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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1923
Page
8
Two Parochial League basketball games are on today’s slate with local teams competing on neutral courts. Sacred teams face off in a doubleheader expected to draw student crowds and school spirit, with standings and possible playoff implications.
The text presents a quirky description asserting that bullets fired straight up will return and that when forced upright they will fall base first and then base upward, implying a reversal of expected trajectories in a reversed or poetic logic.
The United Church and related societies await Supreme Court ruling that blocks sale of the Broad Street site once used for church work space. Officials said the lot may be too small for a larger church and future plans depend on heirs and needed property. A meeting of church groups and the building committee will decide next steps.
Yale athletes face a packed schedule at Franklin Field Philadelphia and around town. The lineup includes track field events and contests against Harvard Princeton and Cambridge, with freshmen and varsity squads expected to compete in multiple venues and formats this week.
New York May 2 40 fans for the international tennis competition among nations. The United States Lawn Tennis Association issued invitations to foreign tennis associations for a series of matches in connection with the National Women's Championships of 1940 in Australia but no country accepted. Great Britain was expected to send several of its best women players, including Miss Kathleen McRan and Miss...
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A note from 1923 indicates the U.S.T.A. advised against a trip. The Wightman Trophy, donated years ago by Mrs. Horace Wightman of Boston, a former national women's champion, has not yet been incorporated.
Hartpore May 22 In orders from the adjutant general today Second Lieutenant Donald F. Peck of the headquarters detachment First Squadron Cavalry is appointed First Lieutenant of Cavalry from May 21 Six hundred aerial photographs were taken to make a map of Kansas City ran.
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