Bridgeport Protests Zone Fare Plan To Public Utilities
City leaders move to block Connecticut company plan for zone fares set to start November 1919. Mayor Wilson proposes a five aldermen committee to file an immediate protest with the Public Utilities commission, arguing the scheme is an unjust burden on Bridgeport residents and could curb city congestion on principal streets.
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Wilson
Bridgeport
Common Council
Public Utilities Commission
Connecticut Company
Conrad
Thatzkor
Connor
Anortly
Fairfield
Fairilela
Devon
Connecticut
Joseph S. Goodwin
Wilson refutes incapacity claim by naming Youngs to conference
Washington Oct 29 White House officials cite President Wilson's official act appointing Owen Youngs of Schenectady to the public group of the national industrial conference as proof he remains able to attend to business. The move fills a vacancy created by Fuller Callaway's ill health. De Grayson notes Wilson had a better day and no glandular relapse is indicated.
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Washington
Wilson
Owen Youngs
Schenectady
N. J
National Industrial Conference
White House
Grayson
Hse
Young
Fuller Callaway
de Grayson
Butcher of 50 Years Dies in Southport Market
Nehemiah Jennings, 77, longtime Southport butcher who ran a meat market for five decades, dies at Bridgeport Hospital after an appendectomy. He served as postmaster of Pits Town for 26 years and deputy sheriff of Fairfield about 25 years ago.
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Southport
Ceperlal
Nehemiah Jennings
Bridgeport Hospital
Jennings
Pits Town
Fairfield
Girl Sustains Fracture of Skull in Accident
After alighting from a jitney on North Main street Mary Glass 2 years old of 67 Prospect street was struck by a trolley car and seriously injured. A Shea Emergency Hospital ambulance took her to St. Vincent's hospital where Dr J A Maxwell found a laceration behind the left ear and a skull fracture.
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North Main Street
Mary Glass
Prospect Street
Thorme Street
Shea Emergency Hospital
J. A. Maxwell
St. Vincent's Hospital
Labor Conferees Near A Deadlock On Union Issue
Labor leaders clash as Judge Gary of United States Steel rejects arbitration of the steel strike while Samuel Gompers says the conference risks collapse. Delegates expect rejection of the Russell Endicott plan for collective bargaining with capital groups opposing any consensus. John Spargo drafts a plan to declare basic rights and potentially alter voting methods amid rising impasse.
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Washington
National Industrial Conference
Blbert H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Samuel Grompers
American Federation of Labor
Gary
Gompers
Thea Steel Corporation
Stade
Seaders
Russell-Endicott
Lane
Thomas L. Chadbourne
Labor
Polace
Plainsy &Ent
John Spargo
Public
Sair
Public Stone Gnd
Cheman Lane
Graphophone Company Plans Expansion of Big Plants Here
Public hearing reveals Columbia Graphophone plans major East End and West End expansion. Six story Barnum avenue buildings will boost Joast End output with all records, while four to six story Howard avenue structures in West End will house and produce talkies machines locally. Three overhead bridges over Howard avenue and Barnum avenue are proposed with 20 foot clearance, plus a spur track on Worden avenue to connect with American Tube and Stamping.
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Graphophone Company
Barnum Avenue
Howard Ave
Bast Nd
West End
Columbia Graphophone Company
East End
Common Council
Howard Avenue
Glract
Railroad Avenue
Cherry Street
Barnim Avenue
Wordin Avenue
American Tube and Stamping Company
Grand Street Bridge policy shift to mayor in fiasco
Mayor Wilson, as chairman of the Grand Street Bridge Commission, will bear full responsibility for the bridge project fallout. The other commissioners ceded their committee powers, directing action on the Devoe damage suit, amid questions of city rights to cross railroad property and safety plans.
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Grand Street
Wilson
Grand Street Bridge Commission
Bridge Commission
Devoe. Tompkins Company
Grand Stre’y
Bridgeport
Pwoule
Iiter
Questa
Paylia Acilities Commission
Minke
Kaki Watohman
Daylight Saving Measure Debated At Bridgeport Council
Bridgeport council weighs a possible daylight saving ordinance after Alderman Singg's resalation offer. The measure would align Bridgeport with eastern towns by advancing time the last Sunday in April and retarding it the last Sunday in October, pending committee review and next meeting action.
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Bridgeport
Congress
Joseph H. Singg
Ibta
Ambassador dies during operating table in Washington
Count V. Macehi di Csilure, a longtime ambassador to the United States since 1904, died in Minerger Hospital during surgery after becoming ill on Saturday. He was 33 years old, and Countess D Gelleve along with embassy staff were at the hospital when the death occurred.
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Washington
V. Macehi di
D| Gelleve
Blu
King Confers With Wilson On Bridgeport Campaign Plans
John T. King arrived in Bridgeport from New York to confer with city officials and Republican leaders including Anger Wilson and City Clerk J. Alex H. Robinson about the upcoming campaign. He will stay in Bridgeport during the vigorous election push for General Leonard Wood's presidential bid in 1920 and maintain contact with local committeemen.
