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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
11
Mrs. Snowden wed in New York with President and Mrs. Taft present. The groom’s niece, Miss daughter of Henry W. Taft, joined the ceremony amid Taft and Snowden family press due to the aunt’s death. Mr. Snowden, a Seattle lumber dealer, soon sailed with the couple for Europe.
An old tale recounts Senator Cass from Michigan striking fear with a single gaze. A hotel encounter in 1846 had a doppelgänger mistaken for Cass, provoking a terrifying stare that froze the mistaken man. Later, a prankster learned the danger of misidentification in the lobby.
Mrs. A. Goodrich-Freer recounts a fellow traveler who joined a caravan to Medeba. The man touts dates and figs as the natural food of desert wanderers, claiming immense endurance with no wine or meat. He cites riding sixty hours without dismounting and twenty-four hours in the desert, counting date stones to tally his meals.
A laborer is run over by a train in Jersey City and badly injured. A dirty tramp offers aid, applies a tourniquet, and helps stop bleeding before slipping away, illustrating a rare moment of humane intervention amid neglect.
At New York New Haven and Hartford offices officials say several labor groups will press for wage increases next week. Courteous negotiations will review demands, with no expected major raises unless accompanied by higher freight charges. Officers note prior wage bumps and salary cuts during the panic year, and foresee extended talks covering living costs and railroad equipment costs without yet higher freight rates.
New Haven authorities report Sophie Kritchman jailed on murder charges has begun a romance with Dr A K Buckauskas of Chicago. Letters crossed the states, initially in English, now in a foreign language. Officials halted the foreign correspondence awaiting review by a Polish interpreter.
Margaret Callan widow of Patrick Callan dies at home in Tromn Andrea aged long time resident of Irish heritage. Survived by three daughters and two sons with connections to New Haven and city residents. Charlie Smith machinist dies after pneumonia at 120 Maple Street. survived by a widow, lodge member. Edwin Stanton services held, burial at Union Cemetery Stratford with minister Rev. Gerald. Margaret Walsh obituary notes afternoon service and St Thomas church rites with named bearers. Ada Harriet Crowther laid to rest at Lakeview Cemetery after services at Henry B. Bishop mortuary chapel with bearers listed. Anna M L Berger funeral from Howard Avenue home and First German Evangelical Lutheran church with interment at Mountain Grove Cemetery.
British brewers used about 3 million pounds of hops last year. The United States produced almost two thirds of world petroleum. American iron consumption averaged 4 tons per copper ton over ten years. A London lab is under construction by the first company to commercialize radium. The corn crop was valued at 1.72 billion dollars, the year’s most valuable yet not largest. Germany exported over 7,000 tons of lactic acid to the US for dyeing. New patents cover an electrically driven screwdriver, a portable electric hammer, and an electric window washer. An Italian engineer claims a reversible turbine engine. About 450 acres of national forests were planted with goue trees and 1,250 acres sown with seed. An umberline folds to under two feet long, two inches in diameter. Platinum in the US comes only as a placer mining by-product. 1903 output was 750 Troy ounces. The world’s highest viaduct in France opened, 144 feet above a river, costly to build.
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