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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1919
Page
24
Andréw Vartenian testifies he earned $10 a day as a jitney driver seeking $600 for 18 days of lost business after a Stratford Avenue collision with defendant Jacob B. Wurtzell. Wurtzell contends the jitney was on the curb when struck. Trial resumes Tuesday.
The amalgamated British American fraternal societies of this city will celebrate the allied victory with a concert and dance at the Wasing on State street this evening. Conducted by Professor Elmer and Joyce, the program features soprano Mrs Flaters, contralto Mrs Lottie Hennett Wheeter, bass lis Lundberg, and tenor Lewis Fenton. Ten organizations unified for the event include Magni Charta lodge and Sons of St George among others. Committee head is George L. Hall with K Cunningham treasurer and Joe Booth secretary. Bridgeport police Lt. James Walker will manage the floor.
A World War era note from the Los Angeles Times describes an Ohio regiment where two mules were marked as dead on the morning report after a veterinarian’s verdict. A stable sergeant influenced the captain, and the next day the report corrected the entry to say the mules were back to duty, illustrating the rigidity and humor of military record keeping.
Report on wartime shelter conditions in Belgium describes returnees living in wooden huts and dugouts near Ypres. Families with ten and twelve children reside in dugouts as eighty percent lack money and have received no war compensation.
Honolulu workers on the Elana wharf have struck for higher pay. The piece notes citizen hiring rules, with non citizens filling positions when citizens won t work. Also references crippled soldiers needing jobs and a November dispatch urging employers to offer work through the Re-employment Committee for Soldiers Sailors and Marines.
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