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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1913
Page
9
A fragmentary cry from a woman shopping tense with early sales. She remarks the sight of marked prices and crowded stores makes her emotional as she contemplates helping or reducing her pace, fearing the strain on workers and herself.
A century before present, Sierra Leone began as a British colony founded in 1786 with 400 Black colonists and 60 Whites. Hostile native attacks and colonist misfortune delayed growth until 1794 when the settlement moved to Freetown, now a major west African seaport.
The Indiana novelist Meredith Nicholson, aged 47, turns down President Wilson's offer to serve as United States minister to Portugal. He prefers staying in Indianapolis over Lisbon, citing his Hoosier roots and lifelong connection to Indiana. The piece recalls Nicholson's rise with The House of a Thousand Candles and The Port of Missing Men, noting his views on provincialism and his famous Hoosier identity.
A Connecticut survey argues the short ballot fits poorly there as the 1912 Bridgeport ballot shows 41 names. It weighs the feasibility of trimming national state and local tickets, notes constitutional hurdles, and urges clear proposals before any reform. The piece concludes the short ballot has no clear role in Connecticut.
A critical examination of the Money Trust led by Wall Street, detailing how Morgan and allies manipulate deposits and credit. It covers how industrial trusts borrow, who sets loan terms, and how profits flow from the public through bond underwriting and underwritten issues. It underscores the depersonalized control over savings, insurance reserves, and the price of living.
The enormous savings pooled in New York insurance companies fund vast bank holdings. J P Morgan bought 51 percent of Equitable Life for 3 million, while New York Life and New York Mutual are controlled without direct investment. The Pujo Committee described Morgan's control of banks with nearly two billion in deposits, casting these financial reserves as tools of a few oligarchs.
A reader asks a troubling math question about cost to beat up policemen, wondering if local justice offers a discount for quantity. The item presents a provocative ethical prompt rather than a factual event, urged to consider violence and legality.
Mion Stores in Bridgeport claim to match any city in size for product range. Readers are urged to shop locally, exploring advertisements and store offerings to buy what they need. Support Bridgeport by spending locally to boost prosperity at home.
Warm weather drives hens to lay more than warehouses can store causing price drops as eggs flood the market. First eggs released face the harshest reception in storage, while the rest of the passage shifts to a biographical note on Prince Peter Kropotkin, detailing his travels, anarchist activities, imprisonments, and later life.
The article notes the eighty ninth anniversary of the Ayacucho battle, where Sucre defeated the Spanish. It recalls Lima and Bolivian capital, the rise of Billinghurst, church reforms, and commemorates Col. Francisco Bolognesi and the heroic defense at Arica with the famous last cartridge cry.
Large assortment of raincoats for men women boys and children. Rubber costs hats gloves boots in great profusion. Lowest prices on best makes ARCTICS and overshoes. Offers presents or personal use for the coming winter. Come to the Alling Rubber Store for best selections stock and price.
Rubber Toys seized a large new stock from Reabber Toys and Rattles for the Babies, signaling a major distribution shift in baby goods and nursery items across the market.
Read Co offers rock crystal vases in sizes from slender single flower holders to grand arrangements, with prices from 50 cents to 17.50. Includes bowls, jugs, tumblers, decanters, trays and toothless trinkets. A large selection of handmade knickknacks, vanity items, and gift-ready accessories fill the Gift Room with fragrant sachets, toilet waters, and embroidered pieces.
The note urges quick preparation of lists and items before the assortment of letters breaks up. It emphasizes timely completion and orderly arrangement to avoid scattered or lost entries.
Attention centers on a large group in the Furniture Rooms on the fourth floor. A pleasing selection of subjects is offered with prices starting at 25 cents.
The D M Read Company advertises a sale at Fairfield Avenue and Main Street featuring White Comet Flannel in 4 3 4c and striped outing flannel 6 3 4c, cheesecloth yard wide 51 2c, 75c blankets, white or grey 58c, big dollar white quilts 79c, $1.25 comfortables 4c, cotton batting 73 4c, toy suitcases and bags 25c, men's knit neckwear 15c (2 for 25c), Germantown yarn 9c per skein.
A terse note promises easy money by laundering “them” with hidden warnings about avoiding streetwork. The message also hints at fast package handling and same day service, suggesting a shady scheme in a casual, misplaced request.
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