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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1947
Page
17
A narrator notes Uncle Charlie and Aunt Frieda plotting potions and lab mishaps while inventing a home remedy labeled Bye-Bye Fly The Human Insecticide. Smoke, satire, and a goat joke punctuate the chaotic scene as a million-dollar idea slips away.
George Piggott named commander of Lieut. N. W. Bishop camp United Spanish War Veterans and will be installed by Department Commander Thomas H. Holland at an October 43 meeting. Harry Mills and Herbert Reilly to join as senior and junior commanders. Major Charles Bonesteel auxiliary to install officers with Elva D. Stewart, past department president, as Installing officer. Joint encampment gathering planned at 461 Union Avenue tonight.
John Kilbride a vocal student of Nino Bellasaal from Westport has opened in the Crescent club Brooklyn New York. Kilbride specializes in Irish songs and performs regularlyі in the venue.
Two men die and 15 bus passengers are injured when a Greyhound bus collides with an auto on U S route 40 near Effingham. The dead are Rolla F. Clark and Clarence Rickelman, both from Effingham. The bus, traveling from Indianapolis to St. Louis, veered into a ditch but did not overturn. Passengers were treated and released. The cause remains undetermined.
A new gasoline hose nozzle automatically stops fuel flow when an automobile tank becomes full. The device aims to prevent spills and improve fueling safety by providing precise shutoff without user intervention.
An eastbound Spokane Portland and Seattle passenger train struck a rock slide after a cloudburst east of Wishram Wash. The derailment killed engineer Oscar Lyle of Vancouver and left a fireman severely burned. The locomotive overturned with four baggage cars and a passenger coach derailed.
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