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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1928
Page
2
Estate of Elizabethigan of Bridgeport is under probate, creditors must present claims within six months. Stephen Organ is adminstrator with address 43 Middle Street Bridgeport Conn. Notices list multiple docketed references and dates, urging debts and account settlements.
Evangelist McCullough announces evangelistic meetings in the new hall at 2920 Fairtreleeve Way next to Gilbert Radio Shop, beginning Sunday February 19th at 7 pm and continuing nightly through the week. Services emphasize strict fundamental preaching with no modernism. County residents urged to attend.
Multiple notices from Weston and surrounding area listing deaths on February 1 to February 3, 1928. Maria Louisa Coley listed with funeral in Weston and Coleytown Cemetery. Noyes Z. Edwards and Dalia Fagan funerals announced. Albert Edward Linley and John William Rose funerals in Trumbull and City respectively. Jennie Van Euren and Margarita Washburn memorials with church and cemetery plans. Myron Waterbury infant service in Weston with Willowbrook Cemetery in Westport.
We the united wish to thank relatives and neighbors for personal expressions of sympathy and the tokens of affection in the sudden loss of our dearly beloved brother Henry. Special thanks to Ask Creek Msparis pallbearers Dr William Horace Da MES M. Johnson and others for services and support.
Fairfield Center firemen saved a workshop outbuilding on William Gellatly’s property near Easton, after a six and a half mile run. Chief Thomas Carroll estimated the loss at about $150. tanks were emptied and water pumped from a pond to control the blaze.
New York February 17 The French aviators Lieut Commander Lebrix and Captain Costes received praise from the Advertising Club during a luncheon with William P McCracken Jr and others. They toured Mitchel Field and reported plans to fly to the Pacific coast after a New York reception circuit. A new motor for their Breguet Nungesser Card was shipped aboard the De Grasse.
Washington report states the shipping basin backs a new policy for merchant marine act of 1920. A conference of leading steamshipmen proposes a hybrid of Jones Copeland Wood and White Wills to guide Congress. Indirect aids favored to replace subsidy plans, aiming to shift government vessels to private ownership and support shipbuilders and American crews.
Quaker Data company announces a 25 percent stock dividend on common stock and a $3 cash dividend, plus the regular 1.5 percent cash and 1.12 percent preferred dividends. Payable in April to holders of record April 2 and April 3. 1927 earnings rise to $15.09 per share from $13.46 in 1926.
Mayor Behrens announced plans to place City Plan Commission members on the new Post Office committee next week. The panel aims to speed action on a proposed Federal building for Bridgeport and assist in site selection. Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce directors urged the mayor to refer the post office site to the Planning board. Concreteman Schuyler Merritt assured Bridgeport’s post office project is on the preferred list, pending passage of congressional appropriations.
Edward Garvin Knight and Bessie Dishey lead a group with members Robert Taylor and Earl Wiedebecht as chair and Evelyn Bishop as secretary. Others include Newton Hoyt Mary Marcino Daniel Sullivan Polly Churchill group IV with Mildred Ives as chair and Mery Meason secretary Carolyn Crosby Thorne Perry Dileen Finigan and Wal Mem Toth listed among officers.
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