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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1918
Page
12
A fragmentary verse questions future whereabouts after death and places the speaker among saints and sinners who have crossed a gulf to reach an ultimate beyond mortal ken. The speaker imagines finding splendid company in the beyond.
Fragmented wartime column reflects home front chatter about registration and mobilization. It cites Allied unity, Hun defeat rhetoric, and daily life strains while noting strange slang and dated newspaper humor. References to Cantigny, conscription, patrols, and weather frame early 20th century public mood.
Mayor Wilson cites rent profiteering in his annual message urging council action. Readers urge specifics and a corrective plan to prevent federal intervention, noting Bridgeport’s military role and in-migration heightening housing costs. A public hearing by the aldermen is proposed to expose extortion and seek swift remedy.
The piece argues against a twenty percent ice price rise after a record season and higher manufacturing costs. It urges the food administration to review profits, prune duplication of ice routes, and allocate districts to avoid inflated prices for the poor.
A column urges mothers to stop binding infants in wool and to allow more air on hot days. It cites Native practices, questions winter wind exposure, and advises gradually removing woolen undergarments and caps to let babies breathe and move.
Bridgeport is urged to support war savings stamps with a goal of 50,000 subscribers, about one in three people. The appeal emphasizes thrift, patriotism, and readiness to meet the stamp collector, noting both men and women as active participants in the effort.
The article notes a shift from casual sentiment to resolve as the war intensifies. It cites the submarine threat and British and French experiences, urging Americans to meet the danger with courage and unity, likening endurance to early settlers defending the nation.
Twenty eight survivors of the New York and Porto Rico United Carolina shipwrecked by a German submarine arrive in Atlantic City after forty hours at sea. Most are passengers. names include J J McLaren, Caroline Higgins, Hamiltons, Anita Cheney, Charlotta Perkins, and others. some addresses unavailable.
Pearl Verguson, a 22 year old nurse, pleaded guilty in New York City General Sessions to kidnapping the five month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mix Jacobus of New York. Judge Crane sentenced her to five to ten years in Auburn prison after she posed as a widow of a fallen French soldier in Bridgeport.
Governor Holcomb will notify local draft boards to follow only orders from him Major Buckley the adjutant general or in rare cases emergency directives from the provost marshal general. A telegram from General Crowder advised ignoring forged or unofficial letters and telegrams from Washington and urged reporting any suspicious activity.
A wartime committee denounces slackers who fail to cultivate land amid enemy submarine threats. The Bridgeport Home Garden Committee and partners urge planting vegetables, offering help and a planting table showing dates for various crops through late summer.
John Raymond Bishop son of Mr and Mrs John B Bishop of Morehouse avenue has arrived safely on the other side He enlisted in the United States Aviation squadron last November and trained in Texas before going to Mineola then to an Atlantic port He became an aerial gunner and is finishing training near the front likely to fly over the front to exterminate the Beast of Bertin and his companions
Mrs. F. T. Pickett appointed by the war savings committee to supervise four women helpers selling thrift stamps at all regime and holiday baseball games at Newfield Park for the rest of the season. Pickett previously sold Liberty bonds to 98 Bridgeport coal drivers during the third Liberty Loan drive. A committee of helpers will be named later. ARRESTED AT THERAPIE. John Wesley, 29, of 14758 Brin Street and Edward J. Pattenburg, 35, of 272 State Street were arrested by Special Officer Chembellils at the Plaza theater for smoking violations and interfering with an officer.
Walter Crawford was appointed by the National War Industries Board to supervise government materials purchases across regions. The unit will be based in Providence Port with an army officer and will coordinate contracts through the War Industries Department. Zones in major cities will organize facilities, labor, and equipment data to accelerate production with minimized cross sourcing of unfinished goods.
The Superior Court will dismiss civil actions that have sat on the docket for ten years without trial. Clerk Tracy will call them Friday morning and no docket continuances will be allowed without a court order for good cause. actions older than one year with no pleadings in the past year will be stricken unless a written retention request is filed by tomorrow morning. Receivers appointed by the court must appear Friday to account for their estates.
The Ordnance department will occupy the eighth and ninth floors starting Saturday with the production division led by Waldo G. Royant. soon after, the ction, finance, property and personnel, and engineering sections will move to the fourth through seventh floors. The War Industry bureau of the United States Employment Agency may also use space there. Mr. Bryant aims for a full move by Monday morning, with work beginning Saturday and finishing the next day.
Word from Trance yesterday says Harry W Congdon of 341 South avenue now with CG of the 104d U S Infantry will be decorated for bravery. He is breveted twice for gallantry and twice awarded the war cross of France. Report says Congdon captured two German soldiers after stopping them from attacking allied wives. he is severely wounded at Toul.
United States Secret Service men detained Ammin Macer chuk, a Russian, tonight for distributing seditious material. He was arrested on the street while passing out a street pamphlet. Individuals who stopped to dismiss literature were also held as witnesses, with the prisoner known as am i WoW and formerly employed in a factory. The case was heard by a United States commissioner in Mayford.
An independent Polish army of 15,000 men fights with the Allies on the western front, drawn from multiple sources including the United States. The Polish National Committee in Paris leads the force, with hospitals and training camps in Brooklyn and Canada, as Poles abroad rush to defend Polish nationhood and seek guaranteed independence after the war.
A rubbish pile of scraps and debris behind He man Coal on Isnown Street caught fire due to spontaneous combustion last evening. Fire Chief Chemical No. 1 brought hoses to soak the area. the flames were extinguished.
In San Antonio Texas on June 4 Second Lieutenant Joseph O Malley 37 of Albany Mississippi was instantly killed when his airplane fell. A companion named by authorities escaped unharmed.
The piece notes limited gains from a proposed teacher pay increase, suggests Republican war prosecutions shape election strategy, and reports Theodore Douglas Robinson as campaign manager for Merton E. Lee against Governor Whitman. It hints Roosevelt's stance and Whitman’s potential 1920 presidential bid implications.
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