Bridgeport Geprot Standard Newspaper Note
Fragmentary OCR from a newspaper page shows publishing line ads for subscription rates and advertising offices in New York Chicago and Bridgeport with references to Metropolitan Tower and the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Includes garbled text and a stray poem line about being glad to be here.
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Bridgeport
Geport Standard
Telegram
Pose Aoa Co
Metropolitan
New York
N.Y
Absurd Scraps From The Breakfast Table Column
A garbled note of disjointed lines touches on war era topics, odd slang, and public figures. It mentions a New York arrest for grand larceny, references to cotton planters and boll weevils, President Wilson, and a pop culture thread about near beer. The piece pivots through fashion, self defense, and advice columns with fragmented phrases.
MONEX and the Moral of Money in a Moral Tale
A fragmented monologue on money, debt, lending, and government. It ponders the dual power of money to inspire happiness or sorrow, noting how banks, jail, and minting shape value. The text hints at个人 choices defining fortune and fate.
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Torrow
Population and Immigration in Early America
Statisticians note little population growth difference between eras with and without immigration. Immigration now is near-zero, and analysts predict it will not exceed emigration next year. Red Cross efforts and health improvements could add many healthy years, potentially surpassing gains from immigration or birthrate changes.
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Ellis Island
American Red Cross
Sife
Red Cross
America
Healthy growth of Hartford Times and Bridgeport Post
The Hartford Times leads Connecticut afternoon papers with a six month daily circulation of 35,092, ahead of Bridgeport Post at 32,000. Both papers show steady postwar gains from superior quality, avoiding gimmicks, with leadership by C. L. Sherman and Capt. Roland Andrews supporting continued growth.
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Hartford Times
Connecticut
Bridgeport Post
Hartford
C. L. Sherman
Capt
Roland Andrews
Times
Bridgeport
Standard Telegram
New England
Peace treaty ratified by French Chamber of Deputies
The French Chamber of Deputies ratified the peace treaty by 372 to 53 and it is expected the Senate will approve soon. The piece notes France’s vital interest in a durable peace with Germany and outlines concerns about European market stability, U.S. position, and British interests amid postwar economic and political pressures.
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Chamber of Deputies
France
Germany
Industr
Europe
Wilson
Emy
Brance
United States
Great Britain
Thera
Pete
Mike
Daniel Boone Life of a Pathfinding Frontiersman
A brief sketch notes Daniel Boone endured legal land losses in Kentucky at age 65 and Missouri during the 1803 sale of Louisiana. Congress later rewarded him with 859 acres in the west where he spent his final years, amid personal losses and distant loyalties. Kentucky remains proud of his frontier contributions.
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Daniel Boone
Kentucky
Missouri
St. Louis
Louisiana
United States
Spain
Congress
Bridgeport Forty Years Ago The Standard 1879
Bridgeport items report arrivals and trials from New York and New Haven. The steamer Norman Monarch sailed from Constantinople with arms, the Hayden murder trial opens, clubs and meetings prepare. Local events include theatre items, ornamented screens, and a bridgeport croquet match won by Bridgeport Club.
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New York
Constantinople
H. H. Hayden
Mary Stammard
New Haven
Morrow
A Short Cut to Education and the Junior High School
A 1910s discussion explains the shift from eight to twelve years of public schooling, arguing junior high schools bridge grammar and high school. It notes reduced high school dropout, new multi-teacher classrooms, and vocational options like telegraphy and domestic science, with variations city by city and rural. Preservation of citizenship aims.
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Washington
Oct
Aresioner of Education
Tre
Ainding
Marty
Mr. Smith
Agarasukha
Harry Smith
Vermont
Lowe Birds
MajYor
Itg
Educz
Tlon
Eliot
Harvard
Gines
Mrs Henry C Pack Funeral in Milford
The funeral for Mrs Henry C Pack will be held Monday afternoon at her Cherry Street home. Rev Everest Inclimever of St Peters Church will conduct the service. Interment will follow in the Milford cemetery family plot.
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The
Orphan Asylum
Lydia R. Ward
Lafayette Street
Milford
Henry C. Pack
Cherry Street
Ty Everest
St. Peters
Milford Cemetery
Glosefight in Stratford Today Promises Biggest Election Yet
Voters in Stratford head to the polls amid a heated battle for first selectman with incumbent James Lally facing challenger ABTaAM Wellington. Primaries a fortnight ago narrowed the contest, while turnout is expected to set a record as multiple races for second selectman and other town offices attract candidates including Reinhold Persson Everett Sniffen George Webb and others.
