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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1925
Page
5
The Sun reports Bridgeport's library per capita spending at 98 cents with a population around 150000 and annual expenditures of 167,632. The city claims better wages and a lower turnover than New York, while boasting the nation’s second largest book circulation after Springfield.
About 1000 Bridgeport laborers travel to New Rochelle and other cities for jobs due to scarce work at home. Bridgeport construction workers say they must leave to earn daily bread, while New Haven trains see local workers return home because of rain. A shipment of five hundred canaries from Germany and 14 parrots from Mexico arrived in Bridgeport from New York City, drawing attention on the afternoon train. Passengers note more women smokers in trains, including a seventeen year old with shoes off in the smoker sipping a cigarette.
Boston and Brookline newsboys remember William Jennings Bryan speaking at the Brookline dedication of the Scotty memorial to Albert E. Scott on October 21 2021. Louis Newman presided while Sam Foss’s poem lines, cited by Newman, framed Scotty as a hero who died in France. Bryan praised the welcome and his gracious introduction.
Katherine Taragian aged nineteen months died at New Britain General Hospital from injuries after tumbling from a second story window yesterday. The family had recently moved from Worcester, Massachusetts and were awaiting another load of furniture when the incident occurred.
Four New Britain men were held to next Monday on burglary charges after police found them in a city grocer with a shipment sized bundle of groceries. Bonds set at 1400 dollars each for Ziegmund Jackienwicz Alex Crumbaski and John Krazel.
The joint Congressional postal rates hearing in New York heard testimony on zone rate evasion and private delivery schemes. Pictorial Review's B E MacKinnon cited losses and rising costs, with calls for service competitive rates while noting no staff cuts.
In London August 7 Wins ton Churchill the chancellor of the exchequer told the House of Commons the time has come to call a decisive halt on national expenditures The session will adjourn until November 16 A committee including the Earl of Bradford Lord Chalmers and Lord Colwyn will review army navy and air force expenditures Reductions can and will be made and the burden must fall on all classes if needed The coal mining subvention plan appropriation of 10 000 000 pounds passed the report stage and the third reading.
The residence of Rev Albert T. Clay, Yale University professor of Assyrian and Babylonian literature, on Humphrey Street was entered and robbed yesterday or last night while the family vacationed for the summer. A policeman on rounds discovered the disorder.
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