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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-12-30
Soldiers S Letters
France, October 5, 1918.

Dear Mother, and All at Home:
Will write a few lines to all.
wrote you the other day that l had
been gased. Well, l feel much bet
ter now. l am at the Base Hos
pital now, where | am being cared
for very good. The Red Cross nurse
is fine; the only trouble have now
is with my back. which hurts me
quite a bit, and my chest is little
sore, and | am a little short winded,
but / don't think it will be long be-
fore l am all right again, so don't
worry about me. / am now receiving
just as good attention as if l were
home.
Mother, 1 saw Floyd Jones and
Milton Murphy just before the big
drive; l guess they were in it, too. l
hope everybody at home is well.
get plenty to eat, and the Red Cross
gives out candy and cigarettes. Will
close, hoping to be well soon. and al
so hope the war will be over soon.
With love to all, your loving son,
Private Herbert S. Wingate,
Co. A, 313th Inf, A. E. F., France.
Secretary of State and Mrs. Thos.
w. Simmons have received the fol-
lowing letter from their son, Lieut..
Lawrence F. Simmons:
France, November "a, 1918.
Dear Mother and Father:
Today in the newspapers l have
read of the modification of censor
ship rules pertaining to the A. E. F.,
so l am going to take a chance and
write you a few things 1 could not
conscientiously mention in some of
my previous letters. II it should de-
yelop that the papers report is not
official, this letter will have to be
destroyed.
Several days ago l sent you a
telegram, or rather cablegram. be-
cause knew few words from me
after the signing of the armistice
would mean an awful lot. You have
undoubtedly received it long since.
in spite of probable delay of a few
days due to the congestion at that
time
Contrary to MY expectations, l did
not get out of the hospital last week,
and have not done SO as yet. The
delay is not due to any reasons OF
health or anything like that, because
1 have already been examined by the
Medical Board, and placed in class
A, which denotes fitness for immedi-
ate front-line service. The powers
that be, not wishing lot of Ameri-
can officers running around France
in search of their organization, a
task most difficult under normal
war conditions, but now most hope
Hess as our armies are daily adyanc-
Ting in the general direction of the
s-a4 ar !
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-12-30

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,Treeo Madison Md 2S-1w.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-12-30

FOR SALE Cole Hot Blast stoN
No. 16. and I Rochester radiator. Pho
225. 2S-3t
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-12-30
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FOR SALE-Pigs. r. S. Harris. I
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03
TOTAL OF
 WAR STAMP SALES SATURDAY NIGHT

The first reports from the public stamps in connection with theThous- and for One Reward for Thrift Con- test have been received by the War Savings Committee. They serve to il- lustrate the greatly increased interest in the purchase of stamps which have been brought about by this contest They also give the committee a very good chance to study at short range the best and most effective methods of salesmanship. The committee has reached the conclusion that the per- sonal solicitation by trained and capa- ble salesmen and saleswomen is alto gether the most effective way to pro- duce sales.
 Saturday night teams were out at l front of the D. M. Read Co.,, Meigs Co.
 the Loyal Order of Moose, Caesar Misch, Metropolitan Life Insurance | Co. in the Arcade, also the United | Department Store at Golden Hill. Also 1 Miss. Grace Burr of the Post Office l force was on Main street in her auto
 mobile accompanied by some wound ed soldiers home on sick leaave. This l party conducted the booth in front of the United Department Store.
 l Total sales footed up to over S6,000. A regular schedule has been made out 1 for the conduct of the booths in front
 of the Meigs and D. M. Read stores,
 and later on the other booths will put out a schedule of employees who will be engaged on the work.
 l Those in charge of the Meigs & Co. booth on saturday night were: Jack
 Shepherd, Mary Flynn, Pauline Cree
 Vey, John MaIoney, Ben Steiber. Those who will be in charge tonight
 are: Myrtle Botter Mrs. Edward Riley
 Mrs. May Peck, Miss Ethel Wallace. Those in charge of the D. M. Read | Co. booth on Saturday night were:
 Miss L. Schwenkle, Mrs. O. Neville,
 Miss J. R. Langshaw. Mrs. A. Erble,
 MT. H. c. WheIdon, MT. A. Erble.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03

