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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1918
Page
18
A note urges sending letters to soldiers and sailors by Christmas. The message asks relatives and sweethearts to ensure correspondence reaches them in time, highlighting the expected influx of letters this month to boost morale during the holiday season.
An old advertisement extols red blooded vigor for both men and women. It claims phosphates nourish blood and nerves, boosting energy, happiness, and vitality. It warns against eye pills from dealers and promotes genuine Phosphated Tron from Shindie's Drug Stores and Gage druggists.
The War Department designated 30 camps including Jens Mass and Upton New York as demobilization centers. Enlisted men are to be discharged within 350 miles of their induction point or transferred to nearer camps. Officers accompany detachments and ensure eligible men are discharged promptly. Ineligible cases due to disability will be routed for later discharge.
Greenwich news item reports Major Alden Twachtman of the Light Artillery, 26th Division in France, promoted to Colonel and slated to move with his unit to Germany for occupation service. The piece traces his education at Yale, earlier ranks, and family notices including siblings in service and local residents’ activities.【Note: due to length and OCR quality, entities preserved as readable.】
Continued from Page 11. Armies of three corps each, 11,000 prisoners captured. We have captured 44,000 prisoners and 1,400 guns, howitzers and trench mortars, commander-in-chief reports. Losses up to November 15 include 14,811 dead from all causes, 2,264 wounded, 2103 missing or withheld from final tally.
President William Chew calls a Paving and Sewer meeting in the City Auditor office Friday at 2 30 o clock. Discussion reportedly covers contracts, proposals, and pump plans with funds from the sale of $650 000 sewer bonds to Hincks Bros last Saturday.
The funeral of Edmond Rostand, famed poet and playwright, took place in Paris with a large crowd and attendance by cabinet members and literary leaders. President Poincare was represented. Also noted are local notices of military service confirmations, influenza deaths, and a Stamford auto collision case with fines.
Catholic priest in Ett vester in August helped physicians care for wounded soldiers in a cellar where a first aid post stood. Three physicians were gassed. one student from Carnell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Katz, was severely wounded by shrapnel and invalided home. The article notes accounts of courage and details of wartime service and local civic appointments.
Bethel Vermont December report of a party returning from Waterbury had a near fatal ordeal when steering failed near Sandy Hook crossing by the Flousatonic River. The auto tore two bridge guard posts but passengers escaped unharmed beyond a shake up. A Willian Nichols car conveyed them home. Local notices speak of a Victory dance planned by Bethel State Guards and community updates list staff changes, a new night school, illness, and a Grange meeting slate.
Inspectors of the Department of Health ordered two lodging houses in the city closed as they posed a public health hazard. One operated by Lorenzo Pepini at 69 Russell Street, building owned by Frank Izzo at 498 William Street, formerly used as a macaroni drying house. The other run by B Castrio at 2 Pembroke Street housed many men in tight cellar rooms with 20 mattresses on the floor.
The Shipping Board fixes 700000 as the price for each 3500 ton wooden ship designed for ocean traffic now for sale to private owners. When bought in lots of five the price drops to 675000 per ship. Proposals have been received from foreign and domestic buyers, to be reviewed at the board’s offices.
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