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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1914
Page
4
Reading from Bridgeport’s past, Advent begins with no marriages during the period until January 6. The issue notes lectures, sermons on intemperance, and a mix of local events, crime reports, and theater ads. It mentions a burglary incident, a demented man named Pat Maloney, theater previews, and appointments including Lynn W. Wilson as city editor and Sam Godfrey’s lamp accident.
Fifty years ago a survey was taken of the recently completed deck and freight house built for the special use and benefit of the Steamer Bridgeport beside the Naugatuck Railroad works and depot.
Uridgeport has proved a reliable vessel under Capt Weeks and has satisfied travelers and shippers. A rare eight and a quarter by six and a quarter inch hen’s egg is noted from Norman Ambler of Amblerville. A reader urges continued care for an elderly woman and promotes perseverance with the phrase to try again. The Army of the Potomac reports quiet until English visitors witnessed Fort Hill bombardment. Some shoppers pay grocers with Christmas orders and plan yuletide purchases.
An old newspaper ad promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a vegetable remedy. It claims the tablets stimulate the liver, ease indigestion, and improve appetite and energy. The ad emphasizes safety, states use at bedtime, and prices of 20 and 36 cents per box with Columbus, Ohio as the company base.
Julius Woods Christie of Nichols Connecticut saved two hundred dollars, then bought twelve acres six miles from Bridgeport and began building a house he would pay for with twenty dollars a month. Five years in, he toiled daily from sunup to sundown, transported materials himself, and faced neighbors’ skepticism. He married Ethel Booth, continued adding rooms, learned plastering and plumbing, and eventually completed the frame and interior as his wife assisted and he funded each step with earned wages and careful saving.
Christie, living on twelve acres near Nichols, completed a roomy two story house after five years of work. He added a front piazza, a rear piazza, tiled a well to the kitchen, and installed a dumb waiter to serve as a refrigerator. He built a bread piazza, a barn for a two seater car, and runs hay, pasture, ice, and poultry operations. All his belongings, including an automobile and piano, were bought without loans or credit, funded by about four dollars a day in earnings.
The article notes Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch, sole surviving brother of the Russian Czar, born December 4, 1878, approaching his thirty sixth birthday. He leads a cavalry division in the Caucasus composed largely of halbarbaric mountaineers of Moslem faith, known for fierce charges. If the Czar’s health worsens, he could again be heir to the throne, with his husband’s beauty influencing royal rizhng prospects.
A historical ad touts Certilax as a mild laxative removing waste without bed after effects. It claims to cleanse blood and purify the system, produced from a New York doctor’s formula and recommended by local physicians. Sold in small, medium, and large sizes, price 10 cents to 60 cents.
The article recounts a Grand Duke who fell for a widow once married to a St. Petersburg millionaire. The Czars refused consent to the brother’s marriage, prompting a staged union with a junior officer. After public ridicule of the titular husband, divorce followed and the Grand Duke wed the woman he loved. He later led troops in Russia when war began.
In New York City on Nov 29 August Mangani of Danbury wed Miss Martie Charlotte Cevasco. In Easthampton Mass on Nov 26 Edward A Sammis of Stamford wed Della M Finch. In New York on Nov 26 Max Breinert of Bayonne N J wed Charlotte Adelman of Stamford. In Stamford on Nov 25 Alfred Jarvis wed Miss Julie Cotter.
In Danbury on November 30 announces the death of Ann Regan wife of Thomas Regan in Shelton on December 1 Emma M W wife of George W Clark aged 35 years obituary style notice lists names and relations with place references Danbury Shelton and dates
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