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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1923
Page
15
Telepram company employee Misa Vallent married Hannah Desmond today at St Marys Church Greenwich. Desmond, linked to the 6th Regiment, is a niece of late Pete Whier Andrew Pathot, with local ties to Locust Street.
A local page lists Amusements Palace Vaudeville with Mie D udivery and company and The Wallis Girls number, an International Newsreel, and The Tents of Allah. Majestic Theatre features The Girl Who Came Back with cast including Alisa Cooper and Gaston Glass. Plea Beach offers The Gilet in Red and daredevil dives by The Beauty Darian. Poll Vaudcile shows The Heart of Wetona and Scandals of Pleasure. Rippodrome notes Westbound Limited fire danger scenes and a bridge accident in Greenwich hospital report.
A large circus advance party arrives to set up for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show. Marcy Overton travels ahead to arrange transport feed for hundreds of horses, elephants, camels, and other acts. The commissary will feed about 1600 people daily and order hay, grain, and food supplies.
Forty nine cases of beer were detected on a Bridgeport man’s truck after a patrol officer heard a dent and stopped the vehicle. George Murphys of 242 Madison avenue Bridgeport was arrested for transporting liquor without a permit. The truck owner was identified as Hugh A Murphy of 68 Rockland avenue Ridgeway. The scene was turned over to federal authorities for examination by United States Commissioner Hugh S. Lavery.
An August poultry association outing was discussed at a Consolidated Poultry Society meeting, with members approving committee roles and summer activities. Separately in Tokyo, an unusual procession showed Buddhist and Shinto rituals culminating in a funeral feast at a fashionable restaurant, where an elderly couple celebrated their new life after death rites.
A northbound single trolley car operated by GG Murphy of Chanel Street collided with a large motor truck driven by Joseph Sane at Bank Street. The impact shattered windows and the truck windshield, injuring none of the drivers but rattling passengers, including several elderly women.
A six year old girl, Clara Hiseman of 16% Tinwoon Ave Nu, darted from behind a wagon on Linwood Avenue near Wood Avenue yesterday morning and ran into an automobile driven by Stanley R. Bolinder of 13h Midland Street. She received bruises to both legs and was sent home after medical care.
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