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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
16
The Pioneer sleeping car built in 1864 in a Alton shop cost far above typical coaches and introduced wide berths and in-car features. It was painted with bright stripes and marked by its bold design setting a new standard in rail travel.
In 1487 Bartholomew Diaz sailed along Africa to the Cape of Storms later renamed Cape of Good Hope by the Portuguese. By 1498 Vasco da Gama doubled the southern coast and reached Calicut, opening the sea route to India.
The excerpt mocks social pretensions with dialogues on marriage poverty and wealth. It appraises insular arrogance, clerical life, and engineering as risky paths to sanity, contrasting metropolitan vs provincial attitudes through brief quips from London Chronicle and Liverpool Mercury.
Fragmentary OCR text provides limited readable items about paint workers and a possibly garbled phrase. Hard to derive a clear event, names, or organizations. The readable bits suggest a discussion of painters as outcomes of a certain crew or society, but details are insufficient for a concrete news-style summary.
The Prairie a 6872 ton auxiliary cruiser was sent to Nicaragua over Zelayas harsh treatment of U S citizens and his power grab The scene includes Secretary Knox dispute over murders and a Nicaraguan charge d affaires accusation that the regime is a dictatorship and tyrannical The State Department criticizes diplomatic relations stance as unusual and noteworthy
The piece details boxing purses for the Jeffries Johnson bout with a $101,000 cash share and about $179,000 total per winner including film receipts. It then moves to the Six day cycle race at Madison Square Garden with seventeen teams led by Sulivan and a long list of international entrants and event features.
In Paterson New Jersey a fight card diverted when Savage suffered rib injuries before the prize run. Sailor Brown stepped in and fought two rounds but did not wake for 15 minutes.
Fan reports say no change in the number of games next season with leagues preferring the current schedule. Johnson asserts a longer season is unacceptable and the National League is unlikely to agree to fewer games. John Heydler awaits club owners’ verdict on leadership. Died: Mary Prances Taylor, wife of Roswell Taylor, aged 4.
Regional polo results list Waterbury Waterbury 8, Pawtucket 7, Fall River 3, New Bedford 2. Taunton 7, Providence 6.
Allentown noting Jim Savage of New York and Jack Reid of Toledo were slated for a 16 round prize fight last night but the bout was canceled due to football being too rough a game for a prize fighter.
A short editorial emphasizes that no merchant fails when he advertises to the fullest extent. The piece urges full, energetic promotion as the path to success in commerce.
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