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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1910
Page
6
A local catalog lists women footwear with prices across styles including patent Blucher lace shoes at four dollars and patent leather kid top shoes at four dollars. Boots range from six dollars for Patent Colt and dull kid options to seven dollars for suede boots and button varieties.
Immense audience at Jackson and Sheedy presents a high class vaudeville bill with Capretta and Chefalo Co. in The Garden of Mus, The Two Roses, Aerial, Harrison-West Trio, Hawley and Mills, and more. Thomas Shea to perform next Friday with Dr Jekyll Mr Hyde and New York Life. scenic and electrical effects praised. Renewal with Top o the World Dancers and Kris Kringle’s Dream leads a strong season.
The notice lists numerous property transfers in Stratford Bridgeport and nearby towns. Buyers include Jacob W. Wilbur Harriet H Read Paulina Vertucci Maurice Curtis Thomas Hamill James Feeley Edward Wood and others. Properties span Paradise Green Holister Heights Hubbell Terrace California Street and Montgomery area with terms and bounds described for each parcel.
Three fires broke out on New Year’s Day and were extinguished with chemicals. Lena Smith’s apartment at 515 Housatonic Avenue saw $200 damage from a lamp near wood. George W Finn’s home at 207 Poplar Street had a fire from a close lamp. A faulty basement heater at 35 Laurel Avenue triggered a blaze discovered by the Pendleton daughters after bedtime, causing $50 damage to a building owned by William E Burnham.
The notice outlines several deed transfers listing buyers and sellers including Horace E. Dann of Norwalk selling to Alfred E. Austin 412 acres with boundaries by the highway and neighboring lands, a sale to Ella M. Polletreau of Brooklyn spanning William Rolland and Church of the Assumption areas, and other bounded parcels.
A January clearance sale offers 20 percent discounts on furniture and many items including Ardahan rugs china dinner sets cut glass tableware and silver. Values are reduced with specific price pairs shown for china cabinets oak corner cabinets tailored suits dresses coats and linens. Notions fabrics and linens also see reductions plus stock items and bookcases on sale on the second floor.
In East Side and East Bridgeport reports shoppers found few black dolls with dark faces and curly hair. A central store reshuffled staff to improve appearance and perceived intelligence, while residents remark on mispelled Putman street signs and local political loyalty puzzles.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Pardee of 1230 Pembroke Street observe their fifteenth anniversary on Saturday night. They were wed August 31, 1894, by the late Monsignor D J Cremin. Their son Joseph is the family’s pride. a party in his honor was hosted by B Gillis at 55 Tom Thumb Street. The Lotus Club hosted a season dance in Slocum gymnasium with Speidel orchestra. committee members included Hawkins, Moore, Lundberg, Foland.
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