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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1923
Page
8
The New York Times notes Japan honors ancestors during the three day Festival of Lanterns known as Bon Odori. Families tidy altars, share food, and mark the dead with dances, songs, and rituals while modern factory life intrudes on tradition.
Coroner Edward Fitzgerald exonerated a broker from 44 Central Park West and the driver of the auto that injured Dorothy Knapp, a model of 131 Riverside Drive, in a September 30 crash near Weensico Dam Valhalla. The finding, announced after an October 9 inquest, concluded no evidence showed incompetence to handle the car. A separate London report notes subsidence repairs revealing a network of holes draining into a chamber under Linnfairfershaw road.
The Hartford Courant notes Commissioner Tobbins H. Stoeckel pursues universal safety measures to reduce accidents. A University Auto Creed urges drivers and pedestrians to pledge care, with emphasis on self restraint, signaling, and respecting others. Data shows women drivers less involved in crashes. calls for standardized traffic symbols across cities to reduce confusion.
The Motor Vehicle office on State Street announced extended hours and staffing to handle a predicted surge in license transactions as 1929 licenses near expiration. Daily operations will run shorter on some days, with offices open New Year’s Day and a warning that drivers with late 1929 licenses may face arrest after December 21.
San Francisco December 2 Soanoke Blerboer and Thomas Roada married at First Congregational Church with organ music and flowers. Mrs Roada arrived from Holland to wed her childhood sweetheart but no guests were invited. The couple insisted on a large wedding despite an empty church. Dr James L Gordon officiated.
London dispatch reports Bristol's Long Ashton Institute leading a practical scientific effort to revive the ancient English willow craft. After extensive study, creeping willow specimens have been located and are now under cultivation.
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