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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1913
Page
8
Thompsonville sees a surge in free wool shipments ahead of Hertford Carpet C opening on Monday. New York reps and local freight crews coordinate four daily switchings to load about 6,000 bales across nearly 100 carloads this week, signaling a busy season with full-time operation and overtime planned.
Stockholm reports the Swedish steamship Malmberget foundered off Norway with 46 lives lost. The 3902 ton vessel departed Narvik on November 27 bound for Rotterdam.
Funeral notices from Lawrence Mass detail services for George W. Stoddard Katherine Blagriff and Annie McGuire with masses at St Patrick and Sacred Heart churches, interments at St Michael's cemetery, plus pallbearers and offertories with hymns. Also reported are Johannah Donovan and Henry P McPhrail funerals with committal services, and a note on store decoration and a clash at Pacific and Arlington Mills leaving several injured.
In a survey of lightweight contenders, the article notes many capable fighters like Jimmy Duffy Young Shu grue Johnny Love Gilbert Gallant and Leo Kelly struggle to secure top bouts. It credits promoter Daniel Morgan for pushing fighters forward and recalls how he built stars such as Battling Lavinsky Jack Britton and Knockout Brown.
Patrick Curtin, formerly of Newtown, died Friday morning at the family home in Bridgeport. His funeral will be Monday at 10:34 a.m. from the Sandy Hook undertaker and interment in St. Rose's cemetery. He was about 77, spent over forty years with the N B & P rubber works, and leaves a wife, a son Thomas, and daughter Mary, all Bridgeport residents.
A compact list of names including John Keane Sidney Kil Ella Maroney Paul Morrow William Murphy Mary Rafferty Mary Sammis Charles Strisik Claribel Troy Louis Waltersdorf Georgie Northrop each associated with study areas in history arithmetic algebra and English history in an archival catalog style.
More than 1,200 hotels in San Francisco announced an almost unanimous decision not to raise room charges for 1915. The statement was released today and reflects a coordinated stance by hotel operators in the city.
Thomaston Conn December 6 firemen saved three nearby houses and a school from the tenement of Alexander Dziergula. Fire started when an oil lamp toppled during a gathering. much of the furniture and the building burned. Loss estimated at 6500 dollars. Also note: widow of Governor Johnson to marry William Alley Smith at Christmas in Minneapolis.
Washington report on the New Haven line’s push for automatic emergency brakes. E G Buckland testifies before the House Interstate Commerce Committee outlining a $10,000 reward that yielded 3,500 proposals, 1,500 investigated, one installed and another due next week. He invites committee inspection.
Carl Werner, wealthy manufacturer and commodore of the Stockholm Yacht Club, was found drowned in the sound after a nine day disappearance. Officials suspect suicide linked to a love affair. In Washington, a two week rat hunting contest in Kirby, Washington County, ended with 6,891 rats killed.
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