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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1918
Page
16
The Texas lower house tonight concurred in a minor Senate amendment to the resolution for ratification of the federal prohibition amendment. The resolution now goes to the governor. The piece ends with a remark on love and healing from hate and sins.
Tur ney In this city a child died on March 2 1918 widow of Lynn W Turney aged 6 years 4 months 16 days Funeral from the residence of her son Arthur C Turner 1417 East Main street on Tuesday March 5 at 2 pm Interment Lakeview Cemetery Automobile cortege Bartram Grace Stanton wife of Ernest R Bartram died in city aged 38 years 10 months 9 days Funeral from her mother Mrs Mary A Stanton 213 Laurel avenue on Thursday March 7 at 3 30 pm Interment Mt Grove Cemetery
Myrtle Barber White is absent from the state and has a complaint for divorce and minor custody pending in Superior Court for Fairfield County. The notice of pendency will be published in The Bridgeport Evening Post weekly for two weeks, commencing March 4, 1918, as required by order.
The Senate adopted an amendment to the agricultural appropriations bill providing 759000 dollars in prizes to stimulate staple food production. Senator Gore, chair of the agricultural committee, led the debate with Senators Teed and Wadsworth asserting the administration has not given farmers proper attention.
In New York city a statement from Frederick N. Mivadi astite superintendent of elections declares that American women married to foreigners cannot vote in the four special congressional elections tomorrow. The United States revised statute makes a wife of a foreigner automatically assume her husband’s citizenship, and the rule also applies to women whose husbands have only obtained first papers.
London March 4 Replying to a question in the house of commons today as to whether copies of all treaties secret or public and all other memoranda of other agreements to which Great Britain has become a party since August 4 1914 have been communicated to President Wilson foreign secretary Balfour said President Wilson is bent fully informed by theates
Boston, March 4. The British steamer Arrino, bound in the Boston and St Nazaire service, was sunk by a German submarine while on a voyage to an American port. The crew were saved. Arrino was built in Glasgow in 1896 and registered 4,484 tons.
New York March 4 reports say ruinous conditions in the corn market are easing but prices hold firm. Illinois Grain Dealers Association cites farm and country elevator losses at 3,204,000 bushels this week vs 9,400,000 last year. central Illinois shows a third of corn badly damaged. Car shortages threaten movement three weeks hence as farmers busy with spring work. Argentina reports export embargo on corn to the U S in favor of wheat contracts. Europe receipts for oats steady but moderate. shorts cover, offers moderate and absorbed. Chicago grain quotations via T L Watson Co show March at 127 34, May at 88 to 89.
The 1847 defense of Chapultepec is lauded as gallant with 48 Mexican cadets, aged 14 to 20, buried together after a daring stand. A heroic young cadet tore the flag and fought as he died. The cadets return yearly to strew flowers on the grave beneath the hill. Also notes stock market deadlock and a Yukon caribou migration estimated at 1,006,000 head moving south to find food, impacting mail routes.
New York report notes recent selling in select stocks led by Steel common, amid fears of artificial measures and possible market restraints. Banking and treasury policy discussion focuses on rediscount facilities and next war loan funding. United States Realty shows record low market value, while Corn Products Refining posts strong profits and earnings growth, with no near-term dividend. Tubber expects possible but unlikely dividends. Bross sales rise materially across departments.
The New York Sun reports private wire quotes for cotton, noting a high price paid by Frederick Jordiman of Brooklyn for the most expensive vote in the city. The lone voter cast at 6:15 a.m. in the Fiftieth district, with the election open 6 a.m. to 5 p.m., and eight officials plus poll watchers present.
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