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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1925
Page
18
Real estate ads list multiple Fairfield and Stratford properties. Highlights include No 12 Poplar Terrace Fairfield with six rooms and modern features priced around 4700, Stratford homes with gas and electricity, garages, updated interiors, and flexible terms. Listings emphasize bargains, payments plans, and nearby utilities.
Beautiful mansion with gardens greenhouses garages and a cottage at 1188 Main St Bar 8747 immediate possession. Also two family house and business property with improvements Garage large lot Cottage Place Trumbull Beardsley city limits near Market area.
Lost dog Smokey a tan terrier with long brown hair and drooping ears last seen May Sth near Stratford Troll. Reward offered. Also loan and mortgage notices for State Realty and others seeking funds, reduced rates, and immediate money on properties, with names such as Jared Finklestone and Bank Mortgages. Listings include multiple addresses and loan amounts.
Used furniture, gas stoves, toy boxes, tugs, car pets, and more. James Rainey at 48 Kossuth and 408 HL Main St list items wanted for cash. Milford addresses and phone numbers appear for calling inquires about old furniture, silver, bric a brac, and bronzes.
Advertising note lists multiple stores for sale or rent near Commercial 82 and Nor Ave with various business types including tailor cleaner hairdresser butcher and newsstand. Mentions two stores of about 10 months exposure with back areas and rent details. references locations Mascowits Ay Moreland Ford 786-2 and population 10,000.
A land parcel labeled as available for sale near the depot and power plant area. Potential buyers are urged to make an offer through Mrs. It Rosenbaum at Suggeirs Lane. The text is fragmented with OCR errors but indicates a sale notice for a corner property in North Bi. local area.
A Newark based department store advertisement promotes exclusive weekly dairy product salesmen deals. It mentions the Watkins Co and a Johnson Avenue address, highlighting men’s sales efforts and a home delivery emphasis.
Private sessions arranged by Prof Louis Consol are available on Monday and Thursday in Warner Building Room 416. Appointments are scheduled to fit student needs.
Reading daily readings by Mrs Loveridge at 198 West Ave. Spiritualists host weekly Friday meetings in Milford. Also listed is a notice to property owners about a tax filing requirement and a brief note on motorboat activity and launches.
Multiple death notices dated May 9 to May 12 list names such as William Christam Thomas Donnelly Horace Evitts Benjamin Groff John Maton Katherine McAtee Joseph Miklus and others. They specify residences, funeral times and places including Saint Michael s Cemetery Blessed Sacrament Church St. Charles Church and Oaklawn Cemetery with high mass or solemn Requiem services. Burial locations include Union Cemetery Stratford and Stratford area.
An Anniversary Mass for Frederick W. Cove is set at St. Peters Church with May 32 date and unclear time. A months mind Mass for Eifett Siwith is announced at St. Charles Church on Tuesday May 12 at 7 30, with minimal details and a clerical note.
Washington May 9 Thomas Woodlock, reappointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission after Senate confirmation failed, cannot receive compensation until confirmed. The Comptroller-General rules the appointment falls under a prohibitory statute. Taxes on the Grand List of 1924 in Trumbull are due May 15 1925 with scheduled collection sites and times.
In Boston on May 9 Wayne H Wheeler head of the Anti Saloon League urged calling out the Navy to suppress Rum Row and rum running off the Atlantic coast. He criticized Coast Guard limits and said it would be the government duty to use Navy ships if needed to seal the flow, and accused treaties of hampering relief while promising proper actions with the offensive.
The Maryland battleship suffered extensive damage exceeding 150000 dollars after a reef crash off Oahu near Diamond Head. Crew report rolling to 31 degrees and four feet of water flooding the quarterdeck as the ship narrowly righted and then moved to sea. Marines and ships nearby sent to shore as rescue efforts and fresh anchors were set.
Race card lists multiple purses for horses aged three and up across six furlongs to a mile and a half. Notable entrants include Osage, Skirmish, Byron, Comis Artiat, Sister Sue, Kit Carson, Sun Audience, Candy Maker, Antiquary Tan, Peter Paul, Youngs April, Gue Wrack, Son Car, Oakwood, Master Billy, with varied weights and entries across six races and two claiming events.
