Auto Show Attains Strong Buying Mood With Record Attendance
The auto show at the Armory and Jacoby building drew larger, higher quality crowds than opening night as favorable weather and brisk preliminary sales boosted confidence. Dealers report more prospects and a possible record day ahead with prominent window displays from Howland Company and others including American Hardware with a moving auto illusion. Today and tomorrow close the event with continued music and vocal programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armory and Jacoby
Howland Company
D.M
Besse
Hawke
the Hatter
Harvey and Lewis
Optical Goods
Meigs and Company
American Hardware Company
Shipping Stops To Escape Gale In Bridgeport Harbor
Bridgeport harbor screened big tugs as a blizzard trapped vessels. Key tugs Westmoreland Spartan Battler Keeler and others remained tied up while several steamers and barges faced hours of inactivity. Barge 13 from the Spartan tow sank but its cargo of 1 100 tons of coal was saved at Henry Street dock New Haven.
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Bridgeport
Whcer
Long Island
Lehigh Valley
Westmoreland
Hartford and New York Transportation Company
Spartan
Battler
Keeler Line
Ronald Keeler
U.S. 8
U.S. 8 General R. B. Ayres
Jersey City
John B. Collns
New York
Henry Street
New Haven Railroad
New Haven
Ety
Peterson's Ointment Advertises Eczema Cure
Buffalo advertiser John Scott endorses Peterson's Ointment claiming rapid eczema relief and pile cure. The ad touts a money back guarantee and says druggists nationwide sell the remedy for 85 cents a large box. Mail orders are filled by Peterson Ointment Co. Buffalo NY.
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Peterson
Buffalo
America
John Scott
Virginia Street
Teterson
Peterson Ointment Co
Ing
Buffalo, NY
Influenza toll near 1000 as illness sweeps city
Health department reports 105 new influenza cases bringing total to 948. Storm and traffic chaos hindered medical visits. 16 influenza deaths and 12 pneumonia deaths recorded. Nearly 3,000 students absent and 4 teachers affected. Nurses sought. $5000 transferred to health board to aid epidemic fight.
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Health Department
Brown
Board of Education
Health ‘Board
Police Department
Wage dispute looms as railroad workers threaten strike
Paprott Michigan reports grand officers of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way and Railway Shop Laborers express a desire for a satisfactory wage adjustment with railroad officials. The vast union, numbering about 800,000, meets amid talks with Washington officials and the possibility of appealing to President Wilson if no compromise is reached. The men seek about a forty percent increase, with arbitration rejected and a 27 cent an hour baseline noted. The conference adjourned to resume the next morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paprott
Mich
Railroad Administration
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way and
Bevten
Washington
Hines
Brotherhood
Wilson
William Robeson
Died of Sleeping Sickness in Passaic New Jersey
Martin Preider aged 42 died today in Passaic New Jersey after a nine day illness described as sleeping sickness. He woke briefly yesterday, recognized his wife, and then again lost consciousness before passing away. Knights of Columbus held first and second degrees for a class of candidates at a meeting last night. third degree set for February 10 in the Colonial ballroom, to be performed by the New Haven degree team. Bridgeport Elks initiated 20 candidates at their State Street lodge meeting. A new reflector lamp design features two hollow quarter spheres hinged to allow light direction control.
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Passaid
N. J. Teeb
Martin Preider
Knights of Columbus
Colonial
New Haven
Bridgeport Elks
Bridgeport Lodge of Elks
Hilks Home
State Street
Mikdom
Testifies to alien control at trial of New York socialists
Albany witnesses testify the Socialist party lists for public offices are controlled by alien dues paying members via resignations filed with party officials. The trial adjourned with prosecutors near the end of week three and defense expected to wrap up next week. Peter W. Collins, an expert on labor, argued the party operates as a government within a government and that many Socialists are aliens or atheists, while defending figures cited various views of socialism.
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Albany
N. Y
Assembly
George R. Turn
Schenectady
Hving
Milwaukee
Peter W. Collins
Boston
Knights of Columbus
Socialist Party
Socialist Pro
SOLA
Martin
Industrial Workers of the World
Collins
Victor L. Berger
Bridgeport Art Classes Schedule And Local News
Bridgeport arts club outlines monthly classes with instructors Mrs. D Stoddard Mrs Florence MacBurney Mrs Philip J Holyer Miss Clavies Petremont and Mrs T T Ferguson covering ceramics weaving design and embroidery plus private lessons The article notes CH Liebenberger recovering from pneumonia after illness in Bayonne N J and students from Bridgeport high school rooms 210 and 218 raising 105 for Siberian orphans benefiting the Serbian relief committee of America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport
D. Stoddard
Florence MacBurney
Philip J. Holyer
Clavies Petremont
W. J. Taft
MacBurney
T. T. Fergutson
Bridgeport High School
Serbian Relief Committee of America
Letters of Natalie and Evelyn in Snowbound Town
The narrator recalls a snowbound day as Harold travels by train, neighbors amuse themselves with a snow fort, and a grandmother decorates a breakfast-room with antique mahogany furniture from N. Buckingham and Company. They discuss Whiting's fruit baskets for shut-ins and gift offerings at Fairchild's and Lane's candy, plus Valentine novelties and plans for a recasting party once weather permits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Buckingham and Company
Whiting
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W.S. Quingy Company
Chicago
AIY
Fition
Bellans
France
Eczema
Storm
N.Y
Casey
CH. W. Liebenberger
Bennett Streat
Bayonne
N. J
Natalie
Jear Evelyn
Harold
Jean
Pierre
Jvork
Harold Diudn
Fairchild
C. D. Lane
Harald
Valentine
Lane's
Lsee
Juane
Lore
Wegker Jones
Ceri
Postum Cereal CO
Battle Creek, Mich
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