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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1922
Page
6
A violent, near comic clash unfolds as two fighters clash with raw ferocity. Douchemin glimpses a distorted face with soot and wild eyes as one attacker grips his windpipe and forces him to the ground under moonlit tension.
Residents of the Stratfield district of Fairfield seek to buy fire protection paid by per fire charge or a yearly tax. A committee urged the board of Fire Commissioners to consider protection via three fire boxes linked to Bridgeport’s alarm system. The board referred the matter to the City Attorney to confirm authority to cover districts outside city limits. The meeting also discussed demolishing a dangerous building at 260 State Street and other fire safety steps.
Two Providence women were injured when their car was struck broadside by a loaded truck on Barnum Avenue near Kossuth Street yesterday. Mrs. Leta Clark suffered a fractured shoulder and collar bone, Mrs. W L Clark painful injuries to ribs spine and thigh, and Mrs. Lillian Dalton was treated and released. Six occupants were in the car including Mr and Mrs L L Clark and George Clark. The truck owner is Lover & Hurley. driver Daniel Petrino. The car’s driver was W James Quigley. All were taken to Dr Louis Simonson’s office before hospital transport.
London notes Lord Robert Cecil warned that fear of war breeds unwisdom and fuels armies and increased preparation. He cited Russia's mobilization sapping reproductive work and France's Rhine occupation driving Germany toward bankruptcy while public opinion in England pushes for more scientific slaughter. Fear underlies these trends.
Berlin reports from 1916 to 1918 show Germany producing 259000 tiles and pistols monthly, 13000 machine guns in fall 1917, 2000 to 3000 guns per month across 1917–18, 1680 artillery batteries in late war, and 9,000,000 hand grenades monthly. It notes vast infantry ammunition, barbed wire, sandbags, and motor-car shortages with front lines limited to about 40,000 German vehicles worldwide.
In SAPETOWN a farm party chasing a leopard was split when Swart separated and was knocked down by the animal. He fought back with a rifle, breaking it in three pieces, and held the beast until help arrived as others raced to the scene. The leopard had stalked the dry stream bed fringed with bushes, wounding Swart with a scalp injury in the struggle.
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