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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1920
Page
2
A letter notes lifelong constipation with headaches and left side pain improved after four months using Fruit-a-tives. Bowels regular, headaches gone, customer endorses the remedy as of true merit. Boxed sales 6 for $2.50 and trial size 25¢. available from Fruit-a-tiver Limited in Ogdensburg New York.
Recounting campaign finance issues and the stakes of honesty in government, the speaker warns against corrupt auspices and urges confidence in public leadership. He contrasts forward reform with reactionary cycles, urging industrial peace and a dawn of better days through a balanced, progressive path.
Multiple brief items report a federal raid on the Arthur Krause Company of New York recovering about $200000 in liquor. Other notes mention arrests over a baby exchange case, Ponzi note redemptions, New Haven regulation talks, and various city and state updates across Hartford Bridgeport and New Haven.
Delegates at the Knights of Columbus convention in New York approve a 750000 dollar appropriation for a permanent headquarters to be built in New Haven. Plans and site work will begin immediately for the new facility.
Catherine Sullivan a long time Bridgeport High Latin and Greek instructor dies at her father John Cullinan's home after pneumonia She was active in Catholic Charitable Bureau Bridgeport Protective Association Visiting Nurse Association and Smith College club A Smith College alumna 1889 she is survived by her father sister Ellen and brothers John J and Thomas M Cullinan Sarah Marshall widow of Alfred Marshall dies at her home 397 Poplar Street after a short illness Funeral and burial set for Monday Mountain Grove cemetery Sarah E Knapp widow of Henry S Knapp dies at her Turnx road Fairfield home Funeral from the late home Monday Burial at Mountain Grove cemetery Charles Mason 40 dies at his East Main Street home Survived by parents three sisters and three brothers Funeral from sister Mrs James Hart 392 East Main Street then Saint Marys Church burial at St Michaels cemetery
In San Juan on August 7 Major G M Corput of the U S Public Health Service, Porto Rico quarantine chief, estimates 2.5 million rats, two per inhabitant, costing $15 million annually. Each rat consumes provisions or damages crops about $6 monthly, Census 1.3 million implies residents contribute about $11 per year to rat support.
Washington reports that the British House of Commons passed a third reading of the Irish coercion bill. The measure would transfer Crown tribunal duties in Ireland to courts martial, allow detention of Irish prisoners in UK prisons, and authorize trials without jury in Ireland. The text outlines broad powers for military courts over crime and defense of the realm, with provisions covering trials, recognizances, fines, witnesses, and coroners, as well as procedures if court buildings are damaged.
Bridgeport residents are asked to indicate their preferred transit by filling a coupon in The Bridgeport Times. The paper seeks broad input on whether jitney or trolley service is favored, with coupons to be returned to 179 Fairfield Avenue.
A. A. Smith writes to The Times praising Litchfield New England town history and its prominent families. He recounts attending a town celebration with perfect weather, notes elms and old mansions, mentions Seymour Woodruff Marsh Buell lineages, and references Morris Seymour’s Connecticut history and a Wheelchairbound author. The letter ends with nostalgia for The Times and Civil War connections.
Paris reports the Ministry on Agriculture will produce motion pictures showcasing modern farming methods and other useful information. Government prizes and medals will be awarded for acceptable scenarios, supporting educational film entries.
Oxford reports A Lawrence Lowell president of Harvard University awarded the Degree of D Litt honoris causa. The article also mentions Realm regulations and defines the term persons committed for trial as including individuals who have entered recognizance to appear and plead to an indictment or await trial, or who have been committed to prison awaiting trial.
Chicago August 17 Borrowing a book from a public library in one city and returning it to the library in the next town may be arranged for traveling men. A committee was appointed by the national council of traveling men associations to explore this idea and to confer with the American Library Association which has formed its own committee with John Adams Lowe, vice librarian of the Brooklyn public library, as chairman.
Shop voice urges quick action with a bold sales pitch to buy a pump and related items on the main floor. Short, direct advertising tone emphasizes urgency and immediate in-store purchase.
Tokio reports a mystic “Woman in White” rallying anti-Reds in Russia. Known as the White Tsarina, she claims Romanoff lineage and possession of the Ikon of Iversk. She and followers allegedly seized Cheliabinsk, cut rail links, and killed Bolshevik commissaries. The Central Soviet reportedly offered 4,900,000 rubles for her.
Hartford Aug In a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling the action of Connecticut Light and Power Co upheld damming of the Housatonic River at Stevenson flooding the valley for miles The company sought to condemn lands including the river road from Zoar bridge northward McCarthy owner of adjacent land contended damages and petition dismissal Judge Warner in Superior Court struck out McCarthy paragraph and appointed a damages committee
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