Bridgeport News Briefs Cover Wool Carding Shop and Local Economy
Bridgeport residents find a new wool carding service operating with a first rate workman. Wool can be dropped at Daniel DeForest in Stratford or Curtis & Smith in Bridgeport for weekly Tuesday and Friday returns. Local dry goods and groceries update from Betts & Turney. Yale beats Bridgeport 58 to 10 at Fairfield. City officials return from Chicago and Pythians report healthy growth with 5998 members. State fair plans considered by Bridgeport Driving Club. US Treasurer Morgan returns for a brief visit and vows to vote on election day.
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Nur H
Daniel DeForest
Stratford
Curtis &Smith
Brinceport
Mr. Ufford
Benjamin
Bridgeport
Yale
Bridgeports
Fairfield Avenue
Fair Opens To Day For Catholic Church Completion
Fifty years ago the fair opens today on Id en Hill in Washing ton to aid the completion of the Catholic church. The event runs during the week with an advertisement in another column noting the schedule and purpose. A contest over the will of the late Mrs Sylvanus erling is appealed to in this city during the current term of court.
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Iden Hill
Sylvanus Erling
Penn Eleven Star Declared Ineligible By Faculty
Philadelphia October reports Penn State prep football in soggy conditions as Folwell reshuffles backfield placing Graves Williams at right half in Saturday's clash. Committee on Athletics declares Billy Neill ineligible for the Red and Blue lineup.
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Luard Neill
Penn Line
Philadelphia
Pensylvaffnia
Gridiron Warriors
Yesterr
Penn State
Folwell
Graves Williams
Shorty Loucks
Williams
Committee On Athletics For
the University
Billy Neill
Whitman College football rebuilds with Swann stepping in
Whitman College in Walla Walla prepares for the season as Swann replaces a departed player. Neill plans daily practice with scrubs to retain the team while Folwell worries the Red and Blue may not fully master Sanford’s kick trick before Saturday’s game. Wage hike of two and a half cents an hour granted to railroad workers. New red French bulbs arrive.
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Whitman College
Walla Walla
Wash
Penn
Swann
Neill
Scrubs
Sanford
Folwell
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Co
Desertion Bureau Sought to Recover City Child Care Costs
New York report recommends six month Desertion Bureau in the Department of Charities. A chief desertion officer and two officers would pursue warrants, with court action by an Assistant Corporation Counsel to recover costs for abandoned children. City charges for care have risen from 400000 to over 700000 annually since 1913. Also, state canals will close for the season on November 30 per Wortherspoon.
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New York
Leonard M. Wallstein
Department of Charities
Wallstein
Bureau of Social Investigation
Hoosier Receives Weekly Rate Payment
A brief line notes a Hoosier being paid at the rate of $1.00 per week. The fragment indicates a weekly stipend or allowance linked to a named individual from Indiana.
Lost sark and the lost bark in a quixotic ditty
A fragment from the Washington Star features a quirky exchange about a missing ship and a dog in a ditch. The dialogue plays on wordplay and punning about ships and business, reflecting light, humorous urban chatter.
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Betts & Turney
Corner Bank & Walter Streets
Packet Line
Mary Ann
Brooks
Onday
Patriot
Brothwell
Lapwing
Goodsell
Leinman & Company
H. M. Rogers
Congregational Church
Goshen
W. Magill
Waterbury
Yale Theological Seminary
Clark & Beers
Clark
Beer Miller
Chicago
Municipal Improvement Association
Public Works
Beery
Anning J. Smith
Pythians
Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias
Odd Fellows
State
Main Streets
Doolan
Sen
Marigold
Horace O. Case
Bridgeport Driving Club
Meriden
Treas. Morgan
U.S
D. N. Morgan
Washington
Trumbull
Charles Ambler
Reck & Son
State Superintendent of Public Works
Wortherspoon
Cartwright
Main Street
Joan Stat
THE
House OF B Shoes
Hayes Fish Co
Water Street
Main St
Corner Elm St
Meat Department
Boston
Squire
Lima
Milliard’s
Curtice Bros. Jas
Concord
Malaga
Peewee
FISH
Long Island
Public Market&Branch
State & Bank Sts
E. Main ST
Josh
Corntossel
Joab
Washington Sta
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