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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1909
Page
9
Bridgeport newspaper note from The Evening Farmer published by The Farmer Publishing Co at 27 Fairfield Avenue. No news event details provided beyond publication branding and address.
The report shows Armour & Co, Chicago packers seeking stock exchange listing, earning 35 dollars per 100 in capital annually. Critics, including the Philadelphia Press, compare this high margin to monopolistic trusts and call for federal scrutiny, noting the packers’ power over livestock raisers and meat buyers amid rising prices. The piece contrasts with Australia’s growing fur trade and rabbit control efforts impacting hatters.
A 1908 Bulletin summary notes lawmakers back floor nominations for an executive board. High protectionists question Taft tariff board, while Wall Street applauds the president's message. Maine deer hunting ends with 16,000 killed and seven hunters dead, amid rising risks. Secretary MacVeagh and reform talk touch tariff revision and labor mediations.
Fairfield County news reports a Norwalk motorist shocked by 500 volts on a Noroton repair car roof, injuries to hands, and a line man also burned. It notes a $340,000 Darien house contract for C W Moury of New York, a Wells Hollow fire destroying a home, a non Sunday football ban in Saugatuck, and opposition to trading stamps by Danbury butchers. It covers a Stamford jewel theft, a damaging car fire, and a head-on collision in Darien with a Ridgefield car, plus a Norwalk carriage crash injuring Mr and Mrs Kessler with no broken bones.
In 1908 09 New Hartford shifted from no license to license status after a town meeting call deemed improperly published. F B Jones sought a court injunction to block licenses, but Judge Wheeler ruled the record of the town meeting controls, not the court, leaving legality to a statutory path. A second suit followed, suggesting any license vote could upend town officers and actions.
Local notation presents a sequence of overlapping price bands from $1.25 to $1.75, $2.25 to $3.25, and $3.00 to $5.10, suggesting a rounded market cadence or staged pricing. No explicit context or items are provided to identify products, dates, or entities involved.
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