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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1917
Page
9
New York correspondent Grit Fredricks reports on foreign representatives in Boston as carried by the Associated Press through the Evening Newspaper of Bridgeport.
The text argues the Sherman Law should be used to prevent coal price cuts but warns it would erode a statute that once aimed to preserve competition. It contends the law failed to curb modern industry, favoring large units and coordinated sectors under public guidance to avoid chaos, secrecy, and wartime weakness.
The piece notes April starts for the Civil War and Spanish American War, Bull Run delays to July, Shafter's Cuba advance in June, and U S troops in France by month end. It claims armed troops, adequate food and sanitation, and contrasts government capability with past failures and disease issues from embalmed beef.
The article credits a major feat of landing thousands in France with negligible transit losses. It compares sending 50 000 men across 3000 miles to landing 8 000 000 across twenty miles of the Channel. It notes oceans prevent perfect protection and suggests the expedition will teach Americans the value of isolation as defense.
The weekly tally of British ships sunk by U-boats remains higher than February levels, signaling little move against the underwater foe. Fluctuations resemble a game bag’s changes, with one day more success than another, yet the overall destruction of shipping is much larger.
Mayor Wilson said he had not received orders about registration cards for youths. Duplicates were reportedly to be sent to Washington last Tuesday but the plan was changed. No exemption board was officially appointed or organized yet. A man attempting to register was turned away since yesterday was the deadline.
Report mentions priests arrested and imprisoned in Belgium and Germany. A Marine Legraive unit and machinists union show support. Clerks seek city stores to close at 6 pm Saturdays. Four members of the former King Constantine’s retinue arrive in Munich.
Long Island potato growers protest shipments of immature potatoes traded as marbles in local markets. They argue leaving them in the ground would yield a larger total harvest and oppose the practice as wasteful.
Eight year old Stanley Jablonsky drowned in the Housatonic Water Power Co canal while fishing with a younger brother. The pole end embedded in the canal bottom, and Joseph Kenrick located the body half an hour later after diving for the lad.
Freshmen from the commercial department numbering 128 joined a trolley ride and picnic at Compo Beach today. Most enjoyed bathing at Compo.
Consumers view Chinese bead necklaces with carved ivory and turquoise beads. The collection includes butterfly brooches, pearl sleeve links, an army rifle handle umbrella, and cuff links with prices from 25 cents to 5 dollars. Sterling items and leather goods retail for modest sums.
A catalog style listing of children’s summer wear and related accessories with prices ranging from 25 to 75 cents for hats and rompers to several dollars for larger items. Includes wash hats, flowered cretonne hats, lingerie hats, bloomers, play clothes, rompers, and shawls. Also notes sweaters, spencers, and men’s summer shirts and neckwear on the main shopping floors.
Judge Edwin S. Thomas appointed three receivers for Hopkins and Allen Arms Co of Norwich on petition by Billings & Spencer Co. Receivers are Edward W. Higgins, William J. Garcey, and Lewis D. Parker. Each bond is 15000. The firm faces 500000 in debts plus mortgages totaling over three million with liquidation risk unless the business is taken over.
At the fire commissioners meeting, Thomas F. Broderick was made captain of the new fire prevention bureau, with the combustibles department joining it. Lieutenant Thomas Tague and Lieutenant George Bennett named chief inspectors. John H. Flynn, John T. McCarthy and Charles T. Bell appointed firemen.
Sixteen children die and over twenty five fall ill in Oran Scott county with symptoms like enterocolitis. Doctors warn of a mysterious illness affecting the town as conditions puzzle officials. Miguel Hurtado appointed minister of finance in Ecuador.
Serviceable cotton bathing suits sold in one and two piece styles at $1.25 each. Good grade worsted suits priced moderate at $2.00 each. In all wool suits choices include plain and fancy at $3.00 each. Fancy worsted suits in green gray and mix at $4.50 to $5.00. Diver's caps and ladies' caps priced from 25c to 50c.
The Chicago Council passed a gas rate ordinance reducing the tariff from 80 to 70 cents per thousand cattle feet and shifting the standard from a candle power to a heat unit basis.
Summer sale from Petticoats features Twenty five French models white and ecru lace items plus satin lace varieties. Prices cut to eight fifty ten fifty twelve fifty and fifteen dollars formerly higher. White Wash Silk Skirts offered at three fifty and three ninety five. War-time limits on duplication noted.
Prices for Nemo Self-Reducing Corsets increase from 3.50 to 4.00 and 5.00 to 6.00, with a 50 cents to 1 dollar saving if bought before Monday July 2. The dealer cites high material costs and warns further price rises if costs continue. Also advertised are sunbonnets, fabrics, a Maeterlinck book The Wrack of the Storm, The White Road to Verdun, a life behind the lines story, and Turkish Delight candy and sugar toasted nuts.
Readable notes say former King Constantine of Greece purchased the Chateau Chartreuse near Thun Switzerland from German baron von Gedilitz. Other items report guards in Thusis, a Dutch-to-German trade, and local shortages.
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