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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1926
Page
21
In this city on March 7 19 26 various obituaries list the deceased and funeral arrangements. Names include Margaret Cameron George Bailey and Anna Otis with service times and cemetery interments at Lakeview St Michaels Milford and other local plots.
Obituaries and funeral notices from Stratford area communities list multiple deaths and services. Mrs. Margaret A Cameron of 619 Wilmot Ave dies after long illness. funeral from her home and Blessed Sacrament Church with high Mass. Anna Otis widow of John Otis, funeral at St Augustine’s. Carmeto Pento, two years, funeral from father’s home to St Michael’s cemetery. Edmund Solari, ten, funeral at St Michael’s. Edward J Stealey, 36 Selgwick Street, funeral with High Mass at St Patrick’s. Mrs. Vera Shepherd Watson, 38, funeral from her mother’s home. Mrs. Ane Johnsen, 73, funeral from home and Talkeview Cemetery. Mary Walsh, widow of James Walsh, funeral from her daughter’s home and St Peter’s. Mrs. Susan S Hawley, 84, funeral at Nichol’s Cemetery. Charles Howery, 55, funeral from Remington chapel. Agnes Derrick, wife of Frederick Derrick, funeral at St Peter’s with multiple clergy. Earnest James Murray, 65, funeral from Ivanista Ave. James C Foley, 57, funeral from Morral Ave and St Augustine’s. George Rockwell Bailey, 24, funeral from Stratford Ave chapel. Jerome Carey Jr, funeral from family home to St Patrick’s. Numerous details on times, mass prayers, and burial sites include St Michael’s, Lakeview, St Peter’s, St Augustine’s, and St Patrick’s cemeteries. Community mourns with offerings, pallbearers, and honor guards from local lodges and fire departments.
Hartford March AP Charles H W Remington head of the Aetna Life Insurance company and its affiliates resigned today. The board of directors accepted the resignation amid difficulties at the Automobile Insurance company, part of the Aetna Life group.
March butter, cheese and creamery prices steady to higher in New York markets. Wholesale milk priced at 280 dollars per 100 pounds within a 201 to 210 mile radius. Potatoes and sweet potatoes show mixed quotes. dried fruits, canned goods, and poultry markets listed with varying ranges. Beef and pork markets steady with family and Megs price points noted.
Chicago wheat offices report an early upward turn on March 8 amid expectations of a larger U S visible supply drop possibly up to 2 million bushels. Foreign selling and buying balanced. May and July futures moved from slight declines to gains as corn and oats followed wheat higher despite initial weakness. Provisions and hogs weakened as grains closed unsettled with mixed gains and losses across contracts.
The Board of Health will hold a special meeting before April 1 to appoint new sanitary inspectors to replace Hugh Wolfe and Thomas Mulone, who will become policemen on April 2. The board has not chosen successors yet and will adjust salaries after a recent budget cut.
Realty Records notes multiple transfers: Loevith and company to Joseph Nagy on Ferris Street for 500 dollars. Anthony D Grosso and William Petrie to North End Bank and Trust Company on Madison Ave. Grosso and William to David and Clara Stepen Sky on Madison Avenue. Antonia de Lucia and others to Columbus Finance Corporation on Stratford Avenue. Arthur J Abbott to James Reach on Dixon Street.
A dense OCR style listing outlines a full day’s radio programs across stations in multiple markets. Items include health and class segments, weather and stock reports, concerts, church programs, market bulletins, and evening concerts. Notable entities include KGO Oakland, stations in St Louis and Chicago, and various program titles and host names.
Providence March. AP reports the Eastern Processing company cotton yarn plant in Pawtucket has been conveyed to John West Thread company on February 15 1925 under mortgage foreclosure. A decree by Justice Willard B Tanner sets March 27 as deadline to pay a 217600 mortgage plus seven percent interest from May 1 1924 and all taxes liens and costs.
