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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1909
Page
6
The program features the headliner Janet Priest in a Dutch setting with catchy music and humor. Porter J White & Co present Krazy acts including The Four Dancing Bugs. The Morton Jewell Troupe and Chick Sales showcase club jester style humor. The B Electrograph closes with new moving pictures and panoramas.
A broad sale listing from Alling Rubber Co and E H Dillon & Co highlights reduced prices on fur and leather goods, snuffs, and coats. Promotions note a dance event with Mollan's orchestra at 8 pm, while The Woman's Store urges timely purchases of winter apparel and four-season stock from Gorman Co, Practical Mite Howland's, and others.
Grace Elliston stars in Jacque Line a new American life drama by Harriet Ford and Caroline Dyer at Jackson's Theatre with a plot of social intrigue and mining fraud in Nevada. Supporting cast includes Orme Caldara Emmett Corritan Ina Goldsmith Amelia Wayborn Margaret Gray and Adolphe Lessiga. The Candy Shop and Polly of the Circus also feature in upcoming Jackson's offerings with Edith Tallaferro in Polly of the Circus and Mlle Rayo headlining The Candy Shop for Shriners night.
MISS WEBER SOLOIST AT GERMAN CHURCH There will be a special musical programme at the evening service Sunday afternoon at the German Reformed church featuring Miss Norma Weber a noted contralto. Other numbers include songs by Joseph Wicler violin selections by William Heidt and a 17 voice youth chorus led by organist Charles Ferrett. A short address by Rev H Weimer marks his 20th year in ministry.
In Danbury a bear sighting and a Brundage claim to trap spark citywide hunts and chatter. A Carmel man, Howard Barrett, was arrested after showing a handbag he said held dynamite to frighten bears from dens.
The first of twenty cars for the Connecticut Company, built in Worcester Massachusetts, will be delivered here in January and the remaining cars will arrive at one per day until the order is fulfilled. The cars are large double truck types similar to those used on suburban and many city lines.
Norwalk Ohio December 4 A farmer George Morey aged 64 is recovering from a broken neck after a wagon incident at his barn. Despite age he remains in a reclining pose with head rigid yet doctors report vertebrae nearly mended and expect him to move around soon.
Washington reports that 3000 copies of the President's first message, prepared after cabinet corrections, have reached the White House. 1500 copies have already been mailed to press associations for distribution ahead of its reading in Congress next Tuesday. Remaining copies will go to both Houses or be issued on special request. The draft runs about 14000 words, roughly half Roosevelt's prior message.
Milwaukee dispatch reports Agnie Smith and Annie Luedke, both 13, fled the Industrial School on November 29 and rode forty miles under a passenger train to Jefferson Junction before walking ten miles homeward. They were found near Johnson's Creek, exhausted and cold. the Smith girl is not expected to live. The pair were turned over to the Sheriff.
Washington December 4 The second boom to lead Philander Chase Knox for the White House was started by former Representative J Hamilton Lewis of Chicago. Lewis praised Knox on Nicaraguan policy and recalled Crone, but did not commit to a 1912 date.
The D M Read Co holiday department unveils a gift room with home like displays across Furniture China Silver Jewelry Leather Brass and Copper items. Shoppers will find reproductions period furniture teacups jade brooches purse leather goods and seasonal novelties arranged in a distinct setting on the second floor near the Carpet Store elevator.
New lines of Black Silk Hose with hand embroidery in white black pink and blue. White Silk Hose priced at 1.00 1.75 and 2.25. Novelties in Tan Bronze and Taupe from 1.00 1.50 and up. Men’s Bath and Lounging Robes House Coats and Holiday Neckwear at the Haberdashery Section.
Washington reports John R. Early, arrested and kept under quarantine as a leper, vows to fight the detention. His attorney Egbert C. Everest in Plattsburgh, NY, telegraphed inquiries on the charges and directing orders. It is possible Early may sue the District of Columbia. The government Persian Bureau says he is well, halting his pension, while DC Health denies it, asserting he is a leper.
The board of building commissioners issued permits for new structures totaling 19 000 dollars. Projects include a brick locomotive shed for Bridgeport Malleable Iron Co on South Avenue, several frame garages and stores, a three story frame building with stores at Broad Street and Railroad Avenue, church alterations on Korenth Street, and a cellar nail for a house on 18 Madison Avenue. Earlier permits added 29 660 dollars, bringing the week total to 48 660 dollars.
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