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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1914
Page
16
A reader warns that back pain and muscle strain are commonly misattributed to kidney disease by dubious ads selling cures. The piece explains kidney-related symptoms and cautions against sedatives while promoting a self-guided regimen and dynamic magnetism as a supposed permanent relief.
Visitors flock to Domremy to pray at Joan of Arc’s cottage seeking divine aid to drive the Germans from France. A postwar visitor notes the inscription “To abolish the war” on the eve of hostilities. Also mentions a morbid roadside scene and local Ohio farmers in shock.
Professor Henry Neboble MacCracken was elected president by the Vassar board succeeding Dr James M. Taylor. He will begin next February and is a son of Dr Henry Mitchell MacCracken. Educated at NYU, Harvard, and Yale, he has held English professorships at Smith and Yale.
Audiences packed Poll Theater on the holiday opening show featuring Lind and the Parsifar company with a musical playlet Teach er. The program included Madden and Witzpatrick Waterbury duo, Devine and Williams, Mandani Keller, Tierney Chabor dances, Kaiser's Dogs, and Mabel Taliaferro star of a five reel Ra chel Crothers drama The Three of Us plus additional short pictures.
The Plaza Theater showcases a strong bill with the Wouilla Brothers from the New York Hippodrome in a headlining sensational equilibrist act. Rackett Hoover Mackey and Willard Hutchinson and Co provide comedy and dancing skits while The Tierney Four charm with musical and vocal pieces. Bobby Stone delivers fifteen minutes of standup and songs including His Second Childhood and The Revenue Officer's Deputy.
A special note from Newtown lists holiday trains, wage cuts at the railroad, and a larger town social scene. Local sports announce Bethel at town hall on New Year’s night with dancing and music, while residents travel to Bridgeport and New Haven for visits and funerals.
Miss Carolyn Garlick hosted her aunt Miss Carolyn Knapp of New York. Ella Beyer spent Christmas with Mr and Mrs Ernest Beyer in Sherman. Harmony Grange exchanged Christmas gifts and heard readings by Miss C A Knapp. Mrs Buckingham closed her Cutler district school for Christmas and plans a visit to New Haven. Mrs John Benedict will spend winter in Bridgeport with her son. The Methodist church plans a Christmas tree and supper. Mrs Emma Hill Olmstead funeral held, survived by husband and two brothers, interment at Cutler's Farm cemetery. Several families hosted or visited relatives in Nichols Stamford Danbury Bridgeport and other towns. The Stepney school reopens Jan 4 Miss Carolyn Osborne to replace F P Sherman. Henry Sherman ill with laryngitis. Ina Nichols visited relatives in Huntington. Charles Beardsley missed a Sunday game. Edgar Northrop hosted guests from Danbury. Mrs Lemuel Osborne visiting in Bridgeport. Gladys Osborne returned for a visit. Arthur Morgan visited his father Ormel Peoreae.
Miss Mary Mayne returns from Easton area with sister Mrs Jons Flynn. The cantata Down the Chimney With Santa Claus drew a large audience on Christmas night with participants from Easton Bridgeport Weston Greenfield Fairfield Newtown Stevenson and Tashua. The program included a star drill by Minnie Sherwood and a rug donated to Rev and Mrs F S Clark.
At the December 21 1914 meeting the Bridgeport Common Council adopted a resolution directing the City Clerk to notify interested parties to appear January 4 1915 at 8 PM in the Council Room to be heard on paving Knowlton Street in permanent wood block from E Washington Avenue to ties Avenue.
At the Bridgeport City Council meeting on December 21 1914 a resolution directs the City Clerk to notify the City Hall on January 4 1915 at 8 p m to be heard on the proposed street layout extending Wayne Street from Madison Avenue to Terry Place Beers Street from Cliff Street to Main Street Elm Street from its Harrison Street intersection to a point ending at West Avenue Attest J ALEX H ROBINSON City Clerk
Local notice directs City Clerk to inform Bridgeport officials about January 4 1315 hearings on grading Scofield avenue Bostwick avenue Hackley street and Park avenue from Wade street to Capitol avenue. Attest J ALEX H ROBINSON City Clerk. The rest of the text contains unrelated commentary on Wall Street baseball church fairs fashion and a missing Islip bank cashier.
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