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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1922
Page
18
The listing shows various items with prices from 19 cents to 2.75 dollars. Items include Mary Garden perfumes or cosmetics, Day Dream, Vantines products, Queen Fleurs, Melba Cream Jars, Dier Kiss Talc and Face Powder, Pompeiian Fragrance, and Palmolive Shampoo.
Marion J Bis estate filed in Jochel Probate Court with March 14 hearing for admission. About 1600 total estate dispersed among Peirce family members, Jacobson couple, library and church society, with residue to the Society Committee of the Congregational Church of Prescott Massachusetts. Executor Henry S. Bridgman named.
The Strand and Park theatres host a bustling program with Mrs Fiske in Wake Up Jonathan at Park, and a Steinert concert preview. Amusements feature Wellace Relc Gloria Swanson and more in premieres, with varied acts and vaudeville humor fueling the evening.
Pasquale Capolda known in New York and Connecticut circles as Fighting Harris rested in Waterbury police custody on charges of burglary tied to the Dow home liquor raid on Yale Street November 2 in which Thomas McNelly of Medford Mass was shot and killed. Capolda is held without bond pending return to City Court as state accuses him of planning and participating in the raid. Paul Rossberg and Robert Wilson, also in the party, were arraigned in Criminal Superior Court with no convictions recorded.
Lady Rhondda, daughter of the late Viscount Rhondda, wins a privileges committee decision to join the House of Lords becoming Britain’s first woman in the upper chamber. Lady Astor sits in the lower chamber. Rhondda, heir to a vast Welsh industrial empire, inherits the family title and business holdings after her father’s death in 1918.
Dr Bielumetz narrates an incident at a Mohawk summer camp where a lightning bolt struck a tree, moved through a post and window, and split a screen and mirror. He described constructing a lightning generator from high voltage condensers to study electrical discharge while noting limits due to cost and safety.
The article discusses women models favored for evening wear, highlighting two main types: sandals and a strapless slipper called a glipper. Tattered versions are described as having rhinestone buckles for decoration.
The Empire presents a mystery wonder act led by a renowned oriental performer who promises feats unseen. Herbert Rawlinson stars in Cheated Gentra with Josef Swickard in a supporting role while the Hippodrome screens a Paramount feature showcasing a versatile actor in eighteen Western personas.
Julia Mabarna Yonan, 21, a New Britain bride of three days, accused Rev. M Simon Yonan, 37, Nestorian priest, of tricking her into marriage and threatening to kill her after she refused cohabitation. Yonan, said to lead a New Britain church, was paroled to answer in court tomorrow. She said the groom, raised in Palestine, came to join her family and claimed a vast wealth and large congregation. A marriage license was signed at the city clerk's office. a church ceremony occurred at Christ Episcopal church with interpreter issues due to language.
Bridgeport tailors allege discrimination after the police department favored a Philadelphia firm for ten motorcycle officers uniforms. Bids showed the local merchants priced higher, and the department funded the $440 cost, with the uniforms described as greenish whipcord in Norfolk style for motor cycle officers.
The Telegram reports the department funded the special dress blue uniforms for motorcycle officers while other policemen buy their own clothes. Police heads stated the riders paid for the dress blue uniform, but the uniforms committee chose not to penalize them for the adjoining apparel costs.
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