Extra Space Hired for Parcel Post Holiday Business
Parcel post expansion under way as Marigold leases Cannon Street delivery station for December 15 opening. Seven or eight clerks, more carriers from substitute lists, and higher weight limits up to fifty pounds are planned to speed holiday parcel movement. Post office urges early packing, clear addressing, and optional insurance via 22 sub stations citywide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yasil
Marigold
Cannon Street
Post Office Department
Bridgeport
Will You Accept This Relief for Your Catarrh II
A period advertisement offers free Gaues Combined Treatment for catarrh with no money or promise required. It promises relief from nose blockage and bad breath and urges readers to mail a coupon to receive the treatment and information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beal
Free treatment offer for catarrh with prepaid book
A historic ad-like fragment promises a free catarrh treatment and a prepaid book. It asks for name and address to be sent without cost or obligation, implying a mail order medical cure offered by a company or physician in the era.
Twenty Years Ago Rail Clash and Local Incidents
A Fairfield Southport line clash with Consolidated across Fairfield avenue crossing described. Wires fed from trolley overhead added danger. work crews and officials moved to restore independent wiring. Other items note a Boston area robbery near Noble and Arctic. factory suspensions near Harrisburg. local deaths, bank account stories, elephant pair Ruth and Babe, and church dedication at St Anthony's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Traction Company
Fairfield-Southport
Consolidated Company
Fairfield Avenue
West End
Consolidated
Ion Company
Rachel
Murray
Hefty
Clark
New Haven
Old Winter Favored by Loud Call Amid Freezing Up
Fifty years ago a boisterous, sudden freezing spell disrupted plans as crowds heard the familiar call of Old Winter. The cold bite set the old blood tingling, but you...
Canadians on European battlefields win fame in empire wars
The article recounts Canadian-born generals and soldiers who earned renown in 19th century and Boer War campaigns. It highlights Gen William Fenwick Williams of Kars, his siege endurance and capitulation. Gen Inglis of Lucknow. Lieut Alexander Dunn of the Light Brigade. Capt Alexander McNab at Waterloo. and multiple Canadians awarded Victoria Crosses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Afri
Canada
England
Sir William Fenwick Williams
Nova Scotia
Setar
Kars
Armenia
Williams
Great Britain
France
Turkkey
Russia
Mouravieff
William Fenwick Williams
Nova
Henry Havelock
Inglis
Bath
Balaklava
Alexander Dunn
Toronto
Immortal Light Brigades
Waterloo
Alexander McNab
Mormon officers buy sugar plant in Utah and Idaho
Utah capitalists and Mormon Church officials led by Charles W. Nibley and Leroy Eccles purchased all holdings of the American Sugar Refining Company in Amalgamated Lewiston sugar interests, gaining control of three Utah plants and one Idaho facility. Coats on sale at Balmacaan and B. H. Dillon & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogden
Idah
Utah
Mormon Church
American Sugar Refining Company
Lewiston /Sugar companies
Idaho
Charles W. Nibley
Leroy Eccles
B._H. Dillon & Co
Main Street
Rav
I C C Urges New Rules for U S Railroads
The Interstate Commerce Commission presents its annual report to Congress urging capital controls on railways, compulsory steel cars for passenger service, penalties for hours of service violations, clear authority to inspect railroad records, and a fixed period for action on transport charges. Field work shifts south for winter with eight survey teams, rising to about twenty per district January 1, while accident reviews note flagging errors and engine crew failures to observe signals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Household notes and safety tips from an era
Household notes cover simple sandwich prep brass cleaning poison of tide danger tips for laundering stockings and linen uses for old table linen in illness and burns. A deadly dynamite blast at Lackawanna Scranton killed thirteen miners. A Bristol, Virginia woman shot her husband after taunting her. A Reading freight train collision injured six near Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Lackawanna Company
Scranton
Reading
Huntington Street
Philadelphia
The Melting Pot To Be Staged In February Here
The Melting Pot will be produced in this city in early February by the Y M C A social department. Funds from the play go to Belgian relief. It will be staged at the Park theatre with Julia Farnum and Dorothy Smith in lead roles and a largely complete cast. Frank Wilmore coaches with Frederick Roland assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fran Luixano
Philo C. Calhoun
Quincy Davenport
F. W
Harrison
Baron Ravendal
Sam W. Davis
Herr
Frank Wilmore
M.C. A
Springfield
Frederick Roland
Lyric Stock Company
Carranza forces march toward Torreon under Vasquez
A Saltillo telegram reports General Alfonso Vasquez leading 3000 Carranza troops toward Torreon via San Padré De Las Cok Susas. The push signals an aggressive Carranza campaign in Coahuila and Chihuahua, with Villa reportedly cut off from his bases and Torreon controlled by the Arrieta brothers. Also noted is the shooting death of Johnstown man Nicholas Dimidio by his wife after he attempted to shoot her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Alfonso Vasquez
San Padré
de Las Cok Susas
Torreon
Saltillo
Carranza
Vasquez
Carrangs
Torreon J
Coahuila
Chihuahua
Villa
Arrieta Brothers
Nicholas Dimidio
Johnstown
Pay
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Ww. Te. O'Brien
Kansas
College Eye
United States
Panama
National Assembly of
Cc. E Gauss
Fi Gauss
Marshall, Mich
Charles Howland
Holmes & Edwards
Noble Avenue
Arctic St
C. S. Brown
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Steel Works
Esese
I. W. Birdseye
Park and
Fairfield Avenues
Tence
Ruth
Babe
SY. Nu & H
Directors of the Consolidated Road
New York
R. Mayer
State Street
John Carroll
S. W. Gledhill
Emma, Wrife
George W. Dunn
Myron E. Hurt
Sterling Street
May
Garrett and
Margarett Cahill
South Avenue
Thomas J
John
Ann Carroll
Union St.eeeee
Wheeler & Wilson Sick Benefit Association
Sailor’s Hall
Chareh
Triangle Athletic Club
W. E. Goddard
Francis Day
John Day
Tanee
First Baptist Church
Paterson
N. J
St. Anthony’s Church
Tierney
Father Merchand
Fall River
Father O’brien
Sacred Heart
Father Crowley
St. Mary’s
Father Roy
Hartford
Henry Brunnell
Eoward Poissant
Joseph Thiabult
Father Cartier
Dominic Nolan
Golden Hill
Waterville
Sastern
Setee
Henry Bishop
David
Pacific Hotel
Pequonnock
Nativity Hall
Cambrian Mutual Improvement Club
Europe
U. S
Pauline Bond
Bristol, Va
Walker Bond
Julia Farnum
M. J. Buechler
the Reliable Jeweler
Lake White
Hayes’ Fish CO
Water Street
Bridgeport, Conn
Lowe’s
Seaview Avenue
Joseph P. Coughlin Company Painters and Decorators
East Main Street
Crawford Laundry Company
Courtland Street
Huyler
Hindle
Porter House
Harbor
Long Island
Public Market
STATE
Rane
East Maim &T
Lyman
FEF
Lyman Manufacturing Opticean
GEO. B. Clark & CO
Crawford
Broad Street
Daggett
Ramsdell
Jera
Daggett & Remedeif
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