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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1919
Page
13
A scanned bakery ad lists items such as rye and graham bread loaves, coffee cakes, assorted cookies, sponge cakes, chocolate éclairs, various pies, rafts of bread and rolls, angel cakes, cream puffs, apple turnovers, and large layer cakes with price ranges from a few cents to about sixty cents per dozen or per loaf. The OCR is garbled with errant letters but preserves item names and price points.
Food profiteers in New York face criminal prosecution after a warning to cease price manipulation. Federal warrants led to yesterday's arrests of Louis Leavill, accused of pouring 1,300,400 pounds of bacon bought from the war department, and Samuel Shapira, charged with profiteering in sugar. both released on bond for hearings before a U.S. commissioner.
One thousand union retail grocery clerks in New York went on strike for a nine hour day and a $58 weekly salary. Salaries average $18 in independent stores and $24 to $28 in chain stores. Clerks now endure ten to fourteen hour days as the union plans to organize 18,000 city grocery and dairy clerks and calls for a general strike.
The provisional Korean government has been banished from the French concession in Shanghai after a plot against Baron Saito, governor general of Korea, was uncovered. Japanese sources say French officials suppressed the Korean official publication. Pershing to inspect wartime build up during absence in France to evaluate what to maintain in national emergency. Hoxie steamer in distress four to five hundred miles from New York reports propulsion damage with one propeller blade remaining.
Tom Joseph Braham Sr composer and orchestra leader known as the father of Gilbert and Sullivan opera in the United States dies at his Brooklyn home. Born in London he led the Old Boston Musuem Orchestra in 1879 directing America's first Gilbert and Sullivan production and later served as musical director of the Cas ing in Manhattan under Rudolph management. His compositions include music for Hawatha.
Early today a gang of five yeggmen robbed the Grange National Bank in Pa, stealing about 3000 in money and stamps belonging to the post office. The robbers fled after a brief gunfight with the town officer. bank funds were untouched as they fled before breaking the vault.
Governor Coolidge proclaims Chestny November 4 as a holiday for observance and celebration of Massachusetts soldiers sailors and marines. The order honors service men, sacrifices of the people, and the support of the government, calling for grateful commemoration of heroism and charity.
A civic message calls for universal provision of free textbooks in public schools from elementary to high school, urging residents to support the program amid ongoing public debates over education funding and school resources.
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