Liberty Loan boosts earnings outlook and market optimism
The article notes government war finance via the Liberty Loan easing future tax burden and stimulating general business. It cites British expertise preventing costly blunders, rising securities demand, and increased currency circulation expected to foster inflation and stronger industrial profits through the year.
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Senate
Washington
Natoral
St Imp
Liberty Loan
U. S. Steel
Inspiration Copper
American Car Foundry
Republic Steel
Lackawanna Steel
Well
Weather outlook for New Haven and region
For New Haven and vicinity expect showers late tonight and Wednesday with cooler conditions on Wednesday. Connecticut coast also sees showers and cooler weather with southwest winds. A western disturbance moves slowly east, causing thunderstorms from Kansas to Ohio, while local fair weather is likely in the near term. Moonrise 7:35 p.m. Low water 4:40 a.m. U.S. note to Russia delivered in Petrograd but not published yet.
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New Haven
Jane
Connecticut
Kansas
Ohio
Civilian Billeting Board Formed To Solve Lodging
London June 5 The government creates the Civilian Billeting Board to coordinate billeting of civilians and munitions workers. Gerald France will lead as Director of Landladies and Controller of Lodgers with local committees enforcing rents and lodging, penalties up to 100 dollars for misbehavior, and guarantees for payments if lodgers default.
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London
Gerald France
Tobacco crop in Germany ordered cut
Berne Switzerland June 6 the government decreed a major reduction in tobacco production effective May 1 cigars snuff and chewing tobacco may be produced during the next year only in the total of the first seven months of 1916 or the first seven months of 1915 whichever is smaller this marks a serious drop from normal output and continues the wartime restrictions.
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Berne
Switzerland
Britain plans clothes rationing and war uses
Britain plans rationing of clothing based on wool reserves for military needs. A committee recommends standardizing limited wool based home items and conserving supplies for twelve months. Connaught Club near Hyde Park is taken over by War Department for Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps training and housing about 600 women after previously housing 250 men and Americans.
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London
Connaught Club
Marble Arch
Hyde Park
War Department
Army Corps
France
Red Mansion House to Glow if Peace Arrives This Year
London reports Lord Mayor Sir William Dunn vows to paint Mansion House red and entertain local soldiers if peace comes before his term ends. The residence is already black from city smoke and would be bright red upon a peace agreement.
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London
Mansion House
William Dunn
Graphite Deposits Found in Ragunda Sweden
Stockholm reports extensive graphite deposits in Ragunda, Jamtland province. Outcropping veins up to two feet in diameter indicate major ore. Sweden faces shortages as imports from Germany ceased long ago.
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Stockholm
Ragunda
Jamtland
Sweden
Germany
Boston Regiment of Engineers Mustered
Acting Adjt. Gen. BH Leroy Sweetser disclosed that the war department officially recognizes the First corps cadets as a regiment of engineers. Recruitment had been ongoing and officers prepared for the status change from an infantry battalion.
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Boston
Leroy Sweetser
War Department
First Corps
Regiment of Engineers
Local Guests and Social Roundup in Stepney
Stepney residents hosted and visited relatives and friends in Easton Bridgeport Milford and New Haven. Attendees included the Edwards Jennirns Nichols Blakeman and Purdy families with a June Amphion quartet event at Harmony grange and a sixth seventh grade exam at Cutler's school.
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Daniel Edwards
Doris Sharpe
Easton
Howard Edwards
Lemuel Osborne
William Jennirns
V. Nichols
Marguerite Nichols
Isabel Philips
Bridgeport
Charles Blakeman
Ethel Blakeman
Bethel
Amphion Quartet
Harmony Grange
Mary Pedhereznak
Marian
Agnes Bolmer
Maud Lewis
Gladys Peck
Stephie Liska
May
Elsie
Lillian Pavlick
Emma
Cutler’s
D. A. Green
Norwalk
William Purdy
Eleanor Purdy
Purdy
Eugene Northrop
Stamford
George Smith
Setauket
Long Island
Charles Gaines
Roger Spencer
Hartford
Henry Seeley
Andrew Curtiss
Arthur Curtiss
Bayonne
N. J
The
Baptist Church
J. Carleton Joyce
Friends
Patton
New Haven
France
Y. M. CIA
Thomas Miller
Margaret Miller
New York
C. B. Osborne, Jr
Silver Beach
Milford
Gordon
Oscar Plumb
Beatrice Plumb
Nichols
Steven Hayden
Harry Morgan
Frank Perkins
Waterbury
Bridgeport Horse Auction Teases Wide Selection
In Bridgeport an upcoming sale features 2 Shetland ponies and rigs to bring top bids along with a consignment of single and double buggies. The event offers 25 to 30 head of horses and promises a horse for everybody.
Taxes Grand List of 1916 Notice to Bridgeport Taxpayers
Notice to Bridgeport taxpayers that the taxes on the 1916 grand list are due at the City Hall Tax Collector's Office Room 6. Howard F. Smith, the collector, will be available May 1 1917 and daily thereafter for collection, Sundays excepted. After June 1 interest accrues at 0.75 percent monthly on unpaid taxes.
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City of
Bridgeport
City Hall
Howard F. Smith
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New York City
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Fairfield Ave
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Springfield
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Stone
Mt St Joseph Seminary
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Stillman Street
Thomas Ick
North Ave
Meigs Building
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Goopyear
East Main St
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Black
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North Main St
Fc Zea and Lungh Room
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