Bridgeport News Notes On Debt and Industry
A Bridgeport correspondent cites three causes of hard times: foreign debts, bank debts, and loss of credit plus widespread idleness. Citizens seek productive industry while merchants and speculators drift. A saddle was found near Bridgeport. owner may claim by proof of property. Corn imports from St Domingo total 1300 bushels. A Dutch brig arrived at Philadelphia with 128 passengers. An exemption bill for manufacturing taxes failed in Hartford. Hotel interiors praised for fresco work. A Park horse fair drew many from region but few Bridgeport horse owners participated. A 60 foot whale washed ashore at Rockaway Beach.
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Hartford
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Bridgeport Paving Rushes Ahead on State Street and Fairfield
The Bridgeport Traction Co advances vitrified brick paving between rails on State street with cement foundation filled between Lafayette and Warren. Fairfield avenue paving finished. travel on new brick to be restricted for several days. Building permits issued for multiple frame additions and houses in area. A cyclist, Frank Radan, fractured leg at Seaside Park. Barnum & Bailey show to end season in Chicago. trains to Winter quarters next week. Registrars Smith and Farmer to correct voter lists tonight at Masonic Building Broad Street.
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Fifty Years Ago Protest Over Speeding in Main Street
A letter to the editors laments fast driving by prominent youths after a bishop lad was run over on Main Street. The writer urges reforms to curb reckless speed in crowded streets and cites community influence. The note references improving the hotel reading rooms and other buildings.
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Main Street
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Casement Aide to Campaign for Wilson in New York
Michael Francis Doyle the Philadelphia lawyer who defended Sir Roger Casement in London treason trial plans to campaign in New York and New England for Wilson. He has engaged Pennsylvania and Democratic National Headquarters notes show growing Wilson strength amid Republican factional troubles. Francis J. Heney predicts a California triumph and notes Hughes’ blunders as Hiram Johnson gains support.
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Viola Allen Early Moonlight Debut Elevates Broadway Star
Viola Allen rose from a Boston upbringing and a New York boarding school to replace Miss Annie Russell in Esmeralda at Madison Square Theatre. Under her father C Lesle Allen's coaching she scored an immediate hit and soon drew critical praise from John McCullough who cast her in Virginia Desdemona and Parthenia.
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John McCullough
Virginia
Reference to Tommaso Salvini and American actress fame
The passage notes a collaboration with the great Italian actor Tommaso Salvini and claims she played most Shakespearean heroines attaining a permanent place among great American actresses.
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Tommaso Salvini
Letter to the Editor questions tariff links to 1916 politics
In Bridgeport Oct 26 1916 a reader signs as AMERICAN questions John T King's appeal and tariff policy. The letter argues passion driven appeals are un-American and critiques Democratic ties to free trade and Wilson. It also notes 1907 08 panic and Payne Aldrich tariff as context. Federal Judge Elmer B Adams of St Louis dies by paralysis.
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Mason & Dixon Line
Wilson
Bridgeport
Cleveland
Republican Party
Conn
Sure Quality and Service for Jewelry Purchases
An advertisement promises assurance of quality and service for diamonds and jewelry. It urges customers to compare values, pay a reasonable profit, and judge the store by its goods and fair prices through personal experience.
Oyster farming and predators in historic fisheries
The article explains oysters as a valuable global seafood, noting the U S share, farming history from China to Europe, and the high mortality of free swimming young. It describes threats to oysters including starfish on Long Island Sound beds, and destructive predators like the black drum on the Atlantic and a sting ray on the Pacific coast.
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China
Italy
Europe
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English Officers Must Salute Superiors On Highways
London news reports a new army order requiring officers in uniform not on duty to salute all senior officers. Those below field rank must salute majors and higher, while field and general officers salute their superiors. The practice of saluting Victoria Cross signia remains customary.
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London
Kate Carl commissioned to paint Li Yuanhung portrait
Peking October 26 American artist Kate Carl famed for the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi portrait exhibited at St. Louis and housed in the Smithsonian has been commissioned to paint President Li Yuan-hung who now receives several sittings weekly.
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Kate Carl
Tzu Hsi
St. Louis Exposition
Smithsonian Institute of Washington
Li Yuan-hung
Democratic Appropriations and Constructive Progress Compared
A 1917 comparison shows total appropriations rising from 1.111 billion in 1916 to 1.626 billion in 1917, with current expenses after extraordinary defense spending at 1.118 billion. The piece credits Democratic actions for defense, ships, roads, and military and naval improvements, arguing the modest current-expenses increase reflects natural growth and warns of ongoing constructive legislation.
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Congress
High Seas
Farm Loan Board
China
Cuba
Chile
Democratic Congress
Marshall says West does not want warfare at rally
Vice President Thomas R. Marshall told Meriden reporters that a distinct movement of women in the Midwest backs Wilson and opposes war. He said Democrats in Wisconsin Nebraska Missouri Kentucky Indiana and Ohio will win their states and that Hughes offers only glittering generalities while Wilson provides plans and policy.
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Meriden
Middle West
Wilson
United States
Mr. Hughes
Willison
Hughes
Yale Doctor Endorses Wilson as Great Humanitarian
Co E Winslow a Yale public health professor and former New York health official endorses President Wilson. He praises humanitarian legislation, the Child Labor Law, rural sanitation efforts, and Wilson's handling of the Mexican question and European conflict. He says he will vote Democratic and supports Wilson’s humanity-driven policy path. Just arrived Dutch and French busses. John Reck & Son.
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Yale School of Medicine
Wilson
Winslow
New York Department of Health
Yale
Willson
John Reck & Son
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