Uncontested Divorces to Be Heard Thursday
Contested calendars and details about uncontested divorces slated for Thursday. The item lists petitioners and respondents, marriage dates and locations, and mentions child custody questions.
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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1924
Page
4
Contested calendars and details about uncontested divorces slated for Thursday. The item lists petitioners and respondents, marriage dates and locations, and mentions child custody questions.
Washington Ven 2u Two investigations one of the shipping board and one of the aircraft industry will be undertaken by House committees if the House accepts the recommendations of its Rules committee. The panel favored resolutions calling the inquiries to be conducted by seven member special committees to be named by the Speaker. The shipping board probe was proposed by Representative Davis of Tennessee, a Democrat on the Merchant Marine committee, and the aircraft industry inquiry was boosted by Representative Nelson of Wisconsin, a Republican insurgent leader.
Romeo's brother released mortgages totaling 35000 on Columbus hospital after questioning from Arthur M. Coinley for Receiver Henry N. McCathren. Judge Ells authorized suit to cancel mortgages held by Spafford, brother-in-law of Pusquails Romeo. McCathren says the mortgages issued without authority leave the hospital insolvent. Spafford plans to contest. Salvatore Romeo notes the mortgages surfaced after Romeo's name linked to a diploma mill and medical license revocation. McCathren says no plan to reopen the hospital. inventory is being made and the facility will be sold unless bought and reactivated.
A Bridgeport corps of income tax workers will assist about 15,000 residents in filing state and federal returns. They will be stationed at the Internal Revenue Office on the second floor of the Post Office until March 5, with additional staff to handle corporate and business returns. Individuals with incomes over specified thresholds must file statements on government forms.
Two local musicians TaFaye and James Pistey own two of the country’s highest priced tenor banjos valued at 876 dollars each. Local dealers note a shift from past opinions of expensive instruments as a musician today may buy banjos between 180 and 930 dollars and saxophones over 1,000 dollars. The modern orchestra uses instruments costing up to twenty thousand dollars, with engagements potentially costing up to two thousand dollars.
Frances Lastowitka and numerous others are commemorated in funeral notices across Stratford and Newtown. Services and burials occurred at St Michael's, St Peter's, Sacred Heart, and Greek Catholic churches, with interment in local cemeteries including Mountain Grove, Park, and Union. Names include Burns, Roberts, Birdseye, Holden, Blaikie, Campbell, Gove, Leaking, Meachen, Klaczenko, Somers, Broderick, and several family members, with addresses on Hancock Avenue, Bradley Street, Wickland Avenue, Rose Dale Street, and Park Avenue.
A fragmentary item notes a line about being glad despite a task. It mentions a Dries mother with a bad cold and a chicken house cleaning, with a brief, unclear quote about not wanting to be glad. Names and clear events are limited in the readable text.
Sinclair arrives home after discharge as senators press to remove Attorney General Daugherty. President Coolidge faces renewed calls from Lodge and Pepper for her resignation. Elkins reveals stock trading by a West Virginia senator, while the oil committee probes brokerage records in Washington and New York amid ongoing audits.
A damaged front page item alleges Andrew Vanderlip faced a Senate Investigating Committee probe over a speech reportedly approved for wide publicity. The piece claims Vanderlip attacked President Harding, alleging a bribe of 8550,000 tied to Marion Slax, and ties to a late president’s paper in a naval oil invest igation context.
At a Connecticut Milk Producer association meeting in Newtown Town hall on February 20, a small delegation signed up to join the pool for milks. Representatives from Redding Bethel Danbury and Newtown attended, and though reluctant, most farmers agreed to participate before the session ended.
Alvin Leurse told Lions yesterday noon that a speaker must master fundamentals to gain higher business standing. Bearse, an expert in public speaking, warned against memorizing whole speeches and urged using a man to man conversational style with mental pictures to aid continuity.
The 26th annual state convention of the National Association of Post Office Clerks opens in the city tomorrow with delegates from across the state. A business session at Strat-Meld hotel precedes an entertainment in Forester's hall and a banquet at Stratfield ballroom featuring speeches by local officials and postmasters. Attending are Mayor Wien Beivens, Lions Club member Bent, Bridgeport Postmaster Greene, Stamford Postmaster Whittaker, and other officials from Hartford to Danbury.
Thousands of mothers praise Mother Gray's Powders as a remedy for children with headachy, colic, bed wetting, worm troubles, and other common ailments. The ad claims it "breaks up colds" and regulates the bowels, sold by druggists with the name Mather Gray’s Powders, advertised for over 26 years and promoted by mothers for use.
Edny H Scribner of Stamford was granted a divorce from Mary Scribner after testimony of intolerable cruelty. The husband spanked a crying baby, threatened his wife with a revolver, and showed erratic behavior tied to army nerves. Custody of the children awarded to the mother, alimony set at $1 weekly.
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