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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1923
Page
3
A benefit day will be held in Thidgeport next Wednesday to aid Near Nast Relief. The event will feature a clothing drive including old coats, shoes, and clothing. Stations for dropoffs will be set up in local schools.
In the Ruhr industrial region authorities report most plants back online within a week as riots ease. Thousands resume operations in mines and factories, signaling a return to production. Dresden unrest appears contained with minimal clashes and demonstrations subdued by authorities.
A small fire broke out yesterday afternoon at a Fourmont avenue residence when a cigar dropped on a varnished floor. Firemen were alerted from box 844 but the blaze had been extinguished before their arrival.
A $25,000 blaze in Norwich caused extensive damage this afternoon, destroying a frame house containing 1400 bales of wool waste and burke and spreading to an adjoining brick warehouse before it was checked. The buildings and contents belonged to Max Gorden and Sons Corporation.
CHICAGO May 20 Rum cunning runs on the Detroit river and is nearly immune according to a Chicago Daily News interview with C L Porterfield prohibition director for the tenth district Ohio Michigan and Indiana officials indifferent A Toledo date line quotes Porterfield saying forces have little effect amid treaty limits and smugglers notesว่ the rum is moved wholesale with little risk amid lax enforcement and public skepticism Porterfield says efforts were reported to Washington and through telegraph and in person to stress the situation
In England on May 2 Associated Press reports at St George’s church the burial site of Pocahontas is being examined. A substantial amount of human remains was found raising hopes of locating the Indiana princess’s remains. Excavation continued under rector Canon Gedge with British Museum anthropology representatives to verify the bones before any cremation or reburial.
Gay May 30. Mee and Me Pom Lewis of Nor Jakin returned from Rohaleinville to a neighbor’s home where they had left their seven children. Three were dead, the others unconscious, and neighbor Mrs. John Idner also unconscious. The group had been struck by lightning.
Washington May 30—Tian Hull of the Democratic ratification committees declares John T. Adams, chairman of the Republican National Committee, has both supported President Harding and Secretary Hughes in foreign policy. Hull notes Adams attacked allied governments and the League of Nations, raising a GOP dispute over who should shape the admin policy.
Oyster Bay New York memorial rites for Theodore Roosevelt’s tomb recall Veterans Day tribute. A Montana salute joined a local gathering as rain fell over Helena and nearby towns, with attendees honoring the late president and war veterans.
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