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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1920
Page
7
A vintage advertisement urges reducing food intake and using Rad Salts to flush and stimulate sluggish kidneys. It claims four ounces of the grape lemon lithia solution clears uric acid, eases back pain, and stops bladder issues, presenting Jad Salts as an inexpensive, safe household remedy.
An old advertisement promotes St Jacobs Liniment to relieve backache, lumbago, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, sprains, and strains. It claims no nerve endings in kidneys cause pain and urges a trial bottle from a druggist to “limber up” and reduce discomfort. It touts rapid relief, safety, and stain on skin avoidance.
Osolola Ark Jan 8 W B Hansel owner of plantation stores was bound to a post and burned to death by robbers who looted his Tol t store. The building and clothing were saturated with gasoline. A night and day search by sheriffs deputies and civilians failed to produce a definite clue to the robbers’ identities.
Three complaints filed in United States District Court in Providence Rhode Island seek an injunction to restrain federal officials from enforcing the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act in Rhode Island. The petitions argue the amendment and act are unconstitutional and beyond federal power and challenge the classification of liquors as intoxicants.
Senator Underwood of Alabama, a Democrat, announces he will not seek the Democratic presidential nomination. He says friends have urged a run but he intends to remain in the Senate and represent Alabama for the next six years.
Frome Jan 8 heavy rains flood Italy with Arno and Tiber overflowing. Many districts see house collapses while no official casualties are reported yet. Authorities monitor widespread damage as streets flood and rivers rise.
Celestina Popolo a sixty year old hatter was found dead at 15 George street asphyxiated by illuminating gas after not being seen since Monday. Police reported no immediate signs of foul play and the tragedy stunned local residents.
Plans for a Bridgeport fundraising drive to start March 24 span three weeks. A meeting of the plan and scope committee of the Chamber of Commerce and the mayor's special committee will map the drive in the Common Council chamber. The campaign targets 750,000 to build a memorial building similar to Woolsey Hall at Yale, housing veterans groups and an auditorium for concerts and events, with seating for 6,000.
Illuminating gas caused the deaths of Orlando Del Ponti and his five year old sister Editha as they slept in Somerville Massachusetts The siblings had come from Italy two weeks earlier to reunite with their father Joseph Del Ponti who was gassed at Chateau Thierry in World War I Also noted is a shipping report of the two masted schooner Saral Eaton with lumber and coal barges in foggy conditions at the harbor and a separate suicide by R B Roberts wealthy oil interests in Texas with a bank deposit found on his body
John E. Frost has been unanimously selected as the Republican nominee for the unexpired term of Joshua W. Alexander, former representative from Missouri's Third District, now secretary of commerce. A special election will be held February 14.
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