Coast Guard Pursues Rum Runters Across Long Coastline
In his annual report Rear Admiral F C Billard says the Coast Guard is making steady progress in breaking up rum running and will drive the menace from American shores in due time. He warns the task will take years and calls for continued personnel, equipment, and congressional support as the force polices ten thousand miles of coast with many inlets and coves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Coast Guard
FC Billard
Billard
Congress
Bank Debits Show Better Prosperity In Past Year
Reports of bank debits to individual accounts in six Bridgeport banks for November show much greater prosperity than the previous two years. The six banks totaled 531,145,419.51 with an estimated 8,000,000 from two others, a grand total near 61,150,000 versus 44,150,000 in November 1924 and 47,300,000 in November 1923. Through 1925 debits exceeded 1924 in all months except April, with a May onward rise of over 10,000,000 monthly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport
Bran-Olax Tablets Promote Digestion and Appetite
An advertisement touts Bran-Olax Tablets as a healthful mint flavored wheat bran formula to relieve chronic constipation. It claims one tablet per meal aids digestion and appetite and targets children and adults, price 25 cents per carton at Leverty Drug Co. and other drugstores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leverty Drug Co
Driver's Case Continued in Court in Greenwich
In Greenwich a Port Chester man Vincent Goff pleaded not guilty to reckless driving after his car struck Miss Leanore Bruce on Deerfield Drive and Glenville Road. The case was postponed one week to allow another witness. Joshua Green was fined $5 for evading a taxi bill. A brawl at James Oca's house led to fines for Angelo Vakka, James Bruno, and Oca for breach of the peace and intoxication. Michael Pasquali of Port Chester was fined for reckless driving and for not holding an operator's license after a Shore Road collision. William Chadeyane of East Haven was fined for driving an overloaded motor truck.
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Greenwich
Specelal
Vincent Goff
Port Chester
Leanore Bruce
Deerfield Drive
Glenville Road
Joshua Green
Edward Brown
Brown
James Oca
Angelo Vakka
James Bruno
Oca
Michael Pasquali
Lcense
Philip Breslow
Shore Road
William Chadeyane
East Haven
Maine fiddler dazzles New York crowds on tour
Mellie Dunham, a 72 year old Maine fiddle player, arrives in New York from Detroit to public attention. Crowds form at Grand Central, the stock exchange halts trading briefly, and he plans meetings with Mayor Hylan and Tex Rickard about Madison Square Garden performances. He and Grandma Dunham share farm life details from Norway Maine as hosts promise further tours.
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New York
Mellie Dunham
Grand Central Station
Detroit
Henry Ford
Stock Exchange
Grandma” Dun[ham
Melile
Hylan
Tex Rickard
Madison Louare Garden
Grandma
Norway
Ford
A. F. Masury
Mellie
Long Hill School P T A Program and Social Notes
Special meeting of the Long Hill Parent Teacher Association presents pupil program grades 1 to 7 with recitations songs and drama. Christmas readings by Dunbar club. stories by Raymond Sputcher and class newspaper reading. Local residents moved and hosted guests. PTA card party planned for December 18 to raise funds for a stage curtain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Hill
Parent- Teacher Association
Stary Epamtinondas
Eleanor Zabel
Julia Calhoun
Dorothy Kellogg
Jeanette Wildman
Kenneth Keeton
Floyd Kellogg
Evelyn Cotton
Donald Whitney
Shirley Jennings
Lois Abbott
Lorenzo Wildman
Raymond Sputcher
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Warren Flarding Dramatic Club
Esther Unger
T Edwards
Middlebrook Place
Bridgeport
Wil'am Statts
Denver Avenue
Bridger
Samuel G. Seeley
Parent-Teacher Association
Long Hill School
Misa Madeline Kilcoyne
L. R. Wildman
Louis Albert
Farrell
Stanley Isaacs
Samuel Seeley
Iani Holden
New York
Joshua
Henry Adams Jeff
Miami
Florida
Franklin B. Mallett
Paul Schmidt
M Cathron Firm Loses City Plant Contract Bid
The Board of Public Purchases awarded the Island Brook Avenue automatic pumping station package to Silverstone-Ervin, Inc. for 18829 dollars, with Bridgeport Boker Works second at 19650. Mayor Behrens authorized the contract. operations to start after paperwork. The city may seek bids later this month for garbage grease revenue in 1926. The Chase Commercial Corp currently pays 6.93 dollars per hundred pounds of grease, potentially boosting year fiscal receipts beyond 73000 dollars if the rate holds. The clerk was authorized to draft the next fiscal year budget, expected to closely mirror the current year.
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Island Brook Avenue
Board of Public Purchases
Silverstone-Ervin, Inc
Arch Street
Bridgeport ,Boker Works
Henry N. McCathron
Ninth District
Behrens
Chase Commercial Corporation of
New York
R. R. Wilson
Board of Apportionment and Taxation
Washington Receives League Armament Conference Invite
The State Department reported receipt of a League of Nations invitation for American participation in preliminary talks on arms limitation. Officials withheld details, noting President Coolidge favored conferences that lead to effective agreements and that non league members could be included if it aided participation.
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Washington
League of Nations
State Department
Gibson
Berne
Kelloge
New York
Coolidge
League
Alleged Attacker of Girl Is Held in Court
Morris Carstein of Broad street faced city court arraignment on charges of attacking Miss Jessie Reeves of 93 Myrtle street. Reeves identified him as the Tremont street assailant from Friday night. Bond set at 504 with December 21 hearing.
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Ansonta
Morris Carstein
Broad Street
Jessie Reeves
Myrtle Street
Miss Reeves
Tremont Street
GBE
Vook
Tax Assessor Still Incomplete Report On Taxation System
William F. Connelly has not completed the revision of the taxation system report. William J. Burnham, president of the Board of Apportionment, said the document should be ready for tax board consideration by Thursday or Friday this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Connelly
Wiliam J. Burnham
Board of Apportionment
Tax Board
Also Mentioned on This Page
Piamond
Illinois
Portland Cement Association
Madison Avenue
Kanden
Maine
Fiddler
M’cathron
Silverstone-Erwin
U. S
Connelly
Sheaffer
Titan
Lomer
Sheaffers WA Sheaffer “"““ Company
Port HA Ova
Harvey < Lewis Co
Main ST
Shaeffer Pens
Anta Claus
St. Nicholas
Christmas Savings Club
City Savings Bank
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