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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1919
Page
9
Percy L. Crosby reports the United States holds vast gold and silver reserves that fill vaults and bulge beyond their walls. The treasury asks Congress to appropriate 1.5 million dollars to strengthen vaults and supply additional coins.
In a bustling farm scene Uncle Wiggily and Grandfather Goosey gather a corn crop. Sammie and Susie Littletall fashion a corn cob doll and a cob house while a gruff fox lurks. They fend him off with hundreds of sharp corn cobs.
The University of Paris will inaugurate on Navy. 3, classes organized for a few students to continue for four months. An attempt will be made to give students a general idea of lrrenenh history its literature its geography its philosophical and social doctrines and its art. English and Spanish will be the foreign languages used.
Milford, Sept. 21 Special The Board of Finance completed the annual budget for the coming year to be recommended at the town meeting October 6. Grand list estimated at 4,250,000 an increase of 2,013,000. A 20 mill tax is proposed to meet town expenses with estimated income 386,090 from taxes and other sources. The schools request 96,710, highways 25,000, and a special 2,000 for Gast Broadway. Fire department items total 15,000 for central firehouse plus 3,692, 6,000, 722 and 4,354 for various needs. Police budget cut to 19,000. A special 110,000 bond issue for permanent highways is proposed, with 16,000 annual payments. A street fighting appropriation of 14,000 is included. WANTED guard for an old lady.
Miss Alica Lyon and Miss Janet Lyon of 80 Broad Street entertain the Epworth League of the Methodist church in Milford for a regular business meeting and social at their home.
A Lansing Michigan woman Mrs Ora Bowers offers guidance to weak and ailing mothers. She promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy and invites inquiries to Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Linn Massachusetts, citing 40 years of experience.
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