Advertisement and agency contact details fragment
Fragment lists foreign advertising representative lines and addresses including Ju lus Mathews Special Agency with offices in Boston New York Chicago and Hartford. Mentions Audit Bureau of Circulation and Associated Press rights to news dispatches.
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Julus Mathews
Beacon Street
Boston
Mass
Madison Avenue
New York
Hartford
Chicago
Eee
Audit Bureau of
Associated | Press
Associated Press
A Line of Cheer to Right the World
A poem urging persistence to lift spirits and build a better tomorrow. The speaker rejects despair, vowing to work hard to restore hope and right the world’s course through effort and effort alone.
June Mirth and Mayhem Spin Through Breakfast Table
A collage of headlines and wry observations from a breakfast-page column. Notes on shortages, politics, Prohibition, jazz, and marriage capture a 1920s mood with quips about Burleson, Gompers, and returning doughboys.
Charity Society Appeals for Furniture to Aid Needy Families
The Charity Organization Society in the Connecticut Bank building seeks furniture and clothing to help families in hardship. Readers are urged to survey attics for usable items and report them to assist those facing sickness unemployment or housing needs.
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Charity Organization Society
Connecticut Bank
New England Fruit War With Western Markets
A critique of New England fruit producers facing competition from California pears and Oregon apples sold locally at five to ten cents. The piece argues for cooperative advertising and home-grown produce to prevent waste, urging locals to support Connecticut Bartletts Clapps Favorites Baldwin apples. It warns of crop waste if markets remain dominated by western fruit.
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New England
California
Oregon
Washington
America
Connecticut
Pacific Coast
Anglo Saxon Supremacy and Naval Air Flight Resilience
The piece argues that Britain and other English speaking nations show renewed strength after war as they pursue transatlantic seaplane and nonstop airflight feats led by Read Hawker and Alcock. It praises recuperative power, wartime grit, and liberty as the enduring basis for peace era progress despite the war’s enormous costs.
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Navy
Read
Hawker
Alcock
Germany
Britain
France
South America
Africa
Fourth of July plans and local events in Bridgeport
Bridgeport notes from June 19 1874 report preparations for a grand athletic picnic at Pembroke Grove with games and a baseball challenge against Waterbury. Also covered are a Brugport Opera House chair contract, a twenty six hour walk contest in Waterbury, Coney Island excursions, church picnics, a Long Branch trip, a missing infant case, railway mishaps, local court matters and street repair complaints.
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Pembroke Grove
Lumber Boom Brings Price Rise and Policy Debate
Washington dispatch notes lumber prices climbing with expectant further increases. Forest Service Chief Graves cites lack of a national timber policy, private ownership issues, exhausted stands, and high transport costs as key causes. Proposals call for government oversight of privately owned timberlands, tax relief, and conservation to stabilize industry and aid workers.
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United States Forest Service
Henry
Graves
Congress
Forest Service
Bucy
America
New England
Obsolete Treaty Revealed As Outdated Record
The article notes that a treaty printed in the Congressional Record is already out of date by 25 000 words of new matter. It explains why peace officials withheld full publication and how the May summary conveyed only the essential trend. It discusses Senate theatrics and the lack of major surprises as Germany’s possible signing status loomed.
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Congress
Germany
Senate
Root Defends Treaty Leak Printing in Congressional Record
Root, testifying on the treaty leak, tells Senator Brandegee that printing in the Congressional Record caused no damage unless it distracts the Senate from pressing questions. He says big bills and important issues loom, while Republicans focus on a partisan matter.
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Root
Brandegee
Senate
Yankees Ready to Advance on Teuton
Marshal Foch ordered concentration of troops in the occupied zone to advance if Germany rejects peace terms. General Hunter Liggett reported Coblenz area forces ready to move at a moment’s notice after bridgehead inspection. Soldier leaves were suspended until the fate of the peace terms is known.
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Cublenz
Germany
Marshal Foch
Hunter Liggets
Coblenz
Roune
Short Change Game Leads to Arrest
Stamford reports a man who gave the name John Veneting aged 42 from Cincinnati was jailed at the First National Bank on charges of attempting to defraud with the short change scheme. The Greenwich Trust Co and Stamford Savings Bank losses were noted and a female participant was captured after a chase from Greenwich to Darien where she had sought to exchange $500 in small bills for twenties and gold.
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Stamford
John Veneting
Cincinnati
First National Bank
Greenwich Trust Co
Stamford Savings Bank
Greenwich
Darien
1700 Shoe Workers to Cut Down Week's Hours
Haverhill Massachusetts June 18 seventeen hundred employees affiliated with the Shoe Workers Protective Union including lasters stock fitters rewelers and wood heel makers announce they will work 45 instead of 48 hours a week. Five hundred setters seeking a 44 hour week were refused. Factories with arbitration contracts remain in operation and about a score of shops have temporary agreements pending a final settlement.
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Haverhill
Mass
Border Raid Incident Closed Says Aguilar
Washington dispatch reports General Aguilar, Carranza's confidential ambassador, stating the Mexican government considers the crossing of American troops into Mexican territory as a closed incident at this time. The June 18 statement framed the matter as resolved without further escalation.
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Washington
Aguilar
Carranza
United States
Released Hun Prisoners Fight Guard at Weimar Castle
Reports say fifty Soviet and Communist prisoners released from Weimar fall attacked a castle housing government members shortly after midnight. A lone guard with a machine gun repelled the mob, preserving control of the government site.
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Whimar
Weimar
Roses In June Inspire Nostalgic Reverie And Industry Doubts
The poem extols June roses and their scent from Tigeton to Takoma, recalling childhood gardens and memories. It also shifts to economic concerns about wood products, noting rising costs and the tension between conservation and expansion for long term productivity.
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Tigeton
Takoma
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