Bridgeport Forming Ice Company to Build Plant
Bridgeport prepares for an ice company with 825,000 capital stock, aiming to raise 500,000 and produce at least 200 tons daily. Frank Ballard filed incorporation papers, planning a site near rail and dock facilities and a 50-cent per hundredweight ice price, plus coal handling facilities. The venture, tied to cutting coal costs and avoiding local ice firms, expects a distribution system and cheaper law-price ice.
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Bridgeport
People's Ice Co
Frank Ballard
Tates
Ballard
Jewas
Aleady
Madrid Food Riots Leave Ten Dead and Sixteen Hurt
In Madrid on April 28 protests over the high cost of living turned violent. Gendarmes clashed with civilians as authorities raised prices by about 26 percent. The unrest continued into the night with street battles and gunfire.
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Madrid
Tarancon
Indarmes
Nubli
Net Patd Circulation Comparison Telegram 1918
Net Postal circulation figures show Telegram 1918 15 830 OST and March 1918 23 794 for Telegram Post 89 684. Combine net ratio 1919 over 1918 yields 16 2160 28 992 45 308 5 678. Sunday Post March 1918 10 678 and Sunday Post February 1419 13 190.
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Sunday Post
Mar
Unday Post
Fed
Two Victory Loan Planes Suffer Second Mishaps
Two Curtis Four planes from Mineola N Y linked to Victory Loan work endured new faults. One plane arrived with repair parts then nose dived in soft ground injuring Tepe Pellar. The other, damaged earlier, hit a tree and landed in a ditch near Ash Creek, breaking a prop and ice wings. Repair crews expected today to fix both machines.
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Fairtioll
Mineola
L. I
Tepe Pellar
Virgil Ringo
Ash Creek
Curtis
Victory Loan Committee
Assembly Passes Education Bill in Hartford Debates
Hartford May 2 Special Education and Americanization debates as the General Assembly passes a bill to reorganize the state board of education. The House concurs with the Senate on the plan to rename and modernize the board, aiming to retire current members Cheney of Manchester and Edward. The vote signals a shift to younger leadership and potential Americanization links.
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House
Senate
State Board of Education
Hartford
Motien
Cheney of
Manchester
Edward
Will Cooperate In Developing A Happier City
Bridgeport Community Service commission organized in the Common Council chamber with Mayor Wilson, I W Behrens Jr, Henry A Bishop, and others. Frederic K Brown elected executive secretary. plan calls for neighborhood development, health cooperation, home economics outreach, and a community music and social recreation program to stimulate progress. The group aims to develop parks, dances, street play, and multiple youth and church collaborations with a focus on improving living conditions and social life.
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I Wight
Bridgeport Community Service Commission
Common Council
Chal
Albert E. Lavery
Ipers
Dent
Wilson
I. W. Behrens
Jr Henry A. Bishop
H. Callahan
William H. Day
George M.mes
Elmer H. Havens
F. I. von Wettberg
Wso
Frederie K. Brown
Mr. Brown
Elty Wice
Board of Recreation
Board of Health
Hooa
Alvin ©. Bruel
Church Community Committee
F. ©. Stimson
Commission On Living Conditions of the
Deparment of Labor
Ove
Victory Loan lag persists with near four million goal
Bridgeport residents showed weak individual subscriptions as the Victory Loan nears four million dollars. The Treasury urged wider bond dilution echoing Toledo’s oversubscribed success. Boosts came from Max Buechley and O W Brothswell, plus Bullard Machine Tool and People's Savings Bank, while seven planes tour Seaside Park before the noon and 4 pm demonstrations.
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Treasury Department
Toledo
Ohio
Bridgeport
Ordnance Department
Cypra
David Lent
Poli
Ani
Wee Moen
Sdmund Wolfe
First National Bank
New
Tinglan
Seaside Park
Dilon
Mercantile Committee
Max Buechley
O. W. Brothswell
Bullard Machine Ool Company
People's Savings Bank
Hka
de Py
Ag Fallow Reheller & Co
Ian Nic
Wallard Machine Great Co
Coe Dupley Mfc
Columbia Graph
Mos. Co
West End
Hawthorne Mfg
Mia
Curtis & Curtis Mfg. Co
Brutal Slayer Victim May Be Long Island City Girl
A body found near New Canaan may be Miss Ethel Woolsey of Long Island City. Police and the Bureau of Missing Persons pursue a link to a month old disappearance. The victim is described as a young woman, about five feet four inches, with brown hair and brown eyes. Detectives expect a swift resolution as they weigh three young men and an automobile in the case.
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New Canaan
Ethel Woolsey
Long Island City
Long Island
New Canaa
Bureau of Missing Persons
New York City
Girk
Rice
Lindley Steel
Thomas B. Taylor Co
New York
Woolsey l
Mirs
Jarvis Wood
Spring Held Avenue
Mysterians
Ea Sawmill
Telephone firm denies discrimination in hiring practices
A Connecticut telephone company official, Vice-president Harry Ch Knight, told a New Haven delegation that the firm has never discriminated against any employe and aims to promote efficiency and good relations with workers. He declined knowledge of Miss Ethel Knaole seeking reinstatement, noting she resigned rather than face examinations and may be rehired under prior company order. The representatives then left to Hartford and other cities to continue union-strengthening efforts.
