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Newspaper

Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

May 31, 1926

Page

13

Stratford area housing boom with multiple listings

Multiple Stratford and Bridgeport ads show week of rental and sale listings. 4 to 8 room cottages and two family homes feature improvements, garages, electric and gas, garden space. Prices range from thousands with down payments and easy terms. Local notices include probate and memorial items.

Pawcalst Tees Rnie Park Arion Stad Park Ffamily Elec Srielly Dake Garden Jameson Bt Saugaturk G Brown FOH Salm Yoma House Stratford Thorsh Bari Wartborough Senheld Ray Fairfield Emi Ecorated Kerage Garaumere McHont Rome Dark & Son State Tatarette Harnum al Brars Sears Mil Tohnson Oakland St Milford Conn Hingalow Fridgeport Noelia Niate Road Barnun Barnum Avi Burritt Frank Monica Bacxum & Coun Elizabeth Po Turney Warren Herries Yanatek Stratforn Stratford Centar Sridgeport Barnum

Oyster sloop for sale listed in Norwalk harbor area

Classified notice announces an auxiliary oyster sloop named Henry Rupule for sale in Cast Norwalk Harbor with a 40 ft cabin cruiser, licensed operator, Perris Marine motor, and handwritten contact details in Norwalk Connecticut.

Henry Rupule Norwalk Jandrey Perris Marine Willians Tigward Barnum Eas

Property price listing at 2 Vairtent Ave and 10 Beechment Ave

A messy OCR reads a price note for a property at 2 Vairtent Ave with a shingled roof listed as 8207 and mentions Edwin A Jobo of Beechment Ave Noble 442 and a plan for payment.

Eummmble Wang Bats Esay Pacinent Edwin Jobo Beechment Noble

Railways Reach Million Freight Load for Week Early May

Reports show rail traffic topping one million carloads for the second week in May, signaling improving business. May freight bookings and April earnings are poised for the strongest postwar showing, with steel, sugar, gas prices rising and overall demand firming.

U. S. Steel Corporation

Local Obits and Funeral Notices May 1926 1928

Death notices and funeral details from cities including San Francisco Stratford and Bridgeport list names such as Beers Blasko Bradbury Harris Kingman Lucey Myers Stubbs Turrell and Wilson. Each notice provides residence addresses and scheduled funeral or burial times, church and cemetery details across several towns.

Barnum Avenue Stratford St. Michael's Bradbury Nelson L. Bradbury Bradley Street Lakeview Harris Millwood Street Pont Trumbull Beach Mitford Henry E. Bishon Fairfield Avenue Bridgeport Lakeview Cemetery Saranac Lake James D Rose A. Gallagher Daniel C. Lucey Myrtle Avenue Church of the Sacred Heart St. Thomas’ Cemetery Fairfield Myers Philadelphia John Myers Jameswa Myera Brooklyn N.Y Stubbs Amos St. Patrick's Church St. Michael’s Cemetery Wilson Mary Doyle James T. Wilson Hazelwood Avenue St. Augustine's Church St. Michael's Cemetery

Wholesale egg market steady amid firm farm trade

Market reports show active Saturday wholesale activity with about a dozen farmers, ample spinach, and firm fruit and egg prices. Beef, lamb, and pork yields remain strong, hay and grains steady. various produce and dairy items listed with pricing across baskets, crates, and boxes.

Kennery Il Braliers

Copper steady as prices shade amid weak export demand

Copper was generally quiet with Continental buyers showing little interest and British trade hampered by coal strikes. Export inquiry remained weak while domestic buyers had covered near term needs. No general selling pressure appeared, prices shaded but held a steadier tone toward week’s end.

New York

Fight for control of German dye industry seen in Germany

Berlin May 34 Fight for control of the German dye industry with a new liquid coal process shifts to American oil interests led by Standard Oil. Large dye stock purchases boost German markets while English coal strikes fuel exports and a stock exchange boom slows. Reichsbank reports lower currency circulation and unemployment edges up, with Ruhr layoffs as iron industry shifts west. national income remains down from prewar levels.

Berlin Tas Standard OW Ryala Anlong Stock Exchange Institute For Economic Research Ruhr Rhine Reichsbank Statistical Office

Wisconsin farmers use pension fund loans on farms

Wisconsin farmers are drawing on more than three million dollars of state funds to support pensions for teachers. Outstanding real estate mortgage loans of the state teachers' retirement fund total 3,424,332 dollars, with most loans on farms. The five percent interest rate is charged on the loans.

Madison Wis Wisconsin

Woman Collects Envelope Linings in Chicago Hobby

In Chicago in May 1946 Miss Yolanda Schaumberger notes four weeks of business mail yielded 105 envelope linings. Her hobby reveals an emerging industrial art branch with designs ranging from violet to gold and old rose. Some pieces mimic King Tut's era forms and others feature Pompadour era florals.

Chicago Yolanda Schaumberger King Tut

Weekly Index of Prices and Purchasing Power 1920s

The text presents a weekly index of wholesale prices for 200 commodities and the purchasing power of money relative to the 1918 pre-war level. It notes May 1926 peak prices about 147 percent above pre-war, with 40.5 pre-war cents per dollar, and cites Professor Irving Fisher’s Making of Inder Numbers as basis for calculations.

Irving Fisher Houghton, Mifflin & Co Pollak Foundation For Economic Research Newton 68 Mass Dun Wet Industries Board

Weeks Bond Price Average Hits Highest Level in Year

New York May 80. General average of bond prices the week reached the highest level in years yet trading slowed. Investors favored high grade securities as yields remained attractive. European turmoil and Mexican, Haitian strikes influenced sentiment and foreign bond activity waned. Railroad and industrials saw constructive activity despite overall hesitancy.

New York Ano Fnvey I Gning Norfolk and Western Haven Skelly and Sinclair Oonibles

London market holds steady as rubber stirs activity

After Whitsun holidays the London market remained quiet but firm overall with rubber as the standout exception. Foreign government bonds were lively while Chinese and French markets under pressure. British rails showed strength but profit taking trimmed gains. tobacco, banks, and textiles were dull amid mixed commodity signals. De Beers led the mining sector as plat inums rose and Kaffirs strengthened.

London New Zealand Reutes British Rails Antofagastas Havanas Leopoldinas Tobaccoa de Beers

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