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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1920
Page
4
Ad promotes Ely's Cream Balm as a long trusted antiseptic remedy for nasal congestion and inflamed membranes. Claims instant opening of blocked air passages and relief from discharge, with a nightly regimen and room ventilation advised.
The Queen of Spain Victoria is pictured in Paris in a recent photograph praised for its fine likeness. Officials note her visit and the image highlights her royal presence in the French capital.
George L. McNutt known as The Dinner Pail Man will lecture on Americas One Danger at the First Universalist Church Fairfield Avenue near Broad Street next Sunday evening. A former preacher who spent six years in a factory to study labor’s view, he brings a facts-based analysis of social and economic problems followed by a question period. The public is invited.
In New York on January 29, United States Steel announces a 10 percent wage increase for laborers in its plants, effective February 1. Ebert H. Gary, chairman of the board of directors, says other workers will have wages "equitably adjusted."
A Senate committee favorably reports a bill abolishing the United States Housing Corporation, stating it does not affect government houses in Bridgeport already largely sold. Sales were authorized last June with most properties disposed of, leaving about five at Grasmere and forty at Old Mill Green. The measure formalizes actions already taken by the Housing Corporation.
Former ambassador Henry Fletcher to Mexico resigned amid U S policy gaps. George Agnew Chamberlain, once consul general in Mexico City, asserts Mexico is "oozing money" while the United States lacks a definite stance on the Mexican situation. He lauds Fletcher's brilliant career and questions why his letter of resignation was not released.
British occupational troops about 750 landed at Schleswig Holstein Flensburg on January 29. They were warmly welcomed by a French guard of honor and a deputation representing the Danish population.
Theaters are urged by the Department to support an Americanization program adopted by Motion Picture industry representatives at a Waldorf Astoria meeting. Local owners should offer patriotic programs for Lincoln’s Birthday and Washington’s Birthday with films or slides on the two great Americans. American Legion speakers, arranged by Col. Franklin d’Oler, will address theater audiences in each community.
The French government presented former US ambassador to Vienna Frederic C. Penfield with a handsomely embellished porcelain vase nearly four feet tall. The gift, given by Consul General Liebert at Penfield's New York home, honors his service in safeguarding France’s interests in Austria from the war’s outbreak to April 1917.
John D Rockefeller Jr and Frank Morrison secretary of the American Federation of Labor were announced as two of the principal speakers at a national laymen conference to be held in Pittsburgh starting Saturday. The three day event aims to consider the task of the Protestant churches of North America at home and abroad.
New York January 29 congressional appropriation of funds for food and necessities and their transportation to famine stricken countries of Central Europe outside Germany and to Armenia was urged in resolutions adopted by the administrative committee of the American Bankers association which already made public here today.
London Jan 29 A settlement on all principal points has been reached between the Italian cabinet and the railway workers leaders according to a Rome dispatch. Strikers are expected to return to work immediately as the messages indicate.
Charlee Monteiro of 64 Lexington Avenue and Jon Condro of Center Street Extension were arrested after a quarrel at Bridgeport Malleable Iron Co. left two workmen fighting and a foreman assaulted. Both men were charged with assault and breach of the peace following the foreman's intervention.
Two former Emergency hospital physicians are seriously ill with influenza. Dr Joseph P Deery of East Main Street is at Bridgeport Hospital. Dr D F Griffin and Dr J F Shea are the attending physicians. patient remains under care at 63 Stillman Street with Dr J Carroll.
Loom fixers and twisters in twenty mills between Mauch Chunk Reading and Watso n struck today in a major labor action. About 10 000 weavers and wrappers are involved with demands of 45 and 42 50 dollars per week respectively.
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