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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1919
Page
4
Washington Jymery reports an extensive cruise of the combined Atlantic and Pacific Fleet is planned for next fall as a reward for servicemen. Recruits may participate, with South America on the itinerary. No decision yet on a European stop.
Vice Admiral Sir Beatty and Marshal Sir Douglas Haig were awarded the Order of Merit by the King at Buckingham Palace. They then went to the Guildhall to receive the freedom of the city and were presented with jeweled gold swords.
Counsel for J Moss Ives receiver for the Danbury and Bethel street railway filed a substitute complaint against John T King to compel payment of 199.60 for stock subscriptions to Bridgeport and Danbury Street Railway never paid. The new suit details the 1907 incorporation, 1908 subscription of 1996 shares at 100 each, merger in 1914, and dissolution of the Bridgeport and Danbury company. Damages are alleged at 205000.
Washington June 12 Navy officers said the House naval affairs committee trimming the aviation appropriation from 45 million to 15 million threatens the end of extensive experiments in rigid and non rigid lighter than air flying machines. Secretary Daniels urged the Senate to restore funding to pursue lessons from NC-4 and to continue Zeppelin type aircraft research for naval aviation leadership.
Government inspectors were dispatched across the Kansas wheat belt today after an alarm that I. W. W. agitators had begun activity against the harvest. Five agitators were detained, one released, and authorities say C. Smith, arrested at Great Bend, Kaw, is a traveling agitator using an assumed name.
Worcester Mass June 12 Employes of the Worcester Gas Light Co who had been on strike agreed to submit their demands to arbitration and return to work. Gas in tanks was exhausted by ten today and valves were shut off halting supply to the city. Nearly all industries relying on gas suspended operations and about two thousand families faced cooking outages.
Washington June 12 The Senate passed a bill by Senator Jones Republican Washington to allow American shipyards to build ships for foreign accounts without prior government permits. Vice Chairman Stevens filed a minority report disagreeing with many majority recommendations, urging that none be by the board’s urgent count.
An advertisement extols Bitro-Phosphate as an inexpensive organic phosphate tonic to boost weight, strength, and nerve energy. It cites clinical gains, praises doctors, and claims hospital use, while warning it should only be used by those seeking to gain weight.
A New Jersey man credits serathol with ending his chronic stomach trouble after years of indigestion and poor meals. He describes rapid relief from acute attacks following doses, sleeping soundly afterward. The ad urges Toledo readers to obtain serathol from Hartigan Drug Stores and other first class druggists.
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