Postal Savings Jump in Month Sees 75 Percent Increase
The Bridgeport Postal Savings department reports November gains over October with a total gain of 2,855 and 468 new main station accounts opened. Deposits reached 44,321 while withdrawals stood at 22,955, boosting total deposits to 237,386 and total accounts to 2,293. Government bonds are offered with 2 1/2 percent interest, and 1,600 applications are pending for January issuance.
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Bridgeport Festal Savings Department
Connecticut
Postal Savings Bank
East Side
West End Station
Stratford Station
Fire safety warning for Bridgeport Christmas decorations
City fire officials urge Bridgeport merchants and households to take precautions during Christmas. Chief Engineer Daniel Johnson and Inspector T F Groderick warn against decorating near gas jets or heating pipes as several fires have started from carelessness.
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Bridgeport
Deniel @. Johnson
T. F. Groderick
Fire Department
Death at St Vincent’s prompts harsher charges
Following the death of Alex Machrianas at St Vincent’s hospital, charges were upgraded from assault with intent to kill to manslaughter against brothers John and Joseph Collins and accomplices John Stacey Arthur Malstrom Joseph Malavitty. All jailed on $150 bonds, later raised to $1000 each. Police seek additional suspects linked to a brawl at the circus winter quarters grounds.
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St. Vincent's Hospital
Alex Machrianas
Railroad Avenue
John, Patrich
Joseph Collins
John Stacey
Arthur Malstrom
Joseph Malavitty
Machrianas
Circus
Winter Quarters
State's Attorney to Speak at Elks 30th Anniversary
State's Attorney Homer S Cummings has accepted an invitation to speak at the Bridgeport Elks Lodge 30th anniversary celebration to be held December 13 at the Stratfield. A chorus led by Albert Lapke will perform, with a music committee including Lapke Finklestone Berdick Delbridge and Keane arranging the numbers.
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Homer S. Cummings
Bridgeport
Mrs O Conor Granted Divorce After Desertion Case
Mrs Adele O Conor of Connecticut Avenue won a decree of divorce in the superior court on grounds of desertion by her husband in 1912. The judge found for her after hearing evidence of her character and the child’s England residence influenced the prior denial. Judge Case concluded she was entitled to freedom from her marriage.
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Adele O’conor
Connecticut Avenue
Post Office Receipts Rise in Late November and Early December
Postal receipts for the last half of November show a gain of $4929.87 over the same period last year, with a $100 rise in the first half of the month. Revenue stems from first through fourth class postage and box rentals. August Stassat to start as permanent East Side station clerk on December 15.
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Greene
August Stassat
East Side
Travels of a Chimney Swift and Other Brief Notes
A New Hampshire chimney swift was banded 6326 in Meriden on June 7 1911 and reappeared a year later in the same Baynes home. The swift traveled to Central America and back, with the band intact. Also recounted are tales of Senator John Sherman youth, the horse chestnut name origin, and a tongue in cheek note on spouses seeking to “cure” each other.
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Ernest Harold Baynes
Meriden
Nhh
Central America
Tropics
New Hampshire
South America
New York Post
Unappreciated Wit and Childish Observations
A nostalgic collection notes witty diplomats, weighing babies, precocious children, fountain pen testing, and cartoons about truancy. The humor reflects early 20th century society with quips about marriage, finance dreams, and a critic’s take on schooldays and play.
Storks and the Iberian machete in Edwardian chatter
A collage of antiquated notes covers birds, tools, and health. It discusses the ibis as a stork kin in North America, European storks and their wintering habits, Spanish American machete uses, and rheumatism tied to tonsil disease with wartime notes and witticisms from period sources.
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Indiana
Europe
Africa
Denmark
Germany
Holland
Jock
Stork
Sayonauls News
United States Cavalry
Boston Herald
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Nadel
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Oxford Melton
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ELKS
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James I
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New York World
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