Spaniards Enter Bridgeport Labor Scene Amid Growth
The Mexican displacement of Spain emerges as a large labor flow to Bridgeport with up to four thousand Spaniards, many from Valencia and Lugo. Firms such as Crane Company and American Tube hire them. a new Union Obera de Hable Espanola forms with English classes and social activities.
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Bridgeport
Con
Lugo
Cantabrian
Spain
Pyrenees
Portugal
Valencia
Mediterranean
Gulf
England
United States
Pego
Aliante
Ithe
Panama Canal
South
Central America
Rabor
Mays
America
New York
Brigeport
Bullen
Senor Pedro Alvarez
Sate Street
James
Boston
Philadelphia
Albany
Remington
Crane Company
American Tube & Stamping Co
Malleable Iron Works
Columbia, Graphophone
The
Amalgamated Metal Workers
Union Obera de Hable Espanola
Gener
Carice Rodrigues
Main Street
Bulton
Senor Clemente del Rio
Lewis Street
Leon
Rug shopping prompts silent household debate
A domestic exchange unfolds as one partner urges buying new rugs while the other prioritizes blankets. The dialogue hints at differing priorities and a quiet household negotiation about comfort items.
Which Is Better Jitney Or Trolley
Bridgeport residents discuss transit choice jitney versus trolley urging readers to vote their preference. TheBridgeport Times invites coupons to tally public sentiment and directs readers to mail or deliver to 179 Fairfield avenue. The week ending July 21 1920 includes health reports of diphtheria measles scarlet fever whooping cough typhoid fever and other communicable diseases with counts by town.
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Bridgeport
Bridgeport Times
Times Office
The
Fairfield Avenue
Monroe
Norwalk
Westport
Greenwich
New Canaan
Stamford
Booze Concealed in Bales of Rags Seized in New York
Prohibition agents seized 32 bales on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western pier 14 North River that contained five gallon whiskey jugs worth about 5000 dollars at retail. The shipment reportedly aimed at a Cleveland firm with J Weinstein named as shipper. Two New York women linked to the case were noted. Earlier, a separate find on Broome Street uncovered 350 cases of Kentucky whiskey also valued at 5000 dollars and confiscated.
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New York
Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Pier
North River
Prohibition
Tass
Cleveland
J. Weinstein
Broome Street
Last AEF Unit to Disband Aug 31 in World War I
Washington August 11 The American expeditionary forces will pass into history on August 31 when the last unit of the army that fought in France ceases to exist. War records will be transferred to the War Department and on September 1 Pershing assumes the title General of the Army with a staff of officers including Fox Conner Michael J O'Brien George C Marshall Jr John G Que k emeyer G E Adamson John T Schneier William J Cunningham and R A Cartin.
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Washington
France
War Department
Pershing
Baker
Gen. Pershing
Fox Conner
Michael J. O'Brien
George C. Marshall
John G. Quekemeyer
G. E. Adamson
John T. Schneier
William J. Cunningham
R. A. Cartin
Tiz Foot Remedy Ad Encourages Quick Relief
An old advertisement extols Tiz as the grand solution for tired feet with corns calluses and bunions. It promises painless comfort, smaller shoe sizes, and plump-wiggling toes after a foot bath, urging readers to buy a box at drug or department stores.
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Adv
Erie starts car ferries on Chicago River
Erie Railroad launches first car ferries on the Chicago River unloading cars onto barges and moving them by tug to two freight stations. The cars return to Erie terminals at 18th Street and the south branch, cutting freight travel through congested streets and boosting railroad efficiency in Chicago. The Mayflower yacht upgrade noted.
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Chicago
Erie Railroad
Chicago River
Te Branch
Erie
18Th Street
South Branch
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Noble
Rockwell &Co
MAIN
Danbury (T
Dillon
Luo
Main ST
Conn
Hartford
Rue &J
Oscilo
Paria
The Smith=Murray Co
Fairfield Ave
Bridgeports
Him and
Her
G. W., Fairchild & Sons, Inc
Arcade Corner
Voile
Peau de Cygne, Messaline & Taffeta
Petticoats
United Tire & Vulcanizing Co
Firestone
Barnum
Mantler
TEL
BAR
Mary Jane's
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