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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1918
Page
5
A community pledge from a family to economize to free labor and materials for the war effort, inviting Bridgeporters to invest in War Savings Certificates during 1918. The document lists monthly amounts and pledge totals, with spaces for names, towns, and maturity values, and notes individuals already covered by prior purchases.
A wartime pledge explains combining former pledges into five War Savings Certificates with minimal extra liability. It urges detailed timing for purchases, direct involvement of individuals fourteen or older, and emphasizes enrolling for the State and National Roll of Honor without stamp sales at canvass.
Robert J D Oddard of Bridgeport Trust Company was elected vice president of the Bridgeport chapter American Institute of Banking, succeeding Samuel W Davis who resigned to join Bullard Machine Tool. The executive committee accepted the resignation with regret and hopes Oddard will prove a worthy successor. The committee also discussed selecting an instructor for next September's bank employe course, with a college professor of prominence likely to be chosen. Blanks were sent to members to express preference for class hours.
Fifty two Russian seamen from the Omak were released from custody in Norfolk Virginia on June 22 by the Department of Labor. They may reship for service but no more than five seamen may sail on any single vessel. The case stemmed from mutinous conduct and Bolshevik sentiment aboard the steamship Omak.
Health officer Walter H. Brown reports about 500 city babies have been weighed during the baby campaign with stations to operate more days after schools close. Nurses and doctors will intensify data collection after July first, listing all babies and calling for weighing, with below normal children treated at clinics or by parents’ physicians. Make him fix his breakfast.
Congressman Schuyler Merritt was renominated by the Republican convention at Stratfield for a second term. Delegates praised his wartime record and urged continued support, with Roy Whittaker cited as toastmaster and a broad endorsement of his service and loyalty.
A prose column on blues as a mood linked to digestion and stress from war, with home remedies and discipline. It urges cheerful effort to help others, mentions purgatives and baths, and ends with reader questions about pimples and diet answered by Dr Currier.
Harold Rubenstein a United States sailor was found fatally shot in a room at the Navy Y M C A in Brooklyn. A tiny photo of a girl in his possession and a note signed Larry are linked to a love affair. He died after being taken to the naval hospital. His home is Newport, Rhode Island.
Hartford and Warroad authorities detained a 56 year old man who said he was a newspaperman from New York on charges of failing to present a draft registration card. He faces hearings before a U S Commissioner next week as he claimed to hold a United States Tow Zeguts title and described an organization with violent aims. The article mixes unclear details with sensational quotes and an advertisement for Dr True’s Elixir.
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