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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1921
Page
18
In Washington on May 16, Chairman Cummins of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee told Tolins Kruttschnitt, chairman of the Southern railroad group, that R. R. S. won’t last at the present rate and will not endure much longer. He asserted the issue amid Senate discussion.
The Farm News wireless service expands across the country enabling households to receive crop, weather, and farming reports at low cost. Initiated from Washington, the system has grown to multiple centers with strong amateur support driving its success and reach.
An article from New Haven recounts a self styled former mistress of a Connecticut duck farm denying she is Dorothy Arnold. She alleges rumors, accuses a husband Leon Ingraham of misrepresentation, and includes a poem she wrote with notes about violinist Montemurro. The piece implies a court case may follow.
N Y Central officials and employer groups opened wage reduction talks at Buffalo on May 16 with plans to extend to national significance as union brothers prepare to join later discussions. Initial sessions included the engineers, firemen, and others, with trainmen and conductors joining tomorrow and Wednesday. The piece also notes wartime soldier ratios and cost figures from Civil War to 1913.
Harry Green, a Black man, allegedly knocked Massion Barch unconscious near the Erie docks at Foot of Duane Street and dragged him to shore. The drowning man, Barch, offered Green $500 from his belt to release him. Barch reportedly showed $730 and claimed prohibition hurt his business before attempting to die by jumping.
Milford teachers signed contracts as the school year extends to 40 weeks next year. Superintendent Mathewson said 69 teachers received contracts with current salaries for 40 weeks, while the teachers league urged a $30 annual raise, a request the board did not grant.
A beauty advertisement describes using a stiff paste of powder and water to remove under arm and neck hairs. It claims skin will be free of hair or blemish in minutes with a single application, urging buyers to purchase Delatone in original packaging and mix fresh.
A New Yorker visiting Blymouth Massachusetts reports his acquaintance with Dr True's Elixir. He claims it aids digestion and relieves constipation and asks for six large bottles for his mother's use. The ad promotes Trua's Elixir as a long-established laxative and worm expeller with over seventy years on the market.
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