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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1922
Page
4
Police stop on Fairfield Avenue reveals a Greene Farms estate butler James Dooley driving a car bearing 1921 license plates. Dooley failed to show a valid license and was jailed in default of a $50 bond.
Patrich Bell, 20, an electric repairman for New York New Haven Hartford railroad, is held on $500 bond for hearing Monday on tampering with a train. He allegedly detached a valve controlling air brakes while near a passenger train. railroad police investigated. Thomas J. Savith, local strike leader, said the union disclaims involvement and that pickets would have kept him away from trains. Stamford, July 7, Associated Press. Summer in the northern hemisphere lasts from the June solstice to the September equinox.
The Walter L Main Circus on its 48th annual tour opens July 11 at Fairfield avenue grounds with price restored to pre war levels. The show features Powers Hippodrome Phanta, new acts including the Trobannasi Deelandia troupe, Yupler Brothers, Mincahua de Ort Braail, and Miss Rose Wallet among a cast of riders, acrobats and 40 clowns. Also playing four days is Polts Golden film Beauty’s Worth starring Marion Davies, with George Walsh and Ivane in a parallel feature.
Compo Beach life guards set weekly duty shifts with two men per hour and plan for new members. Captain Roy Sherman will lead practice sessions for Sundays and Saturdays, selecting relay and dash teams, with a new six man lineup including Sherman and Quiay off. A new six-oar boat arrives but short of satisfactory. it will be tested and used at the pavilion when crowds are large.
Mantle laments changes at Coney Island from Sea Gate to Surf Avenue, describing a planned eighty foot wide boardwalk along the island. He warns the project could push Surf Avenue out as the island’s cheap amusements vanish under gentrification and rising costs. Rainy June hurt islanders’ revenues while crowds still packed beaches, shops, and freak shows, with policing tightening but arrests dropping.
Stratford July 7 Spectal Fredericks H Bedlewith local architect and planning board member urges action to preserve elm trees along Main Street by enforcing ten foot building lines to prevent razing for new structures. He says preserving the trees maintains the town’s beauty and historic character while the planting board proposes partial lines for the entire town. If rejected the trees may be cut as buildings rise.
OGATS chair J Grant Kingsbury attended the first meeting yesterday after returning from a vacation in California. He was pointed to the Saree Commission last March, with Garagh Commission previously chaired by Kingsbury.
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