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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1918
Page
3
Thomas Smith an outside collector and Miss Margaret McGrath chief clerk receive salary raises under a City Board plan. Smith will earn 81,800 a year. McGrath’s salary rises to 2,000 a year.
The mayor reviews years of work and proposes city reforms. He urges highway property acquisitions, street and shoreshore development, library upgrades, a new precinct station, and a larger teacher salary. He backs improved city finances, police fire cooperation, and prudent enforcement to curb rent gouging and licensure abuses.
Ephemeral ad copy notes price cuts on goods with phrases like now $1.90 and $0 price shorthand. Mentions AM Druggists and Eglman Laboratory in Philadelphia with stylized marketing tone.
Charles Pombriend alias Charles Henry, 53, faces desertion charges and will answer for marrying in Bridgeport while already married with three Nashua children. Arrested by Detective James Burns at 65 Winford Street, he claimed three children and marriage in Bridgeport a year ago Labor Day, with his current wife unaware of his former name. He will likely be sent to Nashua to answer the charges.
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