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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1927
Page
7
A noted remedy claims flood coffee clears domestic tensions. The piece lauds YUBAN coffee as the famed blend John Arbuckle, renowned as a leading coffee merchant, served to his most favored guests, promising its magical mood lifting effects.
Nov 14 Chicago report says 100 American history professors were wined and dined by the British government to shape Anglo American portrayals. Witnesses claim 1918 21 revisions credited to U.S. authors altered views of Britain and war causes. The probe cites the Willian McAndrew case and Parliament minutes citing English propaganda in Chicago schools.
Hillside Home reports a record 203 cases yesterday marking the largest since construction. The tally includes transient guests recovering from alcoholism, several juveniles awaiting trial or awaiting transfer to correctional facilities, and the usual permanent inmates.
Bridgeport Red Cross workers Miss Amelia Wenderoth and Miss Alison Hale head to flood relief service. They departed by train but waterlogged tracks may delay them. Wenderoth will serve in Burlington while Hale is assigned to Montpelier.
The Stanchard Electric Time company of Springfield, Massachusetts had sought $6,000 from the city for materials used in building Warren Harding High School. Judge Earnest C. Simpson of Superior Court ruled the claim need not be paid. The materials were supplied to Kilpatrick and Hotz company in this city by Sandard Electric Time for the city’s electrical contract.
Dr Edwards promises quick relief from constipation with Olive Tablets a vegetable laxative mixed with olive oil. The tablets contain no calomel and work by helping bowels and liver act normally. Used nightly they aim to reduce dark mouth dull feeling sick headache and sluggish liver signals. Thousands use them nightly to keep bowels smooth and regular.
A hot exhaust pipe on John P. Fant's car at 1390 Stratford Avenue ignited an old newspaper left near the pipe, damaging the car top. A still alarm sent Engine 1 and Truck 5 to Main and Jewett streets to extinguish the blaze.
Springfield Mass Nov 14 Officials announced rapid reconstruction on the Boston and Albany line between Becket and Middlefield swept away by the flood. One track will be operated between this city and Pittsfield late tomorrow.
Special report states former Deputy Sheriff George E. Thayer of Stanford and former resident of Pairfield was fined $25 by Judge Clarence R. Ball in Towncoat for concealing personal property. Thayer faced charges of using two cars out of the state without completing payment for them.
New York Nov 14 An American soprano Rosa Ponselle won the lead in Bertini’s Norma at the Metropolitan Opera marking a revival not seen since Lilli Lehmann. Gatti-Casazza announced her casting after rapid rise from debut with Caruso to Met star amid recent successes in Forza del Destino Gioconda Juive and La Vestale. Her Meriden Connecticut home is noted as part of her background.
New York report recalls Senator Blaine and Senator Conkling amid 1870s clashes. Editor Henry L. Stoddard cites how the gobbler strut remark shaped politics, costing Blaine presidential nominations and aiding Garfield’s era. The reminiscence also notes Grover Cleveland’s burdens as president.
Lieutenant B F Manning of the U S Army arrived in Vancouver as his wife Mrs Manning travels toward Paris via Suez. The couple honeymooned before divorcing Horace Dodge in Honolulu. Passengers describe their voyage from Honolulu as stormy and both planned reunion in Paris.
Berlin reports a strike and lockout affecting 158 000 textile workers in the Rhineland ended as workers and employers accepted an arbitrators award. Work will resume tomorrow after the arbitration board decided on a ten and one half percent wage increase.
Springfield Mass November 14 Mrs Alfrey H Sour Jr a local tennis enthusiast admitted she walked from Springfield to Hartford Connecticut last week claiming the trek was a bet She covered about 27 miles in the interval between dawn and dusk drawing astonished remarks from friends about her endurance and plans for further long distance walks
Antonio Tirade, held after the attempted assassination of former president Alvaro Obregon, died in custody from bullet wounds suffered while fleeing. Police may withhold comment as investigations continue. Suspects include a shoemaker and a barber. Miguel Alessio Robles, once a cabinet member, is among the arrested.
Brookfield hosts a fellowship meeting of Northern Fairfield County Congregational churches at Brookfield Center Congregational Church starting 10 15 a m with an all day schedule. Rev Ambrose DeLapp delivers the morning sermon and Rev M Lartimer speaks in the afternoon. A 12 30 dinner is planned and a household cleaning demonstration is announced for Danbury.
Grippe bronchitis pleurisy and pneumonia caused several ambulance calls at Emergency hospital over the weekend. Thirteen month old Raymond Carbon of 75 Taft avenue contracted pneumonia and died Sunday night. Dr. Chester E. Haberlin treated him at home and at the hospital in a bid to save his life.
St Albans Vt Nov 14 The Rutland railroad expects to have its line north of Rutland reopened within two weeks after flood damage. Superintendent G L R French said three gaps north of Outland require pipe trestle work across the Winooski river and two trestles north of Proctor, but hopes to bridge them for traffic within two weeks.
A car struck a horse on Bridgeport Avenue Milford just after dawn injuring rider John Graseky of Stratford who fell from the saddle with abrasions and possible chest injuries. The horse was unhurt and driver Joseph R. Miller of West Haven said headlights blinded him as he tried to pass the horse going east.
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