Treaty settlements and local exploits span news from Bridgeport
Bridgeport reports note Major Eastland confirming a treaty settlement with Native nations, detailing payments of eighty thousand dollars and one hundred thirty thousand nine hundred dollars over ten years. Also covered are extraordinary exploits on Chatengay Lake, East End rail workers organizing, prime fishing around Charles Island, a damaging fire on Beach Avenue, and Sunday School improvements at Washington Park M E church with remarks on modern church music.
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Washington Park
E. L. Thorpe
H. R. Chaffee
E. T. Abbott
G. P. Chapman
Mrs. Alvord
Ladies’ Aid Society
Walter G. Goff
Epworth League
Fifty Years Ago Tax Bills and Hudson Excursion
Fifty years ago discussion on a new tax law for bank issued state bills notes that banks paying out such notes after the law takes effect will be taxed ten percent, while notes paid out by banks from New England will be discounted. A group including C Calhoun and Nathaniel Sanford sailed to Island, and Americus Hose planned a holiday voyage on the Bridgeport to Hudson, with a court-house parade and band in tow.
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Ing
New England
Knwamet Willadly
Grr
Hudson
Americus Hose
Bridgeport
New York City
John M. Wilson, Jr
West Green
Court House
Hawiey
Courtland
Holcomb
Wheeler & Wilson Cornet
Tigers
Samuel B. Sumner
Suspect swindler menaces North Washington man
James Carten of North Washington reports a stranger he suspected as a fraud cheated him out of 12 and fled to New York after briefly stopping at Carten’s home. The claimant’s sister paid for a state right to a can opener and the con artist left samples before agreeing to ship by express. Carten followed to the depot but the man boarded a train to New York, and authorities were notified.
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James Carten
North Washington
Arenes
Keeson
Arnold
New York
Carten
Saya
Paramit
Workman's Commission In Porto Rico Issues Schedule of Its Rates
The Workmen's Commission named by Governor Yager issued rate schedules under the new Porto Rico workmen compensation law, effective July 1. Rates range from a fraction of one percent to four percent for hazardous jobs, with many employers, notably sugar centrals, likely to reject insurance and face injury claims in or out of court. The law, fought by employers for over five years, is hailed as a labor victory and a notable act since American occupation.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
Workmen's Let Commission
Ornor Yager
Sugar Centrals
War Boosts Freight Rates In Australia
The war has driven freight rates up 200 to 400 percent for Australian imports with extra war risk exchange costs and higher first costs due to raw material scarcity shipping labor and port congestion. U S rates rise sharply. canned salmon from San Francisco to Sydney jumps from 8 to 30 dollars. Prior to war hardware per cubic foot 7-8 dollars now 50-60. lumber rates triple. Oregon pine from Puget Sound about 25 per 100 superficial feet from 8. Many cargoes lie idle at U S wharves as manufacturers struggle to shift goods to ports.
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Sydney
Australia
United States
San Francisco
New York
Atlantic
Puget Sound
Frowns For Feminists In Wartime Hungary
Budapest officials block a planned Hungarian Feminist Association congress delaying it indefinitely amid police objections. The note mentions funeral bouquets and designs by John Reck & Son.
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Budapest
Hungary
Hungarian Feminist Association
John Reck & Sor
Sharks Terrorize Jersey Bathers at Spring Lake Beach
Spring Lake New Jersey July 10 a man eating shark killed Charles Bruder a bellboy at the Essex Sussex hotel and prompted a coastal patrol. Mayor Brown ordered emergency measures with two motor boats armed with rifles to patrol the beach and enforce strict water bans. Lifeguards and residents fear more sharks after another fatal attack at Beach Haven and vow to keep bathers inside life lines.
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Spring Lake
N.J
Charles Bruder
Essex , Sussex
Atlantic Highlands
Charles E. Vansant
Beach Haven
Here
Oliver H. Brown
William Gray Schauffler
National Guard
D. H. Hill
Vansant
Bruder
Schauffler
Chris Anderson
George White
Anderson
White
Brown
Hill
Bersaglieri of Italian Army Swift Soldiers
Vienna reports Prometheus lists marching speeds for WWI armies. Bersaglieri are fastest, 140 strides per minute and 86 cm stride length, covering 7.28 km per hour, while Russians are slowest due to roads. Italian Bersaglieri outdistance others by travelling light with less baggage.
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Vienna
Prometheus
Bersaglieri
Russia
Scarlet Fever Among Marines Guarding Peking Legation
In Peking on July 10, scarlet fever broke out among about two hundred American marines guarding the American legation. Colonel Neville moved troops to tented quarters outside the wall with two men per tent to curb spread. Five cases quarantined in a city gun-shed. rumors of foreign troop reinforcement denied by Chinese authorities.
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Peking
Legation
Neville
Philippines
Feogeste
Japan
France To Reduce Bates on Nippon Goods in Indo China
Tokio July 10 Governor General Roume of French Indo China arrived in Japan for talks with Japan and France on tariff revisions. France is expected to reduce customs duties to boost exports of Japanese goods to Indo China. William R Willcox chairman of the Republican National Committee said headquarters would open within 10 days.
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France
Bates
Nippon
Tokio
Roume
Japan
Indo-China
William R. Willcox
Republican National Committee
Watch repair guarantee claim posted with cleaning invite
A local ad urges bringing watches in for repair, cleaning and adjustment with a strong guarantee. It asks how long since the watch has been oiled and cleaned and predicts it cannot run forever without maintenance. The notice encourages customers to act now to have their watch serviced.
Governor's Wife Heads Soldiers Aid Effort in New Jersey
Mrs. James F. Fielder wife of New Jersey governor has inaugurated and leads a movement to relieve families of guardsmen at the border and to send comforts to men in active service. Similar efforts are under way in New York City and several states nationwide.
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James F. Fielder
New Jersey
New York City
Nigerian Missionary Elijah the Second Claims Miracles and Power
London dispatch reports Nigeria faces a controversial figure calling himself Elijah the Second. He claims miracles including raising the dead and peddles water marketed as healing. Authorities fear his new doctrine that blacks are the chosen people will displace whites. MERAL BOUQUETS JOHN RECK & SON.
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London
Nigeria
Elijah the Second
England
Elijah
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