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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1922
Page
14
The club squadron enters a motorboat race starting at o clock tomorrow. The event goes to Middle Light House and back, a 17 nautical mile course. Prizes for first second third and fourth include a light and compass each. A canoe regatta and swimming race are also listed on the Housatonic River program.
A schedule lists upcoming meetings in Bridgeport including Daughters of America at 181 Stace Street Joseph Dowdnall lodge Keighty of Pything 1025 Main Street Arcanum lodge I C I 1089 Broad Street Women’s Christian Temperance Union 289 Goher Street Bridgeport Master Plumbers Association 1188 Main Street Bridgeport Teachers Association at Bridgeport High School Saovay Athletic Association Walter and Green Streets American Insurance Union Garden AMM Council 181 State Street Ashlar Lodge F and A M Masonic Temple.
W H Porterfield surveys Long Beach, praising its rapid growth driven by respectability and prohibition. He contrasts beach scenery with urban expansion, notes housing and building permit boom, and claims cleanliness and family-friendly culture attracted migrants from Iowa and other states. He also pokes fun at taxes and city management while highlighting horseshoe culture and civic ordinances as part of the city’s charm. Tomorrow’s piece will cover Los Angeles.
An early 20th century advertisement touts Wendall's Pills Ambition Brand at Hindle Pharmacy and Hartigan Drug Store. It promises quick mood lift and a money back guarantee on the first box, claiming help for nervousness fatigue sleeplessness loss of appetite and indigestion.
An advertisement touts Zemo as a single effective remedy for itching skin and a range of conditions including pimples blackheads and eruptions. The product is advertised as penetrating and curative, with claims it will banish skin troubles, soften and smooth the skin.
Ansonia, Aug. 2 Eugene W McKnight, 82, a Civil War veteran, returned to Ansonia to visit the graves of his parents in Elm street cemetery. He left Ansonia as a boy of 14, traveled through Illinois to California, living in San Diego. He toured the town last April, visited friends, and plans to return to California after greeting his kin. His brother died in the Confederate army. McKnight has five children, nine grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.
New York August 24 news: Charla Evans Hughes secretary of state urged Pan America to renew Brazil visit and respond to Emperor Don Pedro’s 1876 US trip. She also seeks a trip to attend the Brazilian Centennial exposition.
Ivy Giberson pleads not guilty at arraignment before Justice Joseph Willita in Lakehurst New Jersey on August 24. She faces a murder charge in the slaying of her husband William Gibson on August 14 as he lay in their home. The defense seeks an adjournment until the inquest date next Tuesday, granted by Judge Willits.
London dispatch notes England and Wales 1946 rates from the Registrar General. Marriage rate reached 20.0 per thousand, birth rate 25.0 per thousand with 997 182 births, the largest since civil registration began. Infant mortality fell to 80 per 1000, death rate 12.9 per 1000, marking record lows.
Stockholm proclaims itself Paris of Scandinavia due to modern architecture and era. Canadian radio factories operate three shifts around the clock to meet demand.
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