Graphophone Plant to Leave Bridgeport for Newark
Columbia Graphophone Co plans to close its Bridgeport plants and move most equipment to Newark NJ citing strike costs. Last year payroll exceeded 10 million dollars and the company warned two Bridgeport banks it will withdraw most deposits within two weeks. Workers vote to continue strikes at Colonial Hall and Bryant Electric plant meetings.
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Columbia Graphophone Company
Bridgeport
J. C. Roberts
Graphophone Company
Roberts
Comppany
Grapho Phone Company
Newark
Bridgeport Planta
Colonial Hall
Bryant Electric Company
G. W. Goodridge
Mr. Goodridge
War Labor Board
Goodridge
Bryant
Hemington-Yost
Boston Shopmen to End Strike Tonight in Metro District
Boston workers from New Haven and Hartford railroads in the Boston Metropolitan district including Readville will resume work at 7 o clock tomorrow morning. Striking shopmen on Boston and Maine and Boston and Albany lines will also return as committees noted the move today.
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Boston
Amy
New York
New Haven
Hartford
Readville
Maine
Albany
New Haven Road
Bolsheviki Print Names of Executed and Hostages
Minsk list of 31 shot by order of the extraordinary commission to counter revolution marks the first public Bolshevik admission of killings. The names include eight counter revolutionists, two women, one wife of a property owner, reflecting broader Bolshevik violence under Minsk and Moscow authority.
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Bolsheviki
Warsaw
Minsk
Zeuzda
Commission Against Counter Revolution
MA neekMankion
Moscow
Russia
Army surplus food sale starts in Bridgeport today
Bridgeport prepares for a government surplus food sale with 60,000 pounds of hams offered at 30 cents a pound beginning at 9 o clock this morning. Police will manage lines at 8 o'clock, with limited entry to engine houses to prevent crowding. About 3,506 hams will be distributed, and plans are in motion for additional government food though details await announcement. Post Office annex and local stations will accept order blanks starting Monday morning for future purchases.
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Bridgeport
Wilson
Greeny
Post Office
Barnum
Stratford
Trehouses
No. 4
Middle Street
Life's Artist Seeks Venus at Fairfield Beach Today
Promoter Angus McDonall, billed as Life's artist, will scour Fairfield Beach this afternoon in search of a performer to portray Venus for a New York Hippodrome production. He has been commissioned by producer Mark Juescher to find a thirty six year old woman with ideal stage presence.
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Fairfield Beach
Primputi
Angus McDonall
Mr. McDonall
Mark Jueseher
New York
U S Places Embargo On Shipments Of Arms To Mexican Government
Washington indicates the Carranza government will be barred from importing arms and munitions from the United States for the near term. The move followed exchange of notes with Mexico after U S warned of policy changes to protect Americans in Mexico. Arms shipments had been halted since U S entry, but Carranza had previously bought large supplies here. No immediate further policy changes expected.
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U.S
Washington
Ate
Carranza
United States
Mexico
Evangelist Confesses To Having Seven Wives
New York August 14 Convicted of bigamy after confessing to seven wives, one married twice. Charles Hugh Wilson 48, former YMCA secretary evangelist and traveling salesman, sentenced to three years six months in Sing Sing. He plans to perform prison reform work. judge would have given five years without deductions for time already served in Wisconsin for larceny.
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New York
Charles’ Hugh Wilson
Wisconsin
Witich
Fans Riot as Reds End Giants Hopes in Double Header
New York August 15 The Cincinnati Reds swept both games at the Polo Grounds to halt the Giants NL title bid. A crowd of about 49 000 surged past barriers and bottles were thrown after the second game as police and special units restored order. At least 25 injured and 15 seriously, with one reported near death, as a railing collapse spilled fans onto the concrete below.
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Cincinnati Reds
Giants
Moh
New York
New York Giants
Cincinnati Iteda
Cincinnati
Trods
Tnrough Wath
Eighth Avenue
Speedway Sound
Alete
Lei
Plane Crash Near Greens Farms Narrowly Misses Airmens
Lt. D. M. Montrath and mechanic Benjamin Bishop survived a crash after their Mineola to Cross Sound flight. injury to Bishop initially feared serious but later deemed slight. Montrath suffered a cut above the eye. They landed near Judge Marean's estate at Cirenus Farms after losing bearings and descending. Bishop was taken to Norwalk Hospital, while Montrath treated locally. The aircraft, a We Haviland 4 army scout with a twelve cylinder Liberty engine, wrecked after skimming rooftops and turning over.
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Westport
D. M. Montrath
United States Air Service
Taselhurst
Long Tsland
Benjamin Bishop
Greens Farms
Here
Benjamin
Norwalk
Montieth
Mineola
Tieutenant
Theiirman
J. T. Marean
Cirenus Farms
Aga
Tor
J. 3. Nolan
Arr
Nolan
Cleveland Car Rates Reduced
Washington Aug 1 Massachusetts Electric Railways crisis discussed at the federal electric railways commission. Frederick J MacLeod of the Massachusetts Public Service Commission described abandonment of lines and calls for a special session to address the emergency. Rising fares unlikely to keep companies self supporting and some states near saturation with fare increases offering little relief. Public ownership could be compelled to prevent total local transportation collapse.
