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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1927
Page
8
Weekly menus outline meals from Sunday December 25 with breakfasts lunches and dinners featuring turkey olives oysters beet tops and many vegetables. The note includes a grape jelly dessert recipe and health guidance on digestion and systemic dieting for facial neuralgia and calcium deficiency rashes.
The Leviathan sailed into South Boston dry dock for annual overhauling. Workers will scrape and repaint the bottom, inspect propellers and shafts, and service boilers and engines. After Dec 31 stay, it returns to New York and reopens service on Feb 11.
Bridgeport Telegram invites readers to write to Dr. Frank McCay with intimate problems. Request a personal reply by enclosing a self addressed envelope. Letters should be addressed to Dr. Frank Mc Cay, Bridgeport Telegram.
Bids for state highway contracts totaling about 1400 were opened by Highway Commissioner John F. MacDonald in the House hall with 200 road builders present. The Portland-Cobalt road bids, part of a Springfield to Black Hall through route, drew special local interest.
In New Haven a truce was reached between federal and state authorities over liquor seized from the Nova Scotian schooner H. M. Haines in East Haven. The state will have sufficient evidence for its case, and a federal grand jury will be convened in January to hear smuggling charges against the crew and six others arrested.
Air mail service to Vermont, started after the November flood, will be discontinued tomorrow. Robert B. Fagg has been making daily trips from Tiguty to Barre and Burlington with first class mail matter. Train and truck transportation will serve the communities that had received mail by plane.
Miss Amelia Wenderoth executive secretary of the local American Red Cross chapter returns to Badgeport after over a month aiding flood victims in Northern Vermont. She and fellow workers labored to complete rehabilitation before heavy snowfalls halted travel, with snow delaying departure until Tuesday. Wenderoth’s squad was based in St Albans and impressed the Sc Albans Rotary Club which donated Thanksgiving dinners to Johnson flood victims.
John T. Yoomey, sixty, ex postmaster of Oxford for 12 years, was found dead today in a storeroom at his home in Oxford Mass. Authorities say he died of heart failure after entering the storeroom this morning. He had served as assessor and secretary of the Agricultural Society and gave up the postmaster role a year ago.
New York December 23 The New York Evening Post quotes Simon Lake inventor of the modern submarine describing a new automatic door system to prevent flooding in submerged compartments. He says it could have saved lives in the S 4 tragedy and outlines several other safety devices from a moving air hose to trap doors and a safety chamber with compressed air to aid rescue. The piece notes naval authorities once discarded such space consuming devices for storage needs and adds a final remark on Wall Street foreseeing a broad Marine presence abroad.
Dr. Mattihiar Nicott Jr state health commissioner warned in a WOY radio health talk that higher car speeds will dramatically raise deaths and injuries. He cited 1666 auto deaths in nine months, over 61 thousand injuries, and argued speed advertising aims to sell more cars. He warned of future governors capping speeds to protect lives.
The article recalls Christmas as a sacred, ancient festival emphasizing joy, good will, and family gatherings. It notes the day’s significance and urges appreciation of Christmas as a venerable celebration rather than a ban on festivities.
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