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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1919
Page
21
Miss Adelaide Sedgwick, once a society belle of teas and dances, shifted to war work and now runs a business manufacturing dainty powder room furnishings in New York.
Jack Curtis a Centralia barber and Cecil Curtis were arrested and confessed to participating in an I W W radical group. They claimed not to shoot during Armistice Day parade after being armed. Britt Smith then turned state’s evidence identifying four more I W W prisoners at the radicals’ headquarters. A Spokane roundup followed with 44 alleged I W W members arrested in a police raid.
A citizen urges shoppers and merchants in Bridgeport to support shorter weekly hours, arguing equal justice for labor. The appeal targets wage earners and clerks, urging buying before Saturday and backing a movement to keep shops open fewer evenings while preserving pay fairness and time for family and leisure.
New York Nov 13 Organizing of the American central committee for Russian relief was effected today with Charles W Eliot president emeritus of Harvard named to head the body. Selhu Root Samuel Gompers Dr John R Mott and Silas H McCormick of Chicago named vice presidents with Samuel McRoberts treasurer and Montgomery Schuyler secretary.
Dispatch from Buffalo reports Walter Jennings of Bridgeport and Floyd Greese of Pittsburgh were injured in a Vanderbilt Hotel fire. Guest William H. Ravling of Watertown was seriously burned and may die. About forty guests were in the four story hotel when the fire started on the second floor and raced up stairs to the roof.
The piece argues picture framing shapes perception as much as the art itself. It notes harmony between frame, wall, furniture, and decor, urging frames to highlight the picture as the room’s highlight. It cites evolving tastes and mentions past nightmarish images and a remark about drug clerks meeting at Carpenter’s Hall.
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