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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1920
Page
6
A sales blurb warns that typhoid germ risks lurk in ice box drains and fridge unseen. It promotes Sylpho-Nathol antiseptic solution for drain pipes and fridge cleaning, claiming it prevents disease and protects families. Advertisers cite hospitals and prices to persuade readers to buy.
Chicago June 14 The Republican drive for Senator Warren G Harding’s presidential bid opened at national committee HQ. Will B Hays conferred with Victor Heintz as leaders moved operations from the Coliseum to a hotel campus and cleared desks for the campaign.
June 14 Massachusetts governor Coolidge returned to his desk to finish his job and not resign to campaign. He will aid the campaign conditionally, per secretary Hears F. Long, and intends to complete his term with no delay. He noted the Massachusetts governorship is highly important and spoke of his vice presidential nomination prospects.
Dallas report notes a stream of Mexican nationals moving toward the Rio Grande amid a southern republic upheaval. Railroad officials observe lower Texas border towns like Dallas’ Little Mexico shrinking as natives head home, believing a stable government will arise from the revolution.
Plan to fly mail between New York and San Francisco by autumn with 60,000 meters carried daily. Otto Praeger, second assistant postmaster general, arrives in San Antonio and hopes to inaugurate the transcontinental airplane mail by September 3. He says planes will replace mail cars, cutting cross country letter time by more than half. Fifty specially built planes will be used, with four to five reserve craft per active plane.
About one hundred workers from J Steward and Son, contractors for the Washington bridge, walked out after their demand for a 10 cent hourly increase was refused. Laborers earn 68 cents, carpenters 84, and iron workers 75 cents. overtime pay and a wage scale review were pressed. A worker committee will meet the firm today, with officials stating work will not be halted.
June 14. Suit for 1,000,000 damages filed in federal court by Gaston By Means against District Attorney Swann and Assistant District Attorney Dooling. Complaint claims they conspired with Northern Trust Co officials to bribe witnesses to testify falsely at murder trial of Mrs Maud A Robinson King and to defeat probate of James C King’s will. Greek item follows from Paris dateline.
The Cuyahoga Portage Trail long divided warring tribes and served as a neutral line where hostilities paused. General Moses Cleaveland set a cornerstone here to mark the U S western boundary. By the Ordinance of 1787 this path was declared a highway forever free between the North and the South.
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