Washington, Sept. 3 - President Wilson yesterday issued the following appeal to organized labor and to the people of the nation generally to con- secrate themselves anew to the task of winning the war against Germany: My Fellow Citizens:
 Labor Day, 1918, is not like any Labor Day that we have known. La bor Day was always deeply significant with us. Now it is supremely signifi- cant. Keenly as we were aware year ago of the enterprise of life and death upon which the nation had embarked, we did not perceive its meaning as clearly as we do now. We knew that we were all partners and must stand and strive together, but We did not realize, as we do now, that we are all enlisted men, members of a single army, of many parts and many tasks, out commanded by single obligation, our faces set toward a single object. We now know that every tool in every essential industry Is a weapon, and weapon wielded for the same purpose that an army rifle is wielded-a weapon which if we were to lay down
 
 And a weapon for what? What is | the war for? Why are we enlisted? 1 Why should we be ashamed if we were not enlisted? At first it seemed hardly more than a war of defense against the military aggression of Germany. | Belgium had been violated, France in- vaded, and Germany was afield again. as in 1870 and 1866, to work out her ambitions in Europe, and it was neces- sary to meet her force with force. But it is clear now that it is much more | than a war to alter the balance of power in Europe. Germany, it is now plain was striking at what free men everywhere desire and must have the right to determine their own fortunes to insist upon justice, and to | oblige governments to act for them and not for the private and selfish in terest of a governing class. It is a war to make the nations and peoples of the world secure against every such I power as the German autocracy rep , resents. It is war of emancipation. Not until it is won can men anywhere live free from constant fear or breathe freely while they go about | lIl6lI uttlIN ldShS anu hllOW lilGiL 6ON ernments are their servants, not their l masters.
 This is, therefore, the war of all wars, which labor should support and support with all it's concentrated
 power. The world cannot be safe
 mems lives cannot be secure, no mans
 rights can be confidently and success
 fully asserted against the rule and
 mastery of arbitrary groups and spec
 ial interests sco long as governments
 like that which after long premedita-
 ton drew Austria and Germany into
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03
ST. MARY'S GETS
 BACK TERRITORY

X readjustment of the boundary lines of the east side Catholic par ishes has been announced, and, will give back territory which was taken away from St. Mary's church. some time ago when the Church of the Blessed Sacrament was established. This includes a section between Cen tral avenue and Yellow Mill pond, and another section belonging to St. Charles parish north of the railway yiaduct extending from the Pequon- mock river to Central avenue is also added to St. Mary's.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03
PRESIDENT WILSON ISSUES A
 MESSAGE APPEALING TO THE
 MEMBERS OF ORGANIZED LABOR

this war are permitted to control the destinies and the daily fortunes of men and nations, plotting while hon. est men work, laying the fires of which innocent men, women, and children are to be the fuel.
 You know the nature of this war. It is a war which industry must sus- tain. The army of 1aborers at home is as important, as essential. as the army of fighting men in the far fields of actual battle. And the laborer is not only needed as much as the sol dier. It is his war. The soldier is his champion and representative. To fail to win would be to imperil every thing that the laborer has strtven for and held dear since freedom first had it's dawn and it's struggle for justice began. The soldiers at the front know this. It steels their muscles to think of it. They are crusaders. They are fighting for no selfish advantage for their own nation. They would l despise any one who fought for the selfish advantage of any nation. They are giving their lives that homes everywhere as well as the homes they
 
