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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1916
Page
6
Christmas reminders urge readers to pick useful gifts available in store. The display features reliable fur scarfs and muffs, long cloth coats, guaranteed raincoats, lingerie shirt waists, crepe de chine shirts, trimmed millinery, marabout feather scarfs, ostrich neck boas, and other practical items for holiday gifting.
Numerous neighborhood prayer meetings will be held Friday at 7 45 PM to deepen church members spiritual life. Readings Baldwin Luke 11 33 36 John 4 28 30 Peter 2 9 10. Locations listed include East Side Stratford and West End groups with many hosts and addresses throughout Bridgeport. Also notes a sergeant F Raymond of Company G Second Missouri Infantry stationed at Laredo Texas.
New York December 2 The Statue of Liberty will be illuminated from torch to base tonight at the dedication of a permanent lighting system. President Wilson will signal the lights with a wireless key. French ambassador Jusserand and numerous dignitaries attend with Mrs Jusserand and James W. Gerard among guests aboard the Mayflower and accompanying warships. The event includes a naval procession, a 21 gun salute, a illuminated air display by Ruth Law, a Fifth Avenue parade, and a dinner with remarks by Wilson Jusserand Depew and others.
Dr Wilbur F Crafts a famed reformer will speak on Under What Economic Conditions Should a Young Man Marry at 3 30 tomorrow in the Bridgeport Y M C A gymnasium The talk is the closing event of the Young Man and Marriage series The meeting is expected to be the largest men s gathering this year in the association. other items note deaths and injuries in brief form.
Washington dispatch notes a calm upcoming session with Congress likely to focus on the eight hour plan. Key items include rail rate relief, compulsory labor arbitration, immigration oversight, Porto Rico citizenship, conservation bills, and corruption law amendments. House Republicans and Democrats expect debate on appropriations and pork barrel spending as a major activity.
A speech urged trimming Christmas and New Year breaks to 1 day each, arguing 63 business days remain in a 77 day working period. Proposals include capping galleries, adopting an electric voting device, reducing House size, and swift action on railroad and appropriation bills. Senate debated temporary president choice and a possible challenge to Indiana Senator Watson, with no move until after holidays.
Joseph Wright and Augustus Merkle hopped a train at Devon and rode the forward end of a steel mail car. The door tore from its hinges as the train crashed. Wright was thrown inside with a broken left forearm while Merkle, pinned between the tender and car, survived only by the car’s steel frame. Both men were rescued and taken to St Mary’s hospital Waterbury in stable condition. Meanwhile the U S Fishers steam ship Halcyon was launched at Bath Maine.
A striking health warning urges readers to protect the liver from illness with quick relief claims. It emphasizes biliousness headaches and sickness, urging better liver and bowel function for improved well being.
An ad urges readers to take Cascarets to cleanse liver and bowels, claim relief from bilious feelings, headaches, and bad breath. It touts gentle action, no next day grogginess, and suitability for children, promising a pleasant, effective cleanse.
Joseph Hoadley and his wife Fannie Curtis Hoadley lost their East 82nd Street home after years of foreclosure bids and nonappearance. Westervelt finally secured the property for 75,000 after deposits were piled up through multiple sales. The couple had earlier faced contempt and arrest in a bid to delay proceedings.
Tarrytown New York December 2 The condition of John D Archbold president of Standard Oil Co of New Jersey was unchanged from last night when he was said to be much improved at his home where he has been dangerously ill for several days after an operation for appendicitis His mind is clear and his determination to recover is aiding the fight to regain health
Bad weather and fog hindered major Serbian front operations though local fighting and artillery duels continued. Skirmishes persisted around Grunishte and Sokol where recent fighting has been intense. The Serbian war department released the statement covering actions up to yesterday.
Vienna reports the battle in the wooded Carpathians as Russians press to break into Transylvania and Hungary with undiminished violence. Artillery fighting on the Austro Italian front continues with depots exploded by our fire. Hostile airmen drop bombs in the Adige valley. A Toledo interurban car derailed near Findlay injuring twelve.
The Smith-Murray Co. and Bridgeport Busy Cash Store advertise a Christmas hosiery sale. Pure Silk Hose, double lisle heel and toe, boxed, at 89 cents per pair. Silk and boot hosiery offered in black, white, and assorted colors with special pricing. Infants cashmere hose pack two pairs in a fancy box for a small price.
Advertisement item lists white ivory gift ideas including fancy puff boxes and hair receivers in varied styles and sizes priced from 50 cents to 2 dollars. Perfume bottles in white fancy cases offered in several styles at 25 and 50 cents.
Miss Gertrude McMahon of 606 State street announced her engagement to George T. McCarthy Jr son of Mr and Mrs George T McCarthy of 929 Iranistan avenue. The announcement was made during a sewing club gathering at her home with cakes concealing the news. Miss McMahon a Smith college alumna and founder of the Elizabeth Seton Guild is active in city charity. Mr McCarthy a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduate and manager of the New Haven Trap Rock Co is well known locally. No wedding date has been set.
Fair tonight and Sunday for New Haven and vicinity with little temperature change. Connecticut follows with fair conditions and moderate west winds turning variable. A strong energy disturbance near the north Pacific coast brings clouds and rain to Washington and Oregon. A high pressure ridge from the Gulf to the Lake region yields pleasant weather east of the Rockies. Frost noted in Jacksonville and Pensacola and New Orleans. Northern districts show little temperature change.
Bridgeport Elks Lodge No. 36 will hold an annual memorial service at the Elks Home on State Street tomorrow afternoon with an expected crowd over 500. Francis P. Guilfoyle of Waterbury will give the memorial address, Rev. J Wendell Hotz of Derby will deliver the eulogy, and Prof. John J. Reynolds will supervise music. The program lists marches, odes, an oration, and a closing ritual. Nineteen Bridgeport lodge members who died this year are named.
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