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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1927
Page
7
Cary Meenory, missing after a trip to Suffolk Virginia, regains memory after a fall from a vehicle in Suffolk. His wife in Providence reported the strange lapse and rapid recovery as he recalled being in Providence one moment and on a road in Virginia the next.
Hartford March 17 The annual St Patrick's Day scene at Trinity College saw sophomores guard the campus as freshmen attempted to place their chest tags. The clash ended in a sophomores victory after a late-night engagement just after 1 A M. Stephen O'Leary of Hartford led the sophomores and James Gillespie of New Haven aided the freshmen in the combat.
Milford March 17 One of the winter real estate deals here closes as Lawrence T. Gallagher of the Gallagher Building Co Bay View purchases the Beardsley property between Clark Street and Beardsley Avenue adjoining the New Haven railroad. A 361000 plan for modern homes with steam heat and street through access is noted.
Dorothy Mills Porter of Norwalk won a $2,275 verdict against Ney National Bank as trustees of Oliver H. Mills estate. She claimed $1,620 for services as a housekeeper under a verbal agreement paying $45 monthly from January 31, 1920 to January 7, 1923. Her later claim to the estate’s trustee was rejected in December 1926.
Atlanta March 17. Dixie now has more cotton spindles in operation than New England. The Southern Textile Directory reports the South consumed over seventy percent of raw cotton into finished goods in 1926. It records the South with 4,738 more spindles than New England as of March 1, 1927, and a spindle age of 17,936,264, about 47.9 percent of the nation's total. the South gained 189,140 spindles while the North lost 656,404.
Vermont House of Representatives, under a suspension of rules, passed a bill ratifying a treaty with New York for the construction of a bridge across Lake Champlain between Chimney Point and a site near Fort Frederick. The measure now goes to the Senate.
United States Senator George Ho Moses was greeted by Cuban state department representatives in New Ulmashire and joined Vice President Dawes at a luncheon hosted at the Central Tviedo sugar mill near ASTM. Moses will stay a week with Ambassador Crowder and the party as they tour Cuban facilities.
The Kensington Methodist church received a donation of sixty aprons. Parish women measured waists and matched pennies to the numbers, rewarding the pastor Rev May De Lert for the gift.
In Westport a taxi dispute near the Fine Arts theatre led to a stone damaging a restaurant window. Edward Rowe and Forest Gosner were arrested by Officer Edward Capasse and held on $25 bonds each. Both drivers claimed their rival service rushed to a late fare. The incident followed a heated confrontation at State Street stand.
Lord Beaverbrook declares his British newspaper activities have yielded financial profit. In a London Daily Express essay he notes his work into a northern edition published in London and Manchester and expresses that Fleet Street has never compensated him for his efforts.
Judge John Dillon and councilor Isadore Yochelman were riding from Shelton when a door glass shattered, injuring Mrs. Dillon’s nose. She was taken to Derby Hospital for treatment, part of the nose being removed.
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