 | and safe, and men, everywhere be free as they insist upon being free. They are fighting for the ideals of their own land-great ideals, immor- tai ideals, ideals which shall light the way for all men to the places where | justice is done and men live with lift ed heads and emancipated spirits That is the reason they fight with solemn joy and are invincible. | Let us make this, therefore, day of fresh comprehension, not only for l what we are about and of renewed and clear-eyed resolution but a day of conservation also in which we de- vote ourselves without pause or limit to the great task of setting our own country and the whole world free to render justice to all and of making 1t impossible for small groups of political rulers anywhere to disturb our peace or the peace of the world or in any way to make tools and puppets of those upon whose consent and upon whose power their own authority and their own very existence depend. | We may count upon each other. The nation is of a single mind. It is taking counsel with no special class
 It is serving no private or single in- terest. Its own mind has been clear ed and fortified by these days, which burn the dross away. The light of a new conviction has penetrated to every
 class amongst us. We realize as we never realized before that we are con- rades dependent upon one another, IT,
 resistible when united, powerless
 when divided. And so we join hands
 to lead the world to a new and better 1 day.
 ) WOODROW WILSON.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03

Flanders Thousands of these soldiers the boys of Bridge port Will the macnsts say to them, when they return We wanted few cents day. we decred our own lead defied International and gambed with the possibility of day when boys would want ammunition and nd none would want guns and have none"
 Imagine the contempt of who have staked their lives for great cause when they know Of such strike as hls
 The Times Farmer in of the long years in which presented organized labor asks the machn sts of Bridgeport to keep the word the union gave union without word is despcabe thing.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03
JAMES M'GOVERN IS
 IN ST. VINCENT'S

James L. McGovern, collector of customs. who was injured at Brook field yesterday is at St. Vincent's hos pitaI, where an X-ray of the broken bone in his knee was taken this morn ing and is reported possible than an operation will be necessary. MT. Me Govern was enjoying the holiday in the country and in running stumbled on an incline in the lawn, wrenching bis knee and breaking small bone. The seriousness of the injury has not vet been determined, but it is hoped that an operation will not be neces- Sary,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03
ASKS DAMAGES OF
 $500 FOR TRESPASS

Josephine Muller bought tract of land from the Bridgeport Land & Title company upon which Axel Re sherg and Harold c. Lowell, both of Stratford are alleged to have entered dug up the ground and laid water pipes, on 1t. without any ones permis- sion whatever.
 This non-formal action caused Jos ephine Muller to file suit for $500 damages in the Court of Common Pleas this morning, and asks the court to grant her besides the damages, re- lief of defendants actions.
 The action is returnable in the Sep tember term.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03
CLAIMS s1,OOo FOR ACCIDENT

For an automobile accident which occurred a short time ago, Alice and Clarence Bland have filed a suit of damages to the amount of s1 900 in the Superior court today, against Charles Brenston of New York. The plaintiff states that Brenston was on the wrong side of the road and through his negligence ran his auto mobile into that operated by Clarence Bland. Both Alice and Clarence suf- fered from severe injuries.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03
I able Lamps

Metal Lamps, gas or electricity, in green bronze, antique brass and brushed brass. Most of these have art glass shades, few have silk shades which harmonize with the fin ish of the base, $7.5o up to $5O.0o Lamps for table use with wood bases. These have silk shades, plain or shirred, with fringes or other ar tistic finish in varied colorings.
 Bases from $6.50 to S15.00
 Shades, s7Oo to s14.Oo
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03
GET COMMISSIONS
 AT CAMP LEE

Officers of Infantry from this city who have been appointed from the Fourth Training camp at Camp Lee, Va, include the following: Wayne H. Austin, sergeant. Company H, 3O4th infantry. of s King street, Stratford i; Albert c. Dow, Company B, 304th In- fantry, 63 Yale street; John J. Tag gart, sergeant, Company D, 304th In- fantry, 492 Connecticut avenue; Will ford Wright, corporal. 9th Company, 151st D. B., 455 Patterson avenue, Stratford.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03

and damaging property. According to the evidence produced by Sergeant James Burns of the Third precinct, Kolus was taken into custody after Joseph Sander, of 254 Howard ave nue complained that Kolus smashed several windows at his residence.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03

Miss Catherine Hickey. of Pitts field, Mass, who has been the guest of Mrs R. J. Drew of 3S7 Fairfield avenue for the past two weeks, left this morning for Springfield, Mass, where she will spend a week before returning to her home.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03
KOLUs FINED.