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New England Telephone Company
Harry Ch. Knight
New Haven
Julia O'Connor
Ullivan
Miss
Ofice
Tim City
Connecticut
Telephone Operators Union
Hartfore
Night Sai Unighe
Ethel Kroaele
Bridgeport
Kinefe
Laboroeers
Knight
Costa Rican Exiles Clash With Frontier Guards on Nicaragua Border
Costa Rican exiles engaged frontier guards on the Caribbean southern shore near Nicaragua. Reports say the guards retired after the fight, with further revolts expected along the Costa Rica Panama border. A small schooner carrying revolutionists capsized near Laka, Nicaragua. all aboard were rescued. The incident follows a gathering of Costa Rican opponents near San Juan Del Bar and political changes under General Tinves, who leads a government recognized by the United States amid recent upheavals.
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San Juan
del Sur
Nicaragua
Coste Tire
Panama
Rio Frio
Costa Ttican
Costa Ftican
San Juan del Bar
Costa Fticans
Nicaragna
Fosta Nic
Cieneral Frederica Tinves
Gonzales
Stove
Stites
Vanguard of U S Ocean Fliers Opens Transatlantic Feat
The United States navy joins the race for transatlantic flight honors as the Aronslaak lands near Trepansey Bay with the crew from the naval air station aboard. Early arrival of American air data crafts follows rival plans by Australian and British entrants awaiting favorable weather.
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Tomns
United States Navy
Attac
Aroosted
T. Rayndan
NAB Bomb Suspects Near Philadelphia
Three foreigners were detained near Philadelphia amid bomb scare suspicions. They claimed innocence and said they traveled from Coatesville to inspect a local site. Authorities held them for examination as investigators pursue leads.
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Philadelphia
Four year old boy injured by automobile in Lang Haul area
A four year old boy was struck by a car driven by Ciemge La Mare of Lang Haul yesterday near home. He suffered a skull fracture and was treated at an emergency hospital before being moved to St Vincent's hospital for further care.
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Irana Masai Rawied
Klveek
Sionek
Ciemge la Mare
Lang Haul
Ean- Aisiane
St. Vincent's Hospital
Declaration of Irish Independence Reaches New York
New York May 2 Supreme Court Cohalan received Jordan T O Kelly the Irish republic representative in Paris with a copy of the Declaration for independence adopted by the Irish republic parliament. The text proclaims complete independence and asserts the Irish parliament is the sole authority to legislate for Ireland. It calls for recognition by free nations and vows to pursue independence to ensure peace and justice.
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New York
Can Cohalan
Jordam T. O'Kelly
Paris
Ireland
Dublin
Irish Republican Army
Trish
May Day riot in Madrid clashes injure police and crowd
May Day demonstration in Madrid turned violent with clashes in front of the Bank of Spain this afternoon. About 29 police and several demonstrators sustained injuries amid the melee.
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Madrid
Noliea
Poanla
Veral
Bank of Spain
President Wilson Says Peace Treaty Ready for Germans
President Wilson told visiting House Military Affairs Committee members that the peace treaty would be handed to German delegates at Versailles on Monday and that he hopes to return to America around June 1. The Big Three pressed final details as German and inter allied finance delegates met at Versailles to discuss the Kiel canal and other terms.
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Paris
Wilson
Versailles
America
House
Military Affairs Committee
Inter-Allied Finance Commission
Thomas W. Lamont
Henry P. Davidson
Council of Three Red
Kiel Canal
Germany
Thu
Council of Three
Kian Jipanese
Belgium
Italy
Jaly
Orlando
Tome
Europe
Ulowman
Fran
Toumania
Moscow
Bessarabia
Alfonso Ne
Cesar
London
Redding Feels Earthquake Shock and Lassen Activity
Redding California reports an earthquake lasting about fifteen seconds felt locally and in Anderson. No damage or disturbance at Mount Lassen beyond an eruption last night, the 147th since renewed activity began.
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Redding
California
Anderson
Calif
Mount Lassen
Suspected radicals linked to mail bombs in nationwide plot
New York May 2 Agents from the justice department inspectors York detectives under Inspector Faurot continued the hunt for anarchists who placed more than a score of dynamite bombs in the mails aimed at prominent figures nationwide. No arrests yet though several radicals are under suspicion. Bombs used ordinary dynamite soaked in nitro glycerine and wired with mercury caps.
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New York
Department of Justice
York
Faurot
H. PD. Trounee
Bureau of Mines
Wington
Iambhs
Uci the
Phi
Sion
Ther
Port and Juvenile Court Bills Held Up By Senator De Laney
Bridgeport port bill was ready in the Senate but Senator De Laney sought delay after saying neither he nor Bridgeport's City Council had seen the new bill He wished to confer with the council and cited opposition to the original bill The delay aimed to examine potential changes and possible withdrawal of opposition amid political and religious tensions unclear outcome still in doubt
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de Laney
Hantfard
Bridgepot
Senate
Wmon Council
Tor Ali
Sener Cherk
Guarnal
Soumiar
Ig i
Tartlett
Clack
Leanne
Cities and Boroughs
Iwi
Belgium Expresses Unease Over Postwar Peace Terms
Belgium voices dissatisfaction with the peace awards. The preliminaries leave most territorial claims unresolved except a small area around Aachen, with Malmedy and surrounding towns likely to revert to Belgium on the Scheldt flank. An immediate financial offset of 500 million is noted as part of allied repayment efforts.
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Puess
Belgium
Ain
Rhen'sh Serta
Vs da Chapelle
Waren
Welleon Malmedy
Dheriory
Scheldt
Miratnich
Tinbourg
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Glass
H. C. Knight
Ment
Costa Rica
Vanguard OF
U. S. Ocean
Tur
Hinme
Thilade Pita
Stele Sonstor
Larry Myre
Westchester
Mary Bon
Chey Avere
Weerschester
Cautesville
Big Hosses
Hey
Coatesville
Mulg
Srniator Tyay Stor
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Financial Commission
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