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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1924
Page
3
Follow Your Meals With Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. They provide an alkaline stomach effect that aids digestion, reduce acidity, and relieve pressure. Regardless of heavy foods like pork, cabbage, sausages, buckwheats, or steak and onions, your stomach should work without distress. Get a 10 cent box at any drug store and eat merrily.
At a noon Liang club luncheon Representative Wheeler recounts an 18-foot alligator encounter in Florida. Swift and Wheeler rowed five miles, chased the giant, and after multiple close calls ended the fight with a rifle shot and a severed spinal column. Wheeler’s tale also covers rattlesnake hunting and sword fishing.
Kerosene and gasoline contracts for March were awarded to Samuel Carp by the Board of Contract and Supply at its meeting yesterday morning. High bid on gasoline was 19 cents per gallon and on kerosene 11 cents per gallon. F. William Behrens, Inc. received the contract for meat. The Standard Oil Co. bid five and four tenths cents per gallon for four tank cars of fuel oil.
Postmaster at Pequabuck near Terryville faced a Waterbury City court on a concealed weapons charge. He claimed the post office had been robbed and he pursued burglars, noting a permit from Plymouth police to carry the gun. Judge McGrath dismissed the case. He is 27, previously served 18 months in France and recently helped nab two burglars at the Pequabuck post office.
Charles M. Schwab chairman of Bethlehem Steel said on the Olympic that Germany would accept the Allied Reparation Commission's terms. He expressed confidence the commission’s decision would solve Germany’s troubles and that Germany would make the payments in good faith.
Senator Alber, longtime editor of the Gloriate D' Italia and head of the Press Association, was attacked by masked robbers at his villa on Rome’s outskirts. They stabbed him, Beat him, and stole 1,300 lire along with gold medals. A chauffeur reported finding the senator’s hat and fired a shot at the robbers as they fled. two suspects were later arrested by carabinieri.
Sir Esme Howard, new British ambassador to the United States, arrived aboard the Olympic to assume duties in Washington. He joked about an easy tenure, noting his predecessor Sir Auckland Geddes left little for him to do, and said his wife and five sons would join later.
A refund of 40084 on income taxes paid by the estate of Morton St Plant late of Groton is provided for in a decision by Federal Judge Thomas today. Executors sued to recover an overcharge on taxes laid in 1916. The original suit was for 24696 and the award includes six percent compound interest from April 8, 1917.
New Haven departments of the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad were notified to prepare for daylight saving time beginning at 1 ad April 12 and continuing to autumn. Rail schedules and departmental cars are adjusted on standard time to match communities using daylight saving time.
Nidward FR Stetinius of Jr. Morgan and Co. returned to his home from Roosevelt Hospital where he had been under observation since Sunday night. He suffered stomach trouble an ailment for which he previously had undergone an operation.
Getz Leone of Clarence Street and John of 83 Lexington Avenue were arraigned in City court yesterday on state liquor law violations. They were arrested Saturday night with quantities of liquor. Because no proof of sale or intent to sell was established, the cases were noted.
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt widow of the late president travels to Thierry to visit the grave of her son Quentin Parkis an aviator who died in July 1917. She is accompanied by her son Kermit.
Herbert E. Erwin and William W. Squire are the only eligibles for the New Britain postmaster job after five candidates took the Civil Service exam. Erwin scored 76 percent and Squire 74 percent while Cadwell Avery and Timbrell failed to reach 70 percent. Postmaster DeLaney’s four year term ends February 4 and Congressman Fenn’s recommendation is awaited.
The Union That Nothing Be Lost, a Catholic missionary order based in Graymoor New York, has purchased 26 acres of land in Waterbury near the Reid farm. Bishop Nilan of the Hartford diocese viewed the property during a brief visit. No official announcement has been made about plans for a school or college.
Mrs Charles Turcotte of 12 Nichols Street Salem Massachusetts recounts severe blood deficiency symptoms including weight loss chills and insomnia. She credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring strength color and energy after four boxes and urges others to try the remedy via local pharmacists or mail order from the Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
A vintage advertisement touts Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound as a trusted remedy from grandmothers’ era to darken faded gray hair. It claims natural, even coloring with a dampened sponge or brush, removing gray in a few applications and leaving hair glossy.
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