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Washington
Massachusetts Electric Railways
Cleveland
Federal Electric Rilways Commission
Frederick J. Mac Leod
McLchusetta Public Service Commission
Boston
Bay State
Colkett and Goss Win Semi Finals in London
Colkett and Goss advance from semi finals after defeating Hicksia Hishop and Norton Square respectively. The competition for the men's championship at Sheone cosselt featured Waterbury’s WyAR Goes and Aquewanus’s Norton Square, with Cubbett and tiuss noted in the interim.
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Colkett
Goss
London
T. c. Tt
Thindelphia
Hicksia Hishop
Itnehurst
Sid
Andy
Nat Ihe
Gollub
Wyar Goes
Waterbury
Norton Square
Aquewanus
Vunmerray
Cubbett
Tiuss
Carranza Note Ignored as U S Weighs Policy Shifts
Washington August 14 Officials say no reply to Mexico's pledge for protection of Americans will be given now and the United States will await Carranza's actions. If protection fails Washington may withdraw diplomats or recognition, with intervention regarded as a possible but unlikely step. Carranza has been receiving arms from the U S, and a decree barring munitions exports would apply to the government as well as individuals until foreigners are protected.
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Washington
Aus
State Department
United States
Carranza
Caurranza
Rample
Mexico
Striking Actors Turn Producers in New York Gala
In New York on August 15 a gala performance at the Lexington Avenue Opera House marks Equity joining producing as a rival to the Producing Managers Protective Association. Twenty one top stage stars including Frank Bacon and the Barrymores will headline a vaudeville program as managers threaten a boycott against actors in the union. The Playhouse, closed at strike start, reopened amid a shift in theater closures and openings.
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New York
Lexington Avenue Opera House
Equity Association
Producing Managers Protective Association
Equity
Lexington Avenue
Frank Bacon
Hthel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore
Sam Bernard
Barney Bernard
Jod Cantor
Maria Dressler
Raymend Mhilen~cock
Blanche Ring
Joe Stanalley
Ivy Sawyer
Frank ‘Tinney
Pearl White
van and Schenk
Playhouse
Police urged to name unlicensed gasoline dealers
A bulletin from Slits Commissioner of Motor Welleles Stoecke at Startford asks police to name gasoline dealers who traded without licenses. The commissioner seeks arrests of delinquents and notes leniency shown previously. inspectors are busy, but arrests are expected next week if dealers do not obtain licenses.
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Welleles Stoecke
Startford
Tay Pilletin
Pio Daks
Soent Palice
Heanses Iron Martford
Democrats Sound G O P Whips On Treaty Sentiment
Democratic and Republican senators clashed over ratifying the peace treaty with reservations. President Wilson and the foreign relations committee planned unprecedented access to details next Tuesday at the White House. The administration maintained support for unreserved ratification, while seven Republican senators pressed a reservation plan expanding executive and congressional controls.
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Washington
Wilson
Foreign Relations Committee
White Iron
Hitchcock Lees
Hughcock
White House
Senate
Lodge
League Council
Congress
White Hous
Committee
Witchtock
Hungarian cabinet falls new one formed
London dispatch reports the Hungarian cabinet has fallen and a new, more conservative administration has been formed, according to the Budapestre correspondent of the Bertin Vossische Zeitung.
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London
Bertin
Lovassy
Bertin Vossische
Food Hoarding Forces Aid for Seizure Effort
Government actions to curb high prices continue as Attorney General Palmer orders Ohio district attorneys to assist Governor Cox in seizing large stocks of meat butter and eggs held in storage. Detroit authorities file libels in three cases and seize over 10 million eggs and 200 thousand pounds of butter.
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Palmer
Cox
Detroit
Washington
Ohio
Cleveland
Chicago
Dess
Department of Justice
Bureau of Markets
Ames
Aimes
Cole Sees
Jovases
Darffeld
al Acred ToOd Department
New York Faces Strike On Subway Over Fares
New York city braces for a possible subway and elevated strike by Interborough Rapid Transit motor men over a proposed 50 percent wage increase. Mayor Hylan accuses company officials of collusion to push higher fares as subpoenas widen the probe into railway management.
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New York
New York City
Pasta Traction
Brooklyn
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Minatores
Emis
Hylan
Hykun
Todi
Interborough
New
Chuinicipal
Polics Department
Che Ovine Puny
Swann Gany
Wistehet Aconnes
Frank Hedlex
Gener Manger
Taverborough
New York Railways Company
Fissure
Threas
New York Railways
Fini Pboyes Ssh
Orsi Aregian
Interbopoush
Lawmakers urged to catch strike disease and quit
A garbled report laments lawmakers urged to catch a strike disease and quit. It references debates in Congress, labor complaints, and political tension amid unclear names, dates, and places due to damaged OCR text.
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