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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1924
Page
11
Local readers learn how to observe a total solar eclipse, with guidance from Prof Ernest W Brown of Yale. The article explains edge effects, corona visibility, and methods to judge totality, plus best viewing locations, timing, and the value of elevation and maps for edge positions.
Coroner John J Phelan will hold an inquest at 10 o clock Saturday morning over the traffic related death of Constable George Mills. Mills, injured Saturday night directing heavy traffic after the Yale Harvard game, died at 7 this morning from water on the brain attributed to shock. Mills stood on Post road at Riverside avenue when struck by a car driven by W J Agar Jr, chauffeur for William and Watters, NY.
A liquor laden gasoline boat named Beryle was found adrift off the San Juan Islands 60 miles north of Seattle with blood on its sides. Authorities report Ave men are in custody over hijacking operations and the kiting of Captain W G Gillis and his son William 17 aboard the Weasel. The Attorney General in Vancouver has retained a special counsel to prosecute the arrests, and Canadian police have offered a reward of 2100 for the arrest of a listed ex-convict and two others sought in the case.
Bridgeport merchants in the business district plan inaugural Christmas street decorations. Trolley poles will bear red and laurel wreaths, set by James and May on adjacent poles. Merchants will share the decoration costs.
A Hartford Connecticut woman reports severe illness left her too weak for housework until Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helped after one bottle and more. She delivered a healthy baby girl and continues nursing, noting marked improvement and calls the product splendid for women's health.
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