Radio Programs Schedule and Hosts Across Stations
Radio listings from WOR WEAF WGY and others detail evening programs with performers, lectures on American democracy, musical recitals, operatic pieces, and orchestral concerts. Notable names include Gertrude Bierling Samuel Towe Edward Roncoli Coleen Beatrice Prince and Mary Bennett along with the National Savings Bank and Industrial Foundation.
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Bamberger & Co
Newark
N. J
48Th Street
New York City
Samuel Towe
Social South Side High School
News
Gs T
New Jersey School News
Phon
South High School
Gertrude Bierling
Mont- Ni
Oodman
Piarrot
de Tuhner
Valeos
Ilelen
Harold Lloyd Engages Leading Lady for Life
Los Angeles Feb 4 announcement of the engagement of Harold Lloyd, renowned motion picture comedian, to marry Mildred Davis his leading woman of three years was made today by her parents Mr and Mrs J Doward Davis in a brief statement confirming the betrothal.
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Los Angeles
Harold Lloyd
Mildred Davis
Jdoward Davis
Tombstone Theft Sentences Man in London Case
John Smith aged 78 receives three months imprisonment after stealing gravestones and vases from a cemetery. The incident occurred in London and authorities pursued charges leading to the sentence.
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London
John Smith
Hageen
Editor Says Ruhr Struggle Endangers World Fate
Berlin editor Frederick Stampfer of Vorwaerts, a conservative socialist leader, warns that the Ruhr crisis and sanctions threaten global fate. He argues Germany must pursue a firm policy against property and capital while resisting dictates that he calls madness, despite uncertain outcome.
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Ruhr
Berlin
Associated Press
Luli
Elswhere
Frederick & Jampter
Vorwaerts
United Socialist
Sone
Stampfer
Germany
Broku
Ue Reichstag
Thea
Sierra Jamptfer
Man Reaches Confederate Bond Redemption in 1862 Cash
Abner Lee Squiggins of Worthington receives 800 dollars in Confederate currency from Georgia Attorney General George M. Napier for a 1862 bond. The request, sent to President Jefferson Confederate States of America, was redirected with a note wishing prosperity and happiness. Squiggins hoped to fix up his house for summer boarders.
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Northampton, Maag
Med
Abner Lee Squiggins
Worthington
George M. Napier
Georgian
Squiggins
Jefferson
Ameriot
Georgia
Parting brings sadness and grudging regret among peers
A reflective piece notes how goodbyes on ships or at season end soften grudges, revive friendships, and reveal the warmth behind irritations. It recounts a hospital scene where rivals reconcile, suggesting life gains color when people value momentary connections. The piece urges living as if each moment could be last, to lift everyday relations.
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Atlantic
Liverpool
Poison
Bill Dunham
Minneapolis Tribune
Meetings Tonight in Bridgeport Fraternal and Civic Groups
Local notices list numerous Bridgeport organizations planning gatherings tonight including the Bridgeport Telegram society, Italian and Hungarian groups, Young People's Christian Association, Bridgeport council Masons, Eastern Star Orient chapter, Royal Neighbors, Pioneer Club, St George society, and various unions. Addresses span Middle Street to Broadway, with venues at Masonic temple and other lodges. The fragmented OCR notes multiple groups and venues, underscoring a busy evening of meetings across clubs, unions, and charitable bodies in Bridgeport.
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Bridgeport
State Sreet
Canton Wark City
Broad Streat
Star of the Sea
Royal Neighbors of America
State Street
St. George
Stratford Averand
East Indiamto
We O. W
Union
Stratford Saviours
Dorset
Wark
Main Street
Electrical Workers’ Union
Pairfield Avenue
Lm Guvet
Lafayette Consstory
Masonic Temple
Borronso Glee Chibe
Charles' Hall
Was
Naomi Lodge
Harry W. Congdon Post
American Legion
Samuel Ff Mamis Todge
Mexican official halts consecration as bishop
Guperto Valenzuela, sub-secretary of the interior, ordered the cancellation of Monsignor Jose Manriquez Zarati’s consecration as bishop of Enejutla. The ceremony at Cerro Del Cubilete was blocked following recent outdoor rites and the expulsion of Papal delegate Monsignor Milippi from the country. Governor Antonio Madrazo of Guanajuato was informed, via universal and national wires.
