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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1921
Page
9
More than 21,000 Swift & Company employees own or pay for shares in the business, attesting to their faith in the company's integrity and good will by investing their savings.
Secretary Denby announced support for building more submarines, boosting optimism for the Lake plant facing a potential spring shutdown without new contracts. Manager Brill said current four boats keep operations busy but fear loss of work without timely legislation to allow new submarine awards. Denby noted the U.S. lags in submarine types and long range undersea vessels compared with foreign rivals.
In New York Queens County authorities probe the death of 17 month old Winston Lanier Washington who died at a private Richmond Hill nursery after an application of a jointline and mergurical ointment spread over the body. The physician says the nurse disobeyed orders to apply the ointment only to eruptions. Parents William and Washington Lanter Washington are divorced. The infant, a descendant of a Washington relative, had been in the nursery 13 months and died after a week of being treated with the irritant. The father requested the investigation.
A survey yesterday shows gradual increases in the working forces at several plants. Warner Brothers Corset reports steady hiring, Dorset factory denies full-time start, and Bryant Electric and Underwood Typewriter plants continue adding staff, with about 26 new hires at Underwood since August.
Squirrel Island marks a golden jubilee as descendants of four men who founded the Maine summer colony gather to honor a community rooted in religion, local government, and sex equality. Women voted with men under a free and religiously guided compact.
A $100,000,000 tidal project is proposed by American engineers to Granville Chamber of Commerce in Manche. Barriers and cofferdams would house a dual alternator to convert tides into power, aiming at about 6,090,000,000 kilowatt hours annually. France’s Public Works Ministry is moving ahead with another tidal hydraulic experiment on the minister coast.
Wellesley Mass Sept 19 Inquest to decide if Arthur Farrer Park former theatrical manager and dramatic critic killed by train or died accidentally Medical Examiner Hodgdon said death due to accident to be determined at inquest Clark son of former Congressman Samuel M Clark of Town once managed John Drew directed the Bostonians and later produced his own plays He worked for Seattle New York and Chicago papers including the Chicago Tribune at age 19
The schooner America, towed under heavy seas, reached New Haven harbor and anchored off the New Haven Yacht Club float. The tow ship could not progress in rough Long Island Sound, delaying headway until Saybrook. The vessel is to be turned over to the Navy Department as a historic relic, with a stop planned at Stamford before Annapolis.
A Grove Beach casing used for summer picture exhibitions near the Boston Past Road was burned this morning. The structure, closed for the season last Saturday, suffered a loss estimated at fifty thousand dollars. The cause of the fire remains unknown.
Greensboro N C Sept 19 An investigation was under way into the lynching of Ernest Daniels a young Negro taken from Pittshoro jail by a mob and accused of entering the room of a saloon girl Saturday night Authorities said Daniels confessed and named the mob leader whose identity was known to officials
A description of bread and milk sets, plates, bowls, and cups in English china featuring nursery rhymes such as Old King Cole Jack and Jill and Little Boy Blue. Nippon ware sets with bunny and elephant motifs are also advertised along with Good Night sets and matching candlesticks.
A vivid parade through Toyland features charming character dolls and party cake dolls that wash easily and stay fresh. Miles and Mary Mix-up, Polly Prim, Jack Tar, Jackie Coogan, and others charm little readers as balls of rubber or celluloid come in many sizes and colors.
One section features models for Children and Juniors with focus on style trimming and color. The youthful hats range from plain daily school wear to distinctive designs for older girls and college bound youths. Quality is high with unique creations and careful designer thought evident.
The ad lists sliding pins with easel back and without, curtain stretchers, ribbed union suits for women in regular and bodice styles, basement floor mention, regular and extra sizes with prices from 85 cents to a dollar, and tool steel scissors and shears with multiple sizes and prices. It also promotes fall fashion notations for oxford shoes in black Scotch grain, mahogany, and patent colt styles, with price tags and width/size ranges up to size nine.
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