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Stratford
First Selectman
James ‘Lally
Abtaam Wellington
Lally
Wellington
Reinhold Persson
Everett “B.” Sniffen
George FR. Webb
Frank J. Abercrombie
George Bateman
Edwin M Curtis
John Graham
E.H. J. Hennessey
Helen H. Lewis
Franklin D. Rhoades
Harry Wilcoxson
Board of Finance
Walter W. Goddard
William Hy -Hart
Herbert V. Leena
Board of Rpelief
Sidney Beardsley
William Je. Blam
John C. Wooxson
Theodore R
Blackett
Edward A. Skinner
Olaf B. Unbehagen
Fred Albright
William 3. Bassett
Anthony Fellow
John H. Hinttarster
Edward Blanchester
Awihbureed
Bernard E. Sevby
John
Vwoon
Walter
Curtis
Harold G. Lovell
William Edward Wilcoxson
C. Wellington Wallser
Ansonia Woman Returns from Italy After War Work
Miss R W Baldwin of Florence Italy arrived in Bridgeport from Port Jefferson aboard the Lorraine with her mother. She spoke of Red Cross work in 1914 Florence aiding refugees as Germans invaded. She described scarce food high prices and relief efforts. she plans to stay in Ansonia for months.
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Ansonia
R. W. Baldwin
Florence
Italy
Bridgeport
Port Jefferson
Baldwin
Lorraine
Miss ‘Baldwin
Hed Cross
Aho
America
Salvador
Malgwin
Howard Avenue
Day sermon ties steel controversy to debtor principle
Rev Dr William Horace Day in a United Church sermon linked the steel dispute between Judge Gary and John Fitzpatrick to the Bible text about being indebted to all. He warned against class bias and urged individuals to apply the principle to themselves rather than to their group.
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William Horace Day
United Church
Gary
John Fitzpatrick
Murphy Named Treasurer of Notre Dame Society
James J Murphy of 36 Liberty Street was unanimously elected treasurer of the New England club at the University of Notre Dame. The club is the university’s largest regional group and Murphy, a Notre Dame senior in arts and letters, is a Columbus active and athletic student. His brother Jeremiah, a former student and Notre Dame athlete, was killed in action.
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James J. Murphty
Liberty Street
New England Cub
University of Notre Dame
New England
Anniversity
Murphy
College of Arts and Letters
Notre Dame
Wight of Columbus
Caplanet Infantry
Jeremiah
Dark Days Walt Mason Poem Reflects Postwar Discontent
Dark Days presents Walt Mason’s verse lampooning postwar unease as people vent about wages luxuries and plutocrats. The piece compares social discontent to a spreading illness, noting past pandemics, then hints at returning familiar topics and cautious discourse at local shops.
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Ilan Peoples Gas
Chicago, Ill
Barnum
Exchangé Con
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Press
Pottarium
Manta
Ole ‘Simnon
Yanke
Inglishmen's Arms
New ‘York
Olved
X de Guerra
Gorgas
Ai Kipling
MONEX
Tay
Othare
Tata Bank
Mint
Firat
Population and Immigration
Opportunity Knocks
Erie
Reformed Club
Good Templar's Hall
Wi. F. Bishop
John Cullinan
Young Woman's Christian Temperance Union
George B. Witney
Standard Composing Rooms
Baltimore
Sport” Campana
Hughes
Sport
John McNeil
Merritt Clark
Curtis Dwarts
Stephen Thompson
U. S. District Court
Shipman
McNeil
Beebe, Wilcox and Hobos
Hovasatonic River
Clark
Guyon Wen
Thrensh
John French
Birmingham
Huntington
St. John's Hall
Trench
Gales and Company
James EK. Moor
Danbury
Custer
Sandy Hook
Elias Howe, Jr
Housatonic Road
Hattie Morton
Lambert V. Bunnell
Gaylord
Wm. P. Barnes
James T. Leeds
Barnes
Leeds
Starling House
George A. Gould and Brothers
Edwin Shelton
C. H. Ayres
Fred M. Pare
Boston Boot &'Shose
Norwalk
North Avenue
Main Street
Seaside Park
Long Mill
Long Hill
Wheeler & Wilson
FE. W. Whitlock
Co. BE
Charlies Washington
St. John’s Hall
Alent
Merritt
Ennis
Jackson
Finnie
Fairchild
R. B. Fairchild
Washington Park
M. E
John Wesner
George W. Bacon
W. R Palmer
George F. Lewis
Daniel DB
Marsh
Co. Kingman
Greena Farme
J.G. Davenport
James H. Beeley
Mary E. Shemwood
Charles B. Sherwood
Newtown
Mary Botsford
Caroline Hill
Prederi
Sasecon
H. GC. Peck
Glosefight
DR. Day
Notre Dame Society
Walt Mason
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