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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1918
Page
16
Frederick Smithern, a fur trader returning from five years with Iskinios in Grantland near the Arctic, has learned of war and will enlist in the United States Army while passing through Montreal on his way home to New York.
Huntington news notes the Amity club returning from a pleasant walk at Silver Beach HL. Whitney and family spent Sunday at the shore. Mr and Mrs Robert Saunders of Bridgeport visited F. BW Wells. Wisner Wilson spent Sunday in Stamford. Mrs Row tended church in Nichols. Miss Lavina and Anna Beard visited Joel Beard. Miss Florerge Lattin visiting an uncle in Watertown. Howard Moore hosted guests from New York. George Shelton hosted friends from Trumbull. Congregational church held services with good attendance. S&S picnic planned for next Wednesday August 28 at Potter Center Park. Mrs Mulholland and children have returned to Montreal. Miss Carrie Lattin returned to Bridgeport. EB Palmer is on the sick list.
Washington August 26 Chairman Hurley of the Shipping board authorized agents of the sea service bureau meeting in Boston to take measures to meet the shortage of engineers for merchant ships. He telegraphed this authority in response to a suggestion that land engineers be called for sea service and that engineers with licenses for lower grades be urged to seek higher licenses.
Simon Lake, president of Lake Torpedo Boat, gathers favorable notices for his book The Submarine in War and Peace published by J B Lipppincott Company of Philadelphia. It contains 71 illustrations and 2 charts, tracing early submerged navigation and Holland’s work, with focus on wartime use and peace potential. The New York Tribune notes timeliness amid German submarines near New York Harbor and coastal attacks.
Ottawa reports 902 names in today’s casualty lists from the Canadian records office including 39 Americans. Wounded individuals include A. T. Stallman Spring Lake PA and G. Thornton Pawtucket RI among others, with one prisoner of war noted as F. C. Bushnell New Haven CT.
Washington reports officials explain unrest in Japan stems from profiteering. Wholesalers middlemen and even farmers hold back rice stocks and push prices higher, causing widespread rioting and discontent across the country.
Intolerable cruelty is the ground in two divorce actions filed yesterday in the Superior court. Margaret E. Shrimpton seeks a decree from Arthur Shrimpton of White Plains. The couple married October 19, 1901. Shrimpton’s maiden name was Margaret Durick. Ellen Thayer seeks a separation from Chester A. Thayer, alleging cruel treatment since August 1916. They were married June 23, 1918. Thayer’s maiden name was Milen Fox. There is one minor child and custody is sought.
BALTIMORE Aug 20 The condition of United States Senator Ollie M James of Kentucky who is sick at Johns Hopkins hospital with Brights disease was grave today He passed a restless night and his pulse was weaker He has been a patient at the hospital for about three months Wondering About Ratse Retired policemen are wondering if they will receive the 25 percent increase in their pensions by the action of the Board of Aldermen Monday night Some are of the opinion the raise only affects one in active service while others believe all members and officers including the pensioned men will benefit
Stone migration from kidney to bladder via the ureter causes intense pain and possible kidney damage. Stones form in the bladder around a nucleus such as bacteria or a foreign body, and come in three main compositions: phosphate of lime, oxalate of lime, and uric acid. Size varies from sand to large. passages differ in severity depending on location.
Louis Baumrind, Bridgeport baker, sues Max Richelsoph for $726.81 claiming bread prices ranged from three cents to a boarding house loaf in 1913. The suit covers deliveries from November 16 to December 19, 1913 and attaches one mixer, 30 bread boxes, five rye flour bags, and 240 wheat flour bags.
Theodore Bright a Danbury special policeman shot himself in the right temple at noon after his wife died following a long illness He left home for a nearby passage placed a pillow on the floor and then used a revolver to end his life He was 54 years old and had served as a officer for many years.
The VO PAVE extension from John Street to West Avenue will be macadamized and brought to first class condition before cold weather. The street has been leveled and after grades are established, macadamizing will promptly start.
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