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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1915
Page
8
Berlin is the source as Count Ernst Von Reventlow cites a Tages Zeitung report critiquing a note from the Petes States to Austria Ancona. He says the note displays curt condescension and threats, contains harsh opinions and demands, and reflects a politicized explanation rather than objective treatment.
Officials of Wilkes Barre Railway Go and W O Mahon of the Street Carmen's union met to settle the trolley strike but the company rejected all proposals. Mediation efforts failed and state mediators prepare to leave the city. The strike has lasted nearly three months.
The American Federation of Labor forms a union for automobile painters in the city. Nearly 300 members are expected to join within a week or two after a recent meeting. An open meeting is planned at the Park theatre building with officers to be elected and the charter closed. F Duffy and McKeon to address the gathering. Also noted: Texas & Pacific Railroad Co grants telegraphers $14,000 annually in wages.
A newspaper note claims thin men and women can gain 5 to 8 inches in 14 days by taking one Sargol tablet with meals for two weeks. It asserts the product converts sugars and starches into stored fat, with safe use and permanent weight gain.
Albany N Y Dec 15 rail and wire communications restored after a major snowstorm blanketed the area with 24 5 inches of snow. Telegraphic links to the south remain cut as freight traffic resumes late last night. The storm claimed three lives including Nellie Teahan matron of the Albany County Penitentiary found in a snow drift.
The Ozanamlab monthly meeting drew a large crowd as 25 new members were admitted, bringing total membership to 135. The charter closes Jan 1 with hopes of reaching 200. committees form a basketball league and an open house is set for New Year’s Day with games, singing and a buffet. The first entertainment is Jan 17 at Seaside Institute with five-member committee arranging the program. Colors are white and purple. members will wear club pins. Catholics over 16 are invited to visit after 6:30 PM or Sundays. rooms are in Alameda building at State Street and Park Avenue.
The Perkins Institute for the Blind, founded in Boston in 1882 by Col. Thomas Handasyd Perkins, was led by Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe who helped create a readable alphabet for the blind and advanced education for the sightless. Howe taught Laura Bridgman, a renowned blind and deaf student, as Helen Keller later did.
San Francisco, Dec 15. Franz von Papen, former military attache in Washington, is linked to a government probe of pro German bomb plots. Indictments name conspirators like Baron von Brincken and Charles Crowley with plans to destroy Hercules Powder Co plants at Pinole California and Ishpeming Michigan. Evidence includes letters and telegrams, payments to Louis J. Smith, and a claimed plan to target rail lines with dynamite Lloyd.
The report claims Brincken ordered Brincken produced stories to trap German agents in the United States. It alleges meetings with German officials were shared with U S officials and a bomb was delivered at the German Consulate with orders for more. Officials say Van Koolbergen was found and may be brought here as a witness under a detainer.
Washington reports a Fortifications bill requesting 23.3 million dollars this year up from 6.06 million last year for coast defense works and ordnance. The plan includes 18 new emplacements, ammunition purchases, armor piercing shells, torpedo radio control, and private munition contracts to speed development of mobile heavy guns and siege weapons.
More than 300 men from 27 churches attended a Federation of Men's Leagues banquet in Stratfield. Speakers urged concerted church action with Rev. George O. Tamblyn and Rev. John McLaren Richardson among those addressing the gathering.
Washington reports C. C. McChord whose ICC term ends this week will be re appointed by President Wilson. McChord currently chairs the commission and his renomination is announced.
Edward Barry his wife Josia and Aron Barabaro died in a fire that destroyed a Chicago lodging house. A Baltimore and Ohio Railroad embargo on all train exports through Baltimore goes into effect today.
Miss Mary J. Miner, principal, begins the twenty fifth year at Courtland School on Thursday September 30. Booklets are available at stationery shops. Office hours are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays and Saturdays, with other hours by appointment.
The fast steam yacht SeaBird, once owned by E. G. Burnham, returned to Bridgeport harbor after eight years in a weathered state. Harbor Master William H. Lamond says it anchored near Steeplechase dock after Sunday port arrival with two unknown owners aboard. The 84 foot vessel, 53 gross tons, sails freight in summer from Newark, New Jersey and crew camp aboard in winter. The vessel was built in 1992 in Boston and previously registered in Bridgeport before Newark registry.
Washington December 15 The Republican National Committee set Chicago as the site for the June 7 convention and adjourned after routine business. Leaders expressed uncertainty over the Republican nominee with Justice Starnee viewed as the strongest candidate but questions remained about his availability.
The Forty-Nine club held its annual Panquet at Lehmanns restaurant last night with about 16 attendees. Officers elected include Duane E. Brewer as president, Charles J. Hughes as vice president, W. W. Welch as second vice president, L. K. Gould as historian, Judge L. H. Fuller as poet laureate, and H. J. Seeley as secretary and treasurer.
At the Beard of health meeting seven incumbents were re elected to their department posts. C Howard Dunbar will earn 1350 as sanitary inspector and 150 as clerk Miss Anne S Dargan receives 750 as milk analyst and stenographer M T Sniffen earns 938 Dr David Monahan attended the session though ill and miss several meetings. Fashionable winter millinery now on sale at E H Dillon Co 1105 Main Street Adv Xmas Roping and Wreaths of Laurel John Reck and Son
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