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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1912
Page
6
The store at 955-957 Main Street announces three selling floors stocked with gifts for men women boys girls and babies and homes. It highlights shirts waists bath robes coats furs dresses coats mufts silk petticoats hats and rain capes with prices from well under five dollars up to about thirty four dollars.
W A Olander, head of the Lake Seamen's Union, testifies before a sub committee hearing the Seamen's bill. He cites thousands of young men from Michigan Ohio Wisconsin drawn to sea life who suffer in hot holds and early work in the engine room.
Miss Jean Shelton daughter of the late John C. Shelton and Mr Philip Beverly Warner wed at noon today in a quiet ceremony at 258 Golden Hill Street. Attendants included Miss Anna Shelton and Mr Martin Waldo. Rev E J Craft officiated. The couple plans an extended honeymoon and will reside in Cynwyd near Philadelphia.
Shelton notes the completion of a new one story shack at the Shelton Tuberculosis sanitarium for incipient female cases. Twenty visiting nurses from nearby towns attended a dinner and inspection followed by dancing. The facility includes a large open fireplace, twenty four private patient rooms with baths, a nurses office, and extensive sleep porches for outdoor treatment.
A Fresnel submarine nearly blew up after a torpedo misdirected due to steering defects. The weapon curved toward the submarine, but the vessel moved to safety before the contact could explode. In Washington a law requires simple saloon signs with no beer pictures.
Fragmented price ranges and odd figures appear to hint at a sale or pricing discussion. The text lists varied amounts from nine to sixty dollars and includes odd brackets and misordered values, suggesting an OCR error or scrambled pricing notes without a clear item name or context.
A newspaper ad touts Pape's Diapepsin as a safe fast remedy for indigestion and dyspepsia. It claims quick relief from sour, gassy stomachs and gastritis, noting many millions of cures and worldwide fame.
Stanley Bullard elected president for 38 charter members. Officers include Chas. D. Davis as vice president and Charles A. Phelan as secretary. A nine member membership committee was named with W. G. Taylor as chair. Wadsworth could not attend to speak. Plans include active recruitment and possible lecture by Elbert Hubbard.
The fifth annual Bridgeport Poultry Association show at the Rosedale dock drew hundreds of fanciers and exhibitors. Turkish turkeys and geese dominated attendance with prize birds, including a 35 pound gobbler. Japanese Whirlwinds by George W. Larson showcased among other stock, incubators and brooders on display as judges from Massachusetts to Connecticut inspected entries and awarded ribbons.
Forecast calls for fair and colder conditions tonight and Thursday with moderate westerly winds. A disturbance moving east from Michigan has produced cloudy unsettled weather with high winds in the lake region and along the New England coast. A second system near Galveston, Texas brings cloudy and rainy weather to the Mississippi Valley and nearby areas.
An area of high pressure centered over Montana is producing fair conditions with low temperatures in the northwest. Subzero readings were reported in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota as the forecast calls for clouds and unsettled weather before a return to fair but colder conditions.
Waterbury December 11 John Mitchell of the American Federation of Labor helps push unionization of Naugatuck valley trades including large brass mills. Labor leaders will lecture in valley towns. woman suffrage support urged and union labels on goods advocated. The move follows state federation of labor plans from summer. The article ends noting inexpensive dancing frock trends.
Justice Goff sentenced former City Chamberlain Charles H. Hyde to two to three and a half years in Sing Sing for extorting a bribe from the Northern Bank for the Carnegie Trust Company. A stay of execution pending a defense appeal was granted, with bail set at 25000, shocking both defense and prosecution.
See our line of Boys and Girls Books at 25¢ each featuring Holmes Carey Southworth Meade Sheldon Garvis Jules V Oliver Optic Henry Alger Rugby and Wide Awake latest Groset and Danlep Burt edition at 50¢. Christmas Cards offered at 6 for 5¢.
Representative Lindbergh of Minnesota has introduced a joint resolution in the House. It requires members of the money investigating committee in both Congress branches to file statements of financial interests or ties to banking, loan, or brokerage firms. He argues some committee members favor the interests involved.
BalEFS New Haven reports 10 year old Benjamin Tesmin was run over by a heavy wagon driven by an unknown man. he died from a fractured skull. In Danbury, Herbert H. Hendlin, a missing bookkeeper for eight days, returned home claiming a mental breakdown. In Willimantic a fire in a four tenement block sent 25 people into the street early today.
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