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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1927
Page
3
A simple home guide promotes hot lemonade after a hot bath and rest to ease cold symptoms. It advises squeezing lemons into hot water with optional sugar, claiming this method helps reduce coughing sneezing and risk of pneumonia or flu. The tone imitates a period health column urging quick relief tonight.
Washington January 26 The senate elections committee probes charges that Senator Gould Republican Maine bribed a New Brunswick premier for a contract. Waleh accuses Gould of perjury by implying the railroad company paid 100000 to Premier Flemming, while stressing Gould knew the facts and profited from the alleged payment.
Confere nces between the Van Sweringen brothers and a minority stockholders committee on the Chesapeake and Ohio merger plan continued in a cooperative mood. No agreement was reached though no deadlock was seen, with dissatis faction over price of the Pere Marquette stock cited. The Van Sweringens reportedly hold significant control across the rails involved, including 3 percent of Chesapeake and Ohio and 40 percent of Pere Marquette, plus a large Erie stake.
Police arrested Frank Bogenski and Stanley Bahorn after abandoning a sedan containing 100 quarts of alcohol in a Terrysville garage. Deputy Rudley sought their arrest. men claimed to be returning home. Bonds set at 800 dollars each for appearance before Justice Bot Allen on Tuesday night.
A passenger Meta ware ami Hudson train on its return leg killed two men. On the outbound journey it fatally struck John Henderson, sixty nine, a state employee, at State Street crossing. En route back, Newton B Ford, thirty two, formerly a member of the state constabulary, was killed.
In Fall River on January 16 AP reports the body found in Tiverton woods last Sunday is identified as Valentine F. Healy, eighty, of Fall Haven. Healy visited his son George F. Mialy in this city on February 18 and was not seen alive afterward. Healy was identified through garments and a watch chain by his son-in-law, Inai Mabbitt of Fair Haven.
John S. Pratt, seventy five, of East Litchfield, was struck and killed by a northbound passenger box on the New Haven railroad near East Litchfield station while walking on the track. Pratt served in the state legislature in 1915 and 1917 as a Torrington representative.
Former Secretary of the Treasury Lyman Judson Gage died at his Point Loma home in San Diego at age ninety after a pneumonia relapse following a severe cold. Born June 24, 1836, Gage led Chicago banks, helped popularize US war loans, headed the World's Columbian Exposition board, and served in McKinley and Roosevelt administrations. He was survived by his widow Ada Frances Gage.
In Willimantic on Jan 26 AP report Frank Tingley, 64, of Windham died at St. Joseph's Hospital from injuries after a tree toppled while workers felled another tree. The mishap occurred when the tree swung back and struck Tingley who had been helping move wood yesterday.
Mayor Behrens issued an official warning for public meetings of the Board of Apportionment on February 1 to 4 to hear city department representatives on requisitions for the coming fiscal year. The schedule lists nightly sessions in the Common Council chamber with various departments to appear and the Tax rate and appropriations to be reviewed.
Italian poet Prince Gabriel D Annunzio, retired from active writing, amuses himself by piling stones into elaborate shapes in his garden at Gardone on Lake Garda. His son Captain D Annunzio arrived after five weeks with the prince aboard the Majestic. The 4 year old writer and aviator enjoys speed and owns water planes a motor boat and an automobile which he drives at high speed.
A well-dressed man registered as H. Fisher and claiming to be a New York artist killed himself in a Fayette Street rooming house. He locked his room and turned on gas. A note on a table stated the doctor said he had cancer and could not be saved.
An old advertisement extols California Fig Syrup for infants and children as a pleasant tasting laxative that cleanses the stomach liver and bowels without griping. It urges mothers to use a teaspoonful to relieve feverish irritable or constipated conditions and warns against counterfeits.
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