Monthly Archives: July 2012

Bessie O’Brien (1894-1972)

Bridgeport Telegram March 30, 1918 Miss Bessie O’Brien of Oak street, Miss Betty Brady of State street and Miss Violet Stiff of Lenox avenue left yesterday for New York where they will spend the week-end as guests at the Hotel … Continue reading

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Norman Leeds Sr.

Norman Leeds ( Bridgeport Telegram Friday, January 19, 1923 Protective Ass’n Chooses Leeds as President Again The annual meeting and reception of the Bridgeport Protective Assoc.iation was held yesterday afternoon at the home on Myrtle avenue, when all annual reports … Continue reading

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Muriel Read

Bridgeport Telegram April 1, 1925 Miss Muriel Read, daughter of Mrs. Paul Ricker of Marina Park is spending the spring vacation at the home of Miss. Henrietta Durant of Charleston, S.C. Miss Read and Miss Durant are classmates at the … Continue reading

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Rock stars: Geologists testing aquifer rocks as containers to permanently trap carbon dioxide

Monday, July 9, 2012 Rock stars: Geologists testing aquifer rocks as containers to permanently trap carbon dioxide MANHATTAN — Two Kansas State University geologists are part of a comprehensive statewide study on using rocks for long-term storage of carbon dioxide. … Continue reading

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Local Woman Killed by Truck

Mrs. Daniel Strecker, sixty, Union Avenue, Bridgeport was instantly killed this afternoon in Devon when she was struck by and automobile truck while alighting from a trolley car.The truck was operated by Henry P. Nothnagle, well known Milford Resident. The … Continue reading

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