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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1919
Page
22
An old advertising style promo urges a “good old-fashioned” altered and temperance tonic made from wild roots and barks to restore energy, strengthen the system, and calm digestion during winter or spring fatigue. It claims to support the liver and nerves to relieve weakness and pallor.
Groundbreaking at Hallam street marks expansion by the Home Brewing Company. The new facility will cost about 290000, with Delavergne installing machinery to support production of ice at an estimated daily capacity of 50 tons. Officials discuss pricing but refuse to disclose the selling price.
Southern Metal Trades association meeting at New Orleans on May 7 adopted a resolution accusing the U S Employment Service of government misuse. The measure claims the service is dominated by labor union agents and operated to further union interests, representing less than 3 percent of the population and harming other interests.
Michael Accordino of Bridgeport sues Amelia Antignani in Common Pleas court claiming she accepted his marriage proposal on December 20 but now refuses to marry. He seeks return of gifts valued at about $1,000, saying their loss causes him anguish.
Washington May T he Shipping Board announces that future business will be transacted in gross tons instead of deadweight tons aligning with world practice. Chairman Hurley states the old deadweight capacity measure adopted at organization will be abandoned today.
Cleveland May 7 Miss Anna Jarvis founder of the National Mothers Day Association today sent the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America the following message read at the morning session Announce mothers day next Sunday May 11 No flowers to be dyed Rich people to buy Victory bonds and thrift stamps instead.
Reports from Copenhagen dated May 7 say Polish forces capturing Vilna shot Adolph Joffe former Bolshevik ambassador to Berlin. Joffe led the Brest Litovsk peace delegation and later served as Bolshevik ambassador to Germany. He visited Berlin last May and was expelled in January after aiding Spartacists, then returned to Russia.
Brussels reports the Belgian Senate yesterday adopted the electoral reform bill. Measures concerning reparations for year damages were also passed.
In Washington on May 7 the penny shortage grows as soda tax boosts demand. Since May 11 the mints and sub-treasuries have flooded banks with orders for millions of one cent pieces. Philadelphia and Denver mint workers are increasing output with extra shifts. two million pennies will roll out daily beginning today.
The Goliath aircraft, carrying twenty five passengers, ascended to about 16 782 feet and 6100 meters during a flight between Paris and Brussels last night. The ascent took one hour fifteen minutes and the descent twenty five minutes, Paris reports.
A fragmentary line shows a woman seeking citizenship in what appears to be a reduced or garbled OCR excerpt, offering limited context and no clear date or place. Further readable details are unavailable in the supplied text.
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