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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1920
Page
4
The Manchester Guardian notes growing evidence of a government change in Ireland. Rumors place a popular Irish peer offered viceroy to Viscount French, while Sir William Sutherland reportedly accepts chief secretary to succeed James MacPherson. Support erodes as opponents circulate sensational claims amid turmoil.
A Vienna money broker was robbed of 2,000,000 rubles in a staged scheme by using fake gendarmes and a Ukrainian colonel to seize the Ukrainian legation records. Police say the money was to fund a political move to take control of the legation.
About 200 men and 50 teams worked all day clearing center city streets of snow. Hundreds of tons were dumped into carts and harbor as progress reduced drifts in the business district. Connecticut company laborers joined city crews. Broad, Gannon, Bank, Main and State streets were cleared. traffic and transit resumed normal schedules.
Homer M. Cummings chairman of the Democratic national committee won endorsement from the Democratic State Central committee in New Haven. The body urged a special session to ratify the woman suffrage amendment and fixed May 5 and 6 for state and congressional conventions to select the fourteen delegates to the national convention. Prominent attendees included Cummings David B. Fitzgerald Thomas J. Spallacy Col T J Murphy James Walsh William R B Palmer William P Kirk Sheriff Thomas Reilly Lynn Wilson and others.
Milford notes detail Boy Scout anniversary week events including a film showing of The Knights of the Square Table at First Church on Feb 14 to benefit scouting. Also covered are Milford Basin Men's Association plans, Hugh Shields entertainment at Plymouth Church, plans for Arctic Engine Co 42nd annual concert and ball on Feb 15, and obituaries for Charles F. Wine and John S. Judge with funeral details and survivors.
Arrangements for a Father and Son week February 16 to 22 are under way led by W F Severn with a committee including Edward Flicker W J Baird G Herbert Elkins and M I Nichols A Lang will speak February 20 at 7 PM in the Stre field hotel with Wallace A Periy and Ford B Wilson as speakers G Herbert Elkins will discuss what a father expects from his son A banquet will feature a student orchestra and Bridgeport belles as waitresses A mayoral proclamation urges the home and family focus of the movement and its civic value
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