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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1922
Page
16
Milford May 4 The Alethea Circle of the Methodist church will hold a progressive supper in the parlors of the church on Tuesday evening featuring a sequence of courses in different rooms. The event invites members and friends to participate in a rotating meal format and enjoy fellowship.
A report on the Catholic Charitable Bureau Life Saver vehicle used during war and post war relief. The secretary explains how the aging car ferried a mother to hospital, sheltered children, aided baptisms and marriages, transported professionals, and delivered food and fuel to the needy while urging Community Chest donations.
In New York May 4, about 250 poor and elderly residents prayed for the soul of Richard Croker at a simple Mass in St Ignatius Loyola Church. Some spoke of his aid in hard times as community members recalled his years at Tammany Hall and a man produced a card for perpetual masses. The report also notes bids on a state normal school project in Hartford with separate heating and electrical bids delaying award.
A vintage advertisement touts TIZ as a magical cure for tired aching feet. It claims swelling calluses bunions and burning feet disappear and promises painless steps, saying shoes won't feel tight and relief comes for a few cents with a store purchase.
T J Duncan outlines a short wave regenerative receiver hookup with detailed steps and component values. The guide covers battery connections, a 0005 microfarad condenser, a variocoupler, grid leak around one megohm, grid condenser about .06002 microfarads, and notes on tube variation. It emphasizes careful tuning and skilled assembly to achieve sharp selectivity.
New York May 4 Uncle Sam furnishes free wireless lessons limited to amateurs with two years experience. The Radio Reserve, a civilian network allied with the Signal Corps, trains relay routes for army posts and aims to run official traffic. Summer camps and mailed lectures supplement on site courses, with members graded A B C by equipment and relay readiness.
A low voltage battery usually of the storage variety provides capacity from 1 1/2 to words. It is used to power and operate the filament of the detector and amplifier tubes.
May 4 reports a global network of wireless telegraph stations to connect nations. Agreements among American British French and German firms address competition service distribution wave lengths and other technical details as Edward J. Nally returns to the United States aboard the Homer C. with RCA.
Warsaw May Day events left many Jewish workers stabbed and beaten as a labor meeting was stoned and surrounded by students linked to the Roswoj Party and backed by Polish Socialist party members. Madame Stein and Joseph Brody were among the injured.
Mrs. Charlotte E Miles a descendant of an old Connecticut family died this morning at her Gulf street home Milford after illness She was 91 widow of Henry C Miles and granddaughter of Major Curtis famed in the War of 1812 A native of Newtown she came to Milford as a young woman Survived by son Henry G C Miles Milford and half brother George Nienois Hartford Funeral Saturday at home with Rev G Everett Knollmeyer officiating Interment Milford Cemetery
Milford authorities report bids for one and one half miles of state road from West Main to Orange Town ring awarded to Connecticut National Paving Company of New Haven for 39000. The firm already holds two contracts in town and will lay 13 foot wide penetrating macadam starting within a month.
Bridgeport Radio Club schedules a public meeting in East Brierepore Library Auditorium Thursday evening to showcase radio apparatus. The program includes a talk on reception difficulties, a receiver types analysis, and a demonstration by the technical committee, with audience Q and A.
Amusements notes describe seven new acts at the Plaza theatre vaudeville bill with standout performances by Edwards and Co Burke and Durkin Barney and Wormsley and others. Features include pantomime and musical numbers, a Tri-Art piece The Bashful Suitor, and Universal and Regal acts. Folklike Monte Carlo scenes for Foolish Wives are shown at Poll’s Theatre with ex service men aiding authenticity. Empire runs Mary Pickford inratte Tard Wauntleroy. Hippodrome features Constance Talmadge in Wedding Acls.
Melbourne May 4 The Herald reports Britain will sink the battleship Australia off Sydney harbor by gunfire or torpedoes in compliance with the naval treaty made at the Washington Conference.
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