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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1918
Page
12
Readers rejoiced as cables reported an Allied push toward the Rhine with advancing troops and renewed hope for victory. The mood was celebratory yet restrained, acknowledging the war’s rollercoaster progress while noting the uncertain endgame. Bridgeport residents felt the moment surge through the community as flags rose and spirits lifted.
The War Labor Board concluded the session after long hearings on minimum wages for machinists and toolmakers. Testimony reviewed definitions used by manufacturers and clashes over discrimination and free speech. Witnesses cited wage data and living costs, with a report showing wages up 81 percent since early 1915 while living costs rose 61.4 percent.
The Walnut Beach carnival opens Tuesday with The Carnival of the Babe featuring beautiful and variously classed babies competing for fifty grand prizes. L M Rich will manage the event with judging by the ribbon method on stage at the Strand theatre. The program includes a school girls white dress parade for ages four to eight with gold bracelets as prizes. Over 200 entries, possibly 500 babies, are expected as trolley cars shuttle spectators and participants to the beach.
A fragmented poem-like text discusses enduring companionship and shared fate. It mentions a brotherly bond and the desire for a lasting friendship, with phrases about weather, time, and unity. The lines blur into a reflection on mutual support and closeness between two figures.
NEW YORK July 18 New York City celebrated American victories in France with bells and whistles and crowds gathering before bulletin boards. City Mall and Brooklyn Borough Hall bells rang for fifteen minutes while readers waved flags and read news line by line. Recruiting offices were crowded and jubilee events stretched through theatres and restaurants as clubs like the Union League organized extra phone operators for inquiries.
Washington reports reveal the US War Department's secret gas program run by the Bureau of Mines at the American University. About 1,700 American chemists, under 25 guards, develop poisons and protective gear to outpace German gas attacks. The piece notes early chlorine masks, evolving respirators, and the ongoing race to pierce enemy respirators with new gases.
An unsigned Chicago News column blends patriotic jabs at profiteers and pacifists with calls to support wartime efforts. It mocks German aims, urges restraint on grain and transportation theft, and urges readers to back war savings stamps while criticizing treaty fades and political adjournments.
The piece praises French resolve against traitors and praises Clemenceau’s drive to destroy treason. It notes Caillaux and others face same fate as Duval, praises American wartime press scrutiny, and urges harsher action rather than mercy toward those aiding the Kaiser. It laments American leniency and calls for decisive government action.
Baron Burian aligns with Wilson on four terms of peace but cites Alsace Lorraine Trentino Trieste and German colonies as insurmountable barriers. He compares Germanys 1871 theft of Alsace Lorraine to a house break in. Central Empires risk losing territory and gains as peace prospects dim along the Danube and Rhine.
The piece argues that not all landlords are extortioners and cites examples of fair rents. It notes some have raised rates modestly while others avoided hikes to help large families. It urges a new commission by Governor Holcomb to reveal names of unreasonable landlords for public knowledge.
Under Arthur W Burritt the local Employment bureau forms a practical unit with an advisory board of five well known city men. John S Pullman Jarvis Williams Conrad A Hanson John J O Neil and Claude B Clarkson constitute the panel. The era’s labor spirit shows in the saying Come let us reason together and when reason prevails disturbance is absent.
Huntington Agricultural and Fair association secretary George W. Dane announced Danbury fair will run September 17 to 19 with a midsummer July 23 race meet at Huntington fair grounds. Three events with strong entries are planned, and officials expect state and local records to fall on the fast track under National Trotting Association rules. Six races will be run across multiple pacing and trotting classes with purses totaling 3060 dollars during fair week and a large premium list ready for exhibitors.
David R. House of 569 Myrtle Avenue and three others were arrested after allegedly tampering with a fire alarm box and sending a false alarm at Poplar Street and Fairfield Avenue. Joseph Krosky Frank Jacka and George Schummners were implicated and face charges including breach of peace and injuring city property.
Last night at Shelton school an auxiliary War Savings commit tee formed for the Eighth District. William Hincks, general chairman, outlined district committee organization. A. D. Moulton was elected chairman and Mrs. S. S. Waller secretary. Next meeting at Read school Wednesday at 7.30.
Karl Uthang was arrested at the Atlantic hotel after threatening to take the life of a man who came to repair defective electric wires. He was examined by Dr Maxwell at Emergency hospital and then taken to the Hillside home for observation.
Louis A. Williams eluded police giving no address before Patr o lman Maloney arrested him on breach of peace and resisting an officer in Fairfield avenue yesterday afternoon after 4. He was jailed at police headquarters and to be arraigned in City Court this morning.
Justice George W. Wheeler leads a Bridgeport War Bureau drive to house and assist officers and men in uniform. The plan seeks free or reduced access to homes theaters clubs and restaurants, with transportation arrangements through police and jitney groups to curb loneliness and temptations while ensuring civic support for servicemen.
Obituary note reports Frank C. Wilson Ward died yesterday in a Minnesota munition plant at age 19. He was the son of Eugene M Wilson of 1748 State Street.
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