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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1919
Page
21
Bradford K Pierce president of the Chamber of Commerce and Seward regs executive secretary, J J Kingbury vice president left Ely last night for Atlantic City New Jersey to attend the industrial conference. Afterward Mr Price will go to Indianapolis to attend the national secretaries conference.
An advertising claim promotes Cascarets as a safe laxative alternative to harsh purgatives like calomel. It argues Cascarets act as a tonic to bowel muscles, relieve sour stomach and constipation without griping, work passively overnight, and cost little.
Paris dispatch reports the Echo De Paris revealing plans for a revolt in Alsace to occur on November. An engineer named Woessler or Woessler and two accomplices were arrested and a Socialist union leader, a former Alsatian deputy, and a leading Socialist are linked. Police found propaganda pamphlets and 250,900 marks in Woessler’s residence. The uprising was timed with a communist revolt in Germany.
Severe fighting rages near Zanghizur in the Rus a Caucasus as Armenian forces clash with regular troops from Azerbaijan province. The unrest follows a revolt in the Turkish-populated Persian province of Azerbaijan linked to protests over the Anglo Persian agreement.
The United States minister I N Morris reports a telegraph from General Yudenitch and Premier Lianozow of Northwest Russia requesting food and other necessities for Petrograd. Yudenitch said troops were five miles from Petrograd, prompting forwarding of the despatch to Washington. The source piece also includes a humor exchange from the Boston Transcript.
Old saying about pudding and eating serves as metaphor for taxation reform. The speaker critiques giving sole power to one official, citing mortgage flags of misvaluation and a six million dollar misjudgment affecting 1,362 properties. Proposes a committee of disinterested men to assess property rather than a single auditor. Argues banks rely on property valuations and that system is safer.
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