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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1914
Page
12
A fragmented Christmas tale follows Tressy and Jimmy as a family bear intrusion escalates into a tense chase. The siblings hide, barely escape, and await rescue after a rifle shot signals danger, ending with family reunion and Christmas spirits restored.
An advertisement touts a luxury cruise itinerary to New York, Bahia, Halle, Brazil, Santos, Montevideo, Punta Arenas, Valparaiso, Antofagasta, Callao, Kingston, Havana, and back to New York aboard the Gajamabi. Travel spans 188 days with two to four day port stops, priced at 300 dollars total, or seven dollars eighty four cents per day. Loewith & Co. Bank Street invites inquiries with a booklet.
Readable items list prices for fruits vegetables and poultry. Apples pears and berries priced per bushel crate pint and bunch, potatoes onions and turnips quoted by bag crate or bunch, cucumbers mushrooms mint lettuce and radishes noted, turkeys and chickens priced by weight and quality, rabbits and guineas listed with general condition notes.
Fragmentary OCR item lists poultry elements Feck reboits and Guineas with pricing notes 1¢ 1-2 45e and references to Turkeys and Dicks, without clear context or full sentences.
William Wheleet of New York has joined the tenor section of the Bridgeport Oratorio Society for the upcoming Messiah performance in the Armory near Puce day evening. Wheeler, praised as a leading modern operatic tenor, has sung with major societies and holds soloist roles in St Bartholomew's New York and Temple Emmanuel choirs, confirming his high standing in New York musical circles.
Building commissioners report permits totaling 33600 for a brick one story factory west Logan street and additions to American Chain Co the Reval Equipment Co and the American British Mfg Co Also listed are various small structures with addresses along Calhoun Summit Dover Rail Ford Crescent Bain and North avenues plus a holiday sale at Fulford B Smith and a Sunday schools fundraiser notes show a meeting tomorrow at 1 PM with changes to Christmas Day timing
King Frederick August of Saxony, aged about fifty, has gone to the Belgian front this month to bolster the troops and to represent the Kaiser during the eastern battle front’s absence. He ascended the throne in 1904 after King George and has a history tied to his former wife Archduchess Louise of Austria and their six children.
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