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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1909
Page
11
Storewide clearance event emphasizes every item must sell at a price no matter how small. Winter millinery shirts coats and accessories offered with emphasis on value and discounts alongside a noted price of 2.75.
Grand Master Healey calls for better roads and stricter measures to curb reckless driving. He argues good roads support commerce and civilization, urging rural communities receive state and national aid while stressing firm action to improve traffic safety and dependence on road maintenance.
United Press dispatch reports Brazilian railway workers seizing rolling stock and halting lines across major routes. Fights erupted in Pernambuco with several dead and about 100 wounded as unrest flared, provoking protests directed at the Brazilian government and affecting company operations.
Schietchert clears land at avenue and Main for a proposed brick block and must remove several large trees. Local historians puzzled by the specimens note they resemble a Linden or Maple and possibly an Oak. The lot was once a dockyard for General Tom Thumb and is said to have housed trees gifted by P. T. Barnum.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Cyrus Plaster as giving relief when others have failed and references a Pharmacy and a daily wage of twenty five cents. Readable content is limited but implies an old newspaper ad or notice.
The Bridgeport Poultry and Pet Stock Association exhibit in Lincoln Hall drew large crowds and many entries. Awards covered dozens of breeds from bantams to ducks, geese, pigeons, and cats with winners from Bridgeport, Westport, Stratford, New Haven, and surrounding towns. The event showcased boneless duck and quackless drake among notable curiosities, running yesterday through today.
The annual report of Treasurer Freeman F. Patten shows the state shifted from a surplus to a net debt of 5485,586.52 for the year, with expenditures of 4,741,549.81. He urges halting excessive spending, restoring pay as you go budgeting, and proposes higher inheritance taxes and a half mill state tax to fund debt repayment.
New York police arrested lawyer Carl Fischer Hansen and partner Alexander Michaleson on warrants charging bribing a witness. Magistrate Krotel set bail at 15000 for Fischer Hansen and 10000 for Michaleson, tied to a 1908 bribe aimed at affecting Tony Macaluso’s testimony in a $15000 extortion case involving Joseph F. O'Brien. A later item notes a German inventor’s needleless gyroscope for ships.
Hartford reports the Connecticut Republican caucus re nominated Senator Brandegee by 126 to 111 for Hill, with Hill expressing gratitude and Roraback attributing the outcome to campaign vigor. Washington notes mixed reactions as Brandegee heads into six-year term amid calls for stronger arguments against hewing to outside interests. A Munich engineer tests steel ring corsets claimed bulletproof by the German army, after rejecting a Russian offer to wait.
William F Steese of Pittsburgh reports severe scalp scaly condition after typhoid fever, losing hair and fearing baldness. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment, plus Resolvent, his scalp cleared and hair thickened, with plans to send a photo later.
Poli's theater gears up for a strong vaudeville bill with Flo Irwin's The Reformer and a lineup including the Elmnore Sisters Jones Mayo Frosini The Four Readings Payton Wilson Hyams McIntyre Miss Florence Hamilton Meredith Sisters Will H Fox Mills Morris Chas Ahearn Troupe and Great Richards opening the show with kaleidoscopic dances and female impersonations amid big audience laughter.
The closing performance of the Montana Limited attracts a large audience, praised by Hartford and other cities for its melodrama. Tomorrow stars the Boston Opera Singers in Verdi's Trovatore with Mme Francini and others. Also features Thorns and Orange Blossoms touring, and a Mendelssohn program with Modest Altachuler and the Ben Greet players. Ice and coal ads follow.
A roundup of scientific curios and engineering advances from around the world. Topics include British naval speeds and classifications, a stop drill winning a Johannesburg mining prize, magical blue paper treated with chemical salts, and the mammal-like care pattern of the devil fish. Additional items cover a gas engine that scales with load, urban humidity findings, a home barometer display in Italy, routine clock cleaning by kerosene fumes, a multi-use egg beater patent, a Madrid exposition promoting science, corn-derived ethanol productivity, Louisiana gas waste and federal land withdrawals, a physician friendly stop watch, Pittsburg filtration plant capacity, Koch on crocodile related disease, and leather dyeing recipes with mordants.
A historical page mixes a Courtland School note about vacancies after January with odd items about poultry care and a hen toilet. It then shifts to a London era column citing a giraffe in Paris and anecdotes on manners, coffee, and a quip about debt and thrift.
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