City Sells Army Hams At Low Price In Cost Crisis
Bridgeport authorities launch ham sale to fight high living costs with 12 to 15 pound hams at 30 cents a pound. Sales start 9 am at Engine House No 4 Madison Ave, one ham per customer, all sold first come first served. 60,000 pounds arriving, 3,190 hams remain, rest to follow. Mayor Wilson buys first slice, city thanks Connecticut Breweries, Bridgeport Transportation, Mohican Company, Public Market and John OConnell for support.
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Wilson
Engine House No. 4
Madison Avenue
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Food Committee
Bridgeport Transportation Company
Themen
Middle Street
Chiat-Dunie E. Johnson
Connecticut Breweries Company
Bridge- Port Transportation Company
Mohican Company
Public Market
John O'Connell
Hartford
Iingine
John Street
Crescent Avenue
Norman Street
Barnum Avenue
Bostwick Avenue
Newfield
Lafayette Street
Putnam Street
Fairfield Avenue
Beechmont
Therma Streets
Havens to Succeed Ballard as Fifth District G O P Chairman
Republican Town Chairman J A H Robinson will appoint Elmer H Havens, education board president, as Fifth District chairman to replace Frank Ballard who was removed today. The club endorsed Havens amid protest from seven members over Judge Foster’s motion being deemed illegal. Robinson said appointment powers rest with him and noted a planned protest meeting.
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J. Alexander H. Robinson
Elmer H. Havens
Board of Education
Frank Lallard
Havens
Carl Foster
Hobinson
Mathers
Bajlard-Robinson
Ballard
Robinson
First Arrest Under New Jitney Rules In City
The first arrest for violating the new jitney regulations was made yesterday afternoon as Stephen Shavehuk of 731 Hallett Street was taken into custody for failing to complete a run. He is to be arraigned in City Court today amid driver and passenger complaints that the rules curb service and limit cars on busy routes. The drivers plan to challenge the local authorities arguing lack of jurisdiction for the regulations now in force.
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Stephen Shavehuk
Hallett Street
Jimmey
Shavehuk
Jithey
Greenwich Physician Faces Malpractice Suit for Damages
Greenwich resident Christian Hoffman sues Dr Fritz Carleton Hyde for 10 960 dollars claiming malpractice. Hyde, a former U S Medical Corps officer and head of Benedict Memorial Hospital, to be tried in Bridgeport Superior Court in September. Previous verdicts awarded damages for related alleged negligence by Hyde in prior years.
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Greenwich
Fritz Carleton Hyde
Christian Hoffman
Hyde
U. S. Medical Corps
Benedict Memorial Hospital
William L. Lavery
Bridgeport
John White
Superior Court
George Sanford
Failare
Bridgeport Shopmen vote on strike continue
Bridgeport machinists on strike at New York New Haven Hartford shops vote on returning to work. Majority reportedly against resuming Friday, with full railroad system tally to decide. Freight embargo easing marginally as local workforce of about 1400 remains organized.
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Bridgeportsmen
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
New Haven
East Bridgeport
Boston
New England
Worcester
Manchester
Nashua
N. H
Boston and Maine Railroad
Boston and Mayine
Boston and Albany
New York
Hartford
Do Not Leave Town This Summer Come With The Standard Telegram
A public notice advises readers not to depart for the summer without arranging for the Standard Telegram to accompany them to their vacation home. It notes a daily subscription rate by mail of 50 cents a month.
Minimum living cost for five at 1918 dollars
Chicago packinghouse workers presented a budget claiming a yearly living cost of 1918 dollars for a family of five before federal mediator Judge Alschuler. Anna McQuillen testified costs, updated to June, rose 20 to 30 percent since then and excluded luxuries vacations or savings.
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Chicago
Chicago Packing House
Wedert
Alschuler
Anna MecQuillen
Lavit faction victory over Davison in Bridgeport union clash
Samuel Lavit leads Local 30 in Colonial hall win over E Co Davison, grand secretary of the International Association of Machinists, as Local 116 backs Lavit from Hagles hall. About 3,460 women machinists and additional men join the gathering. committees are formed to reclaim books, raise funds for strikers, and circulate letters to machinists nationwide while Newport local supports Lavit and Chicago unionists offer organizing help. Lavit plans to stay in Bridgeport to build the labor movement locally.
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Samuel Lavit
Machinists’ Union
E. Co. Davison
International Association of Machinists
Colonial Ball
Lavit
Machinists
Sue Davison
Local No. 30
United States
Bridgeport
Newport
Machiniata’ Union
International
International Executive Committee
Davison
Chicago
Tavit
Financiers Plunder Nation Roads, Say Rail Men
Washington reports that railroad brotherhoods and counsel Glenn E. Plumb accuse private railroad control of plunder and land secrecy. They say Morgan, Rockefeller, and Gould interests dominate systems, with 456 million in stock bonuses and huge dividends from 1900 to 1910.
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Rockefeller, Morgan and
Gould
Washington
Glenn E E. Plumb
House Interstate Commerce
Brotherhood
Morgan
T Stackefeller
House Committee
Organized Labor
Plumb
Congress
Esch
Nore
Viscount Grey Likely Next British Ambassador to US
London Aug 12 Viscount Trey of Faliden who retired as head of the British foreign office in 1916 is understood to be likely to accept the post of British ambassador to the United States.
