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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1919
Page
10
A fragmentary column mixes social commentary, gossip, and satire about prohibition, saloons, ice shortages, and everyday habits. It muses on flights of fancy, news items like a munition dump, and reflections on bicycles, phones, and wages, with scattered literary lines.
The Remington Arms plant in Bridgeport is transferred to a real estate broker, prompting talk of turning the site into a Bush Terminal style complex. The plan envisions housing multiple small industries under one roof with shared power, shipping, and storage, stabilizing employment and attracting new Bridgeport industries. The Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce is urged to pursue this incubator model to replicate the city’s diversified economy.
A plea to plant more fruit trees rather than cut them down to curb friendly summers with spirited boys. The piece argues kids protect fruit at stake and urges homeowners to welcome apples pears cherries and peaches in every yard for mutual benefit.
A New York gathering of about six hundred sympathizers called for Germany to return and spread its kultur in America through propaganda. The article notes this figure among six million with friendly ties to Germany in 1914, underscoring that the pro German sentiment has shrunk and Germany of 1914 is dead.
A reflection on domestic reform and justice as Washington confronts racial unrest amid global concerns. The piece argues Americans have grown complacent, notes a long-standing lynching record, and links the local black riot to broader international issues, urging humility and action at home.
The piece notes 1915 era strikes for higher pay and a 48 hour week, granted due to war orders. It warns against volatile rhetoric and rapid social unrest, pointing to the rising cost of living as the underlying issue that statesmen should study.
Briggs presents a fragmentary, archaic domestic column voice about a baby’s reactions and a father's attitudes. Reading tone mixes playful infant mischief with parental fatigue, noting the child’s remarks and the father’s indulgent responses amid noisy, affectionate routines.
Bridgeport notes from 1878 cover weather, travel, and local happenings. Major Mallory and family in Paris, blue fish and whitefish seen in numbers, Housatonic freight brings live stock, tax collector at duty, Olivet Sunday School plans excursion, Canal and rail activity, Shelter Island tickets selling fast, New Haven steamship Norman Monech cargo valued at over a million, Mithia lodge leases Sanford’s building, a belated excursionist eats a sandwich at Laura, Dick’s Hotel popular, Hartford roads commit to half fare for soldiers, funeral of Edward Connelly, Wheeler and Wilson excursions to Brighton Beach, Norwalk politics stirred by Woodward, state constitution amendments voting prep, Sanford buggy accident, Herman Willmuth fined for assault, dog law enforcement, Laura excursion with 700 aboard, George Hotel arrivals, city council brisk but uneventful.
A July 28 article outlines Glen Plumb s plan for US railroads: government buys lines for 12 billion financed by bonds, profits split between government and workers, with a 15 member board and a focus on efficiency. It argues centralized operation could cut rates, while critics fear rate increases and political distortions.
Bridgeport youth Anthony Wallace, of 16 Jew land place, earned the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism during the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Serving with Company E, Infantry, he captured German troops and machine guns in Cune and later cleared a ruined church of threats, including a sniper, in successive actions across October 14 and the following day.
July 28 Waterbury saloons will be converted into community centers offering coffee drinks and sandwiches. Martin J. Hickey, president of the Waterbury Retail Liquor Dealers Association, announced plans after a meeting with the community service commission to secure endorsement for the initiative.
In a hearing before Bankruptcy Referee John W. Banks, a continuance was set to list all creditors of the Gross handler and Miner shoe merchants of 1827 Stratford Avenue. The firm, forced into bankruptcy after about 5000 dollars worth of shoes and supplies were stolen last May, with no recovery, faced a heavy creditor involuntary petition.
San Salvador reports a revolutionary movement led by General Lopez Gutierrez has broken out in Honduras with proclamations in Pari department and reports of clashes on the Nicaraguan frontier. Separately, several men appeared for enlistment at a U S navy recruiting station, listing Richard J Sinclais and others from New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York.
Walt Mason laments humor used to ease grief while critiquing society and railroads. The poem contrasts laughing at others with facing one’s own woes, then shifts to commentary on railroad finances and wartime policy, mentioning James J. Will, the Railroad Administration, and broader economic plans, including British plinths and Italian utilities.
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