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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1909
Page
7
A fragment lists the New York Office at 220 Broadway with St Paul building context. It names C A Menet as Representative and cites a New York location related to the office.
Gov. Draper’s Massachusetts message urges expanding industrial education beyond college prep, endorses separate industrial schools, and presses for high standard highways with a 300 per mile annual upkeep. He calls for graded auto registration and heavy penalties for reckless driving, plus harbor and waterway funding, and suggests a national approach to old age pensions. Connecticut may debate adopting similar policies.
The special commission on public utilities favors a rule barring stockholders, employees, agents or attorneys of regulated companies from service on the commission. The Hartford Courant objects, arguing that a person with freight-rate interests, even with substantial business ties, could be disqualified, while someone with minimal ownership might be allowed to judge railroad matters. The piece questions consistency and warns of potential bias in rail rate judgments.
The text argues that excluding corporation stockholders from the public utilities commission is vital to prevent corporate control and to ensure users of utilities, the public, are adequately represented. It notes political rancor, calls for countering treachery claims against senators, and references a pithy medical ad for Pazo Ointment at 50 cents.
The American Federation of Musicians local in Magna relocates from Charter hall to Pioneer hall in Curtis block Elm and Main Streets. A farewell exercises with 50 to 60 piece band precedes a march to the new hall at 1 30 pm for further programs and social time led by George Sanger.
A marketing piece extols Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges as a cure for foul breath claiming women suffer greater social stigma than men. It urges after meals use and advertises a mail order trial from F. A. Stuart Co., Marshall, Michigan, with price 12.6 cents per box.
Listings show multiple rentals in Fairfield area including cottages stores and flats near Burr road Park Av Alice St Cleveland Av Golden Hill St Bank St Rosuth St Brooks St and Main St Inquiries directed to Industrial Savings Bank at southeast car Fairfield Avenue and Middle Street.
A collage of language notes and anecdotes discusses regional terms pangwangling and honing, contrasting them with slang and formal speech. It includes passages from Atlantic and New York Press on vegetarian ethics and everyday expressions, plus vignette snippets such as slipper allum tea lore and a risky gunpowder anecdote.
Brief miscellany quotes on vanity in Napoleon era figures and a tale of silent vows in Western Australia. Also a jokey paean to poets and a joke about knuckles as well as Aristotle. Ends with an ad for Detchon's Rheumatism Cure claiming rapid relief in 1 to 3 days priced at 75 cents and $1. Curtis Pharmacy advertises the remedy.
A compact aphorism urges merchants never to skimp on promotion stating that no merchant fails when he advertises as well and as much as possible.
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