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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1913
Page
6
Police investigated a burglary at 1832 North Avenue home of Mrs DeWitt Russell last week. While she slept a burglar entered her room, stole a gold filled hunting case watch a blue stone chain two pearls a gold locket with chipped diamonds and gold opera glasses. The family said her 14 year old son was briefly suspected but denied involvement.
Former Connecticut 7 soldier Everard Hopkins Hotchkiss, 82, major of the Sixth Connecticut regiment in the Civil War and friend of President Lincoln, was found dead in bed from heart disease in Binghamton North Carolina. The piece notes a century ago orchids numbered 300 species, now 160, and includes advertising for Cyrus Wart Remover and hand cleaners.
Omitted readable fragments describe a manicure service at 3116 Main St in a building labeled Security. The text mentions a phone number and hours but is heavily garbled.
Rev. F. H. Sill presided as corporate communion was offered to a large male congregation at Trinity Episcopal Church Bridgeport. Clergy from multiple churches attended and Sill urged laypeople to share the faith. He preached on Jesus sending workers to carry his word, praising mission examples and urging home Christian instruction and street outreach.
Charles Wakefield Cadman, famed American composer, will visit Hartford on Wednesday as guest of the Wednesday Afternoon Musical Club at 808 Main Street. He will be joined by Madame Marie Sandelius for a program featuring songs, piano pieces, Indian music demonstrations, native instruments, and sacred chants.
The listing notes practical Christmas gifts priced from 35.00 to 350.00, highlighting a range of items suitable for the season. Shoppers can expect a selection across affordable to premium options, with emphasis on useful and well-made presents.
Connecticut Humane Society agent Alexander Howell investigates a Milford neglect complaint about two dogs left exposed to the elements. Sleuthing confirms the report and locates the dogs in a Fort Trumbull road yard, noting their condition and age.
A nameless boy was nearly injured at the Congress street bridge when the roller lift moved to a perpendicular angle during tug passage. His feet slipped on the metal and he fell several feet into the pit before a spectator leaped from a car, climbed in, and saved him.
Francis Bowes Sayre and his wife Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson spent their first day in London sightseeing. Sayre will join Walter H. Page the next day to attend the commemoration feast at Trinity College Cambridge University.
Bayonne,N J December 8 Three hundred people gathered outside the First National Bank as a note on the door announced the board had decided at midnight to turn its affairs over to National Bank Examiners. The bank with 200000 dollar capital and 100000 dollar surplus closed to prevent a run after assets could not raise cash.
James Faherty known as Turkey Flaherty of 44 Linen Avenue was sentenced by Judge Thomas C. Coughlin in City Court after pleading guilty to ringing a false alarm of fire and theft. He received $200 fine plus costs and six months in jail for the alarm charge while a 30 day sentence was imposed for stealing eight pounds of pork from John Slootmaker’s auto. Appeals were allowed on bonds of $500 and $400. The false alarm originated from box 371 at Oak and Grand Street between 3 and 10 Saturday night. Faherty claimed drunkenness and memory loss about the incident. He had been out of jail for about three weeks.
Mrs J H Whitcomb hosted a Friday afternoon whist at her home to benefit the Queen's Daughters. The event featured green and red Christmas decorations, nineteen tables, about thirty prizes, refreshments, and cake. About ninety guests attended and sixty six dollars was raised.
A morning electric light bulb exploded injuring Benjamin Schnapper at 11 Bank Street with a lacerated right thumb needing one stitch. James Denton, 464 Hollister Avenue, fell from a moving trolley at Barnum and Hollister avenues, sustaining a lacerated scalp and bleeding from the left ear. he declined ambulance treatment and was taken home by relatives after Dr. George E. Ober was summoned. Superintendent Fred R. Johnson returned from Cincinnati where he attended the National Housing Conference. A Philadelphia inventor received a patent for overhead-wireless streetcars using at street level contact points that supply current only when a car is overhead.
Vessels of the Atlantic fleet, after visiting European ports, parted company at noon in latitude 35.45 north and longitude 33.5 west. The Kansas Ohio and Connecticut steered for Vera Cruz via Guantanamo, while the rest pressed toward U S waters. The fleet lay about 3,000 miles from Guantanamo and 2,600 miles from New York.
Sixteen year old Lawrence Tarbox of 303 Pearl Street Cambridge Mass left home November 30 and is believed in Bridgeport. Mr and Mrs Fred Kelly of Cambridge appealed to police for aid and stayed in the city while officers search for Mrs Kellys brother. A letter postmarked Bridgeport suggests he may be there. Orange NJ Dec 8 Negro citizens urge Mayor Murry to appoint a Black member to the Board of Education.
James M. Ludlow of East Orange New Jersey writes to defend President Wilson's attendance at Roman Catholic services on Thanksgiving Day. He argues Presbyterian unity across denominations, praises the separation of church and state, and notes Pan-American guest relations and historic Princeton ties.
The Smith Murray Co offers a wide range of gifts and apparel for holidays and young shoppers. It features lace jabots and collars, handkerchiefs in linen and embroidered varieties, and imported hand painted china ware including vases, sets, and dishes with prices listed.
Henry Curtis urges city schools to have at least one full city block for grounds and country schools seven to ten acres, citing improvements in play space and educational value. He cites examples in Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, and other states, noting bond actions to enlarge yards and the need for open-air classes and physics activities. A New York Supreme Court jury convicts Charter Martino of first-degree murder with death sentence in the Cotter case.
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