Mortgage Ties in Bridgeport Ice Plant Controversy
The piece questions how the ice monopoly used mortgages to foreclose and control Bridgeport and Meriden ice interests. It asks when the city’s mortgages were acquired and foreclosed to halt an ice plant, noting Mayor Wilson’s 60 cent ice promise amid critical publicity and seeking the full story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkshire Ice Company
Dexter Bishop
New Haven
Bishop
Meriden Ice
Bridge
Bridgeport
Miyor Wilson
Walter
Wilson
Ice
Walker
Meriden
City of Bridgeport
Mr. Bishop
A Line of Cheer and the Saxes of Learning
A fragmented excerpt discusses the danger of overreaching knowledge. It contrasts little knowledge with the wisdom of sages and warns against pretension in schools and college.
Breakfast Table musings mix humor with civic worry
A jumble of diary style lines reflects cafe talk on July and politics, penance, and “wet” laws. The piece riffs on aldermen, traffic, spring fever, fashion, and public life with wit and casual observations.
Boy Scouts Offer Chance for Adult Help Across Nation
The article urges men to join the Boy Scouts of America as Associate Members during June 8 14. It argues Boy Scouts shape boys into clean honest loyal neighbors and asks readers to donate two dollars or more to support the movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scouts of America
Tfme
Boy Scout
Man
Boy Scout Movement
Europe’s Recovery Hopes Amid Peace Prognosis
Frank A. Vanderlip warns of a long slump for Europe while Herbert Hoover foresees rapid recovery once peace arrives. Both stress food and work as keys, Germany eager to rebuild, and credit aiding purchases. Optimism prevails that resilience will restore Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank A. Vanderlip
Europe
Herbert Hoover
Mr. Vanderlip
Mr. Hoover
Germany
Rotund
Troover
Taft and Wilson Should Rally For League Treaty
The Washington Star urges President Wilson and former President Taft to campaign together in support of the treaty of peace and the league of nations. It argues a joint stump speech would attract attention from a nonpartisan stance and clarify the aims and meanings of the proposed pact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Star
Wilson
Taft
League of Nations
Bridgeport Forty Years Ago Highlights and Local Notices
Summer visitors arrive from New York as Seaside Park hosts a W. & W. band concert. Knights of Pythias prepare for Bridgeport and Naugatuck Valley lodge picnic. James A. Wilson sues Theodore Hawley for 500 dollars for professional services. case discussed in Denbury court. Notable items include church events, a yellow hornet remark, Hayes presidency opinions, strawberry gift from Henry Gould, Black Rock Church reopening, Masonic Veteran Association plans in New Haven, trench accident on Main Street, local snake reports, Bridgeport Rifle Club results, upcoming scent of a singers festival, and a court case against Mary Allen in City court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Wilson
Newtown
Theodore Hawley
Naugatuck
Court of Common Pleas
Denbury
Budget Bill Promises Tight Government Spending
Washington June 14 The proposed national budget system would centralize budgeting and auditing under a presidential office. It would require departments to report powers duties finances and operations to the President and create a central accounting department led by a comptroller general to oversee all expenditures and eliminate pork barrel practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Uncle Sam
Good
House Appropriations Committee
Jackson
Department of Aquculture
Department of the Interior
Favern
Tuin
Berg
Pert
Bureau of the Budget
Comptroller General of
United States
Accounting Department
Senate
Joint
Capitol
Stratford Mitford Bridge Bid Award and Plan Details
State Highway Commissioner J Bennett awards the Stratford Mitford Bridge contract to JF Stuart Sons of Newtonville Mass for 925000. The 340 by 65 foot structure will include a 150 foot draw and double trolley tracks with reinforced concrete foundations. Open in 1823, the project aims to employ skilled workers and feature a sheet asphalt roadway and autoist comfort station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Bennett
Stratford-Mitford
Housatonic River
JF Stuart ɢ Sons
Newtonville
Mass
Snare Greist Company
New York City
Arthur McMullen Co
Water Ring
Hartford
Connecticut
State Highway Department
J. A. L. Wadell
New York
Bennett
Majority Socialists Protest Peace Terms In Berlin
At a Berlin convention the majority socialist party denounced the peace of violence as incompatible with President Wilsons fourteen points. They urged international socialists to protest the terms, demand the German republics admission to the League of Nations, and call for a relentless investigation of those responsible for the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weimar
Associated Press
Germany
Socialist
Wison
German Republic
League of Nations
Daylight Saving Law Repeal Bill Reported In Senate
The Senate Agricultural Committee favorably reports a repeal bill with a rider to take effect next October. Amendments include requiring net weight on meat product wrappers to curb overcharging and save consumers about a cent per two pounds of ham and a half cent on other meats. KEHOE HOME PLUNDERED BY SNEAK THIEVES. Intruders used a skeleton key to enter Ambrose Kehoe’s residence at 716 Housatonic Ave and steal War Savings stamps valued at $55 Thursday night.
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Washington
Senate Agricultural Committee
Grenna
Kehoe
Ambrose Kehoe
Housatonic Avenue
June Yearning and Parliamentary Ponderings Echo in Verse
A fragmented June themed poem laments the beauty of the season and the urge to write, while garbled notes recount the ADCTOpriations committee’s cautious approach to public expenses. It references Ancla Joe Cannon and a Senate confrontation, contrasting poetry with political realities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thori
House of Representaties
Ancla Joe
Cannon
Cicairman
Clos
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Ice Trust
Ness
John Kendrick
Tyro
Ork
Slaven
The
Ine
Andens
Vanderlip and Hoover
Taft and Wilson
Gil Nichols
Alege Smiths
Eeheg
Perceys
Knights of Pythias
Naugatuck Valley
Rose
Universalist Church
Union Temperance
Hayes
Pele
Henry Gould
Greenfield Hall
Standard
Gould
Black Rock Congregational
Masonic Veteran Association of
Street Department
Main St
Mulloy's Lane
Jerry Toomey
Batoneure
Warkiner
Wesley
Jie
Waldo
Bridgeport Rifle Club
Harry Nichols
Charles EB. Beers
Marsh
Rodney Bassett
Diz Harcy Nichols
D. LE. Marsh
TI S Bassett
Unita
John Gloloher
Evs
Cermania Society
Hirst
John Hummet
Jacob Haver
John Schoewalter
J. Stewart Sumner
Samuel Spielman
Ulych Sellman
Wendel Baum
John Partenheim
Mritz Aller
John Schneider
William Rennicke
T. Wendrath
John Stammel
N Wagner
Weltz Ledéerhous
Angus
Heminger
Secon Bass
Jacob Held
Gael Brunicke
Ghrzs
Schulthers
John Anspach
Christ Rennicke
Coeom
Mary Allen
Tun
Trumbull
Iron Ledge
Ombwl
New York and
Albany
Noy
Uielce la Good
Chase
Fat Tare
Diba
Gieorgt Clark
Royal
Dana Clark
Punersl
Frederic J. Haskin
Harbor Park
Ward
Vornar of
Pembroke
Tanec Ateeety
Ansonia
State Highway Commissioner
Stratford
Berlin
Legislative
Walt Mason
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