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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1920
Page
13
Bridgeport The Times Publishing lists an office phone number Barpum 1268 for business inquiries and notices. The brief entry appears as a standard contact line in the local advertising or notices section.
The first session of the League of Nations at Geneva closed after five weeks with forty-one nations cooperating on varied issues. Despite bitter differences, leaders applaud its growing organization and potential, noting enemies from militarists to bureaucrats and revolutionaries, yet affirming that the League will live and expand its authority. Parallel notes discuss Canada’s coal process promising vast commercial value and potential American savings from reduced coal imports and waste coal dust utilization.
The piece surveys global upheavals from Mendoza quake deaths to shifts in world trade hubs and fur exports. It cites John Hopkins professors predicting food limits by 2100 and notes rising crime in New York. It closes with Ireland’s defiance echoed by Valera.
The Lane couple marked their golden wedding, dated December 21 1870 at Kent Connecticut, with a large gathering of four generations in Bridgeport. Guests included William Goodsell and relatives from Newtown Woodbury Stratford and Pittsfield. Mr Lane, a Berkshire Division conductor for 50 years, has traveled an estimated 3,000,000 miles and never suffered a serious wreck.
A two year study by Canada's Federal Council of Scientific and Industrial Research finds vast Saskatchewan lignite deposits can be converted into briquettes. Water is driven off, gas extracted, leaving a heat rich powder similar to anthracite when bound with sulphite pitch or tar and compressed.
Judge John Keeler denied a receivership petition from Kata Mullin Co New Haven against Lena H Frank and others of Bridgeport over alleged mismanagement of the Iroquois apartments on Washington Avenue The court withheld appointment for now but warned renewal if charges for maintenance taxes interest and running expenses are not paid The hearing highlighted a $50 000 loan with $15 000 in commissions and bonuses claimed by Mrs Frank and associates and property value was placed between 175 000 and 190 000
Kansas City December 22 Jens Willard former heavyweight champion may referee the Hugh Walker Hob Roper bout on December 30. Promoters announced they were awaiting Willard's reply to the proposal. Willard trains in Lawrence Kans for his March title match with Jack Dempsey.
Connecticut probate court in Bridgeport orders administrator to sell real estate of Mary C Whelan deceased. Hearing set for December 19, 1920 at 10 am in Bridgeport probate office. Notice to all interested parties to appear and respond, publication required by December 3, 189. Attest Judge Paul L Miller.
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