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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1913
Page
4
The bank highlights growth in recent years and invites patrons to open checking accounts. Signed by Samuel W. Baldwin president and Willis H. Lyon treasurer, the notice thanks customers for patronage and extends season’s greetings from James Staples & Co of Bridgeport Connecticut.
London December 13 Mrs Sarah Eggletstone of Upper Norwood who died worth 172205 left 40000 in trust to care for her dog Paddy after her death. The remainder goes to charities. Also noted is a scientific expedition’s vehicle a pontoon car that can detach and float across rivers from the Cape of Good Hope toward Cairo.
E H Dillon Co at 1105 Main lists coats, boas, silk pockets and ostrich plumes as ideal gifts. P O News Store at 11 Arcade promotes a varied Christmas novelty display with leather bags, writing supplies, stationery, and French ivory goods, highlighting accessibility from Main Street Arcade.
Sufferers with rheumatism or goat rheumatism are claimed to be cured for twenty years by Hill's Rheumatic Remedy. The ad guarantees relief within twenty four hours and offers one bottle as a cure for most cases. Price is one dollar per bottle, available at drug stores or via Hill Medicine Co., Newport.
A long list of church services across Bridgeport for Sunday December 14 1913 with multiple congregations including First Church of Christ Scientist Park Street Congregational First Methodist and others offering sermons Sunday schools youth programs choirs and special meditations.
Colorado avenue and streets area ministers announce services. Walter Bennett presides with 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. sermons, Sabbath school at noon, evening youth and prayer sessions. Salvation Army on Him street adds 3 p.m. praise and testimony, 8 p.m. revival, with Adjutant Atkinson guiding all services all week.
Andrew Carnegie visited the White House on foot and launched a campaign for Elihu Root of New York to be the 1916 Republican presidential nominee. He called Root the strongest possible candidate and capable of securing the nomination. The note follows Root receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. separate figures show U.S. mineral production reaching a record value of over 2.07 billion dollars.
Washington reports 449 coal miners died in October 1913 from mine accidents across the United States. State inspectors’ reports to national bureaus confirm a higher fatality count than October 1912’s 203. California, Georgia, and other states have not yet submitted figures.
Fragmentary note describes a Christmas wedding with a Bucchier’s ring and price concerns. It references color and high set cutting, maintenance of the motees te prices, and the store’s reputation. The text is incomplete but centers on a ring purchase tied to a marriage event.
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