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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1922
Page
3
Geneva reports a heavy Alps snowstorm dropping thousands of exotic insects including spiders caterpillars and large ants on slopes. Local naturalists cannot explain the phenomenon with one theory suggesting the wind carried sun sectors from a warmer climate.
Detroit March 21 circuit court judges were called into conference by Presiding Judge Ira W. Jayne to discuss alleged rush by aliens to obtain citizenship papers amid reports that American citizens especially veterans would be favored for employment. Judge Faust described it as a disgraceful prostitution of citizenship. about 30,000 alien factory workers and 20,000 former soldiers were noted in the discussion.
Edith Rockefller McCormick, daughter of Tom D Rockefeller Sr, urged women’s groups to back progress outside tribal bounds at a Chicago meeting. She announced the engagement of her 16 year old daughter Matilde to Max Oster, Swiss riding academy proprietor, as part of a Women’s Progress exposition in June.
Sacramento March 21. Forty cents is too much for a bowl of soup. The defendant is dismissed, Judge O. W. Anderson ruling. In the matter of Mrs T K Ram in, arrested after she refused to pay 40 cents for an order of soup from a local restaurant.
March 21. Norwegian students may be moved to cities deemed less wicked than Boston. Norwegian consul in Boston, Obert Sletten, travels to New York to confer with Consul General Fay after the deaths of Otto Haldor Larsen and Pauline Virginia Claris. Discussion centers on student life, with mentions of Middle Western and German universities.
A Mar 2 conflagration at a Weat dhord garage on Harvard Avenue destroyed about fifty cars and damaged nearby buildings in Medford Massachusetts. One firefighter was injured as hot air and gasoline explosions hampered efforts to quell the fire.
Nearly six hundred motor truck drivers from over 1238 Bridgeport firms have joined Captain James Walker’s Traffic Bureau program to improve driver police cooperation and curb street accidents. The initiative, studied by other cities, uses a confidential log to track each motorist and influence future enforcement.
A Dumont, New Jersey schoolteacher sues Henry Hotschuh of Westwood for breach of promise in a case filed in Bergen County. She alleges letters from 1921 show a romantic relationship, with many notes signed as a sweetheart and sent from across the land.
Bridgeport leads Connecticut in Treasury Savings certificates sales, with residents placing nearly double Hartford’s figures. Certificates range from 420 to 500 dollars, replacing War Savings stamps, redeemable after five years with interest. Other top cities include Hartford, Norwich, New Haven, and Stamford.
Washington officials said refunds of income taxes collected by the government would run into millions. An Internal Revenue interpretation of a Supreme Court decision held income held in trust for unborn or unascertained persons was not taxable, prompting refunds in many large estate cases.
Henry Jacobs a 14 year old Fantry boy at Lise hotel faced police court on a willful murder charge after confessing to striking Lady Alice White with a hammer. She was found unconscious in her room Tuesday and died the next day with a fractured skull.
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