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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1914
Page
12
Northern Newtown milk producers protest reduced payments, claiming they are forced to meet state butterfat standards while the Bottling firm uses a higher Borden standard. The dispute follows low quart milk prices despite promised four and a half cents per quart.
The teacher Miss Ella Lillis is absent after a fall this week causing a short disruption to the school schedule. Mrs Thomas Casey of Glen expects to move into the Keane tenement on Gas Street once the apartments are refitted.
The Stratford Art League will host an annual sale and exhibition this week in the Staples building with Stratford and Bridgeport hostesses listed. The Connecticut Association Opposed to Women Suffrage holds its third annual meeting Monday at 2:30 at the Civic Club hall in Hartford. Social notes include Mrs. Birdseye traveling to California and a new baby for Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Mitchell. A Mary Silliman D A D board meeting is set for Monday at Mrs. Frederick Tracy’s home. A village Christmas sale by local church societies features four seasonal booths with decorations and homemade goods, plus a lunch and evening music program.
Verna Farm on Greenfield Hill, long home of Bronson and later the J K run family, passes to Lloyd Carpenter Griscom former U S Ambassador to Italy and Minister to Japan. Mrs Griscom Eligabeth Duer Bronson died November 16 at the St. Regis New York. Griscom to own Verna Farm and the Murray farm and receive half a million in real and personal estate. Verna Farm goes to Griscom conditionally with full ownership on his death. The estate has hosted dignitaries including Theodore Roosevelt. J K Robinson a former Diamond Match owner died there years ago. The Griscoms maintained a long string of blooded horses and fame at Madison Square and Greenfield Hill activities.
Information from the Charities department reports the death of Tony Crech formerly of 169 Felen street at the Shelton State amatorium after a week with tuberculosis. He was kept there by order of Dr E A Mc Lellan due to being a danger to his wife and three children. The body is in Bishop's morgue in Bridgeport awaiting arrangements. Word also comes of Thomas Dunphey of Bridgeport dying at the Shelton Sanitarium and his body will be brought back for relatives. Dispatches from Beirut say Turks have demanded $20 000 from Dr Bliss principal of the American College there.
An old fashioned mustard plaster replacement named Musterole promises faster relief without blistering. The ad touts ease of use by rubbing on skin, listing applications from sore throat to rheumatism, with 25 and 50 cent jars and a hospital size at 2.50, urging buyers to demand genuine Musterole from The Musterole Company in Cleveland, Ohio.
The article urges prompt attention to small tire cuts to prevent fabric damage and costly rebuilds, explaining how neglected cuts invite mud and grit that force separation. It also discusses US farm road costs, comparing hard and poor roads, and cites potential nationwide savings with concrete roads.
A carpenter, Eugene M. Pullen of 502 A Marcellus Avenue Manasqua New Jersey, describes a nonoperative cure for rupture after years of suffering not requiring operations or trusses. He urges others to write for full information and claims lasting relief without lost time or surgery.
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