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Foreign Office
London
Associated Press
Visecount Trey
Falisden
United States
Golfing on Stratford Avenue Hazard Disrupts Commute
Local note recounts a street golf mishap on Stratford Avenue near the Yellow Mill bridge. The writer mentions taxpayers and named figures from the Lake Torpedo Boat Company and other locals observing a hazard at a railroad crossing that wrecked a vehicle and its drive components. The piece uses playful golf analogies to describe the incident and urges illumination for safety.
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Stratford Avenue
Yellow Mill Bridge
Dirly Nanie Society
Seaview Avenue
Senate Gallery Roars As Lodge Attacks League Pact
Congress reels with cheers and hisses as Senator Lodge denounces League of Nations provisions to the Senate, while Senator Williams and Hitchcock challenge the stance. Republicans discuss reservations with Miller, seeking a path that could win support for or against the covenant.
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Senate
Lodge
Williams
Washington
Alige Hare
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Foreign Relations Committee
Mississippi
Ledge
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Senator Williams
Marshall
United States
League
Howev
Uney
Bolshevik Actions Rumor Sweep In Petrograd Moscow
A Soviet report claims Bolsheviks recaptured Riga and raided Moscow legations, arresting foreigners as a broad assault on consulates and legations. The note notes June events and widespread foreign detentions. General Dantzine’s forces advance on the southern Russian front report combat losses and captured matériel.
Murdock and Glass Seek Funds for Cost of Living Probe
Acting Trade Commission chairman Murdock urged Congress to appropriate 500000 for investigations into the rising living costs. Secretary Glass asked 175000 for secret service funds to chase hoarders and profiteers as lawmakers debate sugar and share industries and waste in government agencies.
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Federal Trade Commission
Speaker Gillett
Secret Service
Gard
Washington
Congress
Murdock
Commission
Gillett
Palmer
Glass
Trade Commission
Ohio
Chicago Administrator Sets 12 Cents As Sugar Price
CHICAGO Aug 2 Henry Co Roloph in charge of the federal food administration sugar bureau today set 12 cents a pound as a fair price of the commodity to the consumer. He declared that any retail price in excess of this figure was outrageous profiteering. For several weeks grocers had charged as high as 16 cents a pound.
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Chicago
Henry Co. Roloph
Federal Food Administration Sugar Bureau
Chicago Actors Close Theaters Amid Strike Action
Chicago theaters including the Cart and Cohan Grand Opera Houses closed after principals and other cast members refused to perform. In New York the Actors' Equity strike prompted injunction suits by Producing Managers' Protective Association against city co workers, as Shubert suits seek to curb union activity. Chorus girls form a 400 member Chorus Talent Association linked to Actors' Equity. Dressler elected president. G M Cohen resigns from Mirrars Club and Bart Warfield quits Actors' Equity.
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Chicago
New York
Cart Theatre
Cohan
Actors’ Mauny Association
Producing Managers’ Protective Association
Dduity
Chicage
Boston
Philacalphia
Shuberts
Equity
Chorus
Ao Union
Chorus Tpauity Association
Actors’ Organization
Marte | Dressler
Surt Waas
A. M. Tinad
Actors’ Association
Padav
George Mt. Cohan
Mirrars Club
Barhkt Warfield
Actors’ Equity Association
Rev Clinton Areson Safe Release Expected
News from Chekneyve Russia reports Rev Clinton W Areson former rector of Trinity Episcopal Church corner of Broad Street and Airfield is prisoner of Bolsheviks but safe and expected to be released soon. He served with the YMCA in Ontario and word reached that he was treated well with retirement planned within a week or two. He departed October ___ in a World War I era context.
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Clinton AW. Areson
Trinity Episcopal Church
Broad Street
Airfield
Chekneyve
Russia
Rey
Ontu
International Y A
Walt
War Labor Board to drop jurisdiction over labor disputes
The War Labor Board met in New York to decide wage disputes on streetcar lines in Massachusetts Pennsylvania and Ohio and said it would end its jurisdiction when the meeting adjourns The board approved a 12 percent wage increase for workers at 10 traction companies centered in Boston Pittsburgh and Cleveland The first case involved the Bay State company a consolidation of two small trolley lines with 800 miles of track Workers sought 50 to 60 cents hourly but earned 43 cents The board cited financial strain as justification for limits Hamer Loring opposed the raise noting revenue rose 14 percent despite fare increases ABANDON ROUTE Buenos Aires August 12 News from the Vans-Anding route Torre transport efforts are abandoned with only mulls crossing the mountains now
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New York
Ates. T
Nationwle War Labor Board
Mass
Penna
Ohio
Boston
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Stern Class
Bay State Company
Hamer Loring
Hines
Loring
Buenos Aires
Iain Torre
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Fifth Dist. G. O. P
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Staticaarasner
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Brotherhoods
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RM Steinke
Bridgeport Street
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Ike Eklund
Lake Torpedo Vout Company
Jacob Huber
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Hill Jackson
Wee
Tom Ping
Stratford
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League of Nations
Sen. Williams
Riga
Moscow
General Denikine
Cofinhagen
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VO Ueday
Kamishin
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Kelier
National Board of Conservation
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