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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1918
Page
21
Petrograd faces dire food scarcity as former elites form a cooperative restaurant. Bourgeois cooks and serves, with patrons surrendering food cards for bread and one meal daily at two and a half rubles. Higher class meals cost forty rubles, offering thin soup, scant fish, a small quail, bread, gluey sweetness, and coffee without milk.
Three days remain for the clearance event featuring Summer Millinery Shirt Waists Petticoats Sweaters Coats Rain Coats Summer Furs and Marabout Feather Capes. Millinery items are offered at less than half price.
In Norwalk on North Main near Washington, Mrs. Leo Gonch wife of Hotel Bristol owner Leo Gonch stabbed Miss Miae Kern in the cheek and wrist with a hat pin after a Palace theatre outing. Gonch attempted to intervene as the assailant fled, with no arrest made. The couple separated two years ago but remain legally unresolved. Three months earlier shots were fired at Gonch from behind a tree, no culprit found.
Bridgeport city officials push for approval to issue 400000 in bonds to fund a sewage disposal plant and pumping station and 250660 for pavement. City council plans to read the Capital Issues committee decision Tuesday night and hopes for August steps. Also on the agenda is a War Bureau request to use the city hall green for fruit and vegetable dehydration plants, with a McElroy building option deemed unsuitable. Congressmen express concern over damaged or reused fences from last winter’s fuel shortage.
Yale University reports the death of John Duerr Irving, professor of economic geology, in France where he served in the engineering corps during World War I. Born August 18 1874 in Madison Wisconsin, he graduated from Columbia in 1896 and earned MA and PhD there with an honorary MA from Yale in 1907.
Thousands of Allied service members filled Luna Park Coney Island to cheer a towering group of American Indians from the Thirty-sixth Panther Division. The Indians, recruited across Texas New Mexico and Oklahoma, enjoyed a lively whirl and drew cries from the crowd. Luna Park hosts a Red Cross theater opening showing first run war relief films with proceeds aiding American war work.
An open letter from C. d. Lake to Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce president Bradford D. Pierce urges rapid development and deployment of airplanes to win the war. The letter argues air travel can outpace ground transit, calls for chamber action to support airplane production, and praises civic duty to aid Allied efforts and public safety.
About 500 people heard two labor organizers recount the Mooney case at a Seaside Park gathering under the Central Labor Union. Speakers urged Wilson to shift the San Francisco bomb murder cases to federal jurisdiction as a war measure. John F. Ryan and Karl Lang prepared to press the issue in WashingtonTomorrow delegates from labor groups will seek the president’s action and the executive of the Central Labor Union will attend the conference.
Colonel W A Mercer states the 8th Regiment Coast Artillery Fort Terry N Y is now full. Future coast artillery applicants will be sent to Fort Adams R I, Narragansett Bay defense HQ, while Connecticut National Guard recruits go to Fort Wright N Y as before.
Bronson, Mich residents share testimonials for Vinal claiming strength, improved health, and ability to perform housework for a family of three. Ad endorses Vinal as a powerful strength creator with beef and cod liver peptones iron and manganese peptonates and glycerophosphates. Also mentions Dr True's Elixir and medicines available from dealers with prices 50c to $1.00.
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