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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1917
Page
6
A local notice states the store will be closed all day tomorrow for Memorial Day and announces a Thursday start to a large clearance sale of spring and summer millinery and related apparel items including shirts, coats, rainwear, feather boas, caps, hats, and trimming.
Fairfield county women led by Mrs. Glover Mrs Wheeler and Mrs Wheeler launched an appeal to raise funds for Ford ambulances for European hospital units. The drive targets fifty ambulances at 1600 dollars each with proceeds covering a year of maintenance. Letters go to residents urging donations and to recruit two more supporters.
One of the first steel steamers built by an American shipyard since America's entry into the war is the 9,000 ton twin screw freighter Scandinavia, to leave the ways near New York late today. Contracts for 16 ships have been let at the same yard, with hope to complete all within a year.
Leopold de Rothschild died this morning at his home in Leighton Buzzard after a six week illness. He was 72 and the third son of Baron Lionel de Rothschild, founder of the English banking branch. A longtime figure in English racing, his horse St Amant won the Derby in 1904. Continued cold weather threatens the early New Jersey potato crop.
A chronicle of a society woman’s long struggle with nerves and ill health ending with improvement after taking Phosphated Iron. The ad recounts a housekeeper’s suggestion and a husband ordering the remedy, with claims of restored color, strength, and sleep. It promotes the product from W. P. Hindle Drug Stores and other druggists.
Washington reports the Bureau of Engraving and Printing now runs 24 hours daily to meet war finance demands. About 1,200 additional workers are employed to produce 2,700,000 impressions daily, with projected yearly notes and certificates reaching 25,000,000,000.
General Goethals to lead construction of 18 month 000,000 ton merchant fleet with no Shipping Board interference. Proposals from United States Steel Corp and Lackawanna Steel. Contracts awarded for 24 wooden ships 6 steel barges and 26 steel ships. Susan Mount bequeaths 50000 to Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle for church in Missouri.
Mrs. Mabel Lavey of Bridgeport was chosen as a delegate to the Daughters of Castile national convention in Utica in July. The Stamford May 21 biennial state convention opened with a high mass and welcome addresses.
Cecil Spooner starred as Ellen Neal in Common Clay with an enlarged company at the Park Theatre. Her dual role delivered a dramatic performance praised by Bridgeport stock patrons and bolstered by supporting cast members for the week-long engagement.
In Manchester New Hampshire voters in the First District choose a successor to late Congressman Cyrus A Sulloway. Republican Sherman B Burroughs and Democrat Patrick Henry Sullivan compete with Burroughs backing administration war policy and Sullivan campaigning on support for the president. The district leans Republican.
Stratford May 29 Another police man has been added to Stratford's department H Briggs Barnum was appointed a regular officer at a selectmen meeting William B Nichols was appointed about a month ago Both men will be paid 23 a week They are on duty day and night Headquarters are at the fire house A truancy case in Stratford town court involved Joseph Cilenski a 14 year old pupil at Franklin school He was ordered to spend the rest of his minority at Merrien reformatory Deputy Judge Frank B Blakeman presided and school authorities filed the complaint
No enrollments are scheduled for Memorial Day in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve. The notice cautions members and regions that operations pause for the holiday with no enrollment events planned.
Poem excerpt celebrates national pride as the flag and its colors rise above marching soldiers. It honors the nation’s battles, peace, justice, and reverence, with vivid imagery of bugles, drums, and loyal hearts marching in unity.
The New Haven road schedules a memorial day special train from New York to New Haven. Stops include Stamford at 10 20 p m South Norwalk 10 33 p m Bridgeport 10 56 p m arriving New Haven 11 25 p m. The trip departs New York at 9 25 p m.
Unnaturalized Germans, hundreds discharged by public service firms, were advised by Marshal Thomas D. McCarthy to labor on farms if physically fit. The guidance followed appeals from Germans after government limits on water fronts forts and arsenals tightened due to alleged Teutonic plotter activity.
Women begin taking the places of bond salesmen at Liberty Loan booths in 60 departments and large stores in New York to free men for more active subscription solicitations. A school for training loan speakers opens in the New York federal reserve district. Theatrical managers and press reps join presidents of clubs to organize publicity for the campaign.
Paris reports mine sweeping in the English Channel as one of the war's most exciting and dangerous duties. A group of seven sloops in chelons clears a half mile by fifty miles of German mines while life belts are worn from departure to return.
The passage describes sloops taking on the dangerous duty of locating and clearing mines at sea. After detonations, the vessels continue their mission, risking life to keep merchant ships moving through perilous routes on the high seas.
The piece notes many wealthy young men volunteer for aviation service, despite fears from their protective families. It emphasizes patriotism, courage, and the improved aircraft, while warning that accidents stem from pilots taking hazards rather than machine fault.
An automobile truck from Hill Coal Co. ran over and killed a bulldog owned by Charities Investigator Alexander Morrisey yesterday while descending a slope. The incident involves the Hill Coal Co. vehicle and Morrisey as the owner of the dog.
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