Banks Here Take 3,000,000 Portion of City's Liberty Loan
Bridgeport begins its fourth Liberty loan drive with banks committing 3 million toward a 5.8418 million city quota. Officials aim for 425,000 subscribers, building on prior drives that doubled subscriber totals each time. Raybestos Co. reports 100 percent participation with 500 bolts bought for 25,000 dollars.
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Bridgeport
Hincks Bros. and Company
Raybestos Co
Raybestos
Artistic Bronze Company
War Hero Weeps While Recounting His Experiences
A patriotic mass meeting at the armory drew fifteen hundred attendees to mobilize women in munition work. Major Clifford B Tilson presided as Scout Joe Cassells of the Black Watch sobbed recounting battles from Aisne to Marne, bearing shrapnel scars and fatigue. He is returned to civilian life with injuries, unfit for further service.
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Armory
Cassells
Casselis
Propaganda Lies In Women Work Campaign Exposed
Minute Women gathering census data warn of harmful enemy propaganda about factory work. United States Employment Service official A W Burritt says remarks claiming the census is a factory scheme are false. He urges women to answer the government appeal, stressing they will not replace men but add labor to support the war effort.
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A. W. Burritt
United States Employment Service Office
Fairfield Avenue
Bridgeport
Ruler Ferdinand Not Behind Offer
Geneva dispatch notes Wolff bureau reports Bulgarian premier Malinoff’s peace offer clashes with the wishes of King Ferdinand and the Teutons. The item claims the ruler’s stance is not aligned with peace initiatives.
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Ferdinand
Geneva
Switzerland
Wolff Bureau
Malinoff
Teu
Wilson outlines five principles for a just peace plan
President Wilson responds to the Central Powers with five practical principles for America's peace terms. He calls for impartial justice without discrimination, universal interest, no exclusive leagues, no selfish economic boycotts, and full disclosure of all treaties to the world, pledging the United States to its share of responsibility.
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America
United States
New York
League of Nations
Germany
Wilson
Fourth Liberty Loan
Russia
Roumania
League of Milions
Evry
Three Bridgeport Nurses Go to Aid Ayer Camp Devens
Miss Marjorie Quigley Miss Mary A Honan and Mrs Tharle Martin of Bridgeport will join 100 Connecticut nurses called by the State Council of Defense to relieve the influenza crisis at Camp Devens. They depart on the 9 46 morning train and only three more nurses from the city could be secured.
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Marjorie Quigley
Mary A. Honan
Tharle Martin
Connecticut State Council of Defense
Connecticut
Camp Devens
Bridgeport
Margaret Rourke
Graduate Nurses’ Club of
Murse
Winifred MM. Bramann
Fairfield County
Aller Attempt To Blow up S-W Munitions Plant
Springfield mass Bapt 27 fiarry Murcherty aged 24 arrested by federal detectives on plot to blow up the Smith and Wesson factory in the city. He is said to be of foreign origin and had been missing since September 17 after leaving town amid charges of passing worthless checks. The plant had been under government control after a labor dispute and strike involving the War Labor Board.
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Springfield
Mass
Fiarry
Murcherty
Palmer
Smith and Wesson
Kurcherty
Smith and Wesson Company
Yanks Again Defeat Crack I Prussian Guards Battle Update
Allied forces drive on between Argonne and Meuse as Pershing reports rising prisoners and captured guns. French troops east of Rheims seize over 10 000 prisoners and materiel in a two day battle, while Gouraud's army presses toward the enemy positions with continued assaults.
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Pershing
Haig
Cambrai
Rheims
Verdun
Associated Press
Argonne Forest
River Meuse
Belleau Wood
Paris
Bois de Lilichelle
Comins
Challevange
Gouraud
Bulgarian Secession May Remove Turks Too
With Entente forces unified under Marshal Foch’s strategy, Bulgaria signals a possible armistice as Premier Malinoff seeks peace terms. Bulgaria’s retreat and potential exit from the war threaten the Central Powers, risking a chain reaction that could sever German influence in the Balkans and weaken Austria and Turkey.
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Priess
Entente
Inter-allied War Council
Marshal Foch
Pyowels
Bulgaria
Teutonicalli
Malinoff
Ferdinand
Pulgaria
Wrussian Tiasco
Germany
Russia
Turkey
Allenby
Palastine
Black Sea
Roumania
Trans-Caucasia
Botsheviks
Ottoman Empire
Balkan
Ontenta
Hospitals Close To Visits During Influenza Scare
Public health measures restrict visits to St. Vincents and Bridgeport hospitals to curb Spanish influenza spread. Health Officer Dr. W H Brown pushes strict anti spitting enforcement and police cooperation. Posters in trolley cars explain transmission and prevention including sneezing into a handkerchief. Fuel Administrator T J Pardy may allow slight office heating due to cool damp days.
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St. Vincent'’s
Bridgeport
W. H. Brown
T. J. Pardy
Adequate Pledge of Sincerity Is Demand
President Wilson told a New York audience that peace requires impartial justice for all nations and a League of Nations formed at the peace conference. He outlined five practical principles including no discrimination, no exclusive treaties, and full disclosure of all international agreements, stressing that justice must be universal and enforceable.
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League of Nations
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