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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1920
Page
14
ROMB Jan 30 mysterious interplanetary signals detected worldwide spark debate. Professor Domenico Argentini argues earth to sun system waves could exist via ether, while others estimate a billion dollar power-scale wireless link to communicate with inhabited planets.
New York January 30 The Central Federation Union set up an advisory committee to probe Samuel Gomper s motive for uniting 11 Greater New York labor bodies into one central group The panel will confer with Gomper s and the AFL executive council next Monday Also the federation urged seating of five suspended Socialist assemblymen in the New York State Legislature and protested Congress refusal to seat Viktor Benger A move to empower a rent control limited profit law was adopted with three dissenters
Dr Brown of the Health department spoke at Rakoczi hall last night under the Americanization committee. He urged proper handkerchief use when sneezing and coughing to prevent flu, diphtheria, measles, and tuberculosis. The program included community singing, solos by Katherine Russell, a talk by Tr. Grown on health work, and a Roosevelt lecture by Archibald F. Campbell with Roosevelt pictures. The event closed with the Star Spangled Banner.
Hoodoo buses face a spate of trolley incidents as drivers report multiple collisions. August Erikson had his car windshield broken, passenger Ernest Langer was lightly hurt, and Dominick Miro, while stopping for alighting riders, was struck from behind. Damages occurred to jitneys on Stratford and Norman streets with no serious injuries.
Obituaries for Josephine Murray Nellie Frances Skinner Mary Wiehn Elizabeth Crowfoot Minnie R McCarthy Mary McCann Louis Pappas John May Bertha Gadush Ellen St John Rollan A Curtiss Frederick Iott detail survivors funeral times and burial places in Lakeview Mountain Grove St Michael's and other local cemeteries with officiants and family relations included.
General Gaida, ex commander of the Czecnor Slovak forces in Siberia, arrives in Marseilles and cites two causes for rifts with Admiral Kolchak. He accuses Kolchak of dictatorial drift while Czech leaders seek a constituent assembly to settle social and agrarian issues, and notes strategic disagreements urging Moscow over Denikin junction.
Fair and colder Saturday with fresh to strong northwest winds Sunday. Observation notes at 5 p m from New Haven Weather Bureau. includes tides, sun rise time, and almanac data. Advertisement for Bromo Quinine tablets with E W Grove signature on the box.
A vendor promotes a range of items to prevent slips and skids for people, vehicles, and animals. The message emphasizes having in stock everything needed to stop slip hazards and is pitched in a confident sales tone.
Farmers from West Chatham to Palmyra Missouri warn of shrinking demand and rising costs. They blame labor unions for high prices and fear famine as urban migration and short hours lure workers away. A Missouri producer calls for municipal markets to cut the middleman’s burden.
Vienna dispatch reports the governor of Styria telegraphed Chancellor Renner that Hungarians are wholesale requisitioning in German West Hungary, stripping textile mills of raw materials and finished products. A proclamation announces horse requisitioning to start January 28. Fifty-three communities report a reign of terror and widespread begging.
A farmer argues in a letter that butter sells for 80 cents to consumers while bought at 45 cents by dealers, leaving farmers with losses in distribution. He warns thousands may quit farming and suggests redirecting middlemen to farm work, despite long hours.
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