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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1914
Page
10
Reminders for Christmas gifts feature peg Remee pleg fur muffs fur neck pieces and shirts. Cloth guaranteed rage coats handsome hats plumes silk petticoats at H Dillon Cows 1105 Main Street andv.
Forecasts show little temperature change with fresh west winds and a broad low pressure area east of the Rockies. Rain reported from the lower Mississippi valley and snow in the lake region. sunrise at 7 18 am sunset at 4 28 pm high water at 3 48 am and 11 48 pm. tides and wind conditions noted.
Anti suffragist report quotes the Montana W C T U being kept from a suffrage parade during fair week. It notes controversy over temperance banners and cites opposition from suffragists who fear upsetting liquor interests. It also mentions California prohibition defeat and eight year ban on revisiting the issue.
The Postal Telegraph Cable Co will relocate from 92 Middle Street to 143 Fairfield Avenue around March 1. The Scribmers Co occupied the new quarters for years. the move aims to provide larger, central offices and a modern setup ETD. Felix N. Humes, age ninety, who drilled Pennsylvania’s first oil well in 1847, died at his Tarentum home.
Hartford based E H Dillon and Co wholesale and retail leading milliners promotes Christmas gifts with fur muffs neck pieces shirts coats and hats. Lists prices for fox wolf mink lynx raccoon skunk and coney fur items and trimmings from 25c to 3 per yard.
Deerfield and Greenfield daily social notes cover a club dance postponed due to the death of Mrs. Frank Brothwell, a Congregational church Ladies' Union meeting featuring a play for charity, dinners for 32 guests, and a committee led by Miss M. E. Wakeman. Nearby reports include visitors from East Norwalk, a Bridgeport trip, a birthday party for Mrs. Parrock with a cake of 67 candles, and obituaries for Mrs. Shepard Brown of Jewett City and Mrs. Elizabeth Petroste of Fairfield. Also noted are visits by Edwin Helmar and M. Louise Meeker leading Congregational activities.
Hartford December 23 Announcement by the Hartford and New York Transportation Co. briefed abandonment of navigation in the Connecticut river for the season. Steamer service was stopped earlier, but barges and towboats have operated as five inches or more of ice bands sections hinder progress. The five member committee has ruled no restrictions on securities on the Hartford Stock Exchange.
Enlarged and more adequate quarters are likely for Bridgeport's local internal revenue office. With the wartime tax and June income tax payments, current space is inadequate and risky, a single second floor room with a five foot high glass partition. Collector J J Walsh in Hartford will file Washington recommendations for expanded facilities. Bridgeport residents have not claimed refunds on December 1 penalties for late war tax declarations.
Biddeford Mo December 22 Robert McArthur agent of Pepperell Manufacturing and a leading textile figure in the city died suddenly at 76 He had served as agent or superintendent at Millville New Jersey Sutton Massachusetts and Grosvenordale Connecticut retiring four years ago Governor George Hunt of Arizona has joined as president of the newly organized Anti Capital Punishment Society of America based in Chicago
Naples dec 23 delayed in transmission officers of the steamer Capri describe the Hodeida situation as grave owing to riots against Christians especially Minglish and French who face massacre. The French consul seized the Italian consul ill treated but now sails aboard Italian warship Giuliani. The St Louis threatened to bombard the town but Turkish government warned the first shot would trigger European slaughter. The New Jersey chancery approves mutualization of Prudential Insurance. A railroads campaign in Ohio seeks repeal of the two cent passenger fare law.
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