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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1918
Page
6
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss direct to the Greene Park and New York P. O. and Pennsylvania Terminal Line 2 service from New York, with a ton of unclear references to timing and routes. The text is garbled and lacks coherent context or dates.
Washington dispatch lists 102d Infantry casualties with 26 killed, 7 died of wounds, 36 wounded severely, 24 missing. Named are Captain Hallack Welles and Private George Cady among others. Wounded include Corporal Stanley Voledy and Privates Percival Butler, Stenti Uwek, Don J Geary, Francis R ONeil, Michael Shomet, Anthony Mulielis, and William H Wenzel, with hometowns Connecticut Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
A Laurel weekly column describes a beach day with a large summer event at Laurel Beach featuring three contest classes for all ages, plus a drowning scare near Walnut Beach where two boys rescued a woman. The piece notes many visitors at Laurel Beach hotels and cottages, a masquerade at Laurel Beach Casino, and ongoing Better Babies registrations and measurements by Dr. Pons.
Fire commissioners plan to present a petition at the Common Council meeting urging higher wages for city firefighters. All commissioners sign except Talaidquy who is out of town, but he reportedly supports granting the pay raise. Lon e department unrest grows as some firemen quit for better pay in factories. outcome depends on Ordinance committee decision.
A brief readable exchange appears with the line J alt unworthy of you as a male speaker and a girl replying stick to that idea. The clipping gravitates to a fragmentary dialogue in a Louisville or Lotisville context.
Word arrives that Sergeant John A Barker of Company K 102nd Infantry was severely wounded in France on July 23. A Bridgeport native, 42, he enlisted last year after years as a traveling salesman in Fairfield and the lumber trade in the south. He previously lived with his brother in Fairfield for three years.
Obituaries and funeral notices detail services for Michael A. Gaffney Daniel McCarthy and others, with names of survivors, service locations at St Michael's St Augustine's St Charles', and interment at local cemeteries. Also notes administrators named for estates and several city residents visiting or staying at local hotels.
In Key West Florida Mrs J M Camus describes five years of back pains and irregularities. After trying various medicines she found Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound best, able to restore her health and allow her to do housework. She recommends the remedy and notes the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts offers advice from forty years of experience.
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