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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1913
Page
16
This notice urges daily watering to prevent lawn damage and promotes a garden hose with sprinkler for necessary showers. It highlights new sprinklers, affordable, and recommends consulting our display of bathroom supplies for comfortable summer use and convenient accessories.
Occupied seats fill the Plaza as Poli Players present A Fool There Was. Next week Madam Sherry rises on the tapis with a big musical comedy, a heaping prize piano auction, and a grand chorus, urging advance seats and early piano-coupon handshakes at the door.
Empire presents Pathe Weekly and Lubin two reel special Home Sweet Home at the local theatre. The Pathe weekly promises thrilling news film scenes while Home Sweet Home tells a touching story of family pride and the return to a modest village cottage. John Barbour and wife disinherit Pa and Ma, sell the cottage, but eventually buy back the old home with one addition, restoring the familiar scene.
Poli's Theater features Gerard and Gardner in a highly praised sketch titled Dooley and The Diamond. The duo's sharp timing and playful antics drew crowds. Richards and Montrose offered an acrobatic singing act, while Irving Jones delivered a standout monologue and songs. Leo Whalen, May Belle, Iva Donnette, and others received strong applause. The week’s film, including Whales, runs alongside country store and children’s matinee.
A humorous comparison of jealousy in women to dogs and cats. The piece argues jealousy in women mirrors a cat’s aloofness and a dog’s possessiveness, noting outward sympathy but inward disgust, and suggests women imitate the cat’s composed indifference when intruders appear.
A Connecticut Western News item recounts a Farnum drug store cat carried by car from Canaan to Lake Chatiemac in the Adirondacks. After 180 miles through towns and woods, the exhausted tabby found its way home in 12 days, arriving back at the drug store doorstep. The tale notes Dr. Ross’s purchase offer and the cat’s dramatic return to Mr. Farnum, with months of travel including Albany Cohoes Saratoga Falls and other centers.
The article surveys global forestry noting Chile’s seven million acres, teak plantations rival natural wood, and protected German forests still face fires with Prussian lookout towers and telephones. It highlights cellulose silk from wood, Germany’s cellulose silk sales, and the value of wood and cellulose. It ends with army bayonets supporting emergency forest communications via copper wire and soil grounding for ranger reporting and mobilizing firefighters.
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