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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1923
Page
7
Washington reports 1922 foreign mail volume from the United States at about 414.6 million letters and packages, showing expanding U S business abroad. The record highlights postwar trade growth and a rise in shipments from 1914 to 1920, with a decline in 1921 and 1922 tied to weaker exports.
Senator Wadsworth spoke at the National Republican Club Lincoln Day Dinner arguing the people should vote on all proposed amendments. He criticized relying on state legislatures for ratification and urged restoring direct popular power, citing holdover legislatures and the need to reinstate consent of the governed.
In Danbury, Feb 12, Judge Samuel A. Davis bound over John Blawat and son Michael Bhawat to the Superior Court for manslaughter in the November death of Joseph Nowak after a quarrel at Mrs. Blawat's White Street home. Each man is held on 1500 bond. An inquest cited a second story fall causing a fatal back injury. coroner Phelan found the men criminally responsible.
The wedding of Miss Elizabeth O Connell of Howard Avenue and Dr V Kravutske of Lenox Avenue took place at St Peter's Church with Rev C A Leddy officiating. The bride wore dark blue crepe with a matching hat and carried an arm bouquet. The couple left for a wedding trip after a breakfast at Clinton Avenue Tea Room.
Feb 12. John Sheehy of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Local office in Danbury is in serious condition at Danbury Hospital after an accident in Bethel Saturday night. He and agent Irving Thrall were returning to Danbury when their auto stalled in a snow bank. Sheehy’s left foot was caught in a rear wheel, torn off at the ankle, and later amputated at the hospital.
At Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee a dinner honored by President Harding and other officials heard Senator Watson of Indiana challenge Lincoln's view of equality. He said Lincoln misunderstood the Declaration of Independence and rejected Marxian theory, insisting the document did not declare men equal physically mentally or spiritually.
High single honors in the Red Mer bowling league went to Munysh of the Braves with 108 and Brady of the Hunters had the high three string mark at 322. The Braves beat the Warriors two to one while the Scouts took two of three from the Hunters. In New Haven Yale Youle Rifle team defeated High University on a wire report 500 to 496 with every Yale man scoring 100. In New York Columbia defeated Yale 24 to 22 in a tight intercollegiate basketball game.
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