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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1921
Page
9
Hartford August 22 In the near future women who bob hair for other women will be required to obtain state barber licenses. The state barbers commission notified the attorney general that hair bobbing falls under barbering and those who practice it must show qualification to sit for the license. A license fee of five dollars will be charged to establish the right to practice.
Several petty offenses were heard in city court yesterday. Harry W Hover of 54 Park was fined 25 dollars and costs for assaulting Mrs Mary Hethaway of 121 George during a liquor chat. Graham of 645 Water was sentenced to 20 days and George Caddo of the same street 10 days. Thompson of 7 steer was fined 5 dollars for operating an automobile without a license. Anna Habu charged with death case and her coroners hearing continues.
A violent inmate set a bonfire in Tombs prison causing panic and severe burns. Syl vaster Crorketh, a Black prisoner, attacked a guard with kerosene and a torch, spreading fumes and injuring himself. Attendants halted the blaze but he is badly burned and may die. Police may pursue charges as the scene drew a crowd.
FOPLAK BLUFFS Mo August 23 Somebody else has found the meanest man in the world W BR Brook agent of the Missouri Pacific Railroad at Neelyville who formerly opposed capital punishment has changed his mind This new meanest man in the world cut the screen out of the station window while Brooks was asleep and crept away with the station agent s small change and the watch The outlay was welcome to the thief
In Poplar Bluff Missouri on August 22 a freak guessing contest was announced by J J Andrews tax collector of Oregon County. The prize rewards the nearest guess of July taxes collected and eligibility is limited to spinsters residing outside the county’s principal cities.
Ancouver Bgo 22 Frank Walters a professional diver salvages valuables from wrecked ships deep beneath the sea. Encased in aluminum armor he climbs sunken hulls and hauls treasure from vessels like the Princess Sophia State of California Islander Marinosa Zila Mary and others in the North Pacific graveyards. Walters has made a fortune mining the sea floor.
In Greensboro North Carolina Judge James H Boyd declared the new federal child labor law unconstitutional. The Owen Kesting case previously found unconstitutional by Boyd two years earlier and later upheld by the U S Supreme Court. A separate Ohio item notes a historic 1800 house being moved to allow a garage with weatherboarded logs.
An elderly executioner, 80, reflects on his decades of duty in the electric chair, and the memory of his wife Marty Faber as he contemplates capital punishment. Patterson, the veteran, describes the burden of serving state law and the stark difference between battlefield killings and executions. He recalls the hickory stick used to record names of the executed, including fifty four names, and notes the moral complexities of justice.
Local business listing for Mitchers Datry Company located at 210 Grove Street with phone B-5050. No other details about products or services provided in the snippet.
Kansas City Aug 22 An American mining expert Z C Underwood arrived from Nogales Ariz urging recognition of Obregon and accusing U S policy of denying a market. He warns Mexican money flows to German manufacturers while American firms lose orders and Mexican farmers lack farming equipment and threshers. Underwood notes Mexicans want U S action, while foreigners press into Mexico with orders.
Honolulu reports indicate large opium consignments smuggled into Oahu through Chinatown areas. Prices drop from 150 to 120 per tin as authorities monitor channels linked to the Korea Maru from Yokohama and a seizure earlier in the month of 60000 in opium.
London zoological garden officials announce an ostrich at the zoo has gone more than a year without drinking. The expert notes the bird completed a twelve months dry tour with no discomfort, highlighting remarkable adaptation.
A fragmentary ad letter reveals a six day White Mountains trip for 48.25 priced with a personal escort from Boston area companies. The writer mentions Harold’s real estate plans at Fair Acres Maurhead and household chores, laundry, Madame Vera studio hair treatments, Lane’s candy shop, Anita in Canada, and a savings club at Bridgeport Savings Bank as part of a personal journal keeping.
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