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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1921
Page
14
Fragmentary text mentions a Madison or Wishua Jet toward Foochow China, aiming to join a three year program to grow something for transplanting and later timber, with reference to Tse Ganges and India. Details are unclear due to damaged OCR.
Five men in South Norwalk were fined $10 plus costs each for plying jitneys without licenses by Judge George Ti. The mixed inland note mentions various shark species around British coasts and Atlantic waters, including fox and Greenland sharks, with lengths up to 26 feet for Greenland sharks and dogfish common on English and Irish coasts.
Local notes describe the Layte theatre program featuring Pha South Todas sacred comedy and a strong Lyrig drama The Storm. Cast includes Doreey Slaters Vandiville and Allen Gt, with spectacle lighting and forest fire scenes praised as top of the season.
Crowds continue to feast as the three day Bridgeport bill opens with DeMille masterpiece The Wife Hunter and a string of acts. William Edmanis and company perform Peg O’My Sole while Grayton and Allman deliver broad comedy and dancing. Miner and Evans and Bing and Grill close the show with hand balancing feats.
The Three Musketeers style film opens Thursday at the Perk Theatre in a limited engagement. Douglas Basedam presents a star studded all star cast with Fairbanks in a dynamic swordplay laden production praised for its spectacular action and romantic tone.
The Sig Wonder Show by Frank Dupree premieres at Park Losaire for two days starting Tuesday. Cast includes Ee Gee, PL Murphy, Stoller, Olive Tie Nebita Wilson, Clara Myans, and others. A chorus of young women will perform, with a production led by Ine Murng and billed as a standout for the season.
A sustained steel shortage forces the Martinstown Steel Company to idle sixteen of its twenty mills as operations pause. The plant had been relying on supplies from Our site in Belmere and Mingotus with imports from New Castin blocked, leaving workers idled for months.
The Association of Fallway Intecutives notes freight rates have fallen unevenly across the country. Major reductions include Pacific coast lumber 88 to 40 percent, grain rates unusually high, and western shipments cut 10 to 12 percent from the Pacific coast to eastern markets.
In a garbled account from Bristol dated Oct 1, Associated Press reports a heavyweight boxing scene with Carpentier, Gibbons, and Harry Greb, while Billy Shade hovers. Rival points out a lack of certainty over outcomes as suspensions arise in unrelated grain transport case involving Ploy Sullivan and Joseph Jenning.
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