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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1920
Page
10
Sunday after Pentecost lists multiple parish calendars with saints honored daily and notes extensive mass times across churches from St. Augustine in Washington Ave to St. James Stratford. It records pastors and church locations, and indicates many churches observing reduced services that week.
A long list of church services and ministers across the city is provided. Includes Brat Chetsiandisch Disciples with Rev Fannie D. Webber and Rev Wi ll am Horace Day at various addresses, The United Congregational Church with Dr Day and music programs, Grace M. B. church, Park Street Congregational, St Pauls Episcopal, First M B Church, First Church of Christ Scientist, and many more. Details cover service times, sermons, Sunday schools, and special events, inviting readers to attend.
Dr. Wm. Horace Day of United Church will speak at the Interchurch meeting on Thursday where the decision to carry the movement forward was made. He will discuss the Interchurch movement, its past mistakes and future value, and report on the Congregational International Council held in Boston for the Pilgrims 300th anniversary.
Mr and Mrs Robert Moore of New Orleans and permanent residents of the Pequot section are hospitalized in Lawrence Hospital with cuts and bruises after their large limousine collided with a delivery truck on Montauk avenue during yesterday's noon hour. The truck overturned in the crash.
In a Washington Star excerpt Three-Fingered Bam asks Cactus Joe about fancy riding eastward. The reply notes cars require riders to hang on with wrists in straps. The line humorously suggests using hand stirrups instead of feet for riding.
Rev. Fannie E Austin, a noted woman preacher, will occupy the pulpit at the First Universalist church tomorrow morning in pastor Rev Hal T Kearns absence He is traveling to South Hartford New York to occupy the pulpit there and will spend the latter part of July and the first three weeks of August Miss Austins sermon topic is The Indwelling God
Dr Orlando P Scott and his wife were patients in a double procedure at the American Hospital. He grafted twelve inches of skin from his own leg to her right leg and ankle, saving her leg. The operation occurred yesterday in the hospital amphitheatre with many physicians, nurses, and students present. both remain described as doing well.
A terse exchange shows an authority ordering the transfer of a rubber plant to the garden before the balcony. The speaker confirms the sequence and references the Boston Transcript as the source. The dialogue emphasizes obedience and location timing.
London reports Nicolas Isnard stating an American engineer Keely, invited by the Bolsheviks in 1919 to report on Russia’s industrial state, disappeared after returning to Moscow in 1920. Isnard says Keely warned of ruinous conditions, harsh decrees, and Bolshevik incompetence, then was arrested at the frontier and has not been heard from since.
In the wake of the Civil War the Lincoln assassination stunned the nation. Trials tied Jefferson Davis and others to the plot, absolving Confederate officials. Mary Surratt and co-defendants faced execution or prison terms, with Surratt hanged on July 7, 1865, as the others died by the scaffold.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York raised its discount rates effective June 1, boosting the rate on commercial paper to 7 percent with higher rates elsewhere. The move aims to reflect current credit conditions and to encourage borrowers to seek the strongest possible cases for credit. Reports show bank loans and prices rising while gold holdings fall, with government debt operations in June temporarily reducing the public debt by about $600 million.
A brief anecdote depicts a troublesome parishioner nicknamed a “character.” The rector spots him in the street and expresses gladness for his attendance at a prayer meeting, prompting the man to quip that that is where he had been.
The Read Co store closes daily at five o'clock with Saturday hours extending to six o'clock.
A local dealer recap notes a prior disappointing Silk Sale and now offers 350 yards of Crepe de Chine Messaline Satin and Taffeta in various weaves and remnant lengths. Silks formerly selling from 2.50 to 4.00 per yard are priced at 1.98. Selection begins Monday morning with many pieces available.
Brighton Carlsbad offers summer one piece pajamas middy pajamas and related garments for women children misses and boys up to 16 years. Styles tailored for children and for misses with lingerie shop on the second floor.
Colonial Farmington flatware pattern offered with a fifty year guarantee. Includes spoons knives forks and separate pieces such as butter knives salad and dessert forks berry spoons and servers. Display on main floor.
London July 10 The death of Captain John Tohncox in Vancouver recalls two incidents with the future King Edward and the Crown Prince at Cowes. The skipper separated them when they fought on the sands, the Crown Prince storming off by yacht and later the Prince playfully tripping him on the Royal Yacht Squadron Green.
A reflection on returning to classics by Stevenson Kipling Dickens and more. It notes a green leather Dickens edition on India paper with illustrations Phiz and Cruikshanks, plus Kipling red leather with a lion head medal. It mentions Scott Twain O Henry and two library series The Everyman Library and The Modern Library.
Washington July 10 The Farmers National Council calls for permanent government ownership and operation of ships opposing the Merchant Marine Law sale policy. It notes increased agricultural exports since government control and quotes Agriculture Secretary Meredith on last year’s exports at 56 percent versus 4 percent in 1916. The statement warns of hardship to farmers and urges repeal of the policy at once.
A brief note from the Elluridze Independent ponders the idea that a man cannot dispose of his experience for even a portion of its value as it ages and fades, reflecting on the limits of personal wisdom and utility.
Preliminary plans to notify Governor Coolidge of his Republican vice presidential nomination were made by representatives of the Republican National Committee and the Coolidge Home Committee at Smith College. The ceremony is set for July 27 at 3 o clock at Allen Field or John M. Greene Hall if rain. Building commissioners issued 32 0 85 in permits to numerous local properties, including garages and houses on Hancock Avenue, Willow Street, North Avenue, and Park Avenue among others. A monkey talk feature reports the female ape saying Moohoo and the male replying Wahoo, with a light moonlit beach quip from the San Francisco Chronicle.
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