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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1920
Page
8
A retrospective contrasts Napoleon's exile on St Helena with the Kaiser’s in Holland. It details his guarded confinement, the vigilant patrols, and the harsh treatment by Sir Hudson Lowe, highlighting England’s role and the intense wartime scrutiny surrounding both figures.
The Kansas City Star notes that while dying from cancer, Napoleon Bonaparte endured Lowe’s harsh treatment at St Helena. He spent the last years in near total isolation at Longwood, kept from visitors and subjected to daily humiliations as part of Lowe’s containment policy.
Detroit July 24 Herbert Hoover former food administrator telegram to the Great Lakes St Lawrence Tidewater congress calls for opening upper St Lawrence river to ocean going vessels. He argues for a national transportation program including interior waterways and St Lawrence development to boost prosperity reduce costs and improve distribution. He favors consolidating government construction and engineering into a single public works department to curb duplication and pork barrelling.
July report shows 25 million dollars slated for new amusement houses in the New York metropolitan area. Builders push theaters despite housing shortage, with eight new venues in Times Square area and significant additions across Brooklyn the Bronx Greenwich Village and Washington Heights. Local welfare officials warn housing remains acutely tight as flats are replaced by cinemas. theatre operators defend investment as profitable despite social cost.
The American team won the final of the Olympic team trapshooting event in Antwerp on July 24, breaking 547 targets. Belgium scored 503, Sweden 500, Great Britain 488, and Canada 474. Individual scores for Americans were Troeh 94, Airie 94, Bonser 93, McNeil 93, Wright 89, Clark 84. Troeh shot the last thirty targets with a severely cut trigger finger. Canadian scores followed: Beattie 87, Hamilton 31, Vance 82, Oliver 16, Montgomery 78, MacLaren 70.
Boston reports Joe Mulvihill for Tex Rickard offered Johnny Wilson the world middleweight champion $20,000 to meet Mike O'Dowd in a title fight at Madison Square Garden, New York, in September. A Canadian soldier recovering from shell shock regains power of peach after a Niagara Falls bowling match.
Ed Hughes profiles Peter Trivoulidas, a New York–based Greek runner who has placed well in the Boston Marathon and now seeks Olympic marathon glory in Antwerp. The piece traces his Greek ties, work at a New York department store kitchen, and the uncertain odds among a field of strong entrants, noting Greece's lone prior Olympic marathon win in 1896 and the country’s low finishes since.
Warsaw dispatch reports a Bolshevik advance past the Polish boundary along the Grodno region as Poles fight to slow the southwesterly drive toward Poland's capital. Poles reclaim Grodno forts in a counterattack while Bolsheviks bring Tartars, Kuban, and Terek Cossacks to Galicia. American aviators operate on the southern front despite losses and disappearances.
Cork despatch reports police fired on Kilmalloch near Limerick injuring several as townsfolk battled a blaze. In Somerset two 16 year olds Nancy Elrod and May Smith were found on a freight car loaded with watermelons claiming they rode three days with a man.
Beeville Illinois July 24 operations in the southern coal fields were cut to a greatly reduced scale due to an unauthorized strike of day laborers that began Wednesday and has since spread. Strikers say over 20,000 men are idle and the strike is likely to widen. Nearly all major producing centers are affected according to local reports.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is highlighted as the United States oldest continuous railroad, with its charter dating back to 1527 and its first rail laid by Charles Carroll on July 24, 1828. Early ventures include wooden rails on granite sills and strap rails, while the 19th century saw rapid growth to 2,310 miles by 1900, following private lines like the Delaware and Hudson and others.
Southampton hosts a four day tercentenary celebration marking the Mayflower voyage with a pageant depicting John Alden and Puritan vessels near the ancient quay. The event contrasts early travel speeds with modern rail and air progress and notes locomotive origins and US shipboard radio navigation to the battleship Ohio.
The vaudeville bill this half of the week is unusually good and tonight is the last chance to see it. Sweetes by William B. Friedlander proves popular for originality and clever lines. Five Tasmanians and other acts appear at each performance. Qwen Moore in The Desperate Hero is a riot. Pathe News and Review are added. Homer Comes Home starring Charles Ray opens for four days starting tomorrow night. West End shows Bryant Washburn in Mrs Temples Telegram and Juanita Hansen in The Lost City plus Matt and Jem Comedy.
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