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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1920
Page
3
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned must file liens against all property with unpaid taxes from 1918 on the last day of March 1920. Payments are accepted at the Tax Collector office Rooms 5 and 5 City Hall up to including March 31, 1920.
The Guaranty Trust Company of New York reports France is recovering rapidly from World War I with reconstruction in full swing. It highlights 76 000 structures rebuilt or repaired by August 1919, 89 percent of destroyed railways restored, 991 000 refugees returned, 5 000 schools reopened, and substantial industrial readjustment toward peacetime production. The South, including Bordeaux Lyons and Marseilles, drives growth as colonial trade and new outlets bolster postwar recovery.
A narrator drives home in a sled with six pork chops as wolves close in. The man panics fearing capture, throws more meat to slow the wolves, and muses about tame wolves and his wife’s advice before the pack gathers for more.
The government plans a new tax on property owned by non residents in Italy, and on Italian stocks held abroad. Italian subjects owing money abroad would face heavy taxation, with exemptions for 1920 loan subscribers and capital brought in after January 1. Criticism notes double taxation and potential disincentive to foreign capital.
A massive copper chair said to be a gift from Queen Victoria to an Ashanti chieftain was found deep in the Gold Coast jungle. Local lore claims it marks the chieftain’s grave and remains rooted in place as spirits are said to sit on it. origin and arrival remain a mystery.
A speaker recalls a comedian’s blunt truth and notes North Dakota officials attacking the Non-Partisan League. The legislature passed a Liar Law to jail officials who talk against the League for up to one year and created a Smelling Committee to catch slips.
Directors of The Western Pacific Grocery Company Inc meet March 1920 at Shannon Wilder Bridgeport Conn to terminate corporate existence and call a stockholders meeting for action. The secretary to publish weekly notices for four weeks and mail calls to stockholders’ last addresses. Attest I Smulowitz Secretary.
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