Bridgeport Grocery Panic Beats Back by Stored Supplies
Bridgeport dealers and officials report ample food stocks as rail deliveries from the Midwest are arranged. Six thousand bushels of potatoes and substantial flour and sugar supplies are in transit or stored, easing fears of a shortage despite sensational reports.
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Bridgeport
Interstate Commerce Commission
New Haven Railroad
Minneapolis
New England
Rey Bros
S Ee
Comstock & Willett Co
Read
Tullock
Turney Brothers
Bridgeport Business Men's Association
David Feuer
Susman- Feuer Co
New York investigates food shortage and aid plan
City department heads report no clear link between food prices and nourishment shortages while mass meetings call for relief. Mayor Mitchel plans a $1,000,000 food distribution program and a city survey of prices and stocks. Health officials issue daily tips to cut costs without harming health.
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New York
Mitchel
Public Charities
Board of Aldermen
Board of Estimate
East Side
Health Department
Daily Food Bulletin
Martial Law in New Britain as Firebug Strikes City
Martial law in New Britain is in effect as National Guard companies are deployed after seven fires last night within a small area. Firefighters from multiple towns aided, and several suspects were detained for questioning with two held for sharper interrogation. An official inquiry investigates the arson spree and a possible mental motive.
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Forge
New Britain
New Tain
First Infantry
National Guard
Holcomb
Plainville
Bristol
Hartford
Waterbury
Boy Hit by Scissors Grinder Breaks Leg
A five year old boy on his way home from school was struck by a moving scissors grinder in Fairfield avenue and his left leg broken. The grinder fled as the boy was taken to his home at 561 Newfield avenue then to a hospital for setting. The annual Business Men's association dinner is planned for The Stratfield on Tuesday March 13.
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Boy
Fairfield Avenue
William J. Jones
Newfield Avenue
Business Men's Association
Stratfield
Black Rock Man Jailed After Spending Wife's Savings
James Marshall of Black Rock spent his wife's savings on a drunken spree ending in a Water Street saloon fight. In court he was ordered to repay funds, sign over his salary, and serve 10 days in jail with a warning of 80 more days for noncompliance.
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James Marshall
Black Rock
Water Street
Wilder
Marshall
Water Street Card Players Run Tony Out Of $150
Tony Nakye, a Waterbury man, reported being robbed twice and assaulted after visiting a Water Street watch shop and a card game. He lost $150 to a clerk’s game and then suffered a brutal attack by four men who robbed him of his watch and $20, with two posing as detectives to lead him to a fake police station.
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Water Street
Bridgeport
Tony Nakye
Waterbury
Jesse James
Charity
Tony
Anary
Main Street
Tornate
Furnishes home then strangers strip the house
Sam Brice of 38 Gregory Street, who had spent two years selecting furnishings, returned to his home to find the parlor bare of pictures and furniture and every room emptied. Neighbors reported two men in a steam apartment during his absence took all items. Brice told police and sought help.
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Sam Brice
Gregory Street
Brice
Hogon Dwellers Quit North for Indian Life
A Carlisle educated man known as Yosemite Smith vows to return to Navajo life in Arizona and New Mexico with his wife Edith Riggs. He describes preferring hogan living over civilization and plans to join his tribe. the couple earlier wed June 17 before Justice Winton and will relocate to a government reservation.
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Mave
Beardsley Park
Long Island Sound
Yosemite
Joe Smith
Yoosemite
Mise Riggs
Kubage
Main Street
Arizona
New Mexico
Ter- Trace
Great Western Valley
Carlisle University
Bridgeport
Remington Arms Co
Beardsley Park Terrace
Clarence S. Winton
Edith Riggs
Fox Street
Offender Freed Two Weeks Then Back In Jail
John Tracy, known for wandering into homes and taking items, opened a door on Park Avenue and claimed he had potatoes to sell. He was arrested and returned to jail for 60 days after a two week release.
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John Tracy
Park ‘Avenue
Sinking of Skygland With Five Americans aboard
State Department reports from Consul General Hurst in Barcelona confirm the Swedish steamer Skygland was sunk by a German submarine off Tarragona after the crew, including five Americans, left the ship. The crew landed safely after seventeen hours in boats. The Skygland sailed from Norfolk Jan 26 to Bagnoli and was stopped six miles south of Tarragona at 6 am Feb 28.
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State Department
Barcelona
U. S
Berlin
Washington
Skygland
Hurst
Spain
Tarragona
Norfolk
Bagnoli
Italy
Mediterranean
Paris
Skogland
New York
Kirkwall
Four Ships Sunk Off Paris Reports
Paris reports the sinking on February 21 of the Dutch steamer Ambon 3593 tons gross and of a British trawler. Also sunk were the Norwegian steamer Alice 709 tons and the Russian steamer Sigrid 2194 tons according to an official announcement.
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Paris
Ambon
Alice
Sigrid
British steamer Corso sunk after Red Sea passage
Lloyds reports the British steamer Corso of 3,343 tons has been torpedoed and sunk. She was last heard to have passed through the Red Sea eastbound on January 4.
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London
Lloyds
Red Sea
Yarrowsdale's Prisoners Freed After German Clarification
Berlin dispatch says American sailors aboard the Yarrowdale have been released after Germany was officially informed that German ships in America were not confiscated and crews not interned. Amsterdam report notes the step followed clarification from Berlin.
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Yarrowdale
Amsterdam
London
Berlin
Germany
America
Gerard's Party Arrives in Spain on Way Home
James W. Gerard former American ambassador in Berlin arrives in Madrid with his party en route to the United States. They are met at the station by Spain's foreign office representatives and by Joseph E. Willard and the American embassy staff.
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Madrid
James W. Gerard
Berlin
United States
Foreign Office
Joseph E. Willard
Break With Austria Predicted Over Submarine War
Berne reports Berlin says Austria-Hungary may sever relations with the United States after President Wilson's memorandum. The Frankfurt Zeitung notes Wilson's demand for clarification on Austria-Hungary's earlier submarine warfare declaration and suggests a breach with Vienna is likely.
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Austria
Berne
Paris
United States
Berlin
Frankfurter Zeitung
Washington
Vienna
Wilson
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Austro-Hungarian
American freighters brave U boats from New York port
Two more American freight steamships sailed from New York bound for European ports. The oil tanker Communipaw and the Pearl Shell carried general cargo. Other sailings were foreign registry steamers. Ships arriving from war zone ports included two British freighters alongside the American passenger liner Philadelphia.
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New York
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New Haven
Black Rock Man
Boston
Gregory
Call OF the Wild
Carlisle
CORSO
Gerard
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