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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1920
Page
20
The Bridgeport Utilities Board hearing on a ten cent fare proposal for the Connecticut company reveals strained finances and delayed investigations. Officials note debts to the state, rising operating costs, and debate whether higher fares will curb jitneys or push patrons toward private transport.
Speakers debate a proposed fare rise for a Connecticut company noting a one third to ten percent impact on revenue and a two percent income boost from a zone system. Attorney Clark urges legislative relief and considers cost plus or cooperative models. commissioner will review and decide soon.
Berlin dispatch notes that despite wartime deprivation and blockade Germany still counts 65 men and 4 women over 160 years old. Among them five men and one woman are still married. The report also lists 3,600 men and 7,360 women over 90, and records long lists of young brides and widows aged 15 to 17. It highlights many widows remarrying quickly and cites war-related divorces, with sixty percent of divorces granted during the war occurring for reasons tied to wartime injuries.
Berlin reports German troops have withdrawn from the zone toward the Rhine, with movement measured in kilometers. The data notes the army now numbers Mes and implies a strategic retreat as Allied pressure intensifies.
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