Auction sale of Bar num Bailey circus stock draws crowd
Auctioneer Charles Lee opens sale of surplus Bar num Bailey circus stock at winter quarters listing tents pegs and elephants with a 46 page catalogue. Buyers include Frank A Robbins Bob Hunting Gilbert N Robinson Leon Washburn and William A Brady among others.
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Barnum & Bailey Circus
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Moses
Frank A. Robbins
Bob” Hunting
Gilbert N. Robinson
Leon Washburn
William A. Brady
Cheerful Credit Aids Christmas Shopping At Caesar Misch Inc
cheerful credit offered by Caesar Misch Inc to ease holiday spending. The department store promotes Christmas sales across all departments with bargain prices on clothing, furs, and men’s wear. Credit terms are extended to customers, enabling purchases without financial strain during the season.
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Clothmg
Caesar Misch, Inc
Weather and snow disrupt rail traffic after fierce storm
The Friday morning cold gives way to heavy snow and biting east wind. The sky shows signs of a coming storm with a bright moon halo. Snow falls furiously all day, blocking railroads and delaying trains. Public reaction splits between poetry and hardship as travelers endure knee deep drifts.
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Wheeler
Wilson Cornet
Christmas Greens Arriving in City
Christmas trees are arriving in Bridgeport as dealers travel to Vermont to source balsam fir and spruce. Stocks are expected to rise in the coming days with a limited number of silver firs and a forecast of about 25 carloads by mid next week.
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Mrs. Baldwin
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Dude
Edgar Ely
Prof. Baldwin
Maggie
Connors
Star Shirt Factory
Elms
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Bridgeport
Koch’s Great Discovery in Tuberculosis History
The first scientist to link tuberculous diseases to bacilli was Dr. Robert Koch born in Hanover. He began inquiries in 1879 and in 1882 announced a specific germ, bacillus tuberculosis, before the Berlin Physiological Society. His later work included trials with remedies like lymph and turtle serum, some of which failed, while further experiments offered guarded hope.
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Robert Och
Hanover
Trsals
Koch
Physiological ‘Society of
Berlin
Egypt
India
Friedman
British government hires huge sums for ocean liners as armed ships
An Admiralty sub committee issued hire scales for vessels used as armed cruisers troopships and hospital ships. The figures show three month earnings for major Atlantic liners including Aquitania Caronia Carmania Cedric Tunissian Empress of Britain with speeds from 16 to 23 knots and earnings from 158 640 to 855 850 dollars. The report also covers prep costs downtime and higher wages.
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London
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Aquitania
New Hampshire Club to Be Guests of Miss Burke
The December meeting of Bridgeport’s New Hampshire club will be hosted by Miss Nellie A. Burke at 65 Poplar Street on Monday. The event features a masquerade party with entertainment by the committee and a paper on the History of the Town of Chesterfield by Hart French. Each member may invite a guest native or former New Hampshire resident, promising a large gathering.
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Bridgeport
Nellie A. Burke
Poplar Street
Emily Russell
H. L. Cram
HG. Sprague
Hart French
Chesterfield
Granite State
New Hampshire
Echoes of Argonne Exposes Trench Periodical Debut
Paris dispatch reports The Echo of the Argonne a French periodical edited from the trenches in the Argonne forest. It highlights a chasseurs victory in Haussy forest and Russian advances in Poland while noting plans to distribute 14 000 briar pipes in the trenches.
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Echo
Argonne
Argonne Forest
Blue Devils
Chasseurs
Haussy Forest
Poland
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