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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1927
Page
11
An old advertisement touts Peterson's Ointment as a mighty healer for eczema and severe itching, claiming rapid relief for pimples acne rough skin and other skin blemishes across the country. It urges readers to ask their druggist for the product.
Public notice style advertisement touts Jad Salt as a safe inexpensive remedy to flush clogged kidneys and neutralize system acids. Claims include relief from back pain headaches rheumatism and bladder disorders with daily four ounces of Jad Salt mixed in water before breakfast.
New York February 17 AP Edward J Fox president of Triet Company division American Bankers association warned at the annual banquet of trust companies that continued building activity could depress rentals and real estate values. He urged prudent fund investment and noted trends in installment buying, while voicing views on prohibition direct election of senators and constitutional change as costly and risky.
In the university district of New Haven four shops and buildings were broken into last night. The Mall College Shop seized its entire spring stock valued at 5000 dollars using a truck parked behind a Sheffield School Society home. Other targets included Historic First Methodist church Roxbury School and a gymnasium. Evidence suggests at least four men worked with a two ton truck to haul the loot.
A twenty three year old Yale School of Music graduate Miss Evelyn Tillon Mar of West Haven will have her composition Overature Scherza in A Major performed by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra at Woolsey hall. The work, written when she was twenty one, marks the first time a student piece appears on a regular program alongside seasoned composers. Miss Mar, a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin Department of Music, previously held Juilliard scholarships and won the Steinert prize and Kellogg prize for musical achievement at Yale.
A Rome cablegram to Monsignor McGivney conveys Holy Father special blessings for the marriage of William B. Griffin and Miss Melle Sheridan at St Patrick’s Church Hawley Avenue. Rev Charles Hosey officiated with nuptial mass and a reception followed at the Sheridan home. The couple plan a two month wedding trip to New Orleans Texas California and the Pacific coast.
Ottawa unveils a budget with estimated 27 million dollar tax reductions and no tariff changes. Finance Minister Robb cites progress for the current year and outlines net debt cuts totaling 95 million over four years, plus a 31.6 million drop in present year debt. Revenue rises to 394.8 million and expenditures to 360.6 million, with a 34.2 million surplus.
Samuel Robertson Honey, Rhode Island lieutenant governor in 1887 and 1888, Newport mayor in 1892, and 1894 95 assembly member, died in London at age 84. Born in 1842, he served in the Civil War, was a judge advocate on Generals Hope and Meade staffs, practiced law in Alabama, led the Rhode Island Democratic national committee delegation during Cleveland's second term, once controlled the Newport Herald, and lived in London since 1910.
Byron Billings of Mystic died hours after a train struck his automobile at a South Meadow road crossing near here. He was carried nearly a quarter mile by the train, extracted by the crew, and hospitalized in Hartford with a fractured skull. Billings, a salesman for a New Haven fertilizer company, was visiting market gardens in Wilson when the accident occurred.
Washington February 17 AP The navy plans a large purchase of cotton fabric to stockpile. Bids are invited for Navnscok 760,000 yards, 550,000 of 42 inch sheeting, 415,900 of cotton tape, 160,000 bleached shank drill, 120,000 cotton braid, 50,000 blue checks, 42,000 blue denim, 30,000 buckram, 6,000 black silesia, and 6,000 black venetian.
The British lumber schooner Mina Nadeau arrived at Vineyard Haven reporting heavy north Atlantic conditions. She lost several sails and most of her deckload of 160,000 latent something during the voyage.
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