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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1921
Page
9
The piece argues Connecticut Brass likely moves operations toward ore sources as transportation costs rise. It urges New England to pursue waterways, better roads, and worker-friendly conditions to keep industry local and counter the cost pressures of rail rates and decentralization.
Chicago reports a national campaign by the American Federation of Teachers opposing military training for high school boys. The League of Women Voters led by Harriet Treadwell Taylor and Illinois League of Women Voters supported the movement. The federation argues military training is unnecessary, not a substitute for physics, and should be discouraged.
The Girls' Friendly Society proposes a new approach to the servant problem arguing it rests on the view of domestic work as degrading. Lady Cowan urges England to imitate Denmark and Finland by spending the final year of female schooling in domestic training with a certified degree valued like that from finishing schools.
Paris December 29 M Brillat Savarin the famed eighteenth century gourmet will be honored by France A monument will stand at Belley and a Brillat Savarin week will be held to celebrate his memory He was a musician and a fun author but is best known for discovering new dishes.
Wellington Ohio December 29. A quilt signed by President Warren G Harding Mrs Woodrow Wilson Governor Harry L Davis and others will be used by local American Legion Auxiliary as the nucleus for a memorial fund. The fund aims to erect a monument honoring Rivars veterans.
Oberlin residents report twelve o clock students anger the W. G. T. U. which has formed a committee to meet Mayor-elect Mh. F P. Smith and press enforcement of the curfew in the college town.
Chicago reports Archibald Birse, a tailor, receives a 50000 settlement after a four year old incident where he stitched torn trousers. Ernest De St Giles, an insurance expert and author, left the money to Birse, who helped him years ago.
The Onlooker recounts Marshal Foch’s lesson that success comes from steady work and planning, warning against self seekers. It also covers campus debates on student smoking policies at Columbia and a Debs lantern gesture, plus light notes on waffle signs in Greenwich Village.
New York dispatch reports Izzy Einstein linking a furniture catalog in Grand Rapids to a rum smuggling scheme. He investigated chairs with hidden compartments storing contraband and made arrests based on the evidence.
A survey of 1921 highlights the Four-Power Pacific Treaty to secure Far East peace and US led arms reduction as major moves. It notes Irish settlement, German indemnity, Silesian partition, Balkan and Near East conflicts, and a Red uprising across Russia with famine tolls and political shifts.
International News Service reports Lord Northcliffe touring Shanghai, praising China while denouncing the Anglo Japanese pact. He calls himself a funny animal and warns against prohibition, golf, and dancing as he meets Chinese editors and officials during a busy Far East inspection.
German financier Hugo Stinnes, a leading industrialist and financier, reportedly plans a visit to the United States to confer with American bankers about resuming large scale trade between Germany and Soviet Russia. Berlin reports note the trip is under discussion and circulation varies.
President Harding plans a packed three months with the arms conference and the regular session of Congress. He has cancelled all engagements for that period.
Westfield Massachusetts reports a 66 percent drop in the sale of headache remedies since the prohibition amendment. A leading druggist notes he now dispenses only 25 percent of pre prohibition sales, with Sunday morning sales showing the sharpest decline. Berlin police seek to reduce foreign presence, and a hooch cigar novelty appears in Columbus. Death notices list John A. Rusling and Sophronia M. Omans with funeral plans in New York and Earlville cemetery. Found funds and ads for local jobs and real estate are also listed alongside probate notices in Bridgeport Connecticut.
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