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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1920
Page
3
Berlin executives from government and municipalities and farmers approved a plan to build a reserve of 100 million hundredweights of potatoes. Growers must deliver at a fixed price of 31.5 marks per hundredweight to ensure six pounds per capita weekly for large cities and industrial districts and to curb illicit trading.
The Park Ave News reports a strange local scene with Skinny Martins gifting wire pants for a deathday, a cluttered auction attempt from his railer window, and Persey Weever placing the top bid before Skinny’s mother intervened. Puds Simkins nearly walked away from a slot machine incident outside a sugar store as a crowd watched.
Mrs Adelbert Briggs was taken to New Haven by Wallingford police chief Daniel O Relly on orders from Coroner Mix. She is tied to the death of Miss Elizabeth Then of Meriden, alleged to have occurred after an operation at Briggs residence.
Berlin May 7 The German military air service is disbanded under the Versaille treaty terms. The entente commission plans to destroy all airfields and flying establishments at a cost of 69 000 000 marks, leaving one hangar and one airplane factory for international air service. Police report a Ford coupe owned by Rev Paul Edwards recovered in New York to be returned. A San Francisco bank holds over half a million dollars for 20 782 local school children in thrift stamps and war savings.
Mike Kulss of 35 Hallett Street beat a fellow worker at the U B company plant early this morning using a broom handle. He was arrested on assault charges and in City Court was fined $1 plus costs and sentenced to 60 days in jail.
State Supreme Court in New Haven issues notice for The Connecticut Company appeal of Public Utilities Commission rates set March 30 1920. City of New Haven Manchester and others advised by order to publish notice in daily newspapers for three days at least twelve days before the first Tuesday of September 1920. Court requires appearance of cited parties at New Haven Superior Court.
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