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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1913
Page
11
All the Week banner items from Banner Milling Co include Superlative Flour with barrel prices and Queen Quality Bread Flour in cloth and paper sacks. CURTICE BROS canned fruits list cherries plums peaches pears and berries with doz and per can prices plus assorted teas on sale at daily grade levels.
A sprawling advertisement touts multiple free demonstrations by Sunshine specialties and Hecker's Jewell Co. products. It promotes Tryphosa jelly powder flavors, Sunshine and Franco American soups, baked goods, and fruit displays. Includes prices for biscuits, preserves, and canned goods, plus a bold note promising five free demonstrations to sample products at no cost.
The Bridgeport Public Market marks seventeen years in business with a five day anniversary sale. The note highlights a modernized bakery with French plate glass counters and hopes to welcome new customers to the ongoing growth. It mentions a new plunger elevator and plans for a larger building with three additional stories for storage and more floor space.
A local store advertises an anniversary sale with special prices on teas including a 79c 90c and $1.00 grade, rolled oats 10 lbs for 33¢, yellow meal 10 lbs for 25¢, and a wide range of canned fruits vegetables and staples. Also listed are vinegars molasses baking powders rice soaps and dried goods with multiple per pound prices and gallon quantities.
A Tuesday meat and canned goods sale lists prices for Yellow Cling peaches at 20 cents a large can or 2.45 a dozen, Royal Ann cherries 23 cents or 2.65 a dozen, Bartlett pears 22 cents or 2.50 a dozen, pineapple sliced 21 cents or 2.50 a dozen, and various No. 2 size cans at 15 cents per can or 1.65 a dozen. Additional items include apricots 20 cents a large can per dozen, green gages 19 cents or 2.25 a dozen, egg plums 19 cents, tomatoes two for 25 cents, red ring peas 10 cents per can, Caroline corn 8 cents, Alice Rose corn 10 cents, Alice Rose succotash 10 cents, Magnet Brand string beans 10 cents, kidney beans 86 cents per can, sour kraut 10 cents, rhubarb 10 cents, spinach 10 cents, baked beans plain 10 cents, cut beets 10 cents, Boston baked beans 10 cents, Poland Brand corn 12 cents, Poland Brand succotash 12 cents, and matches from various brands priced around 25 to 35 cents.
A list of Curtice Bros canned vegetables with assorted labels and prices. Items include Blue Label Succotash Sweet Wrinkled Peas and Golden Wax Beans priced per can from 10 to 15 cents, with entries for Green Lima Beans, Sweet Beets, Golden Pumpkin, and Marrow Squash. The text appears as a catalog fragment with varied OCR errors but preserves product names and unit prices.
A fragmented market list showing Walter Baker's chocolate 12 lb cakes and various canned fish and pantry staples. Items include Red Alaska Salmon and Pink Salmon, Eipperst Herring, Mustard Sardines, American Sardines, Channel Mackerel, Wet Shrimp, Dry Shrimp, Boneless Sardines, Duryea's Cornstarch, Best Cornstarch, seeded raisins, currants, and other household goods with assorted prices. Numerous spelling errors and incomplete entries present.
London reports a looming walkout by nearly 100,000 British post office workers. A national committee of unions plans to meet this week to decide timing before Christmas and may issue an ultimatum to Postmaster General Herbert Samuel demanding a 15 percent pay rise for all postal workers.
The New York Produce Exchange charged eastern railroads with excessive and discriminatory grain and flaxseed rates for eastbound shipments from western states. It urged Interstate Commerce Commission to implement a seasonal sliding scale to end these discriminations and prevent traffic diversion to Montreal.
Samuel H. Harris lodge I O F will entertain Rebecca lodge at the hall tonight. Many out of town members will be present. An elaborate entertainment has been planned. Farmers near Livingston New Jersey organized to exterminate crows. 165 killed in a day. Workmen quit job during Orange contractor digging cellar for new high school.
