Charity Ball Brightly Styled Night Raises Day Nursery Funds
Bridgeport’s Stratfield hotel hosted the annual winter ball for the Associated Charities. About 250 women attended as Bolton and Ciprano's orchestra played for dancing. Proceeds benefit the Day Nursery fund, with Mrs. William H. Griffith as general chair and Mrs. DeVer H. Warner directing invitations. A parade of guests wore elegant gowns from jade greens to brocaded silks, reflecting Bridgeport society’s prominence and the season’s festive mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sally Wilmot
Griggs
Sherwood Wilms
Katherine Miller
Stratfield Hotel
William Winter
Associated Charities
Raymond Hawke
Bridgeport
David S. Day
Frank C. Hunt
Bolton and Ciprano
New Haven
Day Nursery Fund
William H. Grigith
de, Ver H. Warner
Mra. Harvey
Hubbell
Lawrence M Cornwall
Greenwich inventor sued for cruelty and infidelity by wife
Wealthy Greenwich inventor Leonard Huntress, described as a prominent sportsman, is named as defendant in a restraining or divorce suit brought by his wife Josephine Duncan Dyer. The complaint accuses him of intolerable cruelty and infidelity and lists Marion Christian of Greenwich as a respondent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Huntress
Dyer
Greenwich
BSA
Josephine Duncan Dyer
Marion Christian
City Court seeks 33620 for 1923 24 operating costs
City Court files requisition with City Auditor Bernard Keating for 232, for the 1923 24 year. Items include judge salaries deputy judge prosecuting attorney and stenographer and other items. Health and Charities requests cover salaries water power coal repairs and supplies. Public Works requests include culverts general grading road and macadam repairs bridges and piping and multiple district projects with extensive totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Keating
Public Works
George M. Coughlin
Clarence ©. Lister
Jude
Angus P. Thorne
James Barry
J. H. Martin
Roosevelt Street
Russian Protest Goes to London
Moscow reports Maxim Litvinov acting foreign minister sent a note to England France and Italy protesting Russia's absence from the Allied conference in Paris on economic affairs. The note is addressed to Lora Curzon British foreign secretary Premier Poincare and Mussolini. The conference is separate from the German reparations meeting. In a separate item the Common Council Ways and Means committee recommended a $100 increase for school house janitors. Alder man Alfred K Veness to notify the Board of Apportionment and the Board of Education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Maxim Litvinov
George Tchitcherin
Lausann
England
France
Italy
Russia
Paris
Lora Curzon
Poincare
Mussolini
Maly
Ways and Means Committee
The
Common Council
Board of Edition
Alfred K. Veness
Board of Education
Sage and Sulphur Compound to Darken Hair at Home
A brief ad touts Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound as an easy way to darken gray hair. It claims natural, even results by morning with a sponge application, urging buyers to purchase at drug stores for a more youthful, attractive appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyeth
Jad Salts Kidney Flush Promises Quick Relief
An advertisement touts Jad Salts as a kidney flushing remedy for aches in the kidney region and related symptoms. The dose is four ounces in water before breakfast, claiming to stimulate kidneys, neutralize urinary acids, and ease bladder disorders. A local druggist notes many buyers use it to address early kidney trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ady
Prominent names listed in historic council roster
A historical document catalogs numerous figures including Boardman, Kamens, Wilmot, Palmer, Curtis, Weidlich, McNeil, Day, Crawford, Thorne, Leeds Jr, Mayor Atwater, Smith, Tuttle, La Ficla, Clarke Edwards, Fones, Bryant, Anderson, De Loss, Wheeler, Skinner, Goodsell, Muirhead, Field, Gaynor, Cornwall. The list mixes judges, mayors, doctors, and officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Weed
Sues
Frances Cate
J. A. H. Brooks
H. B. Ella
Sally Lavery
Sally Jay
New York City
Ethel Skinner
William Ham
M. A. E. Tuttle
W. A. la Field
George Glarke Edwards
A. Fones
W. C. Bryant
Percy Anderson
I. de Ver Warner
H. H. de Loss
J. W. Wheeler
J. D. Skinner
Ee Stiles Goodsell
Louise Crawford
Dorothy Maire
John Field
Norman Gaynor
Laurence Cornwall
Kenneth McNeil
R. W. Hawke
Samuel Hewlitt
F. N. Bentham
Edward K. Nicholson
Dorothy Northrop
Carl Dietz
W. J. Grippin
George H. Edwards
Mary Hincks
William As. Boardman
Bradford Boardman
Wallace Kamens
Marion Wilmot
Palmer
Curtiss Weidlich
David Day
W. H. Crawford
Angus Thorne
Norman Leeds
F. Aeantwell
Fred Atwater
Wiliam Smith
R. F. Tuttle
W. A. la Ficla
George Clarke Edwards
A. C. Fones
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bridgeport Times
EE Jfskin
William H. Grith
R. D. Goddard
Katherine Goddard
Dorothy Lush
DeVer H. Warner
Edward J. Foster
M. Frame
Southport
Mildred Macintyre
Tafta
Dorothy G. Hugt
Robert Crudington
Harry Crabtree
Adam Hugo
Helen Hurd
Edna Bradbury
Florence Greening
Walter C. Booth
F. Morton Clark
Dorothy Hull
Margaret Netthercut
Harriet Windsor
Lorraine Armstrong
Edna Gale
Julis Foster
Eleanor Webster
Frances Jennings
Livingston Morehouse
Egbert Hadley
Lewis Hall
Bradford Warner
John H. Walters
Nichols
Flora Kutscher
Anna Swinnerton
Laura Abell
Roy E. Clark
de Ver C. Warner
Florence Fox
Bernice Cortright
Estelle Co
Ralph McEldowney
Mary K. Bones
H. W. Bliven
Robert Hincks
R. I. Neithercut
William B. Boardman
Heatrice Clark
Dresden
Cletis McNamara
Elizabeth Ives
W. A. Winter
Eleanor Bartram
Paul Riker
F. A. Gantwell
Margaret Griffith
Saphire
Helen Gates
William B. Bristol
W. H. Griffith
Ralph D. Mills
Edward L. Foster
Jack Oberly
Donald McIntyre
Robert C. Crudginton
B. Perkins Nichols
Wilbur Johnson
Merrill Beach
Frank Foster
John Windsor
Newell Smith
George Hames
Charles H. Armstrong
Clifford Blake
George Foster
H. Livingston Morehouse
Lewis Hall Bradford Warner
J. H. Walters
Louis Kutscher
George Langzettel
Herman W. Langzettel
J. Coley
Westport
Roy E. Clarke
Robert Woodruff
Winston Way
Harold Wardle
Stuart Foster
Russell Ayres
Harold Toucey
G. Griggs
Sherwood Witmot
Frederick Towne
BR. W. Hawke
Usl. Hewitt
F. N. Benham
Harry Strong
Hartford
London
American Hardware Stores, Inc
Fairfield
Middle Sts
Florida
Normandie
Andria
Ieigs & C
First National Bank
the National Mortgage Co
State & Main Sts
Patrick McGee
Washington Ave
Knowlton ST
Stratfield
Connecticut
T. L. Watson & Co
John
Danbury Waterbury Middletown
Hei Man
John P. Keogh
Stock Exchange of
New York
Ene
New Britain
Tel. Barnum
P.O. Aarcade Nohie
Middle
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