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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1926
Page
6
An English ad page promotes Liver Gist Compound tablets and Metiy‘s Cor Liver Tablets as a quick weight gain cure. It claims they build solid flesh, calm nerves, and improve health in days. The copy cites a Miss A Vita Rogers and Luke McCay as endorsers and notes price and availability from druggists.
M Brunet Socialist president of the Chamber of Deputies will head a new cabinet to replace Poullet after the current session ends. The coalition blends Os and Democrats Catholic and Liberal members with a program focused on Belgiums financial woes and reforms such as military service rent laws and the Washington debt agreement. The cabinet includes Emil Frange as finance minister and features notable figures like Tschoffen Jaspur Vandervelde and Poullet allies, with a special financial committee named to advise alongside Theunis.
Stamford May 16 Special Arthur Gray of 651 Water street South Norwalk was fined 160 dollars and costs by Judge Sam Young in city court for driving a car while intoxicated after his vehicle struck a telegraph pole. Albert Calamita of New Haven arrested April 21 for transporting 100 gallons of alcohol was fined 200 dollars and costs and given 30 days in jail, suspended.
Seven people bitten by a mad dog in Haverhill and nearby areas await Harvard Medical School tests on the animal’s head. In a day the hound bit a child, two women, a man, and a dozen dogs across Amesbury Merrimacport Ross Village and Haverhill before a policeman shot it as it lunged at a three year old.
About 200 Irish priests have been granted permission to attend the Eucharistic Congress in Chisago. Cardinal Chonnell of Armagh, Primate of Ireland, is among those scheduled to attend the ceremonies.
A vintage advertisement promotes Danderine claiming dandruff removal within ten minutes and hair thickening, lustre, and wave. It asserts roots strengthened, itching stopped, and hair growth stimulated, comparing results to rain and sunshine and urging purchase from drugstores or toilet counters for a few cents.
New York May 10 Apprnai sa of the significance of the changing ecodone relationships of a wholly new industrial era upon which the United States has entered since the war. Will be the keynote topic at seventh annual meting of the National Industrial Conference Board Thursday May 20 the tenth anniversary of its organization. Leading executives from every section of the country representing manufacturing mining and transportation industries and the financial world will be present to take stock of the state industry in light of ten years of scientific investigation of industrial economic problems conducted by the Board. The conference seeks to apply economic science to production distribution and consumption and to awaken American industry to the importance of these new complex problems. The Board outlines interdependence of production distribution and consumption and notes the shift from prewar conditions to unprecedented wartime conditions and beyond. The Board has studied transport agricultural and international financial problems and immigration related labor supply while examining credit distribution and ownership changes as factors of rising consumption power. The Conference Board was organized in 1916 in Boston moved to New York in 1920 and affiliates with 27 national industrial state organizations and federal departments. The officers include Frederick P. Fish chairman Loyall A. Osborn vice chairman John OLeary treasurer Fred I. Kent president Magnus W. Alexander and executive committee members Carlos Cheney William S. Nichols Jr John A. Penton Fayette Plumb and others.
Central High announces the class six frolic to be held Friday evening from 7 30 to 11 00 P M in the gymnasium. The program opens with dancing then Stunts including May Queen crowning Lioreice Bradford selected by the class six boys. Mrs Sides and Miss Lieberum train girls for the ceremony.
State College Pa May 10 1AP The dean of men at Pennsylvania State College A R Warnock warns that if current parents do not abolish the liquor mess and its evils the next generation will be forced to pick up the pieces. He notes that a spoiled delinquent son grows into a demanding father and implies children will be compelled to walk straight with a vengeance.
New York May 10 AP Paul Ts Hilton known as the radio burglar today was sentenced to die in the electric chair during the week of June 2 for the murder of Patrolman Arthur Kenny of Ora Milton shot Kenny to death March 3 as he was attempting to arrest him.
May 10 Newtown special report states Matthew Cabral of Newtown remains comfortable at Danbury Hospital after his milk truck collided with a car on a sharp turn near Danbury. Mrs Schroeder of New York suffered two broken ribs and was treated at Danbury Hospital. Local court fines issued for faulty brakes. Summer frolic plans for St Rose's church announced for July 22 23 and 24.
The Connecticut Building and Loan association plans its fourteenth annual meeting with Shelton Building and Loan in Shelton Connecticut on Saturday May 15. The session opens at 10:90 am and features James H McNish chief of New Jersey Building and Loan association and Connecticut bank commissioner or representative. Will discuss state budget, officers election, and delegates to the United States convention in July.
James Foley a 36 year old painter is in serious condition at Greenwich Hospital after inflicting a throat wound with a safety razor in a bathroom at 375 Greenwich Avenue. Pellet Sergeant James Fitzroy reports Foley, who had been drinking, restrained about midnight and was found early this morning in a pool of blood by landlady Mrs Mary Dandell. Foley recently came from New York and little is known of him locally.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Lyle entertained at a surprise dinner at 458 Pequonneck street in honor of the forty third anniversary of Mr. Lyle’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Lyle of 311 Stratford avenue. The party featured spring floral decor and music with many relatives and friends in attendance including Mrs. Barbara Steegmuller, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Steegmuller, and several Steegmuller family members from Greenwich, Norwalk and New York.
Modern dental science unveils a new dentifrice that clears the film on teeth and firms gums. The ad promises whiter teeth and healthier gums by removing a slippery coating linked to staining and decay, urging readers to try a full 10-day tube and send in a coupon.
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