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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1916
Page
13
The speaker asks what the goal of the war is and what nations seek. He urges belligerents to state their aims clearly so Europe and America can understand the purpose and choose between victory or defeat. The appeal stresses the need for a definite, shared objective.
Bridgeport cinema activity expands across central and neighborhood theatres as housing growth boosts patronage. North Main Street sees large, steady business prompting Elite Theatre enlargement with gallery and possible vaudeville stage. East and West Ends report strong nightly attendance with standalone pictures.
The Board of Education in Bridgeport faces pressure to restore compulsory vaccination, arguing against outside medical zeal. The piece contrasts Britain’s shift to voluntary inoculation, noting Jenner’s discovery in 1796 and asserting public support for the noncoercive approach.
General Wood favors six months to train a single soldier while General Scott says a year. The piece argues modern war requires industrial and economic preparation, not just fighting troops. It compares Britain's earlier errors, calls for better material assignment, and notes the U S should nationalize railroads and shipping as part of war readiness.
A landlord allows tenants dogs out the front door but bans babies at that exit, relegating infants to garbage. One parent sues to gain a baby and carriage entry through the front door. A court may grant precedence for the baby’s passage in addition to access.
The first Christmas of the war brought a temporary ceasefire and quiet feasting for Britons, French, and Germans, while soldiers on the front still faced shells. Parcels from home, cigars, tobacco, food, and clothing are common gifts, with wealthier families sharing their bounty. In Paris and London Christmas spending shifts to supporting Tommy Atkins, and even children send candy to front-line relatives.
Sunday marks the thirty seventh birthday of Queen Alexandrine consort of King Christian X of Denmark. Born December 24 1879 she is daughter of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin and is nine years younger than her husband. She has two children Crown Prince Frederick due next March and Prince Knud aged sixteen. The Danish Queen is sister in law to the German heir and has long faced poor health often spending winters in southern Europe on doctors advice.
Edouard de Reszke, born in Poland five years ago, joins his elder brother Jean in a shared operatic legacy. Jean debuted in Venice in 1874 and rose to prominence as a tenor, while Edouard appeared in Paris under Jean's patronage. The pair starred across Europe, with Jean making an American debut with the Met company about two decades ago and Edouard following. Revered by critics as top lyric actor and bass, they later settled in Paris, building a private theatre in their grand home.
The original Bluebeard was Giles de Laval Marshal de Retz a famed soldier and once France s richest man. Executed for murdering hundreds of girls in 1440 Dec 22 his piety and licentiousness shocked the era. He confessed after arrest and judges ordered immediate execution.
Verdi's Aida, first sung in Cairo at the new Italian theatre built by Khedive Ismail to honor the Suez Canal opening, reaches its forty fifth birthday this Sunday. The opera opened December 24, 1871, drawing a cosmopolitan crowd from Europe America Africa and Asia.
The Cairo premiere of Aida drew praise as Verdi led a multinational effort. Mari ette Bey provided a revolutionary libretto sketch on imaginary ancient Egypt, i du Locle expanded it, Ghislanzoni Italianized the text, and Verdi designed the two level climax where Radames and Aida reunite beneath while priestesses perform above.
Liberia marks the 100th anniversary of the American Colonization Society which founded Monrovia and the republic of Liberia. Notable figures such as Francis S. Key, Henry Clay, James Madison, and Bushrod Washington contributed to the cause begun in 1816 with ships carrying emigrants starting in 1820. The venture led to an independent Liberia in 1847, cited as a useful, though mixed, experiment compared with other Caribbean republics.
Sir Ernest Shackleton sails from Port Chalmers aboard the Aurora to reach ten stranded expedition members near the Ross Barrier. The expedition team includes Captain Mackintosh and nine crew, with scant provisions after the 21 month separation. In Wilmington, Raymond McCune and Charles S. Miller are found guilty in a federal court trial for a mail fraud scheme.
Advices from London warn relief workers that this winter in Palestine will bring extreme hardship. Fuel and light are scarce, food scarce, and cold in Jerusalem in January and February is severe. Petroleum and coal are unavailable. wood is scarce and costly. Harvests were fair, but military requisitioning reduced benefits. Paper money causes hardship as change is hard to obtain.
The piece contrasts civilian giving during wartime with a nostalgic London memory of an older Christmas. It recalls snow, dancing, rail travel, cozy inns, and a traditional feast of goose, turkey, ham, plum pudding, and wassail, ending with a song as the mood shifts to reflection.
Building permits valued at 74000 dollars were issued by the board of building commissioners. Projects include an open shed on Main street for Locomobile Co and a store front on Fairfield avenue for Thomas I Sullivan. Other items cover alterations on Jane street for J B Waterbury and J Anmunsen, private garages on Roc ton and Grand streets, remodels on Pembroke street, additions to a Wheeler & Howes Co garage, a one family dwelling on Park avenue, a public garage on Johnson street, two cottages on Marion street, a garage on Haw ley avenue, and a frame addition at the rear of a store.
Advertising blurb promotes new guaranteed stock with unchanged prices on bottles and syringes. It highlights a bottle offered for one dollar as an appealing gift, aiming at shoppers seeking value.
Proposals for roughly five percent freight hikes on lumber from Chicago and St. Louis to Montana were rejected by the Interstate Commerce Commission. A fire at Coffee Co.'s warehouse in Virginia claimed the life of Captain W. C. Matt of the Richmond fire department and left two other firefighters seriously hurt after a ladder collapse.
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