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Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Feb 12, 1921

Page

9

Oppressed People in Shihuan by Quarrelling Troops

Hankow dispatches describe Western Hupeh residents and Shihuan enduring brutal rule by mud-drenched soldiers. Mutinous troops forbid salt, seize homes, levy taxes, and starve families, with a missionary report citing a family where soldiers hanged the eldest son and a widow killed herself amid hunger and neglect.

Shihuan China Hankow Yangtsze Hupeh Shihnan Ichang Szechnen

Judiciary Committee Set Hearings on Automobile Bills Next Tuesday

The judiciary panel will hear a package of automobile related bills including a stiff penalty for auto theft, proposed by Senator DeLaney, with hearings at 1 30 Tuesday. Other items include regulation of public service vehicles and conditional sales, vehicle registration, penalties for pedestrians negligence, and various acts affecting borough and town courts across multiple towns. A second hearing session includes two charter amendments for the Masonic Temple and Fairfield Memorial Library, plus education and children employment bills with hearings scheduled for next Tuesday at 1 30.

Senate Ab, DeLaney Judiciary Committee McDonald M. Sherwood Sisisky Senator McDonaid Mr. Campbell Mr. Schofield Naugatuck Mr. Deming Town Court of Berlin Bt. George Oty Police Court of Meri- Loucks Wallingford Persiani Southington Woodruff Milford Mr Viets DeLaney Masonic Temple Association of Sridgeport Garlick Fairfield Memorial Lirary Corporation Committee Challenger Committee On Beardsley Sirsiford

Edison to Quit When the Doctor Brings in Oxygen

Edison on his 74th birthday says he will retire when the doctor brings the oxygen cylinder. He notes life pace, warns against overdoing what one likes, and predicts advances in chemistry. Edison plans continued lab work despite retirement hints, after a morning at the laboratory and a noon meeting with Edison pioneers.

West Orange N. J. Feo Thomas A. Edison Idanian Henry Ward Batson Edison Edison Pioneers

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