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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1924
Page
8
Fairfield groups plan another town meeting within weeks to reconsider appointing and naming zoning and adjustment commissions and the $8 500 appropriation for their use. Some residents claim the last vote misunderstood the action and favored the opposite outcome.
Ansonia firemen answered a call at Front and Factor corner to a clothes closet in 115 Factory Street. The blaze was confined with chemicals, smoke filled the home, danger overestimated, and damage was limited.
Lordship Improvement Association elected Harry Van Yorx as president for the coming year with Harry H. Mudgett as vice president and R. K. Wisher as recording secretary. Charles Franz is financial secretary, GE Ruther treasurer. The group voted to petition Stratford for two more rights for Lordship and to accept roads for permanent resurfacing and to make Lordship a separate voting district.
Mayor Alfred Phillips Jr reports campaign expenditures totaling $960.25 including $260.26 spent in Stamford as he seeks reelection. He paid $207 to The Review Corporation, $50 in miscellaneous advertising and $16.25 for printing. Opponent Judge Johan Keating has not filed.
In New York a shooting near John Street left Aloysius J. Tierney of West Orange New Jersey, manager of the Drug and Chemical Club, in critical condition with two bullets in the chest. Police seek Marion Danves Catherine Rohock and another unnamed woman as four men were with jewelry salesman James T. Riley’s party. Patomen Brennan of the special service squad is charged with the shooting.tierney was struck as four men and the women fled the scene.
Raymond Jackson, a young farmer near Erimnstom, shot and killed his wife Mary Casey Jackson as she slept. He then turned the shotgun on himself and killed Nimsele. Four children, the oldest nine, slept nearby.
On Maple Street November 6, 1928 Gaetano Benedetto of Pem broke street received a verdict of 160 dollars against Antonio Pavin in the Court of Common Pleas. The trial before Judge John J. Walsh followed a street knife attack during a political discussion involving mayoral candidates Behren and Atwater. Benedetto and Pavia denied assault and claimed 1500 dollars in counter damages.
William Holiite, chief engineer of the Bridgeport Hydraulic Company, invites the Engineers' Club to inspect the Haston Lake dam project. Members meet at the Court Exchange Building at 2 PM Saturday and travel by their own cars to the site near Sport BNL. The dam, Connecticut's large project, is 1200 feet long, 160 feet high, and 110 feet at the base, requiring 190000 cubic yards of cement and will impound six billion gallons of water for Bri ct water supply.
A fragmentary shopper note highlights bargain pricing and availability of dairy and coffee items. The text mentions a surprise party theme and cheap costs, with references to coffee brands and tea products.
Glen A. Henderson of New York City and other places was arrested in New York on fugitive from justice charges tied to an alleged fraudulent bond deal in Amsterdam. He was free on bail in Fairfield County court on another charge from Miss Johanna Coox of Stamford accusing him of converting bonds she gave him as trustee and not paying her.
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