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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1928
Page
15
An old advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a non irritant bowel cleanser and liver tonic for ills like stomach trouble and headaches. It promises renewed youth energy and looks with nightly use and lists 15 30c 6c prices.
London critics assess the first night of Emanuel De Mornay Baruch s Judith of Israel as a magnificent spectacle with mixed verdicts on its language and faithfulness to the apocryphal story. Some praise its power while others condemn the liberties taken.
Vocal soloist Ernest Whitfield resigns from First Presbyterian to join Truth church in New Haven, headline as guest for a free Stratfield hotel concert Sunday by the Musical Research club. He performs Vestl In Gutbba from Paglisec with Florence Haskins at the piano, joined by Thomas Wall Leonard Bergren Mary Kirk Mabel McCarthy Frank Giampaati and the Saxophone Sextette among others.
Nearly 400 sportsmen joined the Fairfield County Fish and Game Protective Association for its fifteenth annual dinner at Stratfield. Speaker John Henry Walters of the Exchange Club drew laughs with a humorist talk. Albert E. Eccles presided, with Mayor F William Hebrews and Senator Charles E Wheeler among the guests. The gathering featured mock turtle and Patagonia partridge dishes, 50 prizes from about 30 Bridgeport merchants, and motion pictures of fishing and hunting. Eccles led a 25 member committee handling the event.
A. W. Burritt company purchases 891 first and 85 second preferred shares from four stockholders for 48000 dollars, consolidating a policy to retire all preferred stock. Remaining outstanding: 1000 shares of first preferred, all second preferred retired. Directors authorize the buyback. a stock dividend on common stock is announced.
Wilton February 16 The Cannon Grange of Cannondale presented the comedy The Arrival of Kitty at the Westport M E church Monday night. A benefit performance is set for Northfield Town Hall on Saturday. The Tradies Aid Society of Lon Hill church held a successful box social with two person boxes and a Valentine game. Mr and Mrs George Barringer hosted Mrs Barringer’s cousin Miss Spbute Schgeffer of Brooklyn and Lawrence Westervel for the weekend.
A special meeting of the Bridgeport Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association is held tonight at o'clock in the M. M. 4 building to decide on the purchase of fertilizer for the annual crop season.
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Probate court action clears titles to 57 lots in East Bridgeport and nearby streets once owned by P. T. Barnum and his wife Charity. Attorney Robert C. Mallatte uncovered faulty ideas in records, prompting the deed clean up after Charity’s 1874 inventory omissions.
Grace Thompson Seton of Greenwich, an author, artist and big game hunter, announces plans for another exploratory journey after completing her two year term as president of the League of American Pen Women. Her aim is to study women’s status and duties in distant regions, continuing a career of travel and writing that has spanned the United States and Asia.
Governor Trumbull urged John H. Bartlett to present to the supervising architect the idea of roofs on new federal buildings in Connecticut that could accommodate airplanes. Bartlett, who spoke at a McKinley association dinner and examined Bridgeport sites, agreed to take the suggestion forward as Postal leaders push landing roofs for mail delivery.
Birth notices list Herbert and Easter Kalms son born February 12 in Rockland Road. John and Lillian Callahan’s daughter February 12 on Brooks Street. William and Irena McIntyre’s child on Boston Avenue February 11. Adam and Mary Dikarlas’s child February 11. Luigi and Laura Garafalo’s son February 10. Angelo and Donata Framoiaro’s daughter February 10. Lyman and Madeline Ertle’s son February 8. Alfonzo and Maria Corsine’s son February 6. Daniel and Helen Morgan’s daughter February 4. Paul and Susan McNamara’s daughter February 7. Marriages report William Snow and Bertha Finkel. Clinton Peck and Veronica Nagy registered as couples.
Motions for a new trial in the breach of contract suit by George D. Haskell of Springfield against the estate of James B. Duke will be argued in Newark before Federal Judge Runyon on March 2 and 3. Haskell seeks trebled damages under the Sherman anti trust law after an $8 million verdict. Charles Evans Hughes Jr. may argue the retrial motion for the defense.
In Boston on February 16, members of 61 local ILGWU affiliates voted down a proposal to declare a general strike in the bread and cloak industry after unsuccessful negotiations for a new contract to replace the expired one.
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