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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1916
Page
13
The piece outlines three wartime peace windows and argues a parley could reveal each side’s aims. It notes Central Powers’ gains, Allied assets, and the value of clarifying objectives to steer the war toward a definite outcome. Both sides’ strengths and stakes are weighed, urging discussion to test for any peace basis.
A full page ad signed Half a Democrat cannot vote for Wilson targets John Wanamaker. DNC investigated and linked him to undervaluation payments. Taft era case revived by McAdoo who demanded full restitution and the resignation of five Philadelphia Customs staff. Creel recounts facts in Pearson's Magazine. The piece critiques attempts to muzzle dissent and defends legal recourse.
Bridgeport organized a charter commission. The adopted charter received voter support though sixty percent of registered voters did not cast ballots. It should be sent to Hartford for General Assembly ratification. Opponents of a new city manager charter warn against political manipulation.
Eight additional officers have been assigned to Main Street to deter thieves and ease traffic during the Christmas shopping season. The measure aims to curb theft and congested streets while shoppers benefit from heightened security.
Western Connecticut Milk Producers association held a Danbury meeting with 16 towns represented and agreed to cooperate with health boards while forming a corporation of corporations to erect a plant in Bridgeport. Committee to study costs includes W. C. Johnson Newtown A. G. Barnett Redding E H. Hartwell Prof Smith Storrs.
The town notes the marriage of Coretta S Gordon and Charles Daniel Teary on April 29 at the Church of the Nativity in Brooklyn New York. Gordon is the daughter of Mrs Louisa and the late Dr James W Gordon long a town physician. She is a graduate nurse formerly employed at a Brooklyn hospital.
The first Nevada newspaper Territorial Enterprise began in Genoa on December 18, 1858. Samuel Clemens joined in 1862 and adopted the pen name Mark Twain after recalling steamboat lead line marks. Another notable writer with The Enterprise was William Wright known as Dan DeQuille.
Three years hence western Canada will celebrate the tercentenary of Prince Rupert of Bavaria born to Frederick V and Elizabeth sister of Charles I. A great military and naval hero, he helped found the Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay, the precursor of the Hudson's Bay Company.
The article traces the Company of Adventurers founded by Prince Rupert in 1670, its vast but contested domain from Lake Superior to the Pacific, and its enduring impact on Canadian expansion. It notes Rupert’s leadership, the company’s aims in fur trade and exploration, and the transformation of northern wilderness into bustling settlements while old forts give way to modern cities.
Beginning yesterday hourly mail collections began at 31 city sub stations of the local post office. Stations include First at Park avenue and State street, Second at 2071 Main street, Third at 1244 Stratford avenue, Fourth at Fairfield Black Rock, Fifth at Wood and Iranistan avenues, Sixth at 247 South avenue, Seventh at Bostwick avenue and Pine street, and Eighth at 667.
Charles Hopkins of New Haven a Yale senior and member of the university tennis and swimming teams was named as the Rhodes scholar to Oxford. The long list of street and station references appears as the surrounding text.
New York December 18 twelve men believed lost on the bark Nebhus were rescued by the Italian ship Sardegona after distress signals were seen off Barnegat. The Nebhus had been separated from the Garibaldi towing the Nethti during a storm while sailing from Brazil to the north. The Sardegona took the Nebhus crew aboard and brought them to New York, while the Nethti nears completion of a 6000 mile voyage.
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