Laboring Man Seeks Better Homes and Housing
The article discusses postwar housing shortages and the surge in building for working families. It cites the Remington Arms plant in Bridgeport as a massive wartime project with housing for workers, notes the shift to peacetime industry, and argues laboring men now seek quality dwellings rather than cramped tenements, predicting a long-term housing demand and higher prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ettir
Remington Arms Company
Bridgeport
Gener Ricetric Company
Joseph P. Day
New York City
Boston
United States
Day
Woolworth Truildins
Remington
Genera Electric Company
Ihes
Telerest
Joseph P
Lpea
Bronx
Flashes of Crime and Politics Across 1920s Headlines
A mixed dispatch recalls Thornton P. Dugan wanted for theft in New Haven arrested in Atlantic City after a $1,630 heist. Probate proceedings in New Haven involve a $7,000 inheritance claim by Mrs. Mary Cassidy. Tobacco harvests loom large. a home fire destroys George Gallop’s residence in Oneco. Notes on Irish politics, wartime brides, and labor disputes punctuate a broad regional snapshot from New Haven to Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thornton P. Dugan
National Tradesman’s Bank of New Haven
Atlantic City
Mary M. Cassidy
New Haven
Poland’s partitions mark 1772 milestone and downfall
An OCR fragment recalls the 1772 partition of Poland by Russia Prussia and Austria. It notes the ensuing decline the 1795 complete division and the brief reign of Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski as king, while lamenting modern excesses like garages over toolsheds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanislaus Augustus
Poland
Russia
Prussia
Austria
Cracow
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Winsted
Federal Grand Jury
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Oklahoma
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Bronx Avenue
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New York
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Brooklyn
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John
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St. Patrick’s Church
St. Michael's Cemetery
Milwaukee
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Meigs &. Co
Bridgeport, Conn
Main ST
Fairfield Ave
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Connecticut
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American Hardware Stor23 Incorporated
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