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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1922
Page
4
Senator Borah presses a Senate inquiry into Boris Bakhmeteff former Soviet envoy with questions on his credentials and the American loan to Ker, while State Department aides flag possible immunities and delay formal questioning. Semenoff seeks to testify as Borah denounces anti Bolshevik actions.
Police kept busy by a long list of hootch samplers, with multiple arrests for drunkenness and breaches of peace downtown. John McMahon, a blind peddler, found on Watley Street sidewalk, treated for intoxication and observed at the emergency station. Walter Kamenski’s saloon at 182 was padlocked after police seized several bottles. Kamenski held on $600 bond. John McLaughlin and Charles Sanford also arrested for drunkenness.
In hearings the General would await the disposition of a civil case in New York before testifying before the Labor Committee. Semenot’s attorneys delivered a letter to Senator Borah demanding the General be summoned to testify about his presence in the country.
An old advertisement touts Nuxated Iron as a cure for exhausted nerve force and broad symptoms such as nervous irritability, heart palpitations, indigestion, and head pains. It promises quick improvement by boosting blood-making organs and delivering iron to the blood, with a two week self-check and money-back guarantee if results are not seen.
A New York May 8 report details a spree of violence leaving six dead and seven wounded. Names include Dr Alfred H. Riedel at a Broadway setting, John C. Keane and Miss Vlizaport Dunn, Vincent Laciardi and Margaret Violant, Michael Stanshefsky, Constance F. Marvin, Edith Buchanan, Vincent Morre, Hugh Chambers, and others. The incidents span New York City and nearby towns, with suicides, duels, and alleged motives ranging from unrequited love to jealousy and crime. Public and police events connect to magistrate hearings, shootings, and investigations.
Vermont boosters visit Bridgeport on Saturday en route to New York to open Vermont information bureau in Hotel Woodstock. They will be greeted by city officials and Chamber leaders then tour the area, with a Springfield to New York route passing through Brattleboro Graynsfield and Northampton. The group plans to open bureaus in New York's Hotel Woodstock and later Boston's Hotel Brunswick.
An old remedy claims Sage and Sulphur restore faded gray hair to natural color. The ad recalls grandmothers use and notes Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound as the modern bottled version praised by a downtown druggist for darkening hair evenly. Apply with a damp sponge to achieve lasting glossy color.
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