Bridgeport Enthusiasts Seek Checkerboard Career Quick Picks
Local players show interest in a checkerboard career during a Thanksgiving port selection event. Enthusiasts urge rapid board setup to ensure chosen players gain early advantage.
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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1921
Page
18
Local players show interest in a checkerboard career during a Thanksgiving port selection event. Enthusiasts urge rapid board setup to ensure chosen players gain early advantage.
An Irish correspondent reports statements from British officials asserting Ireland will stay within the Crown and not permit Ulster separation, while war policy and government pledges weigh on the peace process. a forthcoming Irish correspondence is promised for publication.
Detroit, AGth., notes a prohibition chief denounces wet propaganda as a threat to the Volstead era. He criticizes officials and citizens, urging enforcement and unity against temperance erosion, while calling out political intrigue and moral panic within cities and among the public.
Pennsylvania athletic officials announced that an interscholastic relay team from the university may be invited to London next spring for a relay meet patterned after the Pennsylvania relay carnival. Tentative date set for April and Pennsylvania hopes to send five men after qualifying exams. The Pennsylvania legislature has issued approval for the trip.
A cat sprang from a shell and toppled items on Maple Wood Avenue near Park Place, sparking a blaze that ruined stock worth 8400. Firemen extinguished the flames before they spread to nearby buildings. The loss is estimated at 3200. Automobiles and a residence on Main Street were damaged by smoke and heat.
About 2,000 Yale students gathered on campus in the early afternoon and marched to the railroad station led by the Yale sexton to cheer the team off for Cambridge. The send-off was described as the strongest in years and boosted confidence that Yale can win the championship against Harvard on Saturday.
A chaotic but vibrant review describes ongoing showings at Plaza and surrounding venues. The Wiching Hour and other features receive praise for production values, performances by Mary Carr and CoWar Tearle, and a mix of drama, comedy, and musical numbers.
Fragmentary text shows garbled names and actions, including references to viewing players, centers, and a contested effort. Details and participants are unreadable, with multiple misrendered phrases making a coherent event impossible to determine.
A damaged newspaper notice provides partial details for a local sale with readable fragments naming the sale action and local officials.
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