Racing card lists multiple races with purses from 1300 to 1400. Trainers and horses named include Robert Maxwell Molinera George room True Worth Halle Daw Town Duis Boy TAtive Timm Royal George Rauid Tay Miss Dodge John & Stump dr Queer foo pligible Caley McTiNiSt alequa greysweil Cup O Tea By Gosh Queen Charming Midnight Rose Tris Old Lip Tall Grass Eight Gixty Resistance Alexander Moore The Cheetah Valette Air Caustie Fastnet Silver Slippers Philias Breakfast Bell Osprye Bourbon Boy Graeme FIPPED RACE My Fe Betelgeuse J G Denny Elsass Watchful Tad O Mine Laveen Canill Lewless Lud Cherokee Boh Dr Al Briggs Sir Peter Idie our Warm entry
Washington reports a new death ray device named Heligtuenh claimed to paralyze life for six hours over 49 miles and up to 45,000 feet. Commissioned summaries note lack of operation details and energy source. War Department experts question feasibility given airplane ceiling limits.
Pimlico lists entries for a maiden race and a $1000 prize for three year olds and up, with several horses named including Wild Bee Miss Phalcher and Half Pint. The card continues with a $1200 purse for The Jockey Club Handicap for three-year-olds and up at six furlongs featuring Big Heart Prince of Power Vast Mall Jude Waller and others.
Selections across six races list horses and bettors with entries including Shampoo Farly Miss Thatcher Lorenzo St Lawrence Fredden Rock Marconi First Mate Black Climber Edinburgh Scarcher Fast Mull Candy Ki Sceor cher Shuffle Along The Bat Gunboat Camp Fire Tales Reify Prince s Best Bet Marco wveke rok.
Three coast guardsmen from the Madalet station on Nantucket were rescued eight miles offshore by a passing steamship after their surf boat capsized in high seas. George Massey of Boston Addison Macdonald of Norfolk Macy Felfenmaye of New York City were exposed and cold but saved. they were brought to Woods Hole Hospital. The relief ship’s name was not learned.
In a Somali coast dispatch, Mrs Delia J Akeley Kisuml, an American explorer in British East Africa, recounts her perilous journey across the Somali desert and the loss of a prized Kudu when a giant lizard dropped into her boat. She notes military rule, hostile natives, and the hunt for rare specimens destined for the Brooklyn Museum.
Washington May 10 Acting Secretary of War Davis announced that President Coolidge wants aviation instruction at the Military Academy expanded. The general staff is to speed a study on whether the cadet course should be extended and changes added for the class entering the academy. The move follows the president’s aviation interest and precedent at the Naval Academy.
Groverland Wa May 16 A fire started in the planing room of the J Ray Arnot Lumber Mill tonight completely destroyed the plant. Loss estimated at $1,000,000. No lives lost but a boy was reportedly hit by an automobile and swallowed by the driver. details unconfirmed.
The article notes German educators reintroducing classics in schools after the war, with six years of Latin and Creek studies now required for all male students completing the course. Prewar levels of Cheek and Latin are reestablished alongside emphasis on Tecunga history in preparatory schools.
Judge Edwin Dickinson will preside at the May criminal term opening next Tuesday afternoon. O Mahony of New York faces murder charges in Greenwich and may see a September trial to allow insanity examinations. Rosozes and Miller of New York await a lengthy trial for the shooting of Joseph Larkin at the Palace Theatre. Carl Wilson’s Stamford shooting case previously ended in a hung jury. Prisoners are held in multiple jails across Bridgeport, Stamford, Norwalk, Shelton, and nearby towns.
In Wallingford on May 1 Miclaet Flis, 43, died by shooting himself at his residence. The incident occurred while his wife and a family member were present. Police reported no foul play and the death is being treated as a self-inflicted act. Local authorities are continuing routine investigative steps.
Stephen Gavso, twelve, a pupil of John Z. Traynolds, has appeared at the Majestic Theatre nightly during Music Week. A student since age six, he is regarded as one of the area’s most accomplished young violinists and plans to study in Budapest after grammar school. He lives at 292 Spruce Street.
Albany May 10. A newspaper notice from agents of the Albany baseball pool says the club has discontinued operations. The pool grew from a small office into a weekly money venture with over $100000 in weekly investments. Governor Smith moved to end the pool across Albany, Schenectady and Rensselaer counties. Sheriffs conducted raids with few arrests, saying they found little evidence of broad pool activity in their counties.
Chicago police staged twenty raids across the city leading to a core of arrests and seizures of baseball pool materials. Detectives catalogued literature blanks and other items used for pool operations, with materials traced to out of town sources and linked to a key figure, Kate Uibeage, under guidance of the raid team.
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