Andrew Kolus, of PAT Howard ave- nue was fined $50 in the city court to- day when arraigned before Judge Wilder on the charge of being drunk
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03

Electric Desk Lamps, metal bases in a number of styles and finishes. These are adjustable, $4.5O to $1700 Floor Lamps, metal bases, the standards adjustable to any height. Lamp and shade will turn to any angle. They are very handy to stand at ones chair or at the bedside when reading, $500 each Electric Lamps for boudoirs, hand painted, bases finished in ivory, ma hogany, bronze and antique brass, silk or art glass shades, $25O to S12.25
 Basement.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03

"When a beautiful ob- iect is & necessary and useful object it is thrice valuable and takes it's place in the eternal order of things"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03

better davnpor the Turkish style the peroncaon They library comforting the body goodbo to mind
 Many of these chairs tapestry other material which adds o the comfort well the appearance
 In furniur welaso things to
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03
N|KOLAI LEVINE
 NOW REPORTED AS OUT OF DANGER
His Assailant Arrested Re. fuses to Give Any In
 formation.

Copenhagen, Sept. 3-The condition of NiKolai Lenine, Bolsheyik premier, has so improved that physicians con- sider all danger as passed, according to Moscow dispatch received through Berlin.
 Amsterdam, Sept 3-Dora Kaplan, the Russian revolutionary, who att tackled Premier Lenine, has refused to disclose the names of her accom- plices or to give any information re- garding the attack, says a dispatch from Moscow to the Berlin Lokal An- Zeiger. She said she recently arrived in Moscow from the Crimea. Wit nesses said that a student about Is years old stopped the premier and handed him paper and at the same time two women approached him. Dora Kaplan after the shooting fled into the street, where she was arrest ed and taken to the ministry of war. Poisoned cigarettes were found on her.
 London, Sept. 3-The attempted as- sassination of Nikolai Lenine, the Bol- I shevik premier, has been followed by | drastic measures on the part of the | authorities in Moscow, according to | the Helsingfors correspondent of the ] Hamburg Fremdenblatt, who reports that in addition to the removal of 1 thousands of persons from Moscow to | Petrograd the following proclamation i has been issued by M. Peters, chief of
 the extraordinary commission in the 1 Russian capital:
 '"The criminal adventures of our | enemies force us to reply with meas
 ures of terror. Every person found
 with a weapon in his hand will be immediately executed. Every person
 who agitates against the soviet gov
 ernment will be arrested and taken
 into a concentration camp and all his private property will be seized''
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03

Queene Anne Set, cane paneled backs and arms, removable pillows on backs, upholstered in figured velour. A very attractive and rich looking set, $3l4.OO
 overstuffed Sets, Turkish style, large wing chair and wing rocker to match, davenport seven feet long. These have upholstered backs and spring cushioned seats, fine figured tapestry coverings, $232.OO
 Displayed on fourth floor
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03

Mulberry Velour, choice design, with large wing chair, low back chair and large davenport, $21O.OO
 Mahogany set,cane paneled backs and arms, upholstered in fine silk striped damask. There are renov- able pillows on backs and full spring seats. A design which is equally good for living room or drawing room, $195.OO
 Mahogany frame, upholstered backs and arms, soft spring cushion ed seats, covering of silk figured dam ask, $2l5.OO
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03

m Tb e0 One regrets having spent the money for nage piece of furniture which is meant to last.
 the The present stock represents the largest assortment of fine upholstered furniture shown by the House sacred of Read De
 free All three piece sets, attractive prices.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-10
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE.

