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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1926
Page
6
An advertisement urges readers to treat varicose veins at home with Moone's Emerald Ot full strength in a two ounce bottle. It promises reduction of enlarged veins with night and morning application, noting quick absorption and even piles relief, sold by Hindle's Drug Stores.
Madison Square Garden was chosen as the site for the New York Republican state convention on September 27, with Buffalo and Rochester as alternative bids. The meeting adopted an equal representation rule pairing one woman delegate for every male. Isaac Butler of Columbia University was discussed as a potential governor candidate, while Butler endorsed a straight repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.
New Haven May 21 AP Tap day at Yale elected 56 juniors by four senior honor societies. Top taps went to Philip W. Bunnell captain elect of next fall's Yale football team, for SieM and Bones. Wolf's Head and Scroll and Keys named Paul Haviland and William Hinkle. Second honors went to Charles Watson and Lawrence M. Noble. The ceremony includes pledges and a campus bell-tolling ritual at Battell chapel.
Los Angeles May 21 AP reports chemical analysis of candy eaten by evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson before her disappearance at Ocean Park. Police pursue theories including possible kidnapping and harmful substances in sweets as witness Emily Finley swears she saw a woman swimmer scream then vanish near Lick Pier while Emma Schaffer confirms McPherson’s secretary.
In Bridgeport, Clarice Brough Leppert won a divorce from George F. Leppert after he allegedly struck her once. Judge L P Waldo Marvin granted the decree in Superior Court yesterday. The wife described being slammed, knocked to the floor, and left dangling from a window resulting from the incident.
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