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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1912
Page
3
A bustling list of grocery offerings includes pork cuts, bones, and organs, plus dairy, canned fruits, and fresh produce. The piece moves to Caracas street crowds and open air concerts, then to Whistler portraits and Caesar at Pharsalia, ending with a light humor snippet about fat and dieting.
A Bridgeport Publicity Club subcommittee begins producing parodies to promote the city with songs set to popular tunes. The next club dinner is scheduled for January 31 with three noted speakers, and committees are formed for press, programming, advertising, and membership.
Debates among B. H. S. freshmen cover women’s suffrage and a country boy versus city fellow topic with Edna Lavery as chair and judges Capps Denny and Walsh. Roy McKernon leads the affirmative on the second issue. Louis Richards the negative. Kenneth Christie emerges as a promising new basketball addition. Miss Lind, from Yonkers, joins the Sophomore class. Practical jokers threaten to “solve school” next year.
Los Angeles December 20 Luther McCarty started training yesterday at his Venice quarters for the scheduled twenty round fight with Al Palzer on New Year's Day at Vernon. He is in excellent condition after a recent defeat and will train heavily through the week with sparring partners. Palzer's camp, under manager Tom O Rourke, is contested for its advanced pace and raw beef conditioning criticisms as the heavyweight match gains public attention and early betting interest.
Rickard announces a long trip after Christmas to Trenton for a contracted trucking job. Trucks will bring Bridgeport merchandise from New York and vicinity for local customers who contact Mr. Rickard at once. Also notes boxing match plans with Mike Gibbons offer, McKinnon versus McGooris in Kenosha, and Joe Mandot resting.
A collage of comic vignettes, gossip and quotes travels from street scenes to parlor wit. It recalls a courting scene under rain slick mud, eccentric travelers like John Randolph of Roanoke, Parisian shoe polish lore, sugar as disinfectant, and a string of lighthearted quips. The piece blends culture, humor, and suffused nostalgia with brief anecdotes and epigrams.
A compilation of light anecdotes and brief notes from a newspaper page. It includes quips about driving faster two days apart, lists odd butcher shop names in New York, a description of the fiddle drill used by stonecutters, philology quips on words like gotten, dialect jokes from Texas and Cleveland, a humorous court exchange about deafness, and quick punchlines from various columns. The tone mirrors early 20th century newspaper miscellany.
incomprehensible OCR fragment mentions E L Cornelius becoming new sergeant at arms of the U S Senate with scattered garbled text. no clear dates or additional names readable. context implies appointment news but details are unreadable.
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