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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1927
Page
4
An advertisement urges underweight men and women to take McCoy’s Cod Liver Oil Tablets or similar tablets. It claims dramatic gains of at least five pounds in weeks with a money back guarantee after testing a full box, and stresses the product is sold nationwide in drug stores.
A flood of 15000 applicants from the United States and Canada seeks to join Commander George M. Dyott on a 1935 expedition into the Brazilian jungle to rescue Colonel P. H. Fawcett. Dyott scans letters from diverse applicants including ex servicemen, physicians, actors, and even a Hartford woman eager to go, while noting the difficulty of choosing four explorers for the voyage.
Algiers Nov 27 Hundreds of persons are reported dead or missing after a 40 hour downpour and flood along a 50 mile coastal belt east of Oran. Homes barns and livestock were destroyed as eight bridges were washed away and dams broke near Perregaux and Nostas. Rescue teams and troops were sent to the area as roads and rail lines were cut.
Letters from applicants describe tropical heat and discomfort in Detroit. One man recalls Turkish baths in New York and endures heat. A Southerner laments never feeling warm since coming here. Another asks if he has red blood and tests himself with the commander. A Long Island man knew Roosevelt and calls him Pop. Cleveland writer hints at misogyny and atheism while praising Gat's friends.
A man from Ansonia was reported drunk and allegedly threatened youths on Kos Street Friday afternoon. Police from Woodridge arrested him for breach of the peace and he was locked at the Second precinct awaiting a City court hearing this morning.
New York November 37. The National Industrial Conference Board reports most business is done by small firms. In manufacturing, nearly three quarters of plants employed 20 or fewer workers in 1923, and two thirds produced under 100,000 dollars in value. By 1925, one third of plants produced nine tenths of value with nine tenths of wage earners employed. Smaller units dominate trade and banking, while large firms exist alongside many small banks.
An artist and spiritualist grieving his musician friend Seymour Wright, thirty, attempted suicide by gas in a bathroom after the death of his companion Francis Stuart, forty six. Wright was found in Bellevue hospital in critical condition. He had painted a portrait of his mother before the act. Two letters were found including a request to be buried beside Stuart.
Leslie L Irving visited Worcester county jail asking Sheriff Richardson to allow him to serve the remaining three months of a two year term. He had escaped nine years earlier while a trusted county courthouse worker. He claimed duty to his country and desire to fight Germans as motivation.
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