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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1926
Page
28
A garbled OCR snippet lists various foods and prices, including clam chowder and codfish cakes, with uncertain spellings and broken phrases. Items appear as a rough catalog of prepared dishes and prices, reflecting a vintage grocery or market page.
A special Senate committee will begin investigating the Tariff Commission and whether President Coolidge influenced its actions. Democratic Senator Robinson of Arkansas will chair, with Vice President Davis backing La Follette’s vote. Witnesses will include F. W. Taussig, and Culbertson may be recalled to probe sugar tariff influences.
Wallace Idaho March 18 CAP Clarence McMurray and Dan Knuppenberg miners trapped on the 1809 foot level of the morning mine for more than 86 hours were rescued early this morning. Rescue workers penetrated the final six feet of rock and debris in less than an hour and the two men were taken from the mine tunnel uninjured. They were trapped by a cave in Tuesday afternoon when walls of a tunnel collapsed. George Sinew, another miner, escaped at the time of the cave-in.
Firemen responded to a Dunham Press building at 747 Cannon Street finding smoke and a small fire traced to woodwork near a boiler in the electroplating floor above. They removed concrete and heavy floor planks to extinguish it with light estimated losses.
Passaic march report states workers in the Wassau district await leaders’ response to Secretary Davis’s conciliation proposal. Mill owners agreed to arbitration yesterday while Albert Weisbord, head of the United Front, balked and promised counter proposals. Pickets and a woman’s arrest plus two injuries noted as activity shifted to Washington for official word.
Washington March 18 AP says wholesale commodity prices and retail food costs declined slightly in February from January. The Labor Department index of 404 commodities shows 165 up to 100 base 1918, with 19 decreases and 9 increases among items, and eggs among the sharpest drops.
The Town of Shelton must pay $4,228 to Mrs. Anna Ritter, a Shelton rooming house keeper, after a Superior court decision by Judge Isaac Wolfe. Ritter broke her right leg in three places when she slipped on an ice covered sidewalk at Worcester street and Cliff avenues in Shelton on March 6 1923, suing the town for damages of $8 000.
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