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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1918
Page
12
Fragmentary text from an old newspaper shows publication details, circulation notes, and Associated Press attribution. It references Madison Avenue New York and various entities, indicating a historic press masthead and circulation line. The readable portion preserves names like Madison Ave, New York, and AP credit.
A fragmented introspection notes how knowledge can feel limiting as life unfolds. The speaker recalls repeating familiar facts and confronting a sense of stagnation while aiming to learn and grow despite time passing.
A fragment from a wartime column reflecting on 1918 Thanksgiving hopes and fears. It muses on holidays, profiteers, the Kaiser, draft age, and postwar life, interweaving pop culture notes about Caruso and Enrico Caruso with social commentary and light humor about soldiers, civilians, and preparations for a Christmas rush.
A letter argues milk price hikes burden children and nurseries. It urges public protest, public inquiry, and possible city milk operations to curb profiteering, noting milk’s vital role for health and wartime child welfare. It calls for cooperation between charities and authorities to ensure affordable milk.
Citizens urged to observe Victory Sunday as a solemn, nationwide expression of gratitude for peace. Religious bodies announce churchwide celebrations to honor the end of conflict. Families of enlisted men and supporters are called to reflect in a reverent, private praise that transcends public displays.
The piece argues fate should deliver punishment to the Kaiser and his son through prolonged exile and historical consequence rather than execution. It claims death is too easy and that years of ostracism and the world’s advancing progress provide the deepest retribution for failed tyrants and their ambitions.
After World War I Bridgeport faces a critical question of postwar economy. Most factories had shifted to war work since 1914, with additions and converted machinery. The city must return to peacetime tasks and embrace new opportunities, planning with patience and practical sense for years of skilled manufacturing to sustain workers and growth.
The piece portrays German monarchs ceding power amid rising republican sentiment. It notes Prussia as the dominant state and predicts many smaller states may seek independence, warning that Prussia’s bad wartime reputation deters possible unions as the public questions governance and the war’s devastation.
Government ends building limits and Bridgeport resumes construction. Repair backlogs are heavy as stocks run low, signaling years of work to restore activity. The piece urges a return to peacetime enterprise, with mention of political filings by Parsons and Tackey and a sheriff candidate reporting campaign spending.
Major Henry C. Emery argues the United States and allies face a massive task provisioning Germany. He cites shortages of food and materials in Germany and recalls German admissions in October about hardship. Emery notes wartime reversals and reflects on broader postwar aims and missteps.
The article notes forthcoming orders to tighten or adjust draft operations by Prevost Marsh al and Geneva Crowder. It mentions suspensions of ill paid examinations, reclassification efforts, and registrants likely to be relieved from duties. Local and district boards are completing dependency classifications and preparing orders to ease exemptions amid policy changes.
Mexico City reports President Carranza signs a decree to reform the monetary system, placing it on a strict gold basis. The move follows a silver export crisis as high silver prices turned half peso coins into bullion, crippling business and hurting trade. The decree aims to coin the peso and half peso with limited exportability to reduce profits from shipment.
Cantonments have doubled in Home Service work in the two months from July 1 to September 1. On September 1 there were 91 Red Cross men in the camps performing Home Service, up from 46 on July 1 and none on April 1. The program aims to have a Home Service worker in every camp with 1,000 men or more, and in larger camps at least one per brigade. In 32 of the larger camps and 15 of the smaller ones the 91 Home Service workers handle about 20,000 cases monthly, averaging 1,000 per day.
Alfred F. Smith the Democratic gubernatorial candidate reported no money spent or received in his campaign per the secretary of state expense filing. Bird Coley Democratic nominee for state comptroller raised and spent 4372.83.
WEARNEY N C Nov Announcement was made today that the foundation Company Ship yards here will be closed Saturday after the launching of the Acrema the tenth and last wooden cargo carrier the company contracted to build for the Emergency Fleet Corporation Of the 6000 employees 5000 already have been deferred to other yards and the others will be distributed among eastern shipyards.
Harrisburg reports nearly 50 000 job offers across manufacturing clerical and mercantile fields for disabled veterans and sailors. Companies seek men with loss of limbs, sight or hearing and even partial blindness to fill vacancies in hundreds of plants and offices statewide.
New York nov 14 two men were killed and two badly burned when a steam valve on an American steamship in the navy yard vicinity exploded. The dead were Trent Alexander W Walls and Sy Tennoyer foreman of a civ machinist crew. Fireman first class Blarvey L Mercer was burned. The blast occurred in the engine room of the ship formerly the American liner St Louis.
American aviators claim victory late in the war period, with 175 German aircraft claimed down between September 12 and 11 am November 1. Official confirmation lists B53 as already confirmed. Bombing groups report substantial losses of German machines and heavy bomb tonnage dropped over the target area.
Roumania's government mobilized after the allied Balkan army arrival in Roumania. The entry of Roumanian forces into Transylvania was announced from Vienna yesterday.
Fragmented OCR reads unclear figures on British casualties for Menth with totals around 30 535. The line includes misread text and ciphered notes about mints, Aden, Guth, and other garbled terms, lacking coherent dates or locations to form a clear event narrative.
Boston novel telegraph dispatch says Governor ateCall sent a telegram to Secretary Baker and Postmaster General Jgurleson urging ships to deliver relief ships for US troops in France. He emphasized speed in arranging shipments of Christmas gifts and relief funds to the soldiers overseas.
The article urges housewives to save paper by using baskets and reusing paper for notes and drafts. It discusses paper shortages, urges increased production from alternative materials, and notes experiments with corn silk, oat straw, and papyrus. It also covers durability of paper, the Declaration and other records, and a proposal to preserve documents in vacuum tubes wrapped in asphalt and fiber and buried underground.
Twenty Americans taken prisoner by German forces are reported freed and returning from the line opposite the American front. German withdrawal is cited along parts of the front with reports of shelling and ammo movements as armistice conditions unfold.
Basel dispatch reports Count Karolyi, president of the Hungarian national council, asserts Roumania declared war on Germany to force the German general Mackensen to disarm his troops. Mackensen reportedly contends Germany’s republic is illegitimate.
Washington announces a credit of $100,000,000 for Italy to cover foodstuffs and war supplies. The Italian government has ordered goods in this country and in process of manufacture. United States loans to Italy total about $1.16 billion, with allied loans reaching roughly $7.913 billion.
Stratford High School faces Shelton on Saturday afternoon in town. Charles L. Snyder has been home on North Main Street for a few days. Mrs William Nothhagle and daughter Esther, both very ill, remain at their Fr man Avenue homes and are recovering.
A historic shift follows the end of World War I and the 1920 presidential campaign. Voters will shape politics for years as Democratic and Republican forces vie for control of Congress and New York’s gubernatorial race lures attention. Soldier influence rises as a new era begins.
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