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Bridgeport Standard Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Sep 23, 1919

Page

4

Vienna Faces Treatless Homies Vienna Facing Treatless Homies Viten

Vienna reports severe fuel and food shortages as of Sept 24. Associated Press notes a 9000 ton fuel reserve and hospitals unable to secure winter supplies. Experts estimate households may reach only about 75 percent of needed fuel for cooking. Warm houses and hot water are luxuries. coal exports to Czechoslovakia help but delivery is slow. Inter Allied express trains may continue thrice weekly though rail and river transport will be limited.

Viten Associated Press Vienna Austria Czechoslovakia

Americans Buy Mines in Silesia, Teschen Advices Report

London dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph says Americans have purchased extensive coal mines in Silesia. The Teschen advices quoted the deal, signaling significant American investment in Central European mining interests.

London Silesia Tgerlin Exchange Telegraph Company Teschen

Divers Save Golden Millions From Laurentic Loot

Off Fanad Head Ireland salvage divers aboard Racer recover part of the Laurentic gold hoard from a sunken liner. Gold bars, each about 28 pounds and valued around 6 600 dollars, are hoisted after weeks of blasting and sand clearing. A day’s haul totals about 47 bars worth roughly 350,000 dollars.

Portsalon Treland Associated Press Salvagineo Laurentic Fanad Ught Ireland Lalleh Switly

Mine Workers Aid the Strikers at Cleveland Convention

In Cleveland on September 22 1921 the United Mine Workers adopted a substitute pledge to aid the steel strikers within legally permissible means while avoiding a coal boycott. The convention also called for recall of American troops from Russia support for Irish self government and the defeat of the Cummins railway bill. It endorsed forming a national labor party and planned a conference with cooperative and farmers groups to organize the movement.

Cleveland United Mine’ Workers of America Russia Ireland Cummins Workers of Hand and United States Labor Movement Nation Co-Operative Movement Non- Partisan League Farmers’ Organizations

Great Summer for Growth of Weeds in Massachusetts

Massachusetts Agriculture Commissioner Saya Season Only Fair for Edible Crops. Wilfred Wheeler says excessive water and insufficient heat harmed many crops though potatoes survived less well. Lomaloes and apples and peaches were abundant but watery and storage quality poor. New England grain output rose sharply and the cranberry crop is expected large and high quality.

Massachusetts Agriculture Saya Boston Wilfred Wheeler State Commissioner of Agriculture Commissiona New Wogland Wheeler

Poorer cotton crop reports lift market in New York

Unfavorable southern crop reports and labor news sparked an excited open in cotton. December climbed to 81.40 with gains around 12 points, closing near 31.88 as traders covered and speculators bought, port receipts and exports listed, while a counterfeit $20 note alert was issued by the Treasury for a New York Fed note.

New York Washington Sept Federal Reserve Bank of New York Treasury

Pershing awards Distinguished Service for Captain Stackpole

The War Department announced that General Pershing awarded the Distinguished Service Cross to Captain B J Stackpole Jr of Harrsburg Pa for gallant service.

Washington War Department General Pershing B J. Stackpole, Jr Harrigsburg

Report On Aberdeen Child Sanity Misreported

The Aberdeen case about a child allegedly harmed by swallowing a penny is found to be incorrect. The claim appeared to suggest mental distress, but the father of the child disputes the report and states the child is not mentally affected.

Danny Scot Aberdeen

Rooster Killer: Racoon Slays Fowls in Harrison City

Clem Louffer near Harrison City found a dead raccoon over a slain rooster after a ruckus among his flock. The intruder was slain in a later confrontation as Louffer lost many chickens and ducks. The piece notes U S gold and silver production shares.

Clem Louffer Harrison City

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