Bridgeport urged to back housing loan for munition city
Editorial calls Bridgeport business leaders to back an $8,000,000 government loan to Bridgeport Housing Co for constructing at least one thousand homes. Backing guarantees no loss and speeds war effort by expanding housing, boosting munitions production in a city of 160,000 with few rental homes.
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Cport
Bridgenest
Bridgeport Flousing
Bridgeport
Bridgeport Housing Company
Territorials Rescue Battle At Hill and Blockhouse
In 1918 French Terrotorials assault a hill and Bowie block house. The breach is blown, men fall back in shell holes as enemy torrents press. Morin and Marseille defend bravely while two sections rally and drive the attackers from the crater. To be continued tomorrow.
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Bowie Blockhouse
Morin
Pblockhouse
Herbecourt
Loo
Bocie
Marseille
A Line O Cheer The Singing Breeze
A city breeze carries a quiet, dreamlike refrain of nature. It evokes green woods, hills, mossy banks, and mountain rills, offering rest for weary feet and a promise of respite from urban alarms. The speaker thanks the breeze for delivering visions of byways and forgetfulness of care.
Parodies and Politics at the Breakfast Table
A collage of wartime quips and social satire touches on parade days, prosperity, rationing, and German actions. It notes the Red Cross day, mentions Hoover, thrift stamps, and radium seizures, and ends with a fragment about Eve’s Daughters and Grace Bishops.
An Experiment in Piety and a New York Eatery Closure
The piece discusses the Dennett restaurant chain once common in the East and its New York closing this month. It argues the venture failed not due to religion but due to a misfit of prayer and commerce, noting successful restaurants align faith with honest service and efficient business.
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Dennett
East
New York City
Mr. Dennett
No Boche Peace Prompted by Wilson in New York
President Wilson spoke at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York opening the Red Cross campaign and insisted there will be no Boche peace until Germany accepts world demands. He said the United States will fight to victory and warned against insincere peace approaches while Berlin is urged to present its terms.
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Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Red Cross
Wilson
United States
Russia
Germany
Woodrow Wilson
Berlin
Bridgeport Leads Red Cross Drive With Parade Glory
The city celebrates the largest Red Cross effort to date, praising the Saturday parade that showcased Bridgeport at its best. Secretary Daniels is absent. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt attends and outlines wartime aims, yet the drive continues, urging generous support to aid the troops.
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Red Cross
Bridgeport
Daniels
Navy Department
Roosevelt
American Fliers Busy Record Promises More Air Losses
A wartime note stresses American airmen's progress and anticipated gains. It cites ten German fliers destroyed versus two American and asserts continued monthly improvements, noting foreign made machines may be used but achievements remain the measure of success.
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France
Scrambling for Thrones Across Germany and Russia
The piece notes ducal and princely houses in Germany racing for thrones while Berlin butchers carve up Russia. It condemns royal rulers for misery and warns they will face the handwriting on the wall and prophecy’s fulfillment in months.
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Germany
Berlin
Russia
The Flunkey Must Go
A May 13 dispatch argues the United States must bar unnecessary labor to free workers for essential wartime duties. It urges city dwellers to swap nonessential jobs for field labor, closing stores and sending clerks to harvest, to ensure food for allies and Americans. It condemns superfluous workers as hindering the war effort and promotes personal responsibility in daily occupations.
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Washington
America
United States
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Clarence H. Ousley
Ousley
Sherman
Texas
Birmingham
Ala
Man shoots wife four times in Waterbury then hid
William Easley, a Black man, shot his wife four times at their Brown street home. She died or was dying. he fled, hid in a nearby barn, and was captured after a morning pursuit by Waterbury police led by Lieut. Cavanaugh. He confessed, saying he had a god reason.
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Waterbury
Easley
William Easley
John Cavanaugh
St. Mary's Hospital
Brown Street
Wesley
Cook Street
Rowling
Gooding
Boulanzer
Gratitude for Italy Emphasized by Wilson in War Celebration
President Wilson urged a nationwide May 24 celebration marking Italy’s third anniversary in World War I. He asked Americans to display Italian flags, hold meetings and demonstrations, and show gratitude for Italy’s services to universal democracy amid heroism on land and in civilian effort.
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Washington
Italy
Germany
Wilson
White House
United States
Shanghaied and Robbed Two Years at Sea
Henry Gill of Stratford recalls being shanghaied from New Bedford in his youth aboard the Lakseo, a floating repo shop of the Laka Torpedo company. Two years at sea yielded hard work and meager pay before returning to Lynn, then Stratford where he settled with his family. Gill holds relics from distant seas and displays them in a den adorned with a Shin Cock fishhouse scene and a knotted rope mural.
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Lakseo
Laka Torpedo Company
City Dock
Wi Street
Henry Gill
No Avenue
Stratford
New Bedford
New Enland
Henry G
Gill
Lynn
Navy
China
India
Africa
New Lodon
Political gossip on party nominees and war leadership faceoffs
The piece alleges a peace pact among few leaders including J Henry Roraback and Frank Healy, hinting Healy may be attorney general nominee. It notes Democratic efforts to lure McAdoo to govern New York failed, while Hearst or Hylan may be GOP targets. It lists numerous Republican appointees by Wilson for war roles, framing partisan advantages.
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J. Henry Roraback
Frank Healy
Ullman
Connecticut
Healy
Windsor Locks
Treasury
William G. McAdoo
New York
Arig
William ‘Randolph Hearst
Tammany
Moby
Hylan
William J. Bryan
Alfred T. Smith
New York City
James W. Gerard
Fortr
Germany
Bainbridge Colby
Progressive Party
Wilson
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