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Newspaper

Bridgeport Evening Farmer

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Dec 09, 1911

Page

6

Polys Vaudeville Week Promises Top Acts At Bridgeport

Poli s presents Joe Welch in a new monologue A Study Lite Mag Haggerty Osteopath and the Ryan Richfield company bring fresh laughs The Old Soldier Fiddlers mix Union and Confederate veterans with wartime tunes Sutcliffe Troupe offers Scot music and bagpipe airs Elsie Durand Bailey Tear Ruth Belmar Electrograph and Poli s Orchestra fill a feature heavy bill Crowded houses expected with early seat sales urged.

Joe ‘Welch Bridgeport Welch America Mag Haggerty Sutcliffe Bcoth Elsie Durand Sing Comedienne Bailey & Tear Ruth Belmar Electrograph Poli

Ulrich Ordered to Pay Wife $10 Weekly

Henry A. Ulrich a New York dog fancier and acquitted of assaulting Booker T. Washington is now ordered by the county court in Newark to pay his wife ten dollars a week for herself and their two children. The decision follows his wife desertion charge.

United Press Newark Henry A. Ulrich New York Booker T. Washington

Park Theatre Presents The Runaway and The Faun

Aubrey Smith stars with Miss Billie Burke in The Runaway at the Park Theatre as a middle aged artist a Bohemian and a man of the world. William Favershams The Faun, a comedy with Julie Opp in a suffragette band will bow next Friday night at the same venue.

Do. Aubrey Smith Billie Burke Mr. Smith Marie Doro Marcus Marcus Ordoyne Miss Burke Continents London New York

Advent Services at St Luke's Stratford Corner Sixth

St Luke's church on Stratford Avenue at Sixth Street, Rev William H Jepson, rector, conducts Second Sunday in Advent services with Morning Prayer Ante Communion and sermon. Sunday school at 10:15, Evening prayer and sermon at 7:30.

St. Luke’s Stratford Ave William H. Jepson

Vesper Institute Concert at South Congregational Church

The Vesper Institute offers a Sunday afternoon program at the South Congregational Church with Louis Sammis A I Platt and Mrs Elmer Beardsley performing violin viola and organ duets. Dr R L Swain will discuss The Opportunities and Temptations of a Voluptuous Civilization and How a Shepherd Slave Met Them in a 5 oclock service. A separate note mentions a 750000 flood relief appropriation request for Austin and Costello Pa following the dam burst.

Vesper Institute South Church Louis Sammis A. I. Platt Elmer Beardsley Berthold Tours Abenlied F. Redfield Gounod Schubert R. L. Swain

Dante Inferno at Park Theatre Inspires Awe for Three Days

Dante's Inferno, described as sensational and spectacular, comes to the Park Theatre for three days starting next Monday. The production runs two hours with thirty six scenes, an explanatory lecture, music, and effects, depicting Dante and Virgil through Hell with Beatrice guiding them until they reach the stars.

Park Theatre Gustave Dore Dante Beatrice Spitttua Virgil Heil Acheron Charon Heaven Homer Lucanus Ovid Flaccus Christ Styx Francesca da Rimini Dis Underworld

Secretary Meyer plans one big navy yard

Secretary of the Navy Meyer states he is considering abolishing the navy yards at Boston Portsmouth New Hampshire and Brooklyn to build a single large yard in Narragansett Bay with docks and facilities for 50 battleships. In New York it is reported that Standard Oil pension plans survive dissolution as subsidiaries continue the original system.

Meyer Navy Yard United Press Washington Boston Portsmouth N. H Brooklyn Narragansett Bay New York Standard Oil Company

Taft Tobacco Trust Seen as Sherman Victory

Washington dispatch argues Taft’s message to Congress centers on upholding the tobacco trust decree. Analysts say the president uses the decision to claim restored competition while Wall Street views the dissolution as a boost for the trust. The piece critiques the motive behind the address and notes securities rose post dissolution.

C. H. Tavenner the Farmer Washington Taft Congress House Tobacco Trust Wall Street American Tobacco Company Stanley Steel United States Circuit Court

Yachtsmen Elect Officers At Miamiogue Club Annual Meeting

The Miamogue Yacht club elected Commodore Howard C. Benton Vice Commodore Stanley Sherwood Rear Commodore Walter Jelliffe Secretary William Page Treasurer John O Donnell and Governors member for three years at their annual gathering. The club plans an open house for New Year’s Day and reports a prosperous state.

Miamogues Miamogue Yacht Club Howard C. Benton Stanley Sherwood Walter Jelliffe William Page John O'Donnell Harry M. Merritt Board of Governors Pequonnock John F. Rabineau George Deveau A. A. Doty Harry Chittenden John Clift Harry Hamilton Samuel Stradling Shelia Wane Om

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