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Mexico
City
Heb. Do
Associated Press
Jose Manriquez Zarati
Enejutla
Cerro del Cubilete
Monsignor
Milippi
Guperto Valenzuela
Interio
Antonio Madrazo
Guanajuato
Il Univesalo
Deb Denioornads
Tidal wave disaster hits Hilo and ships
Reports say twelve people were killed by the tidal waves in Hilo following yesterday's earthquake estimated to be 2 000 to 3 000 miles away. Damages near $100 000 were recorded as ships were knocked about. The Doane tanker escaped a wreck after being pushed toward shore by the surge. Neighbors moved to aid families as police worked to keep order. Seismographs logged shocks from 2 000 to 8 000 miles away, the strongest recorded here. Tutuila Samoa saw no disturbance. Guam figures not yet known.
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Hilo Gay
Standard Oil Company
Doane
Anchorage
Lower File
Hilo Say
Vyolcana Observatory
Wiraluen
Tutuila
American Samoa
Guam
Goam
Near East Parley Ends In Failure
The Near East conference collapsed as Turkish delegates rejected peace terms. Ismet Pasha said he would await official notification while warning that Allied demands would economically strangle Turkey. Curzon and diplomats departed amid the unresolved talks and renewed wariness in Europe.
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Ambagsador Child
Mr. Grew
Bristol
Lord Curzon
M. Bompard
Marquis di Garroni
Lausanne
England
Tchitoherin
Turkey
Russia
Europe
Ismet Pasha
Mindania
Ismet
Bridgeport Real Estate Outlook Smiles on Boom Ahead
Realtor predicts a building surge in Bridgeport as labor returns and public and private construction surge. New schools, a combined post office and customs house, and a widening Broad Street signal growth while factory and residential projects, including Poli Theatre and the Commercial Bank, boost property values. Many workers returning from Norwalk and New York area projects are expected to fill local jobs, with landowners anticipating brisk sales and new development in North and Northwesterly Bridgeport, Black Rock, and Stratfield.
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East Side
Bridgeport
Tis
Union Railroad
Broad
Middle Street
Mary Street
Broad Street
Mail Street
St. Poli
Main Street
Congress Street
Commercial Bank and Trust Co
Mr. Poli
Norwalk
New York
New York City
Ile Insurance Companies
Black Rock
Stratfield
Waire
Fragmentary Chronicle Excerpt on Allied Rupture and French Role
A Daily Chronicle passage discusses a rupture among Allies over treaty terms. It notes 416 French repudiated Britain’s agreement and hinted to the Turks they could seek separate peace, signaling potential end of the entente and prompting a tougher French stance.
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London
Britain
The
Daily Mail
Curzon
Wether
Daily Chronicle
Chronicle
Ludendorff Arrival Triggers Vienna Riot
In Vienna Carinthia today Socialist workers clashed with Pan Germanists as General Ludendorff arrived to address the National Peasant Congress. Workers vied to pull him from his car while detractors dubbed him Germanys Grave Digger and Murderer. Stret decorations were torn down and burned amid the uproar.
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Vienna
Associated Press
Ludendorfft
Klangenfurt
Carinthia
Ludendorf
National Peasant Congress
Germany
Tudendorff
Lamia
N E coal shortage blamed on strike says Jewell
In Lowell Massachusetts Bert M Jewell president of the Railway Employes Department AFL says the coal shortage in New England and disrupted schedules of the Boston and Maine and New York New Haven and Hartford rail lines result from a shop craftsmen lockout.
