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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1916
Page
7
A 1916 New Year greeting collection from U S leaders and officials including President Wilson and others, expressing hopes for peace, prosperity, and neutral conduct. The messages urge unity, individual liberty, and continued national resolve while anticipating a prosperous year and absence of entangling alliances.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a pharmacy at 416 Avenue and references removal of war related terms and a Cyrus for Ramover. Coarse, unclear details prevent precise reconstruction of event or purpose.
London January 1 report on the Victoria Station soldiers' buffet shaping British wartime effort. A volunteer-driven system evolved from patchy beginnings into efficient support with private donations supplying tea coffee sandwiches bread and cake to about four thousand troops daily. Women workers run six hour shifts. staff prepare tables and distribute refreshments as troop trains arrive and depart, with a steady stream of soldiers from Aldershot and training camps. The piece contrasts trench life with peacetime uniforms showing the huts and gear of soldiers headed for the front and the homefront aid that sustains them.
A long prophecy foresees 1916 as a decisive year with the United States drawn into global conflict. It claims Greece and other nations will enter the war, major rulers will be removed, and America will rise as a dominant world supplier. Predictions cover weather, economies, politics, and social change, framed in a religious, apocalyptic tone.
In Arsennes France a frontline mill dubbed the Hindenburg Mill, once idle, now outfitted by German forces to produce trench furniture and shelter components. Machinery from local mills fuels output of chairs desks bookcases and tables, with carpenters and machinists turning out goods for troops while wartime supplies and wages shift.
Allied defenses at Saloniki are mapped to meet a feared Austro German Bulgar drive that did not occur. The line runs along Janitza toward Monastir with positions at Ghevegll and Dorian, plus southward works. General Edouard de Castelnau, chief of staff of the French armies, arrived unannounced and conferred with the French commander.
Berlin January 1 revival of the University of Warsaw as a Polish institution is described. The piece notes Russian neglect left 70 percent illiteracy and traces the university from 1826 through its abolition, 1830, re opening 1861, and final Russian control by the late 1800s. It cites Polish demand during the Russian revolution and Russian reluctance. George Brownell elected director of Brie railroad.
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