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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1923
Page
13
A provocative note on how civilized people rely on Want Ads to furnish homes cheaply and read bargains in household goods and automobiles, contrasting the savage's ignorance of these comforts with a call to listen to the value of phonographs and other comforts advertised.
A garbled, vintage help wanted list offers positions from buffers and polishers to spray lacquering, die stamping, clerks, and designers. Various firms seek experienced brass finishers, counters, editors, canvassers, salesmen, and a draftsman in western New York and New Haven, with salaries, ages, and training details inconsistently noted.
A dense garbled ad page lists business opportunities and for sale notices at 360 feet east of Main Street in Dermnit including horse store and family house, various loan offers, meat market, furniture, musical instruments, and moving services. It also contains numerous contact lines and partial addresses, with scattered requests to inquire or place ads.
Multiple listings for furnished front rooms and housekeeping spaces in Stratford and West End. Ads seek single or double rooms with utilities, private family or propriety access, in various houses including 27 Warwick Ave and 275 Slapla St. Also notes lost and found items and stray pet notices with contact details.
Spacious apartments offered for rent across multiple locations with several 4 to 7 room units. Listings mention fireproof, hot water, all year round comfort, and reasonable rates. Many advertise proximity to parks, major streets, and public transit with various furnished and unfurnished options.
Multiple obituary notices from Stratford and New Haven area newspapers dated 1928. Items include deaths of Ruth E Ayles age 7 months and others named Burritt Cassidy Plum In etc with funeral arrangements, graveside services, and residence details across Maryland and Connecticut locales.
A Boston Herald report from M. Coleman describes five years of coin remelting at the Philadelphia mint. Nickels and pennies totaled over 224 million ounces, enough to fill five trains each with 56 cars of 50,900 pounds. The piece also covers gold reserves, standard coin fineness, and the minting process from weighing bars to stamping discs, detailing copper and silver alloying, assaying, and press operations.
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