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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1925
Page
4
A dated advertisement touts Megho powder as part of a French beauty treatment to keep the skin from aging. It claims the product reduces perspiration and makes pores less visible, describing a shiny nose problem solved by a fine and pure powder.
Pequot Yacht Club hosted a regatta with multiple class races on the Pequot course. Bagheera led K class, finishing about half a minute ahead of Gazeska, while Erne owned by George A Sherwood won the six of seven seven-boat 8 class race with a decisive margin. Star class saw Old Boat and other vessels outpace new boats, and Fulla Pep won the Women’s race. Photographs highlight club figures and new water car trends.
Lordship June 14 Special council approves changing Sunday School worship from 8 oclock evening to 8:30 in the morning for July and designates the last Sunday of July for Children’s Day along with the school’s third birthday. Also plans a utility sale and membership drive to fund church efforts with events on the school grounds and beach excursion.
Announcement of engagements between Carl Brandt and Hilda Wedberg and a party at the Leslie Moore home. Lordship notes cover the Montange family visit, a welcome for Jean Montange, and visits by Otto Hultgren and John Anderson. Mentions a shore-room opening, Harriet Windsor's return from New York, and a Catherine Gibbs secretarial course graduate visiting. A state of others presentation will be voted on at a Thursday 8:15 schoolhouse meeting.
Greenwich Lions Club has almost finished plans for Boy Scout Week events starting yesterday and running to June 24. The parade next Saturday will feature the MCGA with the Kink-a-Poo Medicine Company, special costumes, bands, and firemen and police from Fuller Earth, Green Glass HIM, Hand Full of Earth, and Hickoryville. Afterward Hasvemeyer Field hosts a doubleheader between the Lions Rotary and Amogeron Fire Co. Secret practice has run days, promising a real championship game with the medicine caravan ready and the Kink-a-Poo Indian and Dark Town Mremen in full regalia.
Daniel Guggenheim donates 600000 dollars to New York University to establish a School of Aeronautics in the College of Engineering. Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown notes the need for dedicated aeronautical study and warns aviation should advance peaceful progress and national welfare. The gift funds building, labs, wind tunnel, and salaries for professors and researchers, marking a new employment field in aviation.
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