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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1926
Page
6
An endorsement from Ardenia Howard touts Adlerika as a powerful bowel cleanser improving digestion, gas relief, and sleep by removing poisons. The ad promises benefits for chronic indigestion, bloating, headaches, and poor appetite, urging readers to buy at local drugstores.
An advertisement touts a glandular treatment named Glandagen promising renewed vitality for men and women described as weak and run down. It claims to fix glandular insufficiency and restore health, urging readers to buy through local drug stores.
Advertises a two ounce original bottle of Moone's Emerald at drug stores claiming night and morning application reduces veins and piles. Promises quick improvement and money refund if not satisfied. Hindle's Drug stores carry the product at low price.
The Newtown board of finance met in the director's room to review appropriations for 1926-27 and the school budget for 1924-27. They granted $44,710 for town purposes and $39,030 for schools, with other line items adjusted. final figures will be presented to voters at the October 4 town meeting.
The Town School committee had no requests approved beyond exceptions. Teachers salaries rise 25 400 and supplementary tending 800 plus transportation 3 500 and school furniture 390. The board of figures trimmed the budget to the lowest possible figure, aiming to lower the tax rate to 19 mills when settled at the March 1927 adjourned annual town meeting. last year’s rate was 21 mills.
The New Yorker reports Senator Caraway of Arkansas accused of bias and challenged by ex-Congressman Grima to explain how Governor Smiths Roman Catholic faith could bar his presidency. Griffin quotes Caraway defending Smith and calling for open discussion of bigoted whispers before the Democratic convention.
Washington dispatch reports Treasury expects to receive about four hundred million dollars in tax collections by tonight as the third quarter closes. The same quarter of 1924 yielded roughly $381,000,000.
The Connecticut Agricultural College extension service announces a 4H club exhibit at the freshmen’s festival on Friday and Saturday October 1. Entry open to any boy or girl. aims to encourage exhibits from Monroe, Easton, Trumbull, Stratford, Bridgeport, Westport and nearby towns. Ribbons and premiums awarded. Classes include poultry, canning, dairying, gardening, sewing, athletics, livestock, cooking and basketry.
The cost of running Stamford city government rose by 3.86 per resident in the year ended December 15, 1925, to 41.56 per person. Stamford total expenditures reached 2,430,438 with 159,918 spent on permanent improvements and a 119,210 deficit funded by bond sales. Debt stood at 3,456,738 or 94.79 per capita. property taxes formed 91.4 percent of 1925 revenue, averaging 51.93 per person.
London dispatch notes Rudyard Kipling’s poem The Vine vara in his new poetry volume Debts and Credits. The verse appears to reference America’s wartime role and postwar stance, using indirect imagery and a pointed tone about responsibility and burdens shouldered.
Charley Edison, newly named president of Edison Industries, announced in Chicago that the company would soon market a forty minute record. He said the long playing concept has his father’s team working on it for two years. The 20 minute per side disc would replace albums for recital programs.
Commissioner rules against George J. Schwent of Bridgeport City, denying his claim from Bridgeport Metal Goods after an injury in May 1924. The ruling states the employer’s presse operation did not prove the hernia was work related, and the claim is dismissed.
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