Copper steady in spot and futures around 14 1 8 to 14 1 4. Iron steady with No 1 Northern at 22.00 to 23.80 and No 2 Northern 21.00 to 22.50. Lead and zinc steady with spot lead at 8.60 and zinc around 7.45. Antimony at 19.50 to 20.00.
The New York Cocoa and Rubber Exchange reports firm activity in smoked ribbed sheets with spot prices at 57.00 and 67.00 for rubber. Active contracts include March at 56.50, May around 65.50 in New York, with April-June at 55.50 and July at 54.40.
Cotton prices in New York edged lower across the board as March settled around 19.20, May 18.64, July 18.02, October 17.30 and December 16.97 to 27.00 while overall futures remained steady.
A compact record of call money and mercantile paper in New York with rates for call loans at 4 1 2 percent, bid and offered spreads around 4 1 4 to 4 1 2, and 60-90 day to 8 4 with mixed collateral.
Algonquin Club members meet in special session to vote on building a new clubhouse at Broad and Gilbert. An option on the old South Church site expires March 14 and most members favor a new building over remodeling the church walls. Architect Joseph W. Northrop leads remodeling supporters, while a questionnaire suggests a majority prefer the new structure. The Unanving policy for the project is also expected to be decided tonight.
Detective bureau learned Brinson Smith former newspaperman will not be returned here as he finishes his term for bigamy in New York. Instead he will be sent to Lansing Michigan on a governor’s warrant where he is wanted for escaping jail. He was to be returned to face a theft charge involving an auto from Joseph A. Welsner of the Auto Renting Co. on John Street.
Pred Abbott of 176 Nichols Street was arrested at the Second Precinct on assault charges after his wife reported being beaten. He was held on $100 bond as bruises showed on her face when she came to the station for help.
Daily Record of Ambulance Calls lists patient Louise Diabetla at 654 Harral Avenue with convulsions treated. Thomas Burn at 46 Foster Avenue Ansonia with epilepsy taken to home. Margaret Warley at 298 Newfield Avenue influenza treated and left. Thomas Siluney at Newfield Avenue with temperature recorded as four degrees.
The bridge commission will interview six firms and engineers to appoint consultants for the new Yellow Mill bridge. Likely choices include John E. Greiner Fay Spofford and Thorndike Edward Bungler George W. Webster Ernest Wirgin Harrington Howard and Ash and John Harrington. Interviews to occur in one sitting with possible alternate lists.
The Supreme Court today refused to review the conviction and prison sentence of Thomas B. Felder in the federal New York court for conspiracy in the grass casket case, closing his last avenue of escape from compliance with the sentences.
A still alarm logged at 1:11 p.m. details a chimney fire at 298 East Avenue with no damage. Earlier, one box at 1 Mela and Thone streets reported fire damage of 500 dollars in chemicals and a truck, with line 2 on Ik Tlawe Street.
New York March 8 AP Sammy Lee says condemnation boosts a new dance's popularity. He cites Charleston and others as examples and notes stage and musical comedies drive nationwide adoption via dance teachers and theaters. Lee, a veteran choreographer, has directed sixty shows and eyes future London work with Berlin and Lonsdale.
Six university presidents met at the Chicago Commonwealth Club to discuss flaws in higher education. They criticized the elective system and urged humane, citizen-centered, dramatic education with broader imagination and purpose. Speakers included Clarence Jultle Michigan, Max Mason Chicago, Walter Scott Northwestern, Josiah Penniman Penn, David Winley Illinois, and Glenn Frank Wisconsin.
Tobacco sales in West Virginia Kentucky and Ohio producing areas brought an aggregate value of 1 647 695 dollars for 8 460 465 pounds of tobacco sold at Huntington Tobacco Warehouse. Season ended Saturday with 1925 26 sales exceeding 1924 totals by 453 980 pounds and 133 022 dollars in crop value. Farmers were paid about 200 dollars per acre.
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