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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1927
Page
7
A juror panel is chosen in Atlantic City for the trial of Mrs. Lilliendahl and Willis Beach accused of killing Dr. Lilliendahl. The process features tense testimony and claims of conflicting accounts as prosecutors seek a murder conviction and the defense questions alibi and witnesses.
The Y W C A industrial department hosts a World Fellowship banquet at 6 15 PM at 1144 Barnum Avenue Service Center. The event titled The Hat the World Citizen shows economic interdependence of hat materials and countries. Speakers include Lena Puchala Gertrude Creature Anna Casper Mildred Hayden and others with Mrs Stanley Brown and Anna Christensen in key roles.
Assistant Postmaster Leon F. Caton resigns effective January 1 and will join Bankers Capital Company of Connecticut, led by Arthur F. Connor. Caton will stay on until after the holiday rush. Possible successor includes Acting Postmaster William T. Meyer if he fails to secure the top job. Caton also serves as secretary of the Federal Business Association and vice president of the Bridgeport Employees’ Immediate Relief Association.
Esther Goldstein died November 19 leaving about 4000 in her estate. She bequeaths 800 to brother Jacob Katy of Philadelphia, cuts off siblings Anna Brandenburg Allande Chy and Rachel Mechanic of Bronx, and distributes 500 to niece Muare Katy, 300 to niece Lily Armener, 200 to cousin Guttel Kaslin, 1000 to Ladies Machzika Talmud Torah society, 200 to the Jewish Orphan Ary Lum, 8460 to Jewish National Fund with inscribed names, 200 to Ezrath Neshim Home of Jerugne jem, among other bequests.
Police search for youths who entered Bernstein and Kursman at 431 Water Street through a skylight Sunday night and stole only tobacco. The text mentions an annual fall meeting of a music clubs federation in New York City December 5 to 11 hosted by the New York Federated Music Club and affiliates, with headquarters at the Hotel Whort.
In Dublin on November 28 Associated Press reports Gold medals from the U S President were awarded to Duplin seamen J Pullin and A Weaver for bravery during the Valkyrie sinking in November 1928 They aided 14 survivors from the distressed American schooner in the North Atlantic on November 5 1926 while serving on the British steamer Erie Two others J Keating and W Sproule await return home for similar honors.
Alan U. Parsell of Greens Farms and George Craft of Southport will join Fairfield county producers at the Connecticut Vegetable Growers association annual meeting at Hotel Garde Hartford December 7 and 8. They will participate in a round table on miscellaneous vegetable varieties and discuss marketing, plant houses, pansies, poultry, fertilizers, diversified farming and insect issues with speakers including Professors Stevens Wilkinson Platt Slate Britton.
Marie Healy, an eighteen year old from Manchester New Hampshire, was named the first regional winner in the nation wide Atwater Kent foundation radio audition. She performed on WEAF November 10 against fifteen eastern state singers and won by audience vote and judge panel. Elizabeth Van Sciver of Bridgeport represented Connecticut in the eastern state contest on WTIC. Nine more regional winners remain to be selected for finals broadcast on WEAF in December. First prize will be five thousand dollars and two years of free musical instruction.
Mrs Charlotte Stolle died Friday after an illness of more than four months. She lived in Redding for 34 years with her son Frank in the Bradley Sanford home in West Redding. The house burned last July and since then she stayed with her daughter Mrs Mat Sprarlat in Danbury, where the funeral was held. Burial was at Umpawaug Cemetery. The Federated church guild meets this week at Mrs John Morton’s home in Valley Forge. Various local residents visited or hosted over the holiday weekend including Mr and Mrs Vincent Hayes, Mr and Mrs Robert Clark, Mr and Mrs Arthur McCollum, Mr and Mrs Milo Osborn, Mrs Charles Armstrong, and others.
Frank J. Carbone, son of Mrs. Rose Unibone of Bridgeport, has enlisted in the coast artillery and is assigned to duty in Hawaii. He departed New York aboard the transport Cambrai for Honolulu, where he and others will join units in the Hawaiian Islands near famed resorts. Soldiers there enjoy recreational rest camps offering two week vacations and leisure opportunities in a tropical setting.
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