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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1920
Page
15
A proposed bout featuring Lou Begash is planned amid negotiations over weight and money. George Dwyer acts as promoter while the Amusement Company builds a new arena near the Casino. Officials McAdubit, Steady Dman, and Joe Hail are cited in the rough account of the setup and preliminaries.
The state champion Dean Neeton wins a round in the Wood Hall Golf tournament as others progress. Glenn Gardner sets a new record of 69 for Libs Vet, while Max F. Marston, Reginald M. Lewis, and Corkran face defeats in late rounds.
Portraits linked to Washington and Sarah Livingston were presented to Surgrave Manor, ancestral home of the Washington family. The silhouettes, once in Francis Wellesley's Oxford collection, include a glass portrait of George Washington by an unknown American artist and a gold tinted silhouette of Mrs. Washington painted on cardboard. The portraits remain in original frames and are valued, as Surgrave Manor prepares for visiting Americans and restoration work this summer.
English women cigarette smokers are buying cigarettes by the hundred box rather than small packets a large tobacco dealer told the Glove He noted some women light as many as 400 cigarettes a week and share many with friends They prefer Egyptian and Turkish tobacco to Virginia The dealer said women pine-smokers now and some buy specially made patterned cigarettes for themselves He also suggested smoking has made women more frivolous and pleasant.
George Fitzgerald, chauffeur for opera star Enrico Caruso, was arrested in Hampton on Sullivan Act charges for possessing a revolver without a permit. He and other Caruso household staff are detained as a John Doe jewel theft inquiry unfolds, with Fitzgerald held on $1,900 bail.
Boston lawyers protested Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer s plan to appoint Daniel J Gallagher as Boston district attorney They argued the move traded support for Gallagher s nomination at the St Francisco convention and pressed Palmer to withdraw the appointment The delegation declined further comments after meeting with Palmer
At Atlantic City on June 15 Dre EB Churchill of the Pecoral Aurea of Fisheries warned the Long Island Sound oyster beds and adjacent areas in New England and Chesapeake Bay are being overexploited due to polluted waters from industrial waste, risking early exhaustion.
A New York Federal Judge dismissed an equity suit by a consumer company seeking to force state officials to permit the manufacture and sale of a prescription cider containing about one percent alcohol. The ruling declares the director's authority final and the court lacks jurisdiction.
Messages of good will pour in for Governor Coolidge as congratulatory notes flood his office. From Holland a cable reads sincere congratulations and God wishes while Nicholas Murray Butler telegraphs he will spare no effort to bring about Harding and Coolidge’s selection.
An older Reno Nevada bull terrier owned by H. Carlson greets a man named Mike in a San Francisco setting. The fragment notes travel, a tram barn or building, and an unspecified meeting with a person identified as Jane. The scene includes circus imagery and unclear dates.
A fragmented note describes an awkward incident involving a man seeking tips while en route. Cys obtains the porter of the Alpine, with an unclear exchange noted as a “yea.” The text is garbled but hints at travel discomfort and service dynamics.
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