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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1914
Page
10
A blaze at the Pope and Gottle Co lumber yards in Chelsea Massachusetts caused $125000 in losses. Separately a Polish train collision near Kalisz killed 400 and injured 500 as detectives investigated.
Dress making item outlines a new waist model with corselet for a pointed front and back effect. It details construction steps such as inverted V front, raised belt, and tailored seams. Pictorial Review waist pattern features offered at prices and promoted as current newspaper home sewing content from 1907.
Poem reflecting on life’s rapid passage from youth to old age. The speaker contrasts the swift current of youth with waning strength as time flows toward death. Stars measure life while joys fade, and Heaven lends years of fading strength to balance fleetness.
Recipes describe a tomato sauce blend with butter flour water spices then a pressed turkey dish with hard boiled eggs celery parsley stock and a parsley nest garnish. A ginger gelatin dessert with gelatin lemon juice sugar eggs whites and whipped cream accompanies the meal craved in a vintage kitchen setting.
The Rubber Club of America warns the British embargo on crude rubber will reduce supply by over half, raise prices, and lay off workers. Britain aims to deny Germany access to rubber from colonies like Ceylon and the Federated Malay states, while U S manufacturers seek guarantees against re export. Early October measures call contraband, halting shipments from Singapore and Colombo to New York unless via English ports.
An advice column from Laura Libby replies to a seventeen year old reader anxious about a twenty three year old suitor. The response warns against frequent outings with many friends and urges choosing a single partner, focusing on self improvement and future marriage.
A慨t diary style letter urges a young stenographer to assess a suitor who boasts of visiting lower status girls. A Stella column advises prudence, warns against gift giving to casual beaus, and stresses that serious intentions aren’t proven by presents. It weighs how perseverance and self restraint shape a meaningful relationship.
Two years after a quarrel I lost a young lady's friendship. I wrote her with no reply. a friend says she is not dating anyone but mentions my name. Please advise how to regain her friendship. Also, what to say when first meeting a girl and a unknown family member answers the door.
Fragmentary OCR reads as a brief public or personal note urging a person named George to call back. Lacks clear date, place, or event. cannot determine full context or attribution from the text.
The piece explains how England extended a crude rubber embargo to all shipping from English ports to non allied countries on November 18, cutting off U.S. access to key raw material. It notes U.S. producers must rely on South America, Mexico, and Africa, with Brazilian rubber costly and African and Mexican varieties weaker. It argues Britain blocks licenses and re-export guarantees, threatening the American rubber industry and public supply.
The piece notes rubber supply shifts from Brazil to the Far East and the British Empire, with 60 percent of U.S. crude rubber now from the British Empire. It reports normal U.S. consumption around 60,000 tons yearly, 25,000 tons plantation rubber, and prices up due to embargo. About 126,000 workers are employed in rubber, including 25,000 in Akron, with multiple states as major producers. It warns of higher consumer rubber goods prices without a British deal.
In a bustling scene at the Cafe Haut in Ironsburgh, Vittoreo Matteo, famed Italian chef, arrives with Wallingford and others to discuss backing for a new venture. Umberto invites Matteo to run a kitchen and possibly relocate to the city, while Wallingford and Blackie press for a recital hall at the Grand Opera House as the project’s centerpiece.
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