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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1916
Page
12
Prices for caps are listed as seal skin caps ten dollars muskrat caps five dollars and coon skin caps ten dollars in this brief catalog entry.
Thomas Monahan of North Grafton, 85, reportedly had $14,000 in savings when he died in Worcester City Hospital from frostbitten hands and feet and starvation. A neighbor found him in his Brim Hill cottage after digging through snow drifts.
Hartford December hearing granted a Bristol petition for Davitts Crossing protection. The New Haven road objected but offered no opposition and no decision was reached. The Connecticut Company also petitioned to lay a spur track on Barnum Avenue Bridgeport for the American Graph Pemnone company. no opposition was recorded.
NY financier John B Manning aged 83 and Honora May O'Brien 28 faced a delayed wedding after Manning agreed to a reported 500000 settlement to be paid to the bride. Family pressure and publicity prompted Manning to cancel the ceremony with Cardinal Farley and the Archdiocese.
James O'Brien from Newport arrived at the O'Connor home after the wedding was called off. He warned the Mannings of consequences if the match with Miss Honora May proceeded, while Miss O'Brien expressed distress over the telephoned dismissal. Miss O'Brien, educated in Ghent, Belgium, has worked for Le Costume Royal in New York eight years. Manning's daughters welcomed the decision as a relief, noting the wedding would not occur.
Advertisement promotes Leonardi's Liver-Aid as a purely vegetable remedy for sluggish liver with symptoms like constipation and headaches. Claims quick lasting relief, no griping, safe for all ages, and priced 50c at Hindle's Drug Stores and local druggists.
Rome Dec 19 The American ambassador Thomas N Page is gathering evidence from 25 American hustlers aboard the Italian steamship Palermo which was torpedoed and sunk off the Spanish coast. The evidence indicates the ship was sunk without warning and without attempting to escape.
Paris reports General Joffre transferred command of the French armies of the North and Northeast to General Robert George Nivelle yesterday morning. In Washington, President Wilson and Mrs Wilson marked the first anniversary of their marriage.
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