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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1918
Page
10
The Food Administration is criticized for frequent changes and unclear leadership as conditions shift. Editors note substitutions rose last year due to global wheat abundance, and urge careful use of wheat and sugar while avoiding waste.
Harper North hints at Blake's possible past with Marion Lambert and Mrs Lambert as an art fair organizer. Gypsy weighs Blake's alleged fidelity and her own willingness to wage a quiet battle to keep him, while contemplating potential rivals and their influence on their marriage.
Stockholm dispatch reports heated debate among Bolshevik leaders in Petrograd over abandoning the regime. Lenin and Kamenev favor quitting, while Trotsky, Tehincherin, Radek and Trotsky advocate holding out. Lenin reportedly defeated in Central Council vote 12 to 200. Starvation and deaths feared in Petrograd, particularly among children and elderly.
Miss Alice W. Hunt urged a cooperative approach to postwar reconstruction at a United church forum. She cited Europe’s prewar labor practices, stressed pensions for needy mothers, child health, and shared sacrifice by employers and workers to advance democracy and production.
Boston clergymen across New England described the Methodist Episcopal church centenary plans for 1919. The program calls for 95 million dollars, with 40 million for foreign missions and the rest for domestic church extension. Group conferences in 97 districts will run the week starting Tuesday with five teams visiting to address them.
The Senior choir of eight at Patrick's church plans a minstrel show in Colonial Hall tonight with Miss Mary Kelly as chairwoman and Miss Lillian Sullivan organizing the program. Entertainers include Miss Mildred Simko Miss Aurelia Power Miss Catherine Sadak Miss Mirrielly Conroy Termin Shubwastk een Denham Arthur Smitt and Fred Denham. The first club of American working girls formed thirty five years ago in New York City.
Hartford reports say Fairfield County will dominate the new Legislature with the House speaker and Senate president pro tem from the county. J Henry Roraback backs Fairfield leaders to oust Col I M Ullman of New Haven, while Greenwich Judge James Walsh is named as speaker and Judge Frederic A Bartlett of this city as Senate president.
NEW HAVEN December 35 The West Haven police hold caretaker Michael Mullen and his companion Harold Fox on arson charges in connection with the Colonial park fire at Woodmont. Bonds set at 1006 each. An alienist may be called to assess Mullen after questions arise about his mental status. Investigation focuses on where Mullen spent the day before the fire and prior lies about other fires.
Benedict M. Holden, former leftist in charge of the Philadelphia depot of the Quartermaster Corps, has been honorably discharged and returned to his home at 164 North Oxford Street. He plans to resume his law practice within a week, following a recent dinner in his honor at the White Turnpike in Philadelphia attended by army colleagues.
New York December 16 Commercial Cable president Mackay charged Postmaster General Burleson with plotting to bring about government ownership of all wire communications. He claimed the move would force Western Union and Bell Telephone to sell to the government at high prices and leave his company targeted for annihilation. He vowed to fight to the finish.
A fragmentary note discusses legal language and a judge, mentioning Stockholm and seasonal ice. The text suggests dialogue about legal practice and the accuracy of phrases, with a dated feel from the Courier-Journal era. The snippet references a city built upon ice and the idea of how one addresses a judge.
Purifies and enriches the blood, improving strength, color, and appetite. Marketed for 35 years in the Southern States as a general tonic with iron and quinine, rendered tasteless in syrup. Not a patent medicine, formula printed on cartons, widely prescribed by physicians, trusted by families.
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