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Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Nov 24, 1923

Page

9

Cavern Found After Horse Sinks in Winchester Field

In Hampshire County near Middletown a large cave system was uncovered when a plowing horse and a second animal vanished into a subsurface hole. R P Boyer watched as the ground swallowed the animal, the other was freed by a harness break, and rescuers descended to survey the opening.

Winchester Middletown R. P. Boyer Ope Larga Jorse Boyer

Mothers Choose Most Odd Names From Veterans Bureau Cards

A USPS file of United States veterans bureau cards reveals oddities in names used by service members. The list includes Dinner Bell Page Great Britton Turner Wies Fox Hunter Green Hue Jackson Lloyd George Parliament and more such as Velvet Couch and Slaughter Bugg. The count shows 63,500 Johns, 47,000 Williams, and 15,000 Walkers among soldiers with many Latinate and foreign sounding forms represented across the service.

United States Veterans’ Bureau Washington Willis Darling France Pleasant Ayres Eugene Grant Earl Norfolk Fair France Dinner Bell Page Britton Turner Wies Fox Hunter Green Hue Jackson Lloyd George George Asad Wilson van Hook N. D Mid Gosh Chicago Green’Horn Btatesboro Ga.j Velvet Couch Purk Wyill Swindle Center Williames Jose Rodrisudzes

Life Sized Dolls Are Old Maid's Consolation

In London a single woman, Trichton Wotan, vows to care for her widowed mother and rejects marriage. To cope, she mothers two lifelike dolls, tending them as children and sharing her home with imagined babies, a devotion that has misled onlookers.

OLD Maid London Trichton Wotan Moter

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