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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1920
Page
1
Printer’s fragment details various medical preparations and dosages with vague terms. The note mentions nerve system concerns, a physician’s advice, and items like Frulte fives and Prubatives. It lists a product box and a distributor in Ogdensburg New York.
An American and an associate were forced to accompany roughly 300 bandits after they halted a train with dynamite. Passengers were left marooned with belongings seized. Details from R. J. Peltier in Mexico City describe the dangerous raid and threats against the captives.
Fifty passengers on the Greenville Bangor and Aroostook line were stranded near Dovar after a deep snow drift. Bar Harbor trains stayed in cars, service on Boston and Maine was only partly resumed, and Vermont Central lines loosened after weekend blockages. Volunteers in Massachusetts helped clear Middlesex and Boston lines while Berkshire Street Railway faced an indefinite shutdown. Major Louis A. Merchant urged citizen aid as Boston area roads moved toward normalization.
The piece notes growing support for Georges Clemenceau as President of the Republic after Poincare and suggests Premier Millerand would follow him. It contrasts a president’s role with the premier’s power and cites police and criminologist dialogue on robberies amid a stormy period. Also reports Connecticut storm recovery and transit disruptions including Danbury & Bethel rail and New Haven lines.
A gunman killed Dr. Venesio Callejas after a speech criticizing Gutierrez. A chamber battle erupted between Gutierrez supporters and opposition members, killing Du ran and three other opposition leaders. The Nobel Prize for chemical research is protested internationally over Professor Hager and his poison gas invention.
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