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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1925
Page
2
A neighbor alarm at Wat feon F Blair's Gold West home in Chicago triggered a dawn chase as a woman maid mistakenly entered the wrong room. Police combed the house for hours while a security guard fired at shadows, but no burglar was found.
King Vietor Emanuel and Queen Ilelens celebrated Christmas with their children at the royal residence near Rome. Crown Prince Humbert and Princess Yolanda, now wed to Count Cals, joined the festivities with Premier Mussolini visiting the family. A colossal Christmas tree bore gifts distributed to all, as Italy sent messages of goodwill from across the nation and abroad.
Daily record lists ambulance dispatches with times and destinations. Incidents include family brawl leading to hospital transfer, private transfers, and multiple patient reports such as angina and fractured nose. Names appear with addresses and hospitals including St Vincent's and AEWids home.
Ramsay Mae Thonald, former Timlish Labor premier, begins a solitary tour from this port aboard a ship heading toward India. The voyage, expected to last several months, marks the start of a lengthy diplomatic and exploratory journey through multiple regions.
In December 1925 Richard Wales of 701 Ks Street died in his city. Notice of funeral hereafter.
The article reports on proposed peace plans from miners and employers as the coal strike continues. It covers the Pinchot plan offering a wage arbitration tied to coal prices, Luzerne County plan for renewal to Sept 1 1926 and long term talks, and clergy involvement. It notes a Wilkes-Barre clergy meeting and a New York conference call urged by President Lewis and Mayor Durkan coordinating with operators.
Fire officials concluded repairs and inspections after a second alarm at the Garter Company plant ended with injuries to several firefighters. Assistant chief Mellor, still on duty, had a cut hand and an artery severed due to flying glass. Two other engine company members were treated and released. The damage was estimated around 75,000 to 100,000 with insurance coverage on the building and stock. The Red Star factory was suspected as the ignition point, and recovery talks centered on renovating the damaged three-story building owned by the Carpenter's Union.
New York Elks Lodge No. 1, known as the Mother Lodge, is barred from regular meetings from January 3 to January 10 and may not admit new members after a federal judge cited Velstedt Act violations. The order follows a police interception of beer deliveries at the lodge’s grill and bar.
Youcthful bandits from Ranst on IL were charged with robbing a city car motorman and a Fontain store keeper on consecutive nights. Each faced $84,000 bail set by a grand jury and await trial after court appearance. Two younger suspects implicated in the incidents were sent to reform school. Seven women will sit in New Jersey’s next General Assembly.
Paris reports Charlie Wacker of Chicago, famed clubman and war aviator, narrowly escaped a bathtub accident at a Biarritz hotel. The incident coincides with a broken engagement to Washington society figure Audrey Alexander, whose high profile liaisons are outlined. Audrey has since abandoned multiple engagements to sail for South Africa with family.
Washington DC Bee notes in his annual Congress report that welfare measures were studied nationwide. Ten states enacted child labor laws including California, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming while several bills to raise standards failed in others. Laws on school attendance, public health, and child protection were debated with some acts adopted in Rhode Island, Vermont, and Hawaii.
Dees 28 years old of the North End was shot entering a tenement during a visit. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition with a wound in the head. A squad of policemen searched the district and detained two women on suspicion.
Patrick Conway a Portland resident of over five decades died at Maine General Hospital from a skull fracture after slipping on an icy sidewalk while heading to the midnight mass at St. Dominic's church. The incident occurred on Christmas Day as he traveled toward the church.
A board of Northern California Jewish ministers defended Rabbi Stephen S Wise of New York after he resigned as chair of the United Palestine Appeal amid controversy over a sermon praising Jesus. They called the push to oust him a breach of free pulpit utterance and liberal Jewish Zionist principles.
Washington Chad reader notes Neo Renator and Mrs Saint Fenghan left for Hot Springs Virginia to spend Christmas with their five sons all in the country. They expect to be joined by the five boys soon. The eldest are in the Far West one in China and the other in India with Congress Jeresy. Senator Boghiam and wife plan a family reunion over the holidays. They anticipate twenty at Hot Springs until June or January 4 and the five Binghams will return to their schools.
Lieutenant Commander Henry Reuterdahl United States Naval Reserve Force a well known naval artist and marine columnist was buried with full military honors yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery. His home was Weehawken New Jersey and he died at St Elizabeths Hospital in Washington Sunday in his 65th year. The artist was noted for naval pictures he painted for the Naval Academy Annapolis the Navy Department building in Washington and the Naval War College in Newport.
Louisville dispatch reports Morgantown a town of 700 in Butler County now has four natives serving in Congress. John W. Moore sits as Democrat alongside Everette B. Howard of Tulsa and Maurice Thatcher of Kentucky, with Republican Harold Thatcher and John Scafield of Oklahoma completing the quartet. The rise traces to the Free State era when the area opposed slavery.
A fire report notes a 5 46 p m box alarm to State and Howard avenues with a Davenport blaze in progress. A mother and daughter were carried to the street with slight damage to the house. A mobile fire at Maplewood and Hancock caused slight damage, a false alarm at Seaview and Newfield, then fire again at Carpenters Hall, 170 Elm Street.
TRUSTIES ESCAPE FROM ATLANTA. AT A FEDERAL PENITENTIARY holiday respite ended when Ramon Ellis Worden of Fort Wayne Indiana and Daniel K Wallace of Columbia Washington escaped from the reservation. Worden a cook at the honor farm had been sentenced for a year and a day for violation of the prohibition law on June 26 1925 in Toledo Ohio. Wallace a pantryman at the farm was serving three years for violation of the Mann act and would have been free January 14 1227. he was eligible for parole.
The Winchester Repeating Arms Company announced the formation of the National Refrigerating Company with Winchester holding a controlling interest. Production of refrigeration equipment will be undertaken at the New Haven plant.
Christmas Eve sightings of burning crosses flash across Waterbury and nearby towns as police investigate. Crosses on hillsides near Savoy and windham areas are linked to Klan activity rumors, later clarified as bonfires and tree lighting incidents with no confirmed meetings.
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