Chicago, Oct. 9-Acute weakness
which developed in the corn market
today came entirely from news of
fresh military successes against the
Germans and from bearish views of
the diplomatic outlook. After an ex-
treme falllof &c bushel prices closed
unsettled, 3Ac to SIC net lower, with
November $1.14s to $1.15A and De-
cember $1.13% to $1.14. Oats lost
&c to 3ssc and provisions &c to 81.
Sharp breaks IN values together
with general selling began as soon as
the corn market opened, and increas-
ed in violence until near the end of
the session. Then profit taking by
shorts led to somewhat better rallies
than those which at times had briefly
interrupted the main downward
sweep of prices. Throughout the day
all factors except those relating to
the war failed wholly to get atten-
ton. This was notably the case with
the government crop report and with
word that permits for the shipment
of corn were being issued less freely,
and that instead preference was given
to oats.
Lowest prices reached were nearly
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-10
LIVESTOCK MARKETS.
Chicago Livestock,

Chicago Oct -Cattle-Receipts
$4,000, Market slow, tendency lower
on all steers below $500; best ma
tives and western steady. Beef cat
tie, good, choice and prime, $4,000
1850; common and medium. 1915 a
1900; butcher stock. cows and heif-
ers, 7.35@13.75; Gamers and cutters,
$1,000 1865 stockers and feeders,
good, choice and fancy, $10.75 @13.75:
inferior, common and medium. SITS
q 1875; veal calves, good and choice,
$3.50 1900; western range beef
steers. $13.75@17.75; COWS and heif-
ers. $S.75@13.00.
Hogs Receipts 10000. Market
slow, about steady with yesterdays
average. Butchers. $1S.40@1SS0;
light. $1S.00@1S.50; packing, $3.50
@1S.25; pigs, good and choice, $1,000
@17.00.
Sheep-Receipts $4,000. Good,
choice fat classes firm; common stuff
slow; quality average poor.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-10
SOMETHING is GOING TO DROP.

&c. G. Buley in London Chronicle).
One side of Americas war winning
effort which has recently had little
attention devoted to 1t is the great
department of war invention, to
which Edison. Maxim. and host of
other mechanical geniuses have for
more than a year given their undi-
yided attention.
Germany, however. has Just re-
ceived an unpleasant reminder of the
existence of this department by the
explosion of the great new American
bombs charged with secret explosive
of amazing power. The account given
in the American official report of
these bombs is that they are SO de-
structiye that they cannot be dropped
from a height of less than 5000 feet,
and that the first one used extingu-
ished. every searchlight in the neigh
borhood by the violence of its explos-
ion.
A well-known American inventor, at
nresent in London in connection with
n YEA. invention of his own, in dis
GUESSING Americas contribution to the
horrors of modern warfare, said that
this was the forerunner of a number
of unpleasant surprises in store for
the Hun.
"When America first entered the
war" he said. too much attention
was possibly paid to the part Ameri-
can ingenuity might play in bringing
about victory by new devices and in
ventions. When manpower became
the first necessity, and shipbuilding
ranked alongside of it. public atten-
ton was switched off on the subject
OF war Inventions.
at must not be supposed. for that
reason, that there has been any re-
taxation Of effort and investigation.
The contrary has been the case. In
the early days of the war Germany
was always boasting about the ter
sleeve. America is not pulling any
Of that stuff; but am here in posi-
ton to say that some well-kept secrets
are not likely to remain secret very
much longer.e . .-~-l------4---4a 49,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-10
FOR SALE

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street, close in.
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50, 500-5-room bungalow, modern,
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Fourth ward.
SO, 500-7-room brick, succeed, mod
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$2,250-4-room brick. modern. well
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$3,100r-4-room concrete bungalow.
modern, glassed sleeping porch,
built-in features; Fourth ward.
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