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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1921
Page
4
Sydney reports Adelaide leads national efforts to curb mosquitoes with a new by law plan. Premises must seal tanks and receptacles with bronze or wire mesh, spray water features with kerosene or stock with larvae-eating fish, and keep drains clear. Offenses include leaving rubbish or defects that collect water.
Dr Edward B Cross of the Rockefeller Institute died in Vera Cruz from yellow fever while opening a Rockefeller Institute Library to study the disease. The researcher was among others fighting to eradicate yellow fever in Mexico as part of the international health board effort.
Warnings issued under the city charter urged the Board of Aldermen to elect successors to the late Alderman Edward T. Hamilton and former City Sheriff David Goldberg at the upcoming meeting by Tuesday. Mayor Atwater sent out notices to board members informing them of the election requirements and timing.
Fraternal Editor note lists meetings and corrections for numerous lodges and councils. Includes addresses: Middle Street, Beach Street, State Street, Broad Street, East Main Street, Stratford Avenue, Cannon Street, Fairfield Avenue, and more. Highlights include Royal Arcanum, Woodmen of the World, Daughters of Liberty, Scandinavian Fraternity, and other fraternal organizations.
In New York on December 24, Toseah Plitzman confided that after a November 1928 slumming party in Chinatown he married Louisa Larson while forgetting his wife and two children. The court annulled the second marriage after his first wife pleaded for him.
William E L Anderson, state superintendent of the Anti Saloon League, denied any effort by dry forces to abolish sacramental wines. He called the claim a quarrel stirring unwarranted prejudices against prohibition, refusing to comment on alleged proposals in Columb ia magazine.
In a discussion about Fairbanks’s pay, the director cites disputed figures and notes claimed salaries in the industry. He mentions figures around 50,000 dollars and a total budget of 749,000 dollars for a production, asserting that no stars were overpaid and labeling such salary talk as public consumption.
The Department of Charities reports about 990 married men with average four children receive 30 cents an hour, plus commodities, with 250 families partially supported. Thorne expects aid needs to rise after spring as depressions ease and business improves. Philanthropic groups helped sustain holidays.
Milford moves to levy an extra tax of 1 1/2 mills to raise 21000 for Soldiers Memorial improvements after town meeting favors purchasing the Fowler property on New Haven avenues Simon Lake offered the site for the same price he paid and the town plans transfer to municipal ownership once title work by Jude Platt is finished The Mil ford American Legion seeks the site as a memorial but action is postponed until ownership is secure
The Chicago equestrian association envisions a city circumscribed by miles of paths within years. Plans discussed at the Morrison Hotel outline extending bridge paths and woodland routes to create a world class equestrian center.
A divorce suit alleges desertion by Smitty Pride and names Tusuise Smith of Grey Flay. They wed in Afareh in 1978 with the desertion said to occur in August 1978. Plaintiff seeks custody of one minor child.
Readers submit captions under twelve words for an unnamed cartoon drawing. Mail entries on postcard to Title Militar at 110 Maddle Street by Thursday night for a chance to win a criss $10 bill. employees are ineligible.
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