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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1925
Page
23
Multiple housing listings advertise a six room shingled bungalow in North Bridgeport with a well water supply, porch, modern improvements, and immediate occupancy. Prices range around 7200 dollars with 1000 dollars on first mortgage and 600 dollars cash required, plus easy terms. Potential buyers are urged to contact local brokers and banks for current offers and viewing appointments.
Community spiritualist notices advertise weekly Friday meetings with readings and a contact at 198 West Ave, Noble 2353. Additional weekly sessions are listed for Tuesday at 482 West Ave, Mae Tr De Tamater, with evening schedules and daily readings hinted.
Compact directory style notice listing multiple firms offering furniture piano and general storage packing crating and moving. Includes Ridgeport Storage Warehouse Co 10 Waihen St, Barnum Motors Trucking Co, Barnum, Noble, Hillhouse Ave, and numerous others with local and long distance moves between Philadelphia New York Boston Hartford Providence and more.
Multiple classifieds list baby carriage, wooden rakes, wallpapers, furniture, gas range, hot water heater, dining sets, beds, Unoleum flooring, and other household items for sale or auction. Local addresses include 90 Elm, 5981 Broad St, 413 East Main St, 199 Ann St, 123 Carleton Ave, 458 East Main, 537 a St, and 240 William St Apartment 19. Also requests buyers and full house contents from 4 rooms. Barnum and Stratford listings show contact numbers and addresses.
Central area opportunities include a hotel furnished for rent in New Jersey town and a Rhode Island style barbershop for sale. Listings span grocery stores confectioneries diners bakeries and tailor shops with details on location lease terms and contact points across Bristol Conn Naugatuck and Stratford area towns.
Real estate catalog from Chamberlain and Burnham describes farm bargains lakeside and shore properties near Boston with suburban homes. Listings include two hundred dollar lots on Allison Avenue Milford, a building lot at Myrtle Beach, and bargains around Brocklawn and Country Club areas with terms offered.
Listing notes multiple farms near Bridgeport for sale from owner with little cash required. 100 acre farm on cement road features 12 room house, various barns, outbuildings, and stock. Other offers include a 6 room house on 12 acres, a 4 room Nantucket style home, and 30 acre properties with orchards, streams, and near transit. Real estate firms and contact names appear with prices and terms.
American firm seeks 4100 to 5000 square feet in a two story building with ten posts. Rent must be reasonable and for term years. Respond to P O Box 141 Norwalk Conn. Also ads: one story building for sale or lease suitable for manufacturing or storage near Cin drive In. Third floor nice vehicle shop at 299 Cannon St. Schwerdtle, 45 Cannon St. One story high warehouse or heavy manufacturing space, 49 by 70 feet, excellent location. Address 11600 this paper.
Seeks tenants for 13 000 square feet of daylight factory space in a central Bridgeport location. Offers low rental, optional furnished float, sprinkler system, rent negotiable. Inquiries to Max Cohen Liberty Building. Also 5000 square feet daylight space in a modern fireproof building at 486 Fairfield Ave.
Upright piano in good condition offered free to mover. Address 804 Broad St. Also listed are a Deagan Marimba Xylophone an 216 octave Kylo phone orchestra drum two field drums and a 21g octave bets with entries for T Winton 90 Can aan Itd Stratford 1843-3.
Multiple notices list missing items and found reports including bicycles at 29 Hanover St and 20 Hanover St, a cream colored hound, a round tan terrier, a black French bulldog, an antique topaz earring, a greyhound named Speed with harness, tortoise shell glasses, a white breast bibbed duck, a white and black fox terrier puppy, an auto spotlight bag, a police dog named Wolf, a hound with black and white markings, a leather bag with Aida concert materials, and a bunch of keys. Callers provide contact numbers and rewards for return.
Multiple poultry adverts list baby chicks ducks eggs and hatching eggs from Rhode Island Reds and other breeds. Prices range from 11 to 25 dollars per 100 or per 200 for various lines with delivery notes and farm contacts in New Jersey Connecticut and Vermont areas. Buyers and breeders are urged to place orders with Cooley Clark Morris and other providers.
