Eight Hour Day Debate Splits Socialists and Public
Bridgeport Socialists meet in the uth Erid area to argue for the eight hour workday while defending President Wilson. The Farmer praises the eight hour concept, while opponents like Hughes are urged to credit the president and Congress for enacting the law, amid mixed voter sentiments and labor support.
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Bridgeport
Uth Erid
Wilson
Hughes
Robert Hunter
E. J. Hill
Jasper McLevy
Senator McKean
Socialist Party
Ford
Edison Ite
United States
Congress
Ealings
Therhoods
Wall Street
White House
Labor Movement
Read Co Read House Showcases Beautiful Home Furnishings
The Read House presents a display of attractive home furnishings on its third floor. The space features Oriental and domestic rugs, decorative weaves in muted tones for living rooms, hallways, and firesides, plus rag weaves for colonial bedrooms, reflecting a designed home atmosphere guided by tasteful wisdom.
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Read House
No Apathy in Campaign Despite Quiet Campaign Machinery
A reflective piece argues against apathy in a presidential race, praising extensive organization and door to door efforts by both parties. It notes rising voter turnout, especially women, and frames the election as a major national effort with deep public interest and stakes. The piece emphasizes the campaign's thorough mobilization and the urgency to participate.
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United States
Republican Party
Home Craft Week Curtain Section Promotes Window Display
This feature spotlights Craft Lace Curtains and a Main Street window display. A robe priced at 6.75 offers home decor value for cars or den couches, with a range of silverware, trays, candlesticks, vases, dishes, and utensil sets priced from 40 cents to $25.00, all under the Home Craft Week sale.
Cretonnes and Glassware Featured in Home Furnishings
The catalog highlights cretonnes for rooms including screens lampshades and cushions with pink blue and yellow patterns, 60 cents a yard and a quarter. Glass collections offer jugs tankards beakers and sets with gold bands and prices from two to twelve dollars, including a five quart jug for eight dollars and various sets and utensils.
Times Move With Giant Strides The Nation Not Apathy
A historic sentiment proclaims the era is active and momentous. The speaker asserts that the times are not apathetic, but driven by events toward vast ends, countering the notion of public indifference with confident expectations and resolve.
McLean's Psychology in Senatorial Challenge
The piece treats Senator McLean’s forthcoming confrontation with Homer S. Cummings in Stamford as a test of nerve and political optics. It frames his planned response as cautious restraint, noting a past quip that foreign goods are scarier than foreign bullets and suggesting McLean’s fear would be redirected toward the challenger.
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McLean
Homer S
Cummings
Stamford
Napoleon
Cannon
Homer S. Cummings
Fireman Injured Falling In Cellar Stairs
Charles Kelly of Engine Company No. 8 suffered a compound fracture of the left leg and a dislocation of the knee when he fell down the cellar stairs of his home at 45 Pemroke Street around 9 this morning. He was taken to St Vincent's Hospital after treatment by Dr. Canavan.
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Charles Kelly
Pemproke Street
St. Vincent's Hospital
Canavan
New Satin and Taffeta Skirts and Desk Sets in Styles
Attractive models in black skirts priced from 7.50 to 20.00 feature satin taffeta values and plaid winter skirts in dark grounds with gold green or blue. Desk sets in bronze hand painted range 8.50 to 18.00 Brass items ink wells blotters and files. Paper goods include a Lenox Lawn kit with a quire of paper and envelopes for 59 cents to 3.75, Read's Lawn fabrics in light colors from 59 cents to 3.75.
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Shepherd’s
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Thomas R. Marshall
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Morris B. Beardsley
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of E. Duffy
Imeon E. Baldwin Cea Arene Archibald
Men. Sr
Charles E. Gross
George Ulrich
Alton T
Morris W. Seymour Raymond P. Jodoin
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Cretonnes
Art Fabrics
Forbes
Gordon
Black Watch
Che Dnfread Co
Fox
Gold
Nathan Gold
Ferdinand Fox
Danbury
Bethany Chapel
Long Hill
John Saunders
Chicago
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New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange
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Russia
Sanitary
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