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Lowell
Mass
Foo
New Eingland
Boston
Maine
New York
New Haven
Hartlora
Bert M. Jewell
American Federation of Labor
Maryland Begins Long Cruise Southward
New York Feb. 4 With guns booming and pennants dipped the dreadnaught Maryland was pulled from the Navy Yard pier by tugs and moved into midstream to start its voyage to Balboa Panama and back to Guantanamo Bay for winter maneuvers of the joint Atlantic and Pacific fleets.
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New York
Maryland
Navy Yard
Balboa
Panama
Guantenamo
Cua
May Reorganize U.S. Bureaus Plan Drafted
A reform plan for reorganizing government departments has been drafted with President Harding and his cabinet said to approve it. Walter F. Brown chairs the joint committee on reorganization and aims to report before sine die, with changes likely to affect Commerce Interior and Agriculture.
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Harding
Joint
con_gressional committee
Walter F. Brown
Brown
Congress
Senate
House
Departments of Commerce
Interior and Agriculture
New Haven Woman Tries Twice to Die then Succeeds
Mary Brancini of New Haven attempted suicide twice in one day. She first jumped from a window at home and was treated at Grace Hospital. Later she hanged herself with a sheet from an iron bar above her hospital window. the body was found partly in and partly out of the window. The second attempt followed a troubled family situation.
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New Haven
Mary Brancini
Sucreaddad
Grace Hospital
Police hold Brass City man on fraud charge
Waterbury, Feb. 4 Stanley Sabola of 423 East Main Street was arrested on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses on the complaint of Attorneys Thomas McGrath and Frank Molévoy. He is held in bonds of $2,500 for allegedly fleecing them of $1,000.
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Waterbury
Stanley Sabola
East Main Street
Thomas 8. McGrath
Frank YP. Molévoy
Sahola
South Texas snow and unusual winter woes hit Rio Grande Valley
Severe weather grips South Texas with rare snowfall in the Rio Grande Valley for the first time in twenty years. Mee Allen reports 30 degrees as temperatures fall. In Waterbury, Joseph Blecher, 18, of 262 Cherry Street, is arrested on forgery charges by detectives Hickey and Stevens and held for U S authorities after attempting to cash a money order.
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South Texas
Waterbury
U. S
Tex
Rio Grande
Allen
Joseph Blecher
Cherry Street
Hickey
Stevens
United States
Bolshevism for Blacks in Johannesburg Era
Communist missionaries from Moscow are said to have arrived in the interior to spread Bolshevist doctrines among African natives. American Negroes are being trained in Moscow to act as Bolshevist emissaries here, according to current reports.
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Johannesserg
South Africa
Moscow
Treasures Sold In China Looted Church Artifacts
A report from Warbin Manchuria notes thousands of dollars worth of church treasure looted items pass through and are offered for sale cheaply across China. A heavy mitre in gold with opal studs is among the pieces.
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Warbin
Manchuri
China
Rancher Kills Wife and Two Children Then Self
Phoenitn Ariz Feb 4 rancher and former state rep R F Payton killed his wife Lulu and two children Jean 8 and Richard 7 at Parten ranch southwest of Phoenix then slashed his own throat. Philadelphia Leb 4 Dr Caroline M Purnell renowned physician died yesterday. body to be sent to Annapolis for interment.
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Phoentn, Ariz
R. FE. Payton
State House of Representatives
Toay
Lulu Payton
Jean
Richard
Parten Ranch
Phoenix
Philadelphia
Caroline M. Purnell
Annapollis
Trosilay
German Waiters and Cooks Plan to Leave Homes
Berlin tradespeople face wage squeeze and rising living costs as postwar travel restrictions ease. An American diner overheard a Berlin waiter vow to return to England, highlighting how English policy lifting on December 23 freed many German and Austrian workers abroad. Estimates show only 500 to 1,000 cooks and about three times that many waiters remain abroad, with Chicago and London noted as historical draw points and Holland attracting many German maids amid a widening migration.
