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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1927
Page
6
An old advertisement touts Mecay's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets as a weight gain aid for frail children. It promises rapid improvement in appetite and flesh, claims a 9 year old gained 2 pounds in 7 months, and offers 80 tablets for 80 cents with a money back guarantee if no improvement in 30 days.
Fragments describe a product named Tiz promising relief for burning feet and corns. It touts soothing relief, drawing out pain, and restoring feet to comfort, urging readers to buy to stop suffering from sore, tired feet.
The piece warns of a health thief called Teremic with forty possible warning symptoms including back pains stomach trouble nervousness sleepless nights and weakness. It promotes Tale Partola as the antiseptic laxative to cleanse poisons from the system and claims to keep you well for business. Sold by druggists in regular and double size bottles.
A year after the first visit, 164 Chamber of Commerce members inspected the completed Easton Lake reservoir dam. The event featured no speeches, a large lunch in the work shed, and a look at the dam’s white face, six billion gallons of storage, and a 190000 ton weight. The dam stands about 100 feet high and 1196 feet long with a 12 foot top walkway, built after resumed work in 1924 following WWI delays. The facility now houses Bridgeport Hydraulic Co storage of 14 million tons, with New Haven Water Co planning a larger North Branford project nearby.
Bridgeport city church schools prepare 1500 pupils for Promotion Day with class samples, district showcases, and acts depicting biblical scenes. Teachers from primary to intermediate grades coordinate district programs June 13 to 17 with group singing and a procession of the Lord’s Prayer in song.
The North Carolina Supreme Court in Hertford upheld a foreclosure in favor of American Bank and Trust Company against Feeney Tool Company. Judge Alfred C. Baldwin of Superior Court had ruled for the bank and granted a deficiency judgment against Feeney and Ruth. Judge Wilder, trustee in bankruptcy, appealed, contending the chattel mortgage of April 6, 1923, was a fraud on creditors. the high court affirmed the original decision.
Five automobile accident dockets scheduled before Judge Wolfe include Margaret M Flaherty of New Canaan seeking 10000 over a collision August 10 1925 with a car operated by Maurice Flaherty hit by Louis D Conley from Ridgefield. Maurice Flaherty seeks 5000 for damage. Rose Debinski Greenwich executrix seeks 10666 for death of Adar Debinski on November 20 1926. Stamfund Debinski injured when struck by a car ridden by Fried Leter Young of Greenwich. Lewis Kaseay Norwalk seeks 3000 for permanent injuries from a car owned by Dorothy Humphries and operated by William Humphries of Yonkers. Thomas M Kenny Greenwich seeks 3000 against JFE ONeill Talloung Co. Iso of Greenwich after his car was struck June 23 1986 by a vehicle operated by an agent of the defendant.
Chicago June 6 By Associated Press The body of Mrs Howard P Savage wife of the national commander of the American Legion was returned to Chicago from Milwaukee where she died late yesterday She had been a patient in Sacred Heart sanitarium several weeks Services will be held Wednesday at the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows with burial in Chicago
Neighbors reported smoke from papers burning in the furnace at 16 Poa Street prompting fire department dispatch from Box 2532 yesterday afternoon. Firemen arrived near 2:13 p.m. and used chemicals to extinguish flames outside Horens florist, likely caused by a discarded cigarette.
Hartford June 6 By Associated Press the weekly report from the State Department of Health shows fewer cases of diphtheria scarlet fever and measles in the seven days ending this morning but whooping cough rose to 2 percent from 18 in the prior week no typhoid cases were reported during the week ending May 30
The Supreme court in Barford sustained Judge Banks in the cases of Ebenezer Hi and Mildred Ogden Hill against William Edwards of Norwalk. Edwards had paid 60000 cash toward a 612000 home purchase at 11 Elm Street, claiming furniture and furnishings were included. The Hills sought restitution of goods seized after Hill demanded payment on a note Edwards claimed was for services and debt.
Washington June 6 By Associated Press an additional appropriation of 30 million for agricultural research was urged upon President Coolidge today by representatives of agricultural organizations. The research would seek new varieties of grains fruits and plants soil conservation and better product adaptation to consumer needs. Loomis secretary of the American Dairy Federation explained that 10 900 000 was allotted for agricultural research but 700 600 was needed for administrative work.
Watertown reports the sudden death of J B Taylor founder of New York Utilities Inc a prominent business figure in northern New York and New York City He began in boots and shoes in Watertown then built a utilities network across the state and New England. The notice also mentions church acolyte John A Carty’s appointment in Wallingford.
Windham County coroner Arthur Bur filed a finding naming Leonard Cline of Mansfield New York as criminally responsible for the May 16 fatal gunshot of Wilfred Irwin also of New York. The inquest and autopsy in Willimantic noted the shooting occurred at the Cline house and that Cline refused to testify. The finding awaits transmission to Mansfield prosecutors as Cline faces potential trial late May or June.
Major Amisp Morlerts, once at the Boston army base, now disabled for 34 years, leaves for West Point to attend the 40th class reunion. He was wounded in 1893, unable to move limbs, and traveled by special car from Fall River. born in 1863 in Connecticut, a Yale graduate, later served in the U Boat era.
In Waterville Maine a roadster driven by Gmer LeClair of Augusta collided with another car, starting a fire that killed three and injured five others. The deceased include LeClair's wife and three year old grandson Leland deClaie, reported by Associated Press. The crash occurred last night and victims were treated at Sisters Hospital.
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