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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1919
Page
2
Riot erupted in the West End with police clashing with demonstrators. the confrontation continues as officers attempt to disperse crowds. Eyewitness accounts describe volleys of tear gas and baton charges, with no immediate reports of injuries or arrests.
A crowd gathered near a gozp box crater as tension rose with bottles stones and sticks. Police deployed beyond a hundred officers to clear districts while firemen were injured and supervisors clashed with sergeants over arrests amid a tense, unresolved confrontation.
A Bridgeport advertisement touts CINOT as a remedy for digestion and headaches. Leig Wagner endorses CINOT after nervous indigestion and fatigue, saying two bottles restored rest. The CINOT man promotes the product at Hartigan Drug Store on Fairfield Avenue.
A riot leads to the arrest of Adin Fichel of 408 Boston Avenue after questioning by Captain O Connell and Superintendent Redgate. He is charged with breach of the peace. Officers also arrest three alleged participants in the riot at Anthony Street and Hanson Avenue, including Mary Dombar and Gd A Dombar.
Speech argues against broad wage hikes to control living costs amid postwar reconstruction. It stresses mobilizing brain and conscience, expanding production and transport, and managing railways to prevent profiteering while urging cooperation from railway employees and government to avoid permanent higher living costs.
Prank 1. Tanten Wrask de Bunten died Saturday in Middle town Mynera service to be held this afternoon at Manley Wilmot funeral parlor Layfayette street a brother will officiate burial in Lakeview cemetery Mrs Mary Wish after illness Mary Walsh wife of Edward Walsh died Sunday at daughter Mrs Pronk Mafuer Usain avenue She was a communicant of St Marys Church for years
Boston reports that members of the Policemen's Union at two meetings voted to extend sympathy and best wishes to officers facing charges for violating a department rule by joining the organization. Commissioner Edwin A. Curtis will preside over the trial, with no strike talk, while captains canvass patrolmen to gauge attitudes.
In Naugatuck Connecticut a mass meeting of United States Flubber Company plant strikers announced a strike committee will confer with company officials tomorrow. The meeting approved a letter reiterating demands for a 20 percent wage increase and featured speakers C L Baine and G Martin Dale from Boston of the Hoot and Shoe Workers International Union.
Hartford August 26 The Plainville Camp Grounds shut to the public by state health commissioner Dr John T Hlack after 17 typhoid cases linked to the site. Authorities, including two state health officers and two physicians, investigated conditions at Plainville. Funeral notices for Che and Colonel Richard FitzGibbons list services and burial details.
The Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce forms a committee to save the Columbia Graphophone company as word spreads of factory closures and rising unemployment. A proposed reopening plan would require chamber mediation, with strikers willing to join forces if terms are presented through the chamber.
The Bridgeport weather report lists generally fair conditions for New England on Tuesday and Wednesday with little temperature change. Observations from New Haven show clear skies in many cities, with a mix of cloudy readings in Atlantic City and Nantucket and several locations reporting clear weather. The daily almanac notes sunrise and sunset times and the moon phase for the Bridgeport vicinity.
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