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John . King
Teepathenia
Tenur
Bridgepoft
Ratin
Hoe
Residents Protest Street Name Changes After Bridge Link
Arctic and Front streets residents gathered at the Common Council meeting to oppose naming changes connected to the new bridge joining the thoroughfare with Grand Street. The protest centers on renaming streets Pluto blending with the new bridge project creating a disputed link between Arctic and Grand Street.
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Arctic
Front Streets
Street
Bridger
Common Council
Grand Street
Watson accuses trade commission of socialist influence in meat packing inquiry
Senator Watson charges the Federal Trade Commission examiners investigating the meat packing business are backed by socialists and radicals. He lists alleged pro-German and Leninist sympathies among staff, and claims the Chicago office is a center of sedition with leaders linked to socialist groups and the Baoin club. The Senate referred the resolution to a committee for possible joint action with another probe.
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Waslluingson
Del
Corps of
Federal Trade Commission
Sennatus Watson
Indiana
Senate
Ag Liniars
Lenine
Senator Watson
Vere Victor Berger
Arvine St. John Tueler
Throweh
Common Council Debates Building Permits and Proposals
The council considered a Sandy Brothers spur track petition with no objections and granted Connecticut Breweries permission to extend over a building at 88 North Washington. Peter Pan Drug received approval to add a porch at Wall and Water streets. A residential permit referendum was referred to the ordinance committee. Alderman Machayden questioned limits on erecting structures. Stagg cited court support for similar cities.
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Sandy Brothers
Seaview Avenue
Connecticut Breweries Company
North
Washington Avenue
Peter Pandre
Wall and
Water Streets
Wiliam H. Hogan
Common Council
Malcolm Machayden
Vbby
Joseph H. Stagg
Margolis Reveals J W W Bolshevik Link Aimed at U S Revolt
In Washington on October 20 Jacob Margolis Pittsburgh I W W attorney and socialist advocate described a two year effort to fuse I W W Bolsheviki and Russian workers in Pittsburgh for an unstated revolutionary goal. He asserted a plan to create a new society within the old, naming Foster as key figure and saying Russians in Youngstown backed the steel strike. Margolis suggested unions could seize industry, while praising Soviet Russia as a forward step.
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Pittsburgh
W Z. Foster
Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Jacob Margolis
I. W
Pittsbergh
Lenine
Tratzky
Russia
Margolia
William Z. Foster
Kenyon
The
Labor Committee
Apples of Margolis
Margolis Cooly
Hime
Margolis
Kene Yon
A. F
L. Narrow
American’ Federation of Labor
Foster
American Federation of Labor Organization
America
Riots As German Opera Is Staged In New York
In New York thousands of service men sailors and civilians clashed with police to stop the German opera Die Meistersinger at the Lexington Theatre. Shots were fired bricks and missiles flew as groups tried to force entry. Mayor Hylan had prohibited the performance but tickets were sold and the curtain rose. Police and crowds fought until midnight with only a few injuries reported.
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New York
Hylan
Germany
Lexington
Times -Square
Tylan
American Legion
Lexington Theatre
Po Hce
Direct Primary Plan Purely Local Affair
Assistant City Attorney W Parker Seeley reported to Bridgeport's common council that the city lacks authority to place a direct primary question before voters via voting machines. He noted Connecticut statutes grant cities board powers on such matters and urged treating any action as a local issue, following Alderman Hogan's resolution from two weeks earlier.
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W. Parker Seeley
Common Council
Bridgeport
William J. Hogan
Nations block American guards for Silesia until pact ratified
Washington Oct 20 Amertcans troops will not be used to police Silesia or any country with a plebiscite planned until the Versailles treaty is ratified by the Senate. Secretary Baker announced today.
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Silesia
Washington
Senate
Baker
Democrats of Fifth Plan for Big Rally
The Fifth district Democratic club held a rally at 369 Poplar Street where Hugh J Lavery John McDonnelly and Alfred Veness spoke. They planned a district rally on Thursday October 2 at Wood Park Wood Avenue and Grove Street with Allen B Vincent mayoral candidate as chief speaker if weather allows. If not the event would move to the Swedish Athletes Club corner Parke Avenue and Olive Street. A street parade precedes the rally.
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Fifth District
Democratic Club
Poplar Street
Hugh J. Lavery
John McDonnelly
Alfred E. Veness
Woodpark
Wood Avenue
Grove Street
Allen B. Vincent
Swedish Atheletes
Felub
Parke Avenue
Olive Street
Able Street
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Edward J. McManus
Charles H. Roder
Earl C. Martin
R.A. Brown
William H. Pane
Evening Post
Sunday Post
Fost Publishing CO
Aswell
Democrat
Louisiana
Grand Street Bridge Authority
Commission
New City
Alderman Stagg
Count di Cellere
Metropolitan Opera Co
WEA Yore
United States
Belgium
New York Society
Grusneis
Rockefeller Institute
Corneling Vanderbilt
Metropolitan Opera Company
Leopold
Watson
Reds Controlled Packing
J.W.W
Seeley
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