FOR SALE and License Transfer Notices in 1914 Bridgeport
Classified notices announce items for sale including a fine Mathushek piano and a 14 room two family house with terms. A license transfer request seeks to move Spirituous Liquors rights from John Pfalzgraf to Leroy A Ward near Middle and Bee streets. Also included are affidavits from local electors endorsing the transfer. Additionally a report notes volcanic ash drifting to Valdez Alaska from Mt Katmai after a major eruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanover St
Ward
Barrel Avenue
North Main
Ers
Fairfield
Board of County Commission
John Pfalzgraf
Middle Street
Leroy A. Ward
Bee
Bridgeport
Pete A
Lecters
Leaver. Ag. Oases
Lew
Epart
Mcense
Nathan Shapiro
Henry Bresky
Marshall E. Gray
Owen Light
G. Clark
Tyne
Joseph Schultz
Alaska
Valdez
Prince William
Mt. Katmai
Menace of the Crowded Car and Society Snippets
A collage of excerpts on public health hazards from crowded streetcars, advice on borrowing money, mustard as a remedy, curious signs in Boston and New York, legal sign humor, Dutch New Guinea convict containment, and a quip about debt collection. Notable items include health concerns about bacteria in transit, banking obligations, and witty historical ads and anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Cole & Wood
High Clifton
New York
Doolittle
Steele
Silent and Superstitious. Coast cocklers of Lancashire
Silent, taciturn cocklers on Lancashire’s coast rely on a perilous livelihood among skeers and tides. The piece notes their shy, close communities, precarious living, superstition about embedded rock creatures, and periodic hardships from shifting channels and severe tides. It contrasts their meek labor with broader social observations and quotes from varied sources, ending with a small catalogue of images.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancashire
England
Memory joke from Chicago News note
A schoolteacher asks a pupil about memory and the child answers that memory is what people use when they want to forget what they don’t want to remember. The piece is attributed to John Reck & Son as a reprint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eisie
Chicago News
College Growth Depends on Pleasure of Rich
Rabbi Wise argues colleges are subsidized by capital and dependent on the pleasures of the rich. He condemns clubhouses for rich men's sons and urges temporary homes to cultivate respect for national life. The piece notes the American college woman seeks humanity and betterment, and includes an advertisement for Foley Kidney Pills by Hindle's Drug Stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesterton
Bremen
W. M. Golden
The
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Hindle
Adv
Hindu baker seeks English patrons in doorway notice
A Hindu baker's assistant in Bont bay sets up his own business and posts a doorway notice to appeal to the English community. The sign reads Ram Bux solicits respectful age and calls him a first-class British loafer, as quoted from Christian Life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ti Bont Bay
Ram Bux
Dr Guidone Promises Cure At Bridgeport Office
Announcement from New York notes 35 years of professional practice by Dr Guidone a specialist for rheumatic and necrotic diseases neuralgias sciatica bronchial asthma and Celtic diseases offering radical permanent cures. Patients may consult from tomorrow at his office 527 State St Bridgeport Conn ground floor 2 to 5 p m daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
New York
Guidone
State St
Bridgeport, Conn
Bridgeport
Fairfield Avenue
E. R
Catherine Street
East 22Nd Street
New York City
Pequonnock Wharf
Union Street
B. Nickerson
New England Steamship Co
Sones
A. Goldman
Victoria
Texas
Pont
W._Geraty
Manhattan
Thlil Medicine ‘Co
Boas 24Th St
N. Y
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Bate
Gem Joe
Biskher
Pia
Sac
Stephen F. Rahria
Newnela
Wetry Publis
Sidge
la Tepewrititen
Atherton
Benjamin
Warner Building
S@ Pairfisiad Ave
Apa
James Bt
Catherine St
D. M
Broome
State St. Dit Et
Rousskeowine
Warren St
Greenwich Township
Fairfielt County
Berkeowits
Park Ave
Scofield Avenue
Penne Realty Co., Inc
National Bank
L. Weiss
Brent
Golden Hill Su
William Griest & Bon
John
Stigle
Trumbull
Ayots
Golden Hill
Peasse Realty Co
Conn
Bank
Dita
Main St
Waldorf Motor and Machine Co
Nkewise
Ambrose Co
East Main St
Ambrose
Nory
Mellor Welding CO
Kossuth
Automobile Directory
Uis
Moline
Knight Wemullen
Edward T. Beown
Cannon Street
Maxwell
Fairfield Ave
Erea I. N. Maintero
Parker
Bottomley's Express
Holcomb's Restaurant
Water St
Zorn Ux
Brazos & Sons, Inc
Middletown
ION
Chas, J. Colina
Bentley
James J. Conlin
Elim St
Edward
Bursey
John St
J. B. Adams
Iranistan Avenue
Maplewood Ave
C. Meyer
Coenela
Harrison Bt
Aeiae
Warner Bros. Co
Park Avenue
Harry EB. Lee
Warner
Fairfield Ae
Modern
Greenbaum’s
Congress Shoe Store
Congress St
Murphy
Berkshire Ave
Neever
Grocera
Harry BE
Lee
Warner Palemts
Fairfield Evenue
J. W
Wunder
Washington
Baltimore
Ean
Journal of the American Medical Association
Omeba
New York Times
New Guinea
Cincinnat Enquirer
Caribbean Tropics
Panama
Tropics
Islands
Ameri
Isthmus
Julius Muller
Congress of the Stars
Popular Magazine
Mr. Fatill
Fatill
Yale
John Reck &Son
John Reck & Son
Rabbi Wise
Ollege
Raphael F. Guidone
Kelley’s Cigar Store
City Savings Bank
Ldke Thess
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