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Berlin
England
Germany
United States
Chicago
London
America
Switzerland
Holland
Italy
Spain
Amsterdam
Obituary for Carl Schmid and other local notices
Carl Schmid 69 of East Main Street died yesterday at St Vincent hospital after two weeks with pneumonia. He was a toolmaker with Singer Wheeler & Wilson now Stinger Manufacturing for 61 years and a member of Bridgeport lodge Elks and Schwaebischer Maennerchor. Survived by sister Mrs John Saur daughter in law Mrs Josephine Schmid and granddaughter Madeline Schmid. Funeral Wednesday at 9:30 from Polke & Sons mortuary. Mass at St Joseph's German church. Funeral services for Harry A MacFadden were held at his mother's home. Bridget Kelly died Saturday at 168 Cowles Street. Burial at Wallingford after services at Church of the Blessed Sacrament.
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Carl Schmid
East Main Street
St. Vincent's Hospital
Schmid
Singer Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company
Stinger Manufacturing Company
Bridgeport Lodge of Elks
Schwaebischer Maennerchor
John Saur
Bridget Kelly
Patrick J. Kelly
Cowles Street
John Kelly
Church of the Blessed Sacrament
Wallingford
English pioneer in movie acting dies in New York
William I. Thompson, a 76 year old veteran of English and American drama and a regarded dean of motion picture actors, died of pneumonia contracted on location work. Born in Scotland, he came to the United States in youth and entered theater in the 1870s with Augustin Daly's company.
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New York
William I. Thompson
Scotland
United States
Augustin Daly
Robert Elsmere
Maude Adama
Mr. Thompson
Working women lament Saturday shopping squeeze in Bridgeport
A reader from Bridgeport writes about working girls struggling to buy essentials as wealthier housewives and the leisure class dominate Saturday shopping. She recalls crowded shoe departments and wasted opportunities for affordable purchases, urging fair access to otherwise busy stores.
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Bridgeport
Post
Monday Shopping Push From Sunday Post Promos
The Sunday Post highlights Monday bargains aimed at easing Saturday crowds. Merchants promote enticing specials to attract shoppers who can visit on Monday.
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WEAF
Tel
Ethel Wright Kuyako
Telcott
Henshaw
Arthur Roneoli
Cavelleria Rusticans
Mascaghi
Largo
Handel
Edward “Sell
the Evening Star
Traunhhhauser
Nicholas Thiel ~ Bicker
Industrial Fo Rxtorision Institute
Vansha Peleati
Levin Sam
Susan
YeLeath
P.m
Baward
Sigma Chi
Mac Dermid
Coleen
Papilion
Grieg
Vaughan Dpelrath
Lada
Louisiana
Alibi Fines
Wik Oakland
Cean Contra
Cooke-Ray
Bey
Fada
Louisiana Orchestra
Dar
New _ Orleans
Pamboo Isle
WGY
General Electric Co
Schenectady
N. Y
U. S. Naval Observatory
Priscilla Magazine
Patterson
Pat
Avo
Nettie Wagar
Boys and Girls
Saveings Bank
Frederick F
Kettler
Irving
Westinghouse Electric and Mig Co
Women's Wear Daily
National Industrial Conference Board
Thorton Burgess
St. Nicholas 'S Magazine
Cordelia Ayer Paine
Mary Bennett
Beatrice Princet
Watt
Segar
Wilson
Ig Wilsen
Jeff Davis
Tima
Brdgeport Telegram
Hawaiian Islands Observatory
Ismiet
Memeuer
Realtors’ Board
B. F. Cooney
In F. Cooney
Bridgeport G Board of Realtors
N. E
Jewell
U.S. S. Maryland
U.S
Brass City
Harry A. MacFadden
Edwards Hatloway
Park Avenue
Hal T., Kearns
Universalist Church
North Bergen
Baker Flegar
Stoetrs
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