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Newspaper

Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Jul 10, 1926

Page

10

Sunday Post features travel tips romance and fiction

Harrison Streeter shares motor camping advice for long and short trips on a 44 mile route through scenic country. The Sunday Post highlights home plans and builder questions, an interview with a missionary from India, Milford beautification efforts, local romance, Mark Stoner’s southern Seas quest, and a Douglas Newton Blue Ribbon fiction serial.

Harrison Streeter Sunday Post Mark Stoner Green Island The Douglas Newton

Features and humor lighten the family paper at large

A varied lineup of comics cartoons humorous writing and feature articles aims to entertain every family member with well chosen content designed for broad appeal and popular interest.

Former German Imperial Staff General Divorced

Munich reports state former quartermaster general Erich Ludendorff has been granted a divorce with both parties deemed at fault for incompatibility. Frau Margarethe Ludendorff, his second wife, accused him of neglect and cruelty amid postwar privations, while he cited her cigarette smoking as intolerable. No children.

Munich Germany Dais Erich Ludendorff Imperial Army Ludendorte Pan Margarethe Ludendorte Ludendorff Pernet beerepQar Ree Volition Frau Ludendorfft Fran Gudendorft Bolle Famils General Ludendorfift Martha von Kemnaltz

Navy ships keep libraries to fuel reading at sea

Navy ships carry carefully chosen libraries to sea including science travel and fiction. Submarines and isolated radio stations receive circulating volumes while ships like the Niagara and Memphis gain histories of exploration and piracy. The new carrier Baratoga will boast 800 volumes spanning history biography science travel literature and action.

Washington Salftors Ars Joseph Comrad Navy Plains Symail

Farm man uses gasoline power to harvest vast wheat crop

Tom Gray, a Hutchinson area farmer, grew a 2,760 acre wheat crop this year using gasoline power only. No horses or mules were on the farm as gasoline tractors pulled plows drills and discs. Four large tractors and three combines cut and threshed the grain, while motor trucks hauled the Italy to market. Total yield exceeded 40,000 bushels.

Hutchinson Kan Tom Gray Italy

Back Draft Starts Chimney Blaze at Allen Street

Firemen answered a single alarm for a back draft blaze at 28 Allen Street. The alarm came in at 2 29 p m from box 165 at Broad Street and Railroad Avenue. The fire was extinguished with no damage.

Broad Street Railroad Avenue Allen Street

Ford plan to build plant in Sudbury stirs historic echoes

In Sudbury Massachusetts a large meeting urged Henry Ford to build a small automobile parts factory and dam on Hop Brook near Ash Brook. The town recalls earlier mills and early industry along the Sudbury river, noting Ford's plant could trigger riverbank improvements and local development.

Sudbury Mass Old Middlesex Henry Ford South Sudbury Ford Sudbury Hop Brook Ash Brook Boston Ita Thomas Noyes Peter Noyes Top Brook Ridge Meadow Sald Thomas Peter Noyesda Novas Mill Wayland Stow and Maynard Goncord Mayland Middlesex County Green Hill Marlboro Concord Road Mop Brook Samuel Wadsworth Brocklebank Wadsworth Tha Nixon Toro John Nixon Concord Lexington Bunker Hill Washington Ezekletone David Ows Howe Taavern Red Horse Wash Brook Sudbury Meadows

Woman, 42, charged with shoplifting at local store

Mrs Mary Mohagel, 42, wife of Michael Mohagel of 705 North Washington Avenue, was arrested yesterday by Detectives Shewood and Foster on a shoplifting charge. Officials of Smith-Murray company say she stole articles valued at about $2.00 from the store.

Mary Mohagel Michael Mohagel North Washington Avenue Shewood and Foster Smith-Murray Company

Girls Flee Shop After Ammonia Valve Bursts

In Boston on July, thirty girls, mostly teenagers, fled into the street when a safety valve on a machine in the engine room of a chocolate factory on Portland Street burst. The flood of ammonia fumes forced evacuations as workers escaped to safety.

