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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1924
Page
4
Follow Your Meals With Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. They give the stomach the alkaline effect that prevents gassiness and sour risings. The tablets aid digestion, absorb gas, relieve pressure, and work with various foods to prevent indigestion. Get a 60-cent box at any drug store.
An advertisement touts a "written guarantee" for a German oil, known as Buhler Oil in the U S, claimed to rapidly absorb into tissue and ease rheumatic pains, gout, and neuralgia by treating underlying abscesses. Local druggists report limited Bueller Oil supply and offer refunds if relief is not immediate.
Miss Rose MuGu stenographer in City Auditor Bernard Keating's office will head a new relief appeals unit. The Board of Relief to Wid will employ four extra clerks to process assessment appeals. About 6,000 appeal blanks have been printed and posted in public places and City Hall entrances.
Director of Public Works Andrew J. Northey announced ashes will be collected from curbs beginning Monday January 28 replacing backyard collection. Residents must place their ashes at the curb on and after designated days to avoid delays as the old system caused high costs and backlogs. Collections will resume after new appropriations arrive in April. current work is about several weeks behind schedule.
Teheran dispatch to the Russian news agency states the Persian government refuses an American loan guaranteed by the Sinclair group linked to an oil concession in northern Persia. The government will focus on rail and road construction and may seek talks with American firms.
A House commerce sub committee began hearings on creating a Civil Aeronautics Bureau in the Department of Commerce to regulate and encourage aviation. Chairman Winslow expected early House action. Also in Washington, Major General Sir William Sefton Brancker, aviation director, arrived aboard the steamship Orduna for an official visit and planned to meet the son of the late American aviator Lawrence Sper.
At Sulgrave Institute meeting in New York on January to honor George Washington a plan to establish a United States Diplomats School was announced. It would be one of several Washington memorials as part of a nationwide bicentennial celebration and include a push for a comprehensive education aimed at preparing American youth as statesmen.
In Washington on January 16, Representative Griffin of New York introduced a regulation urging the House Ways and Means Committee to investigate the sugar status issue in the Tariff Commission. The move follows a dispute over Commissioner Glassie and his family ownership in a Louisiana sugar plantation, revealed during opening hearings.
The special committee appointed to investigate activities of the former alderman and the claims committee will probably be held next Tuesday night. City Attorney A L Delaney, chairman, announced last night. Tax Collector Ede ward A Drew has been asked by Assistant City Clerk Paul D E na to submit a statement of business by the Claims committee during the last three months of the Atwater administration.
The governor and city officials joined a ceremony today for the opening of a new one million dollar plant in Norwalk. John Cavanagh was named president, with Robert Holmes and Irving Wilmot as officers, and Franklin James as secretary. Reverend Hurley offered the benediction as the ceremony celebrated a significant local industrial development.
Washington January 1. Secretary Weeks received another proposal for developing Muscle Shoals Alabama properties from private capital. He did not reveal the source but called the bid financially reliable and said he would have engineers and ordnance experts study it before deciding on further department action. This makes the fourth offer, joining proposals from Henry Ford and a Southern power company group.
Long HOLL Jan 16 Up to the Telegraph Arthy and Harold Wildman of Tashua will be arraigned in Justice court tomorrow night before Justice Howard Handall on charges of breach of the peace. They were arrested Monday night by Constable Summer Bouton after a disturbance at the Colonial dance hall in Lower Stepney Adams denies reports that liquor was involved in the incident. Both Constable Bouton and Justice Trundall said tonight they doubt if he ever touched a drop of liquor.
The Italian Women's Council annual meeting elected Mrs Peter Rich as president with Mrs I Miner as vice president Mrs Delia Marozioli as treasurer and Ars Rosina Gillette as executive secretary of the International Institute to serve as council secretary The group outlined plans for a January 30 event at 66 Beecher Street Hartford. The same report notes the resignation of First Lieutenant Harry W House of the 192d Florida National Guard was accepted by the adjutant general in orders issued today.
Berlin January 16 Count Von Salm Hoogstraeten remains Austrian by birth. His marriage to Betas Millicent Rogers in New York could trigger bigamy charges upon his return to Austria. Austrian church law bans divorce and remarriage without annulment, with reform urged by revolution and Pope Leo XIII era. The Vatican official in Berlin confirmed these limits and noted annulment as the only path, should he acquire another citizenship to avoid consequences.
Chicago January 18 Former Governor Edwin P Morrow of Kentucky is sworn in as a member of the U S railroad labor board replacing Judge E R Barton of Tennessee the first chairman of the board indicating a shift in the leadership of the panel
An ad warns that gas and bloating signal excessive stomach acid and gastritis risk. It promotes Bisulated Magnesia as a safe, inexpensive remedy to neutralize acid, relieve gas, and prevent sourness after meals.
An advertisement urges rheumatism sufferers to try Allenrhy a full pint bottle with a money back guarantee if it fails to ease pain and swelling. James H. Allen claims dramatic past results and instructs druggists to supply the remedy with guarantees, Hindie’s Drug Stores listed as suppliers.
Propaganda ad touts Ely's Cream Balm as a pure antiseptic to clear nasal passages. Claims include instant relief from congestion, headaches, and inflamed membranes after applying a small bottle, with notes of immediate breathing ease.
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