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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
14
A village suffers heavy shell fire by German forces leaving ruins around but the statue at a religious site, the Virgin Mary, remains intact. Unexploded ordnance and debris are visible. a party of British soldiers found a beau near the base amid the destruction.
Amusements review lauds Fire side Reveries for artistic conception and execution in Poll's anniversary program with a talented company delivering pleasing novelty. The program also features The Battle of Life photoplay drama starring Gladys Coburn, Pathe News, Willie Solar with encores, Charles Drew & Company comedy drama at the steamship pier, the Field Sisters dance and song, and Frank Shields showcasing Western lariat feats.
Franks McIntyre stars in the five part Paramount comedy The Traveling Salesman at Keeney's Empire Theatre today and tomorrow. The silent drama promises abundant laughs with five thousand feet of film and a photoplay program rounding out a rare comedy night.
The Lyric stage hosts a joyful week featuring Neill Toomey’s The Angelus and The Extra Added Attraction of Santa Claus who slides through nightly to gift the audience. Prizes include dinner sets manicure sets Nippon china brass smoking sets and other festive gifts to delighted patrons.
Audience gifts nightly. Lyric All-Star Players present Sinners next week at the Lyric, a New York hit that ran 350 nights. David Herblin leads a crackerjack cast in a great play expected to draw record business. Sunday shows feature excellent motion pictures and the Liberty serial.
A Plaza audience roared from start to finish at Happy Jack Gardner in The War Zone. Gardner’s strong cast including Hallen Hunter Bunce Frazer and the nimble Howard Scott drew praise for laughs songs dances and clever novelty acts. The Sin Ye Do from Keenan Studio impressed as a superb Triangle release with a realistic drama and tight climax.
Live stock market data lists beef veals sheep and hog prices across various grades and preparations. It includes dressed beef veals mutton lambs hogs and roasting pigs with per hundred pounds and per carcass quotes, followed by a line about three negro firemen killed in a steam pipe explosion aboard the Princess Anne en route from Norfolk to New York and notes Bank of France holdings shifts in gold and silver. A brief mention references Christmas trees wreaths and roping by John Reck.
Announcements of bonuses and extra dividends flood 1916 Christmas plans. Banks and firms from Atlantic National Bank to Westinghouse declare 5 to 30 percent salary bonuses, with additional quarterly and special dividends, spreading across New York Boston and Chicago workers and stockholders.
Dividend notices show payments not in cash but as premium credits and policy face additions at maturity. Atlantic Steel, Island Creek Coal, American Zinc, Republic Railway and Light, and Vandalia Railroad announce extra or raised dividends. Pyrone Manufacturing lifts annual payout from 8 to 10 percent, Chase National Bank expands quarterly to 4 percent on new capitalization, old 5 percent quarterly on prior base. Ohio Oil tees up a stock dividend if capital stock increases from 15 to 60 million dollars, par value rising from 25 to 100.
The list details wholesale ranges for butter, eggs, apples, hay and straw, hothouse produce, poultry, fowls, ducks, geese, squabs, guineas, rabbits, and vegetables. Entries show grade, unit, and price per unit or per hundredweight, reflecting market conditions. Major items include butter per pound around 41 to 42 cents, eggs per dozen 52 to 63 cents, various apple varieties with per-bbl and per-basket figures, hay per ton, cucumbers and mushrooms, and diverse poultry prices for turkeys, chickens, ducks, and geese.
College preparatory and intermediate courses offered for high school and grammar school grades. Personal work with every pupil. Admission today or tomorrow.
Local market prices list cabbages at five dollars for Danish seed ten with red cabbage at two to three fifty a barrel. Celery by the bunch or crate ranges from seventy five cents to three fifty, with bundles of one hundred at three to four dollars. Cauliflower offered short cut and long cut by barrel from one fifty to six dollars. Onions include white and yellow varieties priced per hundred pounds from three to three seventy five, red and white similar. Pumpkins priced by barrel at one twenty five to one fifty. Parsnips listed by barrel at two fifty to three dollars. Turnips and rutabaga priced by barrel between one seventy five and two twenty five.
An ad describes a wide Christmas merchandise range including Bibles Leather Goods Tourists Cases Manicure Sets Hand Bags Jewel Box Cameras Music Dolls Address Books Holiday Pencil Sets Fancy Notebooks Brass Desk Sets Brass Book Racks Guest Book Albums Toy Books Cards and Seals calendars diaries writing paper and more. The Postoffice News Store at Postoffice Arcade near Main Street Bridgeport advertises these gifts and cards.
An advertisement touts Recuper Tabs as a French physician Dr Albert Robin formula remedy for loss of appetite, weight, and sleeplessness. It claims relief in nervous exhaustion and general debility and lists Curts Chemical Co in New York as supplier with distribution in Bridgeport by J D Hartigan at Fairfield Avenue.
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