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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1920
Page
17
Barnith Sachs sues Wannie Silver security for Nathan Nussenbaum to recover a judgment for 87,881.85 due in a land-landing dispute. The action was filed in Fort and the judgment granted early in 297. Property on Highland Avenue has been attached.
The bankruptcy hearing for Mast India Tea Company was postponed again and shifted to Tuesday or an unspecified date. Judge John Keogh will oversee in New Haven with testimony from Solomon Badesch and Special Commissioner J S Klein. assets and cash offer details are under review.
A Los Angeles rainmaker offers to supply rain to Foremost California, proposing a contract paid per inch of rain delivered. He asks for one thousand dollars per inch above government average rainfall for a three month period.
Harold J. Bradstreet rises from chief salesman to manage the Bridgeport unit of Miner Read & Tultoels as his father Charles M. Bradstreet leaves Bridgeport for New Haven. The elder Bradstreet departs after 14 years with the firm, receiving a silver tea service at a New Year’s reception.
General Pershing visited Camp Grant in Rockford Wisconsin and directed the fire fighters as flames were extinguished. Pershing inspected the camp in the morning and was a guest of Rockford in the afternoon. Ten thousand schoolchildren paraded for him.
In Washington on January 4 Representative Sherwood Democrat Ohio urged recognition of the de facto government in Ireland. He spoke in support of the Mason resolution before the foreign relations committee, arguing recognition would not necessarily harm U S relations with Britain but could push Premier Lloyd George to grant broader home rule to Ireland.
Berlin Jan 5 Premier Skulski of Poland denies reports of pogroms saying no such massacres have occurred in Poland. A telegraph from Warsaw states there have been no pogroms and the Polish prime minister asserts the reports are untrue.
A Chicago artist, Jano desArg, condemned critics who attacked George Bellows’s paintings at the Art Institute exhibit. Bellows defends raw life in art, calling many works mere decoration and praising intense, truthful expression. He contrasts two artist types, favors the latter who chases truth and rejects sentimentality.
Mrs. John A. Drake returns from Europe with high honors for wartime service and for aiding mothers and babies during reconstruction. Also described is a portable electrically driven plane for carpentry that speeds planing, surfacing, beveling, and jointing at multiple sites, with a simple, safe head and automatic guards for operator protection.
The Caldefranchese society elected officers yesterday in room A at Manwaring Hall. President Caporahs was chosen, with vice president Michele Raemang, recording secretary Antonio Riceto, general secretary Ghisenne Pestrucelli, treasurer Tony Fisu, and Burgess John M. Petrueselli.
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