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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1913
Page
4
Peoples Savings Bank message from Samuel W. Baldwin and Willis H. Lyon announces growth and efforts to maintain cordial relations with customers. The note invites customers to open personal accounts and keep deposits, reflecting bank developments in recent years. Frisbies Pies appears as a closing branding.
We offer subject to sale mortgage notes for Bridgeport properties. Included is a $6,000 mortgage with terms as stated, awaiting purchaser or investor.
Three Holland America Line passengers, led by three children, fund a metal coffin and embalming so Mrs. Jacomina Bakker, who died aboard the Nieuw Amsterdam, can be given a proper burial instead of being buried at sea. The family, seeking the father John Bakker in Michigan, plans to return to the farm.
J Pierpont Morgan was elected yesterday as a vestryman of St George's Episcopal Church located at Stuyvesant Square and East Sixteenth Street. He succeeds his father who served forty years and was senior warden at his death.
London December 3 Prince Henry third son of King George nearing completion of his third term at Eton acts as fag to Viscount Gage who assumed the title last year The prince is described as unusually bright with a keen interest in mechanics and fluent in French and German.
The Rev. William B. Ayres pastor of Park and Downs Congregational church in Wallaston plans to marry Miss Sarah A. Miller of Newton Center. Ayres recently won $25,000 in a suit over alleged alienation of affection by Chester A. Boynton. Miss Miller, daughter of George D. and Mrs. Miller, is a Wellesley High graduate and active in St. Pauls Episcopal Church Newton. This will be Ayres fourth marriage and he previously served as pastor in Watertown.
In St Paul Minnesota on December 3 a single ink spot allegedly caused a board shakeup at J J Hill's First National Bank. Vice president W A Miller and cashier F A Nienhauser resigned after a clerk’s ink blot fouled figures on L W Hill’s account statement. J J Hill said he was an outsider and left the matter to the bank.
Miss Margaret Van Cortlandt Ogden, age fifteen in New York, asks Surrogate Fowler to direct $4,000 annually from her trust fund to her parents to cover living costs. She lists annual expenses of $6,200 and notes $159,000 remains in trust with Lawyers' Title Insurance and Trust Company. The petition argues the trust is not needed for support but could aid her expenses given anticipated wealth if parents die.
True facts about Buechlers fine diamonds highlight pure color and high art cutting while noting inexpensive prices from imported sources. The ad touts watch, jewelry, cut glass, silverware and Sterling items and stresses rigid quality standards alongside reasonable prices. It advises brides to choose a Buechler Luck wedding ring.
A brief notice highlights The Reliable Jewelers located on Fairfield Avenue near Middle Street. No additional details or dates provided in the readable text.
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