Boston Cinamoonie Portland Street

Soloists in Sousa Band Earn 300 Weekly in Bridgeport Talk

Weed W. Bayers, longtime saxophonist with John Philip Sousa's band, recounted touring life and band economics at a Lions luncheon in Bridgeport. He noted top pay of 300 weekly for soloists, 75 for the lowest, and highlighted the band's size, sight reading demands, and the central role of Sousa and the base drummer in maintaining rhythm. He also shared anecdotes from coast to coast, including a humorous Ozarks dinner tale.

Weed Bayers John Philp Sousa The Lions Bridgeport Seaside Park Middle West Basers Sousa United States Herbert Park Municipal Band San Francisco Bayerg Mr. Sousa Mane Harold Goulden Peter Bireschak Baye Wilvetton Mr. Bayers First Enquirer Little Rock Lesa

Jazz musician indicted for suppression claims by Dr Coward

In London in July the AP reports Dr Henry Coward, a Sheffield Musical Union coaductor, indicts a leading English jazz figure on ten counts alleging unruly tunes jerky rhythms muted trumpets out of tune saxophones and noisy banjo plongs amid class turmoil and loud kitchen clamor.

London Henry Coward Sheffield Musical Union Onan England Coward

Frazier to inherit bulk of Miami socialite mother's 6 million estate

West Palm Beach July 9 AP Frank Duff Frazier son of the late Mia Clar Duff Frazier society woman of Palm Beach and New York will receive the bulk of his mother's 6 000 000 estate under her will filed for probate today.

West Palm Beach, Fla Frank Duff Frazier Mia Duff Frazier Taim Beach New York

Murder Mystery Pulls Waterbury Into Clues From Orange

Police search Waterbury underworld districts for information on John Costanzo's murder near Orange. Investigators probe suspects linked to a gunman nicknamed Carlo, tracing a call to Costanzo's wife and examining sightings at Walnut Beach. CAP Frank J. Kelly vows habeas corpus if he cannot visit Costanzo's widow.

Waterrbury Bo- Hilee Werbury John Costanzo Orange Waterbury Walnut Erin Alice Costanza Holyoke Carlor Corio Har Cario i A Toolate Carin Carlo Walnut Beach Frank J. Kelly Orange Road Costanzo New Raven Kelly

Hartford Man Killed in Florida Car Collision

A Hartford man, A. Pomeres, seventy, died in Orlando while being taken to a hospital after a collision at an intersection overturned his car. He was visiting his sister Miss Juli Pomerey and was returning to Hartford soon. Pomeres was a longtime Hartford businessman and real estate dealer on Assium Street who had retired years ago.

Bayers Mousa Oace Arthur Pryor Sausa Herbert Clark Ernest Williams Sousa U, Marine Band United States Mr. Sousa Yaver Ozark Orlando Fla Pomeres Hartford Conn Juli Pomerey Shexy Hitford Pomerey Harteford

Costanzo Seeks Estate Asset Details From Court Aid

In a discharge petition Costanzo asks the court to order disclosure of the estate assets and locations of funds, asserting the need to learn from her where the money is held, including a reference to a bank in Manhattan. Mr. Kelly notes the claim aims to uncover deposited funds and undermine Costanzo’s position.

Costanzo Costanso Ttattan Bank Mr. Kelly

Spain's envoy to Belgium dies in Brussels

The Marqués of Villalobar, born 1855, Spanish envoy to Belgium, dies in Brussels after a long career in diplomacy. He served as minister to Washington in 1908, moved to Lisbon, then Brussels during World War I, and once attended a White House reception in 1910. His recall or slight diplomatic spat with a minor official is noted.

Villalobar Spain Washington Lisbon Brussels AX & Neutral Enveyoe United States White House Taft Don Juan Biano Y. Cayanges

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