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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1921
Page
4
Major party leaders monitor a handful of minor contests as they prepare for broader races. The focus is on state legislative seats and potential shifts in the balance of power ahead of essential gubernatorial and court elections.
W M Washburn, longtime Bridgeport resident and member of the Brookline Country Club, will leave New York this week to assume duties as secretary of the treasury. He advised undersecretaries on legal and financial matters and played a key role on the last American Davis Cup team.
The Raymond W. Ishris post Veterans of Foreign Wars will host the third annual dance and entertainment on State Street next Friday evening. An Armistice Day program features a novelty fox trot with two silver cup prizes for winners.
The Plaza Theatre lineup features Peek-A-Boo as the season’s top show with strong support from Larry Lemon’s The Rent Collector and Peaches with the Hyson singers. The Lyric and Polys vaudeville acts, Jane Lowe in Scrambled Wives, Tom Mix in The White Horseman, and Why Girls tone Home round out a varied program.
Mrs Taylor cousin of Mrs Stillman drowned in Milltown Lake along the edge near the Potter home. Believed an accident after illness and family lean toward accidental death. Mentions sister Mrs Winthrop Cowdin and prior suicide of Mrs Taylor’s sister in 1906. Neighboring details reference Alonzo Polien and Laure Potter.
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes approved the applications of two breweries, Lisherman of New York City and Feigenspen of Newark J, to manufacture and sell medicinal beer. This action increases the total number of licensed breweries in Washington.
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