Severo critique of Governor Lilley over Congressional acts
A detailed report outlines Governor Lilley’s actions after winning the November election. He drew salary as Representative through December, did not take seat when Congress opened, sent resignation letters not accepted, and claimed stationery, clerk hire, and mileage payments. The Judiciary committee notes his membership may have ended upon oath, while Lilley continued to seek funds for December. Connecticut’s political stance on Lilley is discussed.
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Lilley
Congress
Woodruff
Shelleux
House
Judiciary Committee
Tilley
Aétell
George L. Lilley
Washington
Mr. Lilley
Fonty
Connecticut
George Leavens Lilley
Eliot boom for Harvard president to be ambassador
Boston observers report strong support for Charles W. Eliot as ambassador to the Court of St James. Governor Draper and Harvard's A Lawrence Lowell voiced approval at the Harvard Club dinner, with letters of regret from noted diplomats read aloud and a formal silver presentation to the president.
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United Press
Boston
Charles W. Eliot
Whitelaw Reid
Court of St. James
Draper
Harvard
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard Club
Skeedare Me Okeganere
Westminster
Lowell
Bilijah
Eliot
St. James
Bryce
Prince Henry of
Prussia
Elihu Root
Rufus Choate
England
Attorney Stewart resumes practice with Coughlin & Wilder
Attorney Jesse A. Stewart, recently recuperating, opens an office with the law firm of Coughlin & Wilder in the Security building. A certificate of incorporation is issued to Bridgeport Pattern Model Co with $10,000 capital stock and $2,000 paid in. Incorporators are Charles Gregory, Nelson G Bjork, and Paul L Miller of the city. A special meeting of Fairfield County Pomona Grange will be held in Danbury on Wednesday January 27 1909 to report retiring officers confer fifth degree and install next year's officers with a short lecturer program.
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Jesse A. Stewart
Coughlin & Wilder
Secretary of State
Bridgeport Pattern Model Co
Charles Gregory
Nelson G. Bjork
Paul L. Miller
Airfield County Grange
Fairfield County
Pomona Grange
Danbury
Sarah Still in Stratford Refuses to Return Home
Max Blau a Brooklyn real estate broker seeking to lure his sister Sarah back to New York reports she remains in Stratford at Louis Richards residence on Wood End Road. She declines family entreaties to return, choosing independence and earning her own living, despite her mother and brother efforts.
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Stratford
Max Blau
Brooklyn
Sarah
New York
Louis Richards
Wood End Road
Eastern Star Whist Night At Masonia Temple Draws Forty Tables
Eastern Star Orient Chapter held a whist event at Masonia Temple filling forty tables with players. An informal dance followed. Prize winners included B B Plumley, Mrs Schreiber, Joan De Cam, Miss Broad, Florence Porter, Miss Moss, G Randolph, T B Reynolds, Mrs Warrick, A B Keough, B F Marks, Miss Wallace, L B Lennell, J L Owen, Harry Barnes, Mrs M Baxter, T O Snow and Mrs Winchester. Committee organizers were Mrs Fred Schussler and twenty others, including Messrs Fred Schussler and W A Lewis.
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Orient Chapter
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonia Temple
B. B. Plumley
Mrs. Schreiber
Joan de Cam
Miss Broad
Florence Porter
Miss Moss
G. Randolph
T. B. Reynolds
Edward Brundage
Hugh Nellis
Lou P. Bristol
Edward Grevey
T. A. Levare
G. F. Herthal
Fred Schussler
W. A. Lewis
Silliman Branch SAR Elects New Members at Stratfield Meeting
The Silliman chapter Sons of the American Revolution gathered at the Stratfield yesterday evening and elected new members Lee Armstrong Bow ers, Sidney Hawley, William Jones, George Peck, Joseph Stagg, David Coe, Andrew Huntington, Henry Seeley, and Wilbur Barnes. Remarks by Louis Curtis urged stronger membership as Connecticut lags behind New York and Massachusetts. Speeches covered Revolution history and duties of descendants, with others including Thad Beecher and Judge Beardsley participating.
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Compo Beach
Tyron
Danbury
Connecticut
New York
Massachusetts
George L. Porter
Thad Beecher
Morris B. Beardsley
Harry C. Burroughs
W. A. Barnes
Joseph Porraga
Co. D. Davis
H. F. Norcross
Spies Among Us Alleged By Exiled Russian Count
New Haven hears Count Alexander Lochwitski recount his exile from Russia after revolutonary accusations, his Siberian imprisonment, and daring escape. He claims constant shadowing by Russian spies and details three recent assassination attempts including poisonings and a shooting attempt.
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United Press
New Haven
Elms
Alexander M. Lochwitski
Siberia
Fire safety talk at Bridgeport banquet calls for fire marshal
Boston banker W F Rice urged lower insurance rates while urging state action to empower a fire marshal with enforcement authority. Senator Holzer and others pressed for stronger fire prevention. meeting in Bridgeport featured Dorr D Whitney as president and a slate of officers.
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W. F. Rice
Boston
New England Underwriters Exchange
Bridgeport Fire Underwriters Association
Strafield
Rice
Europe
United States
Canada
Philip L. Holzer
Holzer
Bunting Germs In Zero Weather
Health inspectors Lynch and Knapp have spent the past week touring the area near the city, delivering notices to dairymen per the board of Health. Cold weather with temperatures near zero has made the duties strenuous as the bacteria were observed wearing fur coats and ear muffs.
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Lynch and Knapp
Health Department
Board of Health
Special Exhibit of Office Furniture Opens at Read Co
The D M Read Co presents a January special exhibit of office desks and chairs in the first room of the Furniture Store. See mahogany and oak sanitary desks with spacious drawers and filing devices. Prices are low now. Some desks and chairs are in the Main St window. Repair work at Cabinet Shops offers low rates throughout January with careful attention from skilled workmen. Estimates gladly given.
Crockery Store Dinner Sets Slashed Prices in Sale
Notice from the Crockery Store offers six different 112 piece dinner sets incomplete with missing pieces. English porcelain sets priced at 10.00 to 11.75, and 18.00 sets at 10.00 or 11.75. Short lengths of dress linings include percales latines serges and sunburst silk, all at one third below regular price in the lining section.
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Crockery
Winter Comfortables Closing Out Prices
Winter Comfortables announces closing out sale on a small stock of warm comforts. Low prices listed: various values from 1.15 to 3.50 with savings highlighted. Located on the lower floor at the foot of the Central Stairway.
Radford B. Smith Scarce Article
Come boys cut out this coupon and get big value for your money. We sell skates cheaper than any store in town. Some cheaper lines are broken up now, but we can suit almost every one. Goods delivered to any part of city.
New York Wholesale Prices Roundup for Butter Eggs and More
A dense listing of wholesale quotes across dairy eggs fruit hay and vegetables with prices per unit or per hundred weight. Butter eggs apples hay hothouse produce poultry dressed furs and skins are included with varied premiums for quality and size. Rates are given for creamery butter eