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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1919
Page
16
A historic auction listing notes a 334 ton chassis with new tires and a 2 ton Packard platform truck in good condition priced at 3100. It mentions a 1928 Packard worm drive 344 ton truck at 2400, a 1915 Sauer 2nd dump body hydraulic hoist in excellent condition, and a 1936 Mack 2 ton chain drive in excellent condition priced at 850.
Describes parcel at 73xide with two family house on lot that could be remodeled. Clear 5 foot frontage left for other building. Contact Barnum at phone f3T 4. Tjun22.
DIED KUBPR In this era June 20 1478 Anna Kubek of 38 Barnum terrace Stratford friends invited to attend funeral from her residence on Maday June 8 at 8 50 am and from L Johns Th church at Hekedae Intermient at St Michagl s cemetery MORES YWSE In Stratford Conn June 22 1919 Adelaide widow of the late Eugene Mote pose Friends invited to attend funeral at her residence No 1086 Stratford avenue Stratford on Tuesday June 24 at 3 oclock pm interment Union cemetery Automobile procession BAY In this era June 23 1918 aged 238 years bg invited to attend one funeral at SL Geoge s church on Seechwool avenue on Tuesds June 34 at am Burial im Gardner Mass Till VINCENT T NOLAN Anniversary high mass of vedui ail be celebrated in St Patrick church Monday morning at T d o c for the late Vincent T Nelan Relatives and trends invited to attend syen2a Lt
Atlantic City June convention of the American Federation of Labor reelects Samuel Gompers and endorses a conservative program for 1918 despite some dissent. Goals include opposing injunctions against workers, resisting calls for a labor party, and resisting broader political measures while planning continued unemployment relief and shipping programs. Delegates to international bodies named. next convention location undecided. 22,509,000 Rockefeller aid cited for war work.
Edward N Hurley announced the start of government ship sales in New York with offices at the Custom House. John E Barber and others will handle the campaign as the board seeks to sell 2000 ships, mostly oil burners, to finance and reestablish an American merchant fleet.
The Lordship Pavilion hosted a lively fox trot night with a five dollar prize. Judges crowned Ruth Pyran and Jennie Gold as the best dancers amid crowd enthusiasm and Malone's eight piece orchestra delivering clever jazz rhythm. House and Donnelly plan a gentlemans prize fox trot event Wednesday to repeat the success.
Irvinton New Jersey July 22 The Edison family says Thomas A Edison avoids hearing aid work because his deafness sharpens focus His son Charles says distraction from sound would hinder invention Progress reported on a recent Florida return. a confidential aide notes a notable invention of considerable importance. A Philadelphia will bequeaths 1 000 000 dollars to improve government administration.
A district grand jury may investigate New York vice squad arrests of women who spoke with two army officers on Broadway. The women, sisters from a respected uptown family, were jailed after being charged with disorderly conduct. They spent a night in a station house and had bail set at 500 dollars each before a former state governor intervened.
The article notes Frederick Colling authorized publication of a statement praising President Wilson’s Belgium visit. It argues Belgium now requires raw materials machinery and financial cooperation, with 40,000 workers in Malines idle for lack of supplies as reconstruction accelerates post armistice.
Rabbi Samuel Yalow receives call from Syracuse Jewish community and preaches farewell in Ansionia Congregation B Nai Israel. He led local religious and communal efforts, guiding societies and organizations as Judaism thrived during his two year tenure.
Paris June 22 General Secretary Carter of the YMCA presented Pershing Stadium to the American army on behalf of the American Expeditionary Force and then handed it to the French people. General Pershing noted today marks the second anniversary of the first American combat troops arriving in France.
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