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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1909
Page
4
Busy people who value time recommend Cyrus Plaster for backache. Users report relief when others failed, with many learning from friends. Price is twenty five cents at C. Pharmacy on Birfield Ave. and St.
The Scottish community in the city marks the Burns birthday with a concert of Scottish songs and dances at Eagles Hall on Friday evening January 29. Clan Campbell directs the event, the twenty third such memorial, with tickets selling freely and a promised highly enjoyable program. Details will follow in this paper.
Washington Jan 18 General Charles W Newton of Hartford commander in chief of the United Spanish War Veterans announces a program to supply rifles to veterans. The initiative aims to equip surviving members with standard issue arms as part of commemorative and ceremonial duties.
The bill allows members of the organization to be armed with discarded United States army rifles. It was reported from the military affairs committee by Senator Bulkeley. A year earlier General Crozier and former Secretary of War Taft endorsed a similar measure.
At the American Historical Association annual meeting in Washington on January 18, Connecticut figures played a prominent role. Ex Governor Thomas M. Waller served on the reception committee while Patrick Garvan of Hartford and General Phelps Montgomery of New Haven were elected to the executive council. Dennis H. Tierney of Waterbury was named state vice president for Connecticut.
E H Dillon & Co presents Poli's weekly show featuring Bridgeport talents Miss Florence Hamilton in The Race Track comedy drama Queen of the Turf with J Frank Burke, Will H Fox in Paddywhiski, and headline The Quakeress by Hyams and McIntyre. Also Meredith sisters and The Ahearn Troupe appear in a varied racing and vaudeville program.
A concert at Poli's theatre Sunday evening January 1 under Maestro Sulli benefits Italian earthquake sufferers. Mrs W E Hulse and S Austin Mack Connell will sing The Lord Is My Light with help from Herbert Bottomley and Bruce Conger. The program features twelve numbers from Verdi Handel and others and church members from Washington Park M E church attend. Foley's Honey and Tar is recommended for coughs and colds with no opiates.
The Ben Greet Players joined the Russian Symphony Orchestra for a Mendelssohn centenary program featuring A Midsummer Night's Dream. The production impressed with authentic period staging, strong acting, and graceful dances by Lou Wall Moore. Miss Clara Turner will headline a week of performances alongside new dance classes at Quilty's Smith's theatre.
Martin V. Thayer, 72, dies and his wife is dying from shock after a private gas plant leak search with a lighted lantern. The blast damaged property and was felt miles away, sparking a quake-like tremor fear. Thayer’s mangled body was found near his son’s home, clothing torn.
A ferocious blizzard swept western Canada with 41 mph winds, halting train service across Saskatchewan and Alberta. Passengers and freights struggled through heavy snow as Manitoba lines faced widespread closures and snow ploughs worked at full power to clear routes.
In deep snow drifts near Swift Current Saskatchewan for almost eighteen hours the drifts blocked the right of way and slowed removal by auxiliary crews. Hundreds of homesteaders were buried in their huts and unable to tunnel to stock sheds.
Arthur Moyer an ironworker from 1833 Vine street underwent a nose transplant at Samaritan Hospital after losing his nose. Dr Wayne Babcock performed the procedure, under ether for about ninety minutes, shaping skin and bone to form a bridge for a new nose. He expects discharge with a flesh and blood nose in two weeks.
A fragmented account describes a forehead skin flap used to form a new nasal bridge. The narrative mentions cartilage remaining from Meyer's first nose and skin flaps sewn to center with tubes inserted to nasal passages for air flow.
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