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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1925
Page
5
An advertisement touts Evans Trips Phosphates as a remedy for weak nervous condition and fatigue. It claims the tonic steadies nerves, boosts strength, and improves appetite, with a two week trial and money back guarantee if it fails. Hindes Drug Stores and Graeme supply it.
Ashburnham Mass August 4 AP Chief Elmer Russell of Ashburnham was expected in district court for a charge of being present where gaming was in progress but was not arraigned. Philip Govette of South Ashburnham was summoned by the state and fined 150 on a charge.
Milford residents will witness a public demonstration of the newly purchased city service fire truck, planned for Milford High School. The event, organized by the Board of Fire Commissioners, includes a display of the apparatus, its uses, and safety features, with additional plans for a field day and benefit concert to raise funds for expenses.
Authorities broadcast via radio seeking a man believed to have assaulted Mrs. Rent Stoddard in Newington while her husband was away. The suspect, said to be an parole from Cheshire reformatory, reportedly threw a blanket over Mrs. Stoddard but she resisted and he disappeared. He had been employed at the Stoddard farm for about six months.
Police held nineteen year old Joe New Hasen Auz, ChaTry Huber Messner, and others after a string of armed petrol station robberies. A youth, arrested as a companion to two sent to reform school for auto theft, admitted involvement during questioning. A small caliber pistol was found on one suspect. Police pursue leads tied to prior incidents and suspect identities.
Stamford August 21 special deputy coroner Henry T. Stevens said no criminal responsibility would attach in the death of Mrs. Mig Withiel Movs of Lafayette Street. She was struck by a truck operated by Samuel Wilson of New York City with helper Louis Rowewall of Westport. Wilson and Rowewall claimed she stepped from the curb into the truck’s path on West Main Street near Waitte Avenue. Wilson said the truck was moving at about four miles an hour.
In New London on August 24 AP reports state Treasurer Ernest Rogers bought the Brandegee estate land, adjoining his property on Hempstead Street. The purchase includes cottages and a wharf with bathhouses, once summer homes of Washington officials, now well kept. The Montilleium tract, 160 acres with farmhouse and timberland, was sold separately to Mrs Minna Sonnenberg for 3500 dollars.
Washington police say a plot by a faction of the Tong to kill three Ap Sing long officials was uncovered in a raid on their headquarters. Chinese detainees were arrested or held on gambling charges while authorities photographed and fingerprinted suspects for further investigation.
George A Doyle of Lodges So 116 IAM says the organization will consider reinstating members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers union into the International it is not international but a splinter group born from prewar policy disputes. President W A Johnson met with New York branch leaders in informal talks as Doyle notes no opposition to reunion and believes informal agreement will settle the process.
Aug 4 decision by Judge L and Thomas ordering the Blaimore to be released from seizure near New London after a hearing in South Norwalk last week. Owners claimed alien seizure under the Underwriter decision that guard services may not extend beyond 12 miles. Court orders release of the Blaimore cargo of liquor.
An insane inmate at Westboro State Hospital for the Insane killed attendant Richard W. Beddow by striking him with a scrub brush as he passed washing a corridor. Authorities withheld the inmate’s name while the investigation proceeds.
Walter F White of Worcester is held in the Central district court on $10,000 bail on a murder charge for the death of his wife after an axe fight. His case was continued until August 27.
New York officers reveal a major diamond smuggling scheme at the Canadian border. Two men, Henry Wargulies of Albany and Abraham Trepper of New York, were arrested after customs found 45900 in gems hidden in a hollow brush handle and bag contents. Bail set at 12000 pending further search results.
A Sealyham terrier belonging to Mrs RS Russell of North Andover was lost for 13 days and found imprisoned in a well. Despite no food, the dog appeared unharmed, aided by a water-filled bottom that kept it from thirst.
Dr George W Post Jr of Chicago, lecturer at Northwestern University College of Medicine, was elected president of the World Conference of the Seventh Day Baptist Church at the closing session of the 1925 conference in Salem West Virginia. The 1926 conference will be held.
Vice President Dawes will attend the California Diamond Jubilee marking statehood admission on September 4 and discuss his push to revise Senate rules in eight addresses along the Pacific coast early next month.
T C Stowell, president in charge at Stratfield hotel, will address the Bridgeport Advertise club at their noon meeting. He handles dictaphone sales from Dataphone Corporation of America in New York and will discuss the dictaphone, its rules, problems, and solutions.
At Shippan Point in Stamford in August 1974 Martin Iz Altcan, son of James Kegan and Warren Street, was saved from drowning after being submerged. A companion pulled him from the water as cramp and distress struck him. a nurse treated him on the scene.
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