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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1927
Page
23
The readable line hints at a music or theater score fragment. Mentions Milfont and a beat or tempo, with unclear names like Chon Vedder Sty Hevtn. Text is garbled OCR with no clear event date or location.
The article outlines life insurance as a protective tool with varied provisions and durations. It describes whole life and term policies, common durations like one year, and how insurers bundle protection into a single or multiple policies. It notes the balance of spending and risk, urging clear understanding before purchase.
An analysis explains term insurance cheapness and drawbacks, contrasting it with straight life, limited payment, and endowment policies. It notes term costs rise with age, straight life provides fixed premiums and death benefit, limited payment ends after years, and endowment combines insurance with investment for discipline and net endowment.
Ships listed with origins including Piragi Teno, Resolute, Haifa, Volendam and more sail or arrive in early March. Calls include New York as origin or destination with routes to Southampton, Naples, Alexandria, Havana, Bremen, Plymouth and other ports. Names such as Albert Ballin and Tramburg appear among passenger and cargo movements.
The Associated Press stock market update lists industrials at 151.08 and Rails at 14b.35, with totals for stock sales around 1,616,700 shares. Bond and utility averages appear alongside combined metrics, total bond sales at 314,090, and monthly and yearly changes in a dated market briefing.
DRAIN CHICAGO March 3 wheat prices fell amid bearish tone as new shipments from Argentina loom. Chicago open showed mixed to lower, futures turned modestly down with July and Sept contracts drifting. Corn opened steady to down then retraced, while oats and soybeans also eased. Provisions held to a setback as buying weakened.
Farwell Kasten elected chairman of the board of directors of the Atlantic Gypsum Products Co at the last meeting of stockholders in Terenda. NL Roberts of Boston was chosen president as the company planned to begin operations for its plant locally next year.
J H French denies plans to acquire Murray Corporation of America. J Edward Johnster and Andrew Varick Stout Sr purchase NYSE seats for 142096 dollars each. Pan American Petroleum reports 1926 net profits near 29.5 million with Lago Oland Transport adding about 4 million. Domestic steel firms note rising earnings, div idends, and capacity use, while financial institutions report gold shipments to New York and Montreal banks totaling several millions.
A list of warranty deeds records showing transfers of realty across Bridgeport and surrounding towns. Notable entries include Morris Peldmin to Tollward Deutsch on Auburn street and Raymond Colin to Home Building and Loan on Harmony street, with many names and street addresses presented in a dense OCR format.
Reynolds Tobacco Company declares a quarterly cash dividend of 1.26 per share on common stock payable April 1 to stockholders of record March 18. The announcement was made by the company in Salem North Carolina.
Federal Reserve system reports combined resources and liabilities for the twelve reserve banks. Total resources 5.013 million dollars with gold reserves 2.881 million and total deposits 2.90 million. Half of reserves cover deposits and notes, with a 78.5 percent reserve ratio.
Liberty bonds and Treasury issues feed a cautious close as AP reports mixed prices for Liberty 1 28 27 291.17 First 4 1-45 78 193.83 Second 4 1-44 200 Third 1-48 29 101.18 Fourth 4 1- 103.2 Treasury 3 4s 101 14 Treasury 4s Af 4.
Rubber market reports closing on March 3 with March at 39.00, May at 40.90, July at 41.50, and smoked ribbed spot at 40 1-8.
Negotiations in New York will consolidate J. H. Adams Co Inc silk manufacturers of New Haven and Globe Silk Co of New Haven. The firm to be named Adams Co and move to New Haven, adding about 150 jobs. 69 from Adams Co currently employed.
Webster Mass March 3 CAP The Worcester Consolidated Street Railway company will abandon its trolley line to Webster and provide bus service between the two communities following a conference of officials of the towns and the traction company Also announced that the Whey and Davis Busines Inc had been purchased by the Consolidated and that bus route operation which had been abandoned will be resumed The inauguration of bus service between Webster and Worcester is the forerunner of a complete line under the control of the New Gr vaslroad between N London and Worcester It waited after the conference
Frank J. Abercremble delivered a talk at the TuavhevnKiwanis meeting in the Stratfield ballroom yesterday afternoon. The lecture traced sign writing and interior decoration, focusing on correct lettering formation and symbolic plans used in the wobbled ages, with a history of the art.
A financial summary shows exchanges totaling 1.724 million dollars with minor balances around 188 dollars amid federal reserve bunk credit entries and aほ administrative line mentioning hal smer and 101.01 thousand. The text is fragmented but indicates a monetary ledger update with credit and debit items.
The American Smelting and Refining Company raised lead prices in New York today, lifting the advancing price from 7.5 to 7. per pound as market activity firms.
Sir Esme Toward and Sir Hume spoke at the Twentieth Century club in Washington urging unity of heart as a substitute for written pacts between the United States and Great Britain. They warned against fratricidal conflict and cautioned against armament竞 rivalry while advocating peace rooted in shared resolve and confidence.
The Connecticut Utilities Commission denied a petition by Summer residents seeking lower party-line telephone rates, stating that a rate cut requires more subscribers. The same issue notes a divorce complainant in Fairfield County with an absent husband and a court order published in The Herald.
Notice to property owners that unpaid taxes on property listed will be collected by the Tax Collector. Payments must be received by March 31, 1927, at the Tax Collector’s office, with no additional charges. Howard A. Challenger, Tax Collector.
Several death notices list March 1927 events in Stratford Fairfield Co. Connecticut. Names include Teebecca Parker Cornwalti, Charles Hargus Nakagus, Margaret Warrigan, Anna Keating, Thomas Kenney, Ida Mitchell Lyon, Julia M Mast, Dennis A Murphy, Arro Magi Jr, Hianche A Plass, Mary A Ryan, Winifred Tidbold Wakeman, Peter Wileinsky, and Peter Whamsky. Entries specify residences, funeral times, church services at St Michael's St Patricks and St Augustine's, and interment at local cemeteries. Some items request no flowers.
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