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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1928
Page
6
Commissioner Pedro Guevara of the Philippines Islands collapsed in the House restaurant and died later at a city hospital. Physicians attending included Representatives Sam Washington and Bohn, with Sens Reeves and others summoned. Guevara, 48, had a history of heart issues and had recently ignored symptoms.
Springfield police report a reward may be paid for the arrest of a local driver who fled after striking five year old Ambrose Tatro on the Hartford-Springfield road. Wm R Jacques of 305 Bay Street confessed to driving the car.
Mrs Amelia Day Johnson widow of James W Johnson a former Bachelor and Johnson syndicate proprietor died suddenly of heart disease at her home in Binghamton on January 30 She organized wartime motor corps ambulance drivers served in this country and France and was a Red Cross director She leaves son Bruce Johnson and two daughters Mrs Paul Wagstaff Haines of Portsmouth NH and Mrs Charles A Nicholson of Pensacola FL
Russell B. Stapleton of Pickford Engraving spoke at the Advertising Club meeting in the Stratfield hotel. He demonstrated electrotyping progress, urged care with plates and electrotypes, and warned against cheap work. He said advertising, printing, and photo engraving must go hand in hand for success.
The State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration intervened to avert a strike by about 800 Greater Boston apartment house janitors. The newly formed union demanded a graduated wage scale based on the number of rooms in each building, a demand owners reportedly ignored. Most affected buildings are in Brookline and the Brighton and Dorchester sections of Boston.
In a memorandum of decision Judge Allyn L. Brown dismissed a demurrer in the habeas corpus case of Mary Annunginto 14 seeking custody of her daughter. The juvenile court had placed the girl with Dora A. Barnes of the Bridgeport Protective association after truancy and alleged inappropriate contact with cousin Frederick Squillante. The judge ruled detention was lawful so long as it remained reasonably necessary to complete investigations.
In Norwalk yesterday Judge John Rufus Booth halted a trial and withdrew the suit of two boys, seven and five, against Joseph Fullin after excluding testimony from Harry Nielsen and Clifford Buttery. The youths sought 810,000 for injuries from a dynamite cap incident on December 4, 1926, when their claims say caps exploded in a stove at the Nielsen home, injuring Huttery and damaging Nielsen.
Edward H. Howard of Stamford and Hertie Bewley Howard of Knoxylle Tennessee were divorced by Judge Al lyn L Brown. Howard, a war veteran, had met his wife via a matrimonial magazine and the marriage occurred October 17, 1922 in Greenville Tennessee. Howard testified she deserted him January 15, 1923 and warned him not to tell her parents he was alive.
Middlesex county records one new smallpox case raising total to 121 as health authorities report the outbreak is under control with many patients discharged and quarantines lifted. The report notes normal conditions prevailing and continued progress against the epidemic.
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