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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1927
Page
7
Delegates arrive for Grange sessions as plans outline three days of committee meetings and inspections. Credentials, speeches, and reports will frame the event with sessions focusing on officers, finance, and future programs.
The session opens at 9 50 with the exemplification of balloting for candidates followed by committee reports. Afternoon work resumes at 2 with unfinished business and resolutions. The arftg term executive committee includes Minor Iyes state master South Meriden Ard Welton state secretary Plymouth Allen J Cook Niantic J Arthur Sherwood Lomg HM and Charles T Davis Middletown. The 126 session shows total enrollment E000 and 142 branches. Reports will cover the association's year activities.
Connecticut motor vehicle records show about six cars stolen daily in 1908. The state’s departments note most thefts cross borders and many recoveries occur in other states. Engine numbers remain the most reliable ID when markers are removed or abandoned vehicles are found.
A Civil War era side wheel steamer, known as the last of its kind, burned on the Mississippi. The craft, 244 feet long with a 60 foot beam, valued at 125 000 dollars, could not be replaced for twice that amount. River experts report the vessel had served Memphis to Arkansas City for 15 years before being leased to film makers of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Employes narrowly escaped as dawn revealed the fire destroying the vessel in minutes.
Paris reports Jean Saale argues codfish shaped world history, not India myths, and Basque fishermen, pre 1492, guided Columbus across the Atlantic. He also conjectures the Navajo name derives from Navarre and Gascony explorers who joined early North American trips.
Europe awakens to a fresh spy scare fueled by sensational revelations. Scotland Yard tightens port controls as British authorities track suspected foreigners and require identity checks. Reports center on a Paris arrest of Graham Vivian Stranders, the German connection to a British officer, and other alleged espionage cases across France, Germany, and Czechoslovakia amid a web of plots and counter plots.
A historical note explains helium's rise from wartime need to common use. It cites researchers Professor Paneth and Dr Porter of Berlin University who now report a process to convert hydrogen into helium, implying a dramatic drop in production cost from dollars to cents.
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