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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1925
Page
7
C T Calhoun Y M C A official spoke on Practical Idealism urging a coming new day. He urged vision and readiness to achieve better conditions beneath surface realities and warned against overlooking the coming change.
A disjointed text fragments discuss health claims about liver products and dubious tonics. It hints at weight treatment, purported nutritional aids, and questionable medical authority. No coherent event or person is clearly identifiable.
Washington December 1 AP Byrain former president and now a receiver of the Ubicagyo Milwan and St Paul railroad told the Interstate Commerce Commission that canal competition and transcontinental railroads slowed northward expansion and increased costs, contributing to the railroad’s financial disaster and its need for a receiver.
Derby Mayor Frank J. Conway joined Derby Elks during a lodge meeting as eight candidates received first and second degrees. Memorial services for deceased members are planned for December with Reverend Brank house delivering the address and Alleine Sullivan of Ansonia as soloist. Also announced are weddings and local court actions, including Nicholas Hayer facing charges of reckless driving and liquor DUI, with other cases set for Wednesday.
Soltaport December 1 Special A Christmas bazar will be held in the parish house of Trinity Episcopal church Wednesday under the auspices of the Women's Service League. Mrs Graesser chairs the bag and proceeds fund the Christmas festival of the Sunday School. Girls from two troops of Girl Scouts at Wakeman Memorial help with the bazaar. Proceeds support the summer camp fund and gym classes for underprivileged youths.
Sapper notes church service at the warish house on mening, December 2. Various residents listed including Edward Noth, Mrs Bankshell, Mrs Foote, Gertrude Ons, and others. Christmas plans and local events mentioned. Wakeley from New York convalesces. Mrs John Taylor takes a position with Holmes and Edwards.
Stamford coroner John J. Phelan ruled accidental death with no criminal carelessness in the inquest into the death of 50 year old Michael Strelec, an outdoor foreman at Tophasse Grange sanitarium. Strelec died after alighting from a moving Weehond New Haven road train at Stamford station and falling on the platform. Witness Louis C. Ruvituso testified the train was moving as Strelec stepped off. two trainmen were busy and did not see the accident. Strelec's body awaits relatives, none located, and he left about $2,304 in currency in his room.
The fifty fifth annual meeting of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association in Washington D C runs February 41 2 1926 with headquarters in the new Washington Convention Auditorium. General public sessions occur mornings Monday Wednesday and Thursday evenings, with an executive session for members Tuesday. The National Society for the Study of Education meets Saturday and Tuesday evenings in the Washington Auditorium.
Connecticut voters approved an appropriation of 69006 dollars for a new State trade school building in Torrington. The facility will house six departments and is aimed at a modern, community-focused vocational education hub, excluding equipment and furnishings costs.
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