A long list of local trades offers upholstering cane seats mattresses over carpentry remodeling garages and general jobbing. Names include Arthur Cummings Joe Forest Conrad M Brank Jikinson Zalinger W Mahoney R Soderberg Maguire and others with addresses and telephone numbers. Services cover recovering furniture pianos tuning screen installation and gutter work with cheap rates and home service options.
Classified notices show stores for rent in the Court Exchange Building on State and Broad Streets and in rooms on State Street. Also several small service business spaces offered, with prices from 15 to 35 dollars. Local business owners advertise for sale shops, grocery and ice cream stores, a ready living space, and equipment like a horse and plow with contact details.
Mortgage offers for guaranteed bonds and loans at 6 percent with solicitations for details. Real estate loans and second mortgages promoted by multiple firms. Also radio repair and battery service ads with at home service and delivery. Addresses and phone numbers given for Barnum area businesses.
Agents promote a profitable auto washer income claim and urge readers to visit Fairfield Fairlie Eight Car Garage and other listings. The ad cites $28 earned in four hours, a car garage for rent, and a fireproof barage space at 690 Central Ave with improvements for repair or painting. It lists multiple locations and agents in New Haven Stratford New York City and asks for responses via mail or telephone.
Classified notice lists multiple buyers and sellers for used furniture gas stoves ice boxes rugs and clothing. Names include James Rainey Mrs C Meyers Noble 1721 Kober's and N Bakentaaiaty with addresses on State Street Main Street Ferry Boulevard and Fairfield Avenue. Also mentions antique furniture and jewelry trade and a two horse dump cart for sale.
Classified notice listing three cottages for sale at Walnut Beach with contact N Lieberman care Triangle OM Co Barnum 703. Separate ads mention a bright all year round room near State road trolley bathing electric light gas and running water with garage priced at 1900 and other rental offerings. Also items include typewriter sales and legal ads from Bridgenort and a miltigraph Machine request.
For Sale or Exchange burner gas stove with um Ave City 3800 second mortgage payable 125 every three months for sale or exchange for 2 or 1 family house or good lore Carl Gasper 456 Pine St Barnum Wilt. Exchange near Paradise Green Stratford all improvements, mortgage, lot 50 by 224 for lots in Bridgeport Fairfield or Stratford Address No 19453 this paper. Machinery For sale Safe 6 inch wall 1 Mos Safe 6 59 Roll top desk 20 Aston Noble Ri 022 143 Bennett St Rooms Young man wishes 1 or 2 unit unfinished room in good locality Phone Noble 184-3
Realty records show numerous property transactions involving residents and banks. Transfers include Murray Caplan to Isadore Resnik on State Street and Bansick Avenue for 9000 dollars, plus multiple deeds on Railroad Avenue, Park Avenue, Taft Avenue, Wayne Street, White Tree Road, and more with varied sums. Banks including The Bridgeport Savings Bank, Mechanics and Farmers Savings Bank, and Home Building and Loan Association act as buyers or lenders in numerous parcels across State Street, Basalck Avenue, Federal Street, Hancock Avenue, and others.
A string of death notices and funeral details for residents including Marcell Blotny, Michael Cox, Mary Jane Fair, Caroline Land, Elisha Leavenworth, Ellen Noonan, James Alexander Polsen, Michael Nowak, Michael Vitale, and Lydia Wiles. Each item lists death date, residence, funeral time, church or residence service, and burial location, reflecting local customs and multiple cemeteries. The notices name streets and churches such as St Michael's cemetery, Blessed Sacrament church, St Peter's church, St Thomas church, and Lakeview cemetery, with services ranging April 1925 to April 1926.
New York April 15 reports investment demand rising on easier money, pushing government and railroad bonds to new highs. Strength spread to high grade and speculative issues amid signals of a possible Fed rediscount rate hold and French notes expansion. Notable gains for Norfolk and Western, Burlington, Chicago and Eastern Illinois, Western Maryland, Katy, and Virginia Carolina Chemical bonds. Pennsylvania railroad news prompts talk of larger debt issuance. Also notices on local waste collection contract and Milford Connecticut garbage pickup bid.
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