Nellie BE Segrue died Friday night at the family home in Stratford after a short illness. She is survived by her mother and seven siblings. Funeral at 8:30 this morning from the home, burial at Mt. St. Peter's Cemetery Derby. Henry Cook, 69, longtime Bridgeport resident and hotel clerk, died at 276 Asylum Street. Burial at Lakeview Home Cemetery. Margaret Reilly, 36, wife of Hose Cart No. 6 driver Maurice Reilly, died after months of illness. survived by husband and daughter Lillian. Funeral at 86 Caroline Street this morning, burial at St Rose Cemetery Newtown. Patrick Curtin died Saturday. services at his home and the Church of St Charles, burial at St Rose Cemetery. Michael Blansfield, father of Police Lieutenant Philip Blansfield, funeral held at Lewis Street residence and Sacred Heart Church. Owing to a holy day, no…
A funeral mass was postponed to tomorrow at 9 o'clock for the repose of the deceased’s soul. Relatives and friends attended as floral tributes testified to the esteem held. Bearers included James Dooley Edward McCarthy Jas Rooney William Clifford James Hal Pin and Arnold Schmitz. Music featured vocal selections by Mrs. John Casserly and Mrs. R. J. Witterwill. Interment followed at St. Michael's Cemetery with same clergymen officiating.
Paris December 8 Senor Gaston Dumergue today informed President Point care that he would accept the office of prime minister. The Socialist Senator had secured assurances of support from leaders in the chamber of deputies and the Senate sufficient to form a majority in his favor.
Fairfield druggist John Boyle struck his left eye on a towel rack at home. He was treated by his family physician and travelled to New York that afternoon to see a specialist for the injury.
Wilbur F. Smith of South Norwalk fish and game warden for Fairfield county and George T. Mathewson of Enfield for Hartford county are the only wardens in the state to be on salary, per Superintendent John M. Crampton of the state commission. Others to be paid $3 a day plus actual time and expenses.
Former Alderman Patrick H Brady has started a petition to establish an eight foot building line on North Main Street between Federal and Savoy streets. The area is residential and owners with houses already conform to the line. Some fear others may sell property for business use and allow two buildings to extend to the sidewalk, prompting the petition to prevent such development.
Hans Schmidt former assistant rector of St. Josephs church stands trial for the murder of Anna Aumueller whose body parts were washed ashore last September by the Hudson River. His lawyers filed an insanity defense without his consent while the district attorney accuses him of feigning insanity and seeking execution by electric chair.
Chicago Dec. 8 after months of investigation Superintendent Ella F Young says frequent attendance at moving picture theatres threatens to impair pupils eyesight and proposes five minute intermissions between reels as a remedial measure to protect students.
Frank M. Clark was appointed cashier of the Birmingham National Bank today in Derby Connecticut, filling the post left vacant by the recently deceased Samuel H. Lessey.
Nortomber Va. Dec. 8 A mystery surrounds the reported rescue of 197 passengers from the Mallory liner Rio Grande during a fire at sea north of the Diamond Shoals. Conflicting wireless reports and lack of confirmation leave the incident unsolved though the Rio Grande is said to be proceeding to Brunswick, Ga.
The House passed the Hensley resolution by an overwhelming vote urging President Wilson to cooperate with Winston Churchill's proposal for a one year international naval holiday, to the extent feasible for U S interests.
Morning shopping and doctor's morning calls priced at 1.50 per hour while pleasure suburban trips list 3.00 for the first hour and 2.50 for each additional hour. The theatre reception citation and Pierce Arrow and Chalmer cars advertise competent chauffeurs with tiered fares per passenger.
In Meriden on December 8 a well dressed man about 55 was found dead in a woods patch at Greenbecker's Corners near Kensington. A silk handkerchief bound one wrist and another white handkerchief with initials F N hung from a stock, arousing three local boys who located the body near a road and two farmhouses.
Ninety six persons were known to have perished up to noon today in floods that swept through several sections of Texas. Twenty five of the drowned last night or early today were in territory where warnings of the flood had been posted for several days.
The city court investigates alleged shortages in Clerk Burnes accounts amounting to about 317. The present clerk Hugh J Lavery is covering the inquiry. Burnes, now a patient at Brewster's State Hospital near Norwich, allegedly deposited his own name for profit rather than the citys. The matter involves probate court action and a possible turnover by check. Deputy cattle commissioner F Asp gram reports noncompliance with the security law, with potential action undecided.
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