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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1920
Page
12
Store hours 8 30 to 6 daily Easter hats for men just in top off the new Easter suit. Meigs hats are unusually good with brands Dobbs Stetson Crofut and Knapps and Meigs Special made to order from own block. Prices range from 5 to 12 dollars with a variety of caps imported and American made.
Easter accessories for men feature new shirts in cales madras repp crepe satin stripe crepe and Russian cords with colors and designs. Prices from 2.50 to 13.50. Also new socks silk and lisle with various price points and styles. New gloves neckwear undergarments and related spring wear with multiple color options and ranges.
A clipping recalls 150 American soldiers killed near armistice dawn and questions if the deaths were necessary. The piece discusses Marshal Fochs plans for a Lorraine offensive, the capture of Longuyen Mezieres, and the warning telegram about possible false armistice rumors. It also includes a brief anecdote about a train incident and notes Kansas establishes an industrial court to avert strikes.
General Electric will lease the Remington Arms plant in New York with option to buy and operate it to manufacture smaller electrical appliances and motors. Estimated 12,000 to 15,000 workers initially, with feeder plants planned nearby to ease housing shortages. Plant covers 20 acres with about 1.5 million square feet of floor space, purchase price around five million dollars. GE lists five existing plants in Schenectady, Lynn, Erie, Pittsfield, and Fort Wayne.
The Compensation Commissioner approved weekly payments to numerous individuals from various employers for injuries ranging from lacerations and fractures to bruises and blood poisoning. Names include Z Stabe, A Polak, Robert Lassard, Paisie Paptle, Henry Baldwin, Herman Funk, Lewis Riback, Martin Gureski, Edward Slattery, Thomas Byrnes, Fred Lewis, Joseph Schullery, Theodore Schullery, J Alfred Wotton, John Pierce, Alfred Murphy, John Paynesso, Amelio Giannastasio, with employers such as American Tube & Stamping Co and Bridgeport firms among others.
Stockholm reports Prince William of Sweden has left Stockholm with four friends to spend about a year in Honduras studying geography and ethnography. The prince, raised at sea and a naval cadet from age twelve, is described as a poet and avid sportsman, a golfer with few peers in Sweden. The piece ends noting political grope in the primaries.
Two rival Stratford delegations filed with Secretary John Buckley as the Republican State Central Committee opens a seating dispute. One slate signed by Harold Lovell and Louis Snyder was certified. the other by Edward Birge and Poward Birge challenged it, triggering a credentials committee decision on who represents Stratford.
A reflective note traces medieval wages for artists at St. Stephen’s Westminster set at five pence to one shilling per day with John Banaby paid two shillings. It contrasts bricklayer pay in 1920 of eight dollars daily and cites Byron, Keats, Beethoven, and Goethe on art rewards, framing art as divine garments while labor remains meagre.
A nostalgic prose fragment from the Florida Times Union recalls childhood joys and simpler times. It weaves dreamlike reminiscence with aging, noting figures Henry Watterson at 30, Thomas A. Edison at 73, and Ettha Reot at 76, amid a faded newspaper vibe.
An old advertisement promotes Danderine as a hair tonic that promises long thick lustrous hair, restored color and vitality, and reduced dandruff. It urges readers to buy a 35 cent bottle at drug or toilet counters to refresh hair, improve life and brightness, and restore abundance.
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