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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1919
Page
18
Berlin reports three looming strikes as 60,000 railway workers seek hundreds of millions of marks in raises. Brewery workers threaten to close all breweries if demands for a 36 percent pay increase are not met, after government negotiations collapsed and a nationwide vote looms.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars post at 189 Stag Street elected Mrs. S Z Poll as honorary member for Armistice Day service. new officers for three years were installed by Assistant National Inspector Bert Wheeler headed by Commander W W Huhne. A Ladies Auxiliary will form, charter application planned. The post will meet at Lyric Theatre building Main Street.
The Bridgeport Brass company recreation committee sponsored a minstrel show and dance at the Industrial Women's Service Center of the YWCA on Bar num avenues. Hundreds of company employees attended as the orchestra played and the cast received enthusiastic encores for singing and jokes. Lead performers included Nellie Fox Margaret Swailes and Frank Beardsworth with several named soloists and end men.
Paris reports rapid replacement of valuable medieval stained glass removed during German bombardment. Windows from Notre Dame and Saint-Chapelle have been returned, and five more churches Saint Gervais Saint Genevieve Saint Merry Saint Etienne du Mont Saint Germain Valerio are to be restored. Only Saint Denys suffered serious damage in the war.
Hearings on wages and prices in the bituminous coal industry will start January 12 in Washington before a three member panel representing miners operators and the public. The commission delays its start to allow miners to finish a Columbus convention and will map its program and lay out details of work before proceeding to field visits or broader inquiries.
Washington officials expressed interest in an Associated Press dispatch from Mexico City noting a possible agreement before the Mexican Congress acts. Carranza officials were seen as pursuing a modus vivendi with the United States to ease tensions over oil rights and property under irreducible minimum requirements.
A Brooklyn furrier sells a $85,000 Siberian Russian sable coat weighing about five pounds at $1,062 per ounce. The coat, made from 98 skins, reflects a lavish rise in fur prices this season, while sables overall are not the era’s most expensive furs. Also, boxing rumors in Philadelphia place Lew Tendler with Billy Gibson’s stable.
Macomb county authorities opened an inquest into the death of J Stamey Brown before Cecil Beatrice Vester arrives. Beatrice Vester is sought on a murder warrant as the owner of new evidence in a case that involved a fatal shooting on a country road near Mrs Truth Prevost Brown. Postmortem doctors testified shots were fired from within the automobile, close to the head, as witnesses were summoned and immunity claimed by key figures.
Chinese students, both genders, are expected to arrive in France at about 5000 annually for two years, shifting from Germany and Japan due to war and Shantung tensions. U S immigration limits push them toward France as about 1000 are already here studying modern industry, finance, commerce, and agriculture.
The American Bankers Association through its railroad committee urged government control of railroad stock and bond issues, an early return to private ownership, and a six month income guarantee after federal control ends. They conditionally endorsed railroad consolidation and federal incorporation, warning that impaired credit could break down transportation and harm nationwide business.
Bridgeport plans a major Friday welcome for Eamonn DeValera. About 800 World War II veterans are expected to escort the Irish president from the railroad station to the Casino for an evening parade. Merchants and residents are asked to display the American flag, with final parade officials to be named at a Stratfield meeting. Dinner reservations must be arranged at the Stratfield Room 41 by tonight.
The two masted schooner Athatie docked at Wheeler and Howes yard yesterday afternoon. She carried 60,000 driek and was the port's sole arriving vessel for the day.
Fatfish and butterfish items appear alongside seafood and produce notations. Includes mentions of herrings, haddock, prawns, mackerel, oysters, nuts, raisins, olives, pickles, garlic and various small vendor prices. The fragmentary list reads like a newspaper market or grocery ad from a past era.
Readable items list apples pears tangerines grapes dates figs and lemons with prices per item and per dozen. Fresh bulk dates and imported figs feature, along with bulk grapes and pineapples. Multiple brands or varieties are named in a cluttered OCR style.
Market listing shows itemized produce with price quotes including 900 peck for apples and 30 tb 500 peck for beets. Cranberries priced at 25 cents per quart, carrots by peck, native hot mouse lettuce noted with 100 units listed.
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