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Newspaper

Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Jan 19, 1927

Page

5

Action Taken For Interstate Selling Of Power In New England

Boston date January 18 action to ward a plan for stricter regulation of interstate power sales in New England was announced. A letter to over 200 electric utilities urges adoption of standard contract clauses crafted by industry and state representatives to govern cross state power sales and rate disputes, with joint arbitration by public utilities commissions.

Boston Carring New England Council England Power Companion Congeta of Chales Ltd Boston Edison Company New England Public Utilities Commission Henry C Attaill Masschusetts Pasife Utilitie W Rodman Peabody Turners Far Power and Electric Company API Public Utilities Commissions

New England power plan gains support from state commissioners

Commissioners from two states consider joint hearings on Interstate power issues. The Edgar committee leads the effort with Beovli Manufacturing and Boston Edison backing a plan to protect public interests. Hoover praised the New England approach as a preferable alternative to federal inter states compacts.

New England E O Gorn Beovli Manufacturing Company of Waterbury Charles L. Edgar Boston Edison Company Herbert Hoover U. S Congress

Fairfield Pequots 1 School Closed Amid Scarlet Fever Surge

Fairfield Southport public school closed by order of School Physician L E Poole due to rising scarlet fever among children. Trinity Episcopal Church Southport held a well attended annual meeting after a large supper and kitchen shower that equipped the church’s new kitchen. Officers and vestrymen named, delegates to the convention listed, and plans for upcoming organization sessions noted. An auto wreck on Bronson avenue identified as Margaret Burns’s. Paul Burne to report accident. Grasmere Improvement meeting scheduled at William Young’s home. Hydrant damaged by a Connecticut company vehicle on Tunats Hill road and Black Rock turnpike. Fairfield Lands Improvement officers elected. Thomas Martin, of Sasco Hill road, departed for California.

Fairfield Pequot Publi School Southport L. E. Poole Trinity Episcopal Church of H. B. Sherwood E . Welles Curtis Jenior H. H. Bennett A. P van Schaick Herbert Grasser Carl Z ~Sser Bronson Avenue Margaret Burns East Avenue Norwalk Paul Burne Roston Grasmere Line Provement Association William Young Grammere Avenue Cita Hydrant Connecticut Automa Die Sug Tunats Hill Road Black Rock Turnpike Fairfiedd Lands Improvement Company O G Jennings Harald B. Merwin E Eltis du- Matin John A. ForsyUin Mr. Foraythe Milt Plain Park To. WS Picket Me Forsythe California Thomas Martin Sasco Hill Road

Priest's Servant Dies Sparking Manslaughter Charges

CHICAGO Jan 18 AP Seventeen people including five young married women their husbands and seven other men were indicted on manslaughter conspiracy and rioting charges after housekeeper Anna Rucinski 40 died following mistreatment in the rectory of Rev Rosewiana Nowakowski pastor of St Marya Roman Catholic church in Downers Grove. Bond set at 6500 each.

Chicago Downers Grove Mra Anna Rucinski Rosewiana Nowakowsk Marya

Connally urges pulling cash from foreign policies

In a House speech Democrat Connally blasts current U S foreign policy toward Mexico and Nicaragua. He warns against oil interests and Mexican laws harming Americans, urges patience, and says Nicaragua’s leadership should be decided by Nicaraguans. He questions Diaz’s claim to presidency and favors Solorzano Sacasa.

Washington House Representative Connally Democrat Texas Mexico Nicaragua Wells United States Senate of Inquiry Adolfo Diaz Solorzano Sacaga

Fuller acts to have Ponzi held

Boston dispatch reports Governor Fuller telegraphed Governor Moody to hold Charles Ponzi, the infamous financier, as Texas transfers its administration from Ma Ferguson to Dan Moody. The note references an extradition paper and urges steps to detain Ponzi pending a new warrant.

Boston Texas Ma Ferguson Dan Moody Alvan T. Fuller Charles Ponzi Ferguson Poz Ponzi

Contested Bequest Of 50 000 To Yale School

New Haven Jan 18 AP Miss Katharine Dailey wills admitted to probate. Niece Carrie Dailey contests, proposing residue of a 50 000 estate go to Yale Law School. Nephew granted life use. Two bequests of 1000 each to orphan asylums.

New Haven Katharine Dailey Carrie Dailey Yale Law School

Bay State to Study Utility Firm Earnings

Boston January 18 The Shattuck order to study gas and electric company earnings was adopted by the House by voice vote. It directs the department of public utilities to tabulate rates and suggest legislation for rate modification and new capital without inflating values for rate fixing.

Boston Shattuck House of Representatives Senate Department of Public Utilities

Ambassador arrives with daughter's body in New York

United States ambassador to Argentina Peter Augustus Jay arrived in New York today with the body of his sixteen year old daughter Emily who died in Buenos Aires after an operation for appendicitis.

New York Peter Augustus Jay United States Argentina Emily Buenos Aires

Five Masted Schooner Saved By Coast Guard

The five masted schooner Cora FF. Cresty of Portland Maine towed by coast guard cutter Gresham after engine failure and sail loss east of Cape May New Jersey. One line report from New York dated January 18.

Coast Guard New York Cora FF. Cresty Portland Gresham Cape May N. J

Constable Bennett Escapes Serious Injury In Wreck

Fairfield constable Arthur J. Bennett was only shaken and bruised after his coupe was totaled when a Crane company truck from Bridgeport skidded on wet pavement at Flint's corner on the Post road. John R. Lamber of 14 Clinton Avenue Bridgeport drove the truck.

Arthur J. Bennett Fairfield Crane Company of Bridgeport Flint's Corner Post Road Bennett John R. Lamber Clinton Avenue

Boston Republican Leader Charlen Bax­ter Dies in Florida

Charlen Sidney Baxter, a longtime Massachusetts Republican figure, died at his Miami winter home in his 60s. Born in Boston and Harvard 1892 graduate, he entered the bar in 1895 and led the law department of the Boston Elevated Railway. He served as Medford mayor for four years and played an active role in several campaigns.

Boston Massachusetts Charlen Sidney Baxter Medford Miami Fla Harvard Boston Elevated Railway

Perhaps there Were Divorces in the Daya Phrase

The fragment suggests social practices where a wife bore duty and allowed the husband to think for both, implying possible divorce considerations in that era.

Carter's Little Liver Pills Named Best Laxative

Mr. W. J. Dorion of New York praises Carter's Little Liver Pills as the best laxative he has used. He notes they are small, easy to take, and cause no pain, contrasting them with medicines containing Mercury or Calomel. The pills are sugar coated and marketed in red packages at 36 cents.

W. J. Dorion New York Carter Carther

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