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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1920
Page
14
Basup, Jan 28. M Bespalko Ukrainian labor minister telegraphed to the supreme council in Paris asking lifting of the blockade for medicines and sanitary supplies. The step aims to enable Ukraine to combat a cholera and typhus epidemic raging in the country.
Panama Jan 26 Liberal party nominated President Belisario Porras for re election at August elections. Hartford Jan 26 Governor Holcomb named Albert F Hewitt of Groton as judge to fill Latimer unexpired term.
Ice bound schooner Sidney O Neff, six miles off Chicago harbor, has vanished last night. Six men, who left Chicago to walk over the ice to the vessel, are missing. Coast guards believe they reached the schooner but no trace has been found.
Madison January 26 Senator Robert M La Follette is reported to be suffering from a tooth infection following an illness. The condition is described as not serious and he is expected to return home in the near future.
A Moscow wireless dispatch reports that the Red army welcomed returning comrades aboard the US transport Buford with cheers and music, flags, and a guard of honor. The scene featured red banners along the shore and a mass of Finn soldiers facing the Red troops from the opposite bank.
The Court of Claims ruling and the 2016 amendment to the Indian Depredation Act were upheld, denying restoration of dismissed claims due to hostility by Indian bands. The decision impacts hundreds of similar depredation claims from Ute Indians in Utah dating to 1866.
Philip Holzer retires from James Staples and company and takes the insurance business with him. He plans to open an office at 126 Bank Street in the former Bailes space. The move follows anticipated separation of the banking and insurance operations within the firm. Frank T. Staples continues the banking venture.
Consumers will pay 60 cents per hundred pounds for ice this summer. Harry W. Welker of the Naugatuck Valley Ice Company says Bridgeport stores a record harvest at the North Bridgeport pond with nearly 60,000 tons being stored this season.
An advertisement touts Pyramid Pile Treatment for hemorrhoids offering home use relief from itching bleeding or protrusion. It claims the product is effective quickly and available for six cents a box at all druggists with a free sample mailed in plain wrap upon sending a coupon.
A Mineral Virginia poultry keeper reports that More Eggs tonic boosted her hens to ten eggs daily after using the scientific tonic. The advertisement promises other raisers can double profits by enhancing egg production with this tonic priced at one dollar per package and claims it has helped 400000 chicken raisers nationwide.
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