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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1925
Page
11
Southport reports two weeks of racing left for Pequot Yacht Club boats across all classes. Season totals from 14 regattas show tight margins with slight points differences among leading yachts, listing boats and owners in the various A, B, and S classes.
The South district Democratic association will hold an adjourned meeting at its rooms 1297 North avenue tonight. President William J Mead says the group will endorse Alderman William E Hogan for mayor.
Probate records show the estates of Mary L Fitch and Elizabeth Fitch totaling over 500000. Elizabeths estate amounted to 255176 and Marys to 254116, with Mary dying before probate of Elizabeths estate. Bequests were made jointly and the residual funds planned for a home for white Protestant schoolteachers.
Stephen Majoros aged 53 of Nor walk solemnly pledged lifelong abstinence from liquor. He faced Criminal Superior court for allegedly assaulting his wife with a hatchet, with the judge noting possible delirium tremens from overindulgence. A sixty day suspended sentence was imposed, again risking jail if he drinks.
Charles Turner twenty of Stamford, driver of the car in which Eugene Hall Clark eighteen of Sound Beach was fatally injured June 6, was fined fifty dollars and given a suspended thirty day jail term by Judge George Hinman. Turner pled nolo contendere and six months to pay the fine were granted. The coroner found the death accidental. Turner was previously bound over on a charge of causing loss of life by motor vehicle after a collision on East Main street at Stamford.
Edna Boswell, 14, daughter of a North Bend farmer, was fatally injured in a rac vine near her home and died in a Cincinnati hospital. Physicians reported a fractured skull and said there was no sex assault. A Black man is being held.
Four coast guardsmen held for alleged infractions of service regulations escaped from the Richmond County jail on Staten Island by sawing bars of their cells and knocking a guard unconscious. One, Ellas Jalene, was captured while attempting to board a ferry to New York City.
Urbana, Sept 17. The Illinois Federation of Labor heard a Yale university study by Professor Charles Foster Kent saying the University of Illinois environment is clean. The report was part of university officials’ reply to claims of poor moral conditions raised by Edwin Wright of Chicago. Acting Vice-President K C Babbock, Dean of Men Thomas A Clark, and Dean C M Thompson spoke in response.
Workmen have completed the exterior of the new Yale dormitory, a duplicate of Connecticut Hall, on the campus in New Haven. The building is being prepared for students with interior work soon. Swapping brick pavement at Dwight Hall and the library is underway to replace it with grass.
Thompsonville dispatch reports the Enfield town court room was disinfected after a skunk entered earlier. Officers confronted the animal in headquarters with four men fleeing. Officer James Males attempted a flank with a club, and the skunk was clubbed and driven away.
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