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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1910
Page
5
Hiram Barton, a shy, friendless bookkeeper, shuts his office on Christmas Eve and wanders into Henry's cafe where he observes bustling revelers. He buys a few simple comforts, notices Rose Anna the flower girl, and contemplates his isolation while Christmas spirit swirls around him with strangers and fleeting human warmth.
Hiram Barton and Anna Hagan, both alone on Christmas Eve, share a moment in a cafe where a nosegay sparks a wish for companionship. He proposes that night, they marry with a license clerk’s help, then brighten Barton's drab room with a tree and wreaths. They vow a hopeful future together.
A delegation from the Bridgeport Teachers Association met Superintendent C W Deane at City Hall to press for a single maximum salary for elementary teachers. They argued one maximum ensures fairness, with gradual annual raises to reach it, and noted twelve large cities already use one maximum. The group outlined a $100 raise this year and $50 yearly increases thereafter, while addressing concerns about a tax impact of about $26,800 this year and a total six to seven year rise of around $60,000.
More than 2,000 newsboys and out of town newswriters received an early Christmas remembrance from the St. Louis Times. The gift was a 20 page edition of the Times delivered free to the boys as a special surprise.
A joint meeting of four civic groups discussed forming a working committee to build a civic federation for public matters. The idea received unanimous support, plans to be drafted by presidents of the Board of Trade, Manufacturers' Association, Business Men's Association, and Taxpayers' League, then reviewed by each body. The Hartford Chamber model was rejected to avoid curbing the boards' independence. The committee includes Fred Enos, W Hobbe, Harvey Hubbell, B P Bull, I W Hollands, A M Cooper, S B Vincent, Jerome Orcutt, A W Burritt, and John J Phelan.
Mount Sterling Kentucky December 21 Special policemen James Tipton and Mike Gobona are under arrest charged with shooting and killing Deputy United States Marshal Allen and his brother during a quarrel last night A small churn for whipping cream shaped to a butter churn with a paddle handle used to work and a clerked lid did not escape the news report
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