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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1926
Page
4
Bridgeport National Guard units to be inspected by adjutant general and staff. Details outline annual camp activities, personnel turnout, and readiness measures. The visit aims to review defense readiness and organize encampment planning for the coming year.
An inspection is set for three new Coast Artillery batteries that will be organized soon near Cho. The briefing outlines readiness checks and future deployment considerations for coastal defenses.
Secretary Hubert Work said the coming year should be prosperous, with no distress signals on the economic horizon. He noted no government control of production or distribution and cited two interior department questions: international industry aspects and waste in production. He mentioned the Pan-Dacite conference in Honolulu and Muscle Shoals development as key topics.
Bridgeport households paid 1. percent more for food in October than September, below New Haven’s 2. percent rise and the national average of 0.9 percent. Retail food prices were 1 percent lower in Bridgeport year over year, while nationwide declines averaged 1 percent. Prices rose for bacon, eggs, butter substitutes, sugar, and canned tomatoes. fell for steaks, pork chops, and many cereals. Coal prices showed little month to month variation in Bridgeport.
Oswald Sanderson, famed English shipping magnate, dies at a Leeds nursing home after surgery. He was about seventy years old and led Mulermans Wilson line with offices in Tull. He was the son of Richard Sanderson of Liverpool merchants. An American woman, Trive M Geldall of New York, is noted in the report.
A man refusing a cigarette was attacked and left unconscious near his home by a self described tester detective who escaped. Abraham Frier was held up in his garage. 260 dollars stolen. A separate burglary netted tobacco valued at 20 dollars and 5 dollars in cash. Police followed leads as several prowlers disturbed residents during the holidays.
Dec 26 Mandan North Dakota report of Homer, the police chief, mortally wounded by Arnold Thiel who then terrorized the area firing his weapon. He was captured after a pursuit. several shots fired at bystanders. Thiel killed. wife and children fled to neighbors as the affair drew a wider manhunt. Surviving widow and two children noted.
The former president of the Norwood Engineering Company died today at his Florence Auburn home after a long illness. He had led the firm for years and was a prominent figure in local industry.
A dense listing of hourly radio programs across WICC and networks like WEAF WMCA WMUL detailing children's features, concerts, talks, weather reports, market updates, and cultural showcases. It catalogs performers such as Angeline Dooley, Mrs Julian Meath, and Augusta Cooper, with station identifiers and times from early morning to late evening.
A blaze at an asphalt plant in New Haven near two tons of dynamite burned for about two hours late last night. Firefighters from New Haven and Hast Haven worked to control the flames and prevent the dynamite storehouse from igniting. The fire started in an overheated asphalt furnace and was brought under control with efforts to keep the explosion risk down.
In Pine Bluff Arkansas yesterday two brokers were killed as officers moved to capture Dean who had threatened his wife. After a noon quarrel he barricaded the home and fired on deputies wounding Maupin. Middlebrook’s shot ended Dean’s life.
Twelve year old Robert Hynemans son of Mr and Mrs Augustua Hynemans died after slipping from steel girders on a trolley bridge over the Selhuysk river in Reading. He and his friends had repeated the stunt before but he lost his balance and fell into the river and drowned.
Atlanta AP reports the Batters Trust Company fiscal agent for 22 banks paid $480,536.19 to depositors. Payments ranged from ten to eighty percent of claimed deposits as banks closed and liquidation proceeded.
Kiel engineer Johann Cristoph Bischoff envisions a gigantic motor vessel to cross deserts. The 300 foot long land ship would ride on four 40 foot wheels, reach about 20 miles an hour, carry 300 passengers and over 50 tons of freight, and resemble a small ocean liner with pilot house and searchlight.
Thousands of residents in North and East Nashville flee or prepare to leave as the Vumbber River flood rises. Police, volunteers and city facilities coordinate evacuation and shelter efforts at Ryman City auditorium and other sites. No deaths reported early. freezing temperatures complicate rescue and relocation of household effects.
In Gilboa New York a boarding house owned by Hugh Nawn Construction burned during a blinding snowstorm. Two men died burned to death, presumably construction workers on the Gilboa dam. Two others were injured, one seriously, with identities and addresses largely unknown.
Ex convict Jar Bullock, 37, now serving 7 to 14 years for forgery, painted a full sized oil portrait of R. H. Bride, superintendent of the Parting of the Ways Home, in the Michigan State Penitentiary at Marquette. The portrait, created under coal oil light, measures seven by four feet and was sent as a Christmas gift last week. Bullock arrived at the home in March 1926 after release from the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus, with records showing food, lodging, clothing, and a job secured for him.
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