formal order denying a new trial for Albert S Sarta former warden at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary and Lawrence Riehl was entered today by Judge Robert T Ervin in Federal District Court in Mobile Alabama.
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