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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1923
Page
16
Police here monitor pawn shops for pieces valued at 7000 dollars stolen Monday in New Haven. Detectives in other cities reporting similar actions as authorities pursue leads to recover the jewelry and identify suspects.
Bags owned by Berger and Kronstradt of New York were taken from a salesman’s auto on Congress street New Haven in under ten minutes. The note mentions Ark’s water supply and a health detail about white blood cells.
Washington reports a memorial to the U S Coal Commission claims that anthracite producers through a monopoly charge the public an unjust overcharge of at least 3 61 per ton. The statement cites about 1 26 per ton extra as mining costs 1 in transport 1 34 in distribution and notes potential land ownership charges. It says households pay four to five dollars extra per ton on domestic sizes and estimates annual overcharges could total 252 7 million dollars.
Warren Morgan, 15, tall at six feet two inches, was held in custody yesterday as a runaway. He was being transported from Milton, Massachusetts, toward New York in his father’s automobile that was taken without permission. He remains in detention.
Steel framework setup for wrecking apparatus on Sound Salvage Corporation scows began yesterday and should finish by Thursday. Salvage aims to recover coal barges sunk in the Sound over the past two years. Tug Gwen McWilliams delivered a pig iron barge to Crane company and coal barge to others before towing light to New York. Tug John Garrett arrived with three coal barges, two for Connecticut Company's Power House and one for American Brass. Tug Setter departed for New Haven to pick up a light tow for New York City.
Vineyard sound and Nantucket shoal are packed with drift ice making navigation hard for steamers and tugs. Vineyard Haven is frozen over and barges’ crews anchored there walk ashore on the ice.
Ansonia on February 20 set new fuel administrator prices for coal delivered in bags as $19 per ton for egg stove and nut, with bulk price at $18.50. The rise follows a strike affecting Philadelphia and Reading area mines, forcing dealers to seek open market coal and raising bootleg coal costs to cover shortages.
Monty Souferin enters a not guilty plea in a case involving alleged car thefts across several dates and suspects, as his wife sits in the witness gallery. Judge Kellog warns that automobile stealing is a rising offense and pledges strict action. another defendant, Paul Tirpack, faces sentencing for taking a car from a garage.
The Board of Education requests 1 209 353 for next year while cuts reduce special substitutes to 3800, clerks and administrative staff salaries trimmed, textbooks and supplies slashed, transportation adjusted, and maintenance funds pared from 114 670 to 89 000 with fuel and janitor raises scaled back.
An old advertisement touts Taxa tive BROMO QUININIS tablets as a tonic to fortify the system against cold and grip influenza. The box bears the signature of W. Grove and is priced at 30 cents.
A water pipe burst last night in a path room at 155 Capitol Avenue triggered a fire department response as neighbors mistook steam for a blaze. Crews found only water damage and a plumber was needed. Policeman Sullivan took notes on the incident.
In Drumdoe County Roscommon a raiding party from Dublin attacked the Earl of Ypres residence last night. The marauders stripped the interior and carried away the costly furniture in carts, leaving the house emptied.
In New York on February 20, spontaneous combustion was advanced as the cause of the Manhattan State Hospital fire on Ward's Island that killed 27 patients last Sunday. Testimony indicated defective wiring could not have caused the blaze as the inquiry led by Medical Examiner Norris continued with Acting Mayor Hulbert in Albany seeking steps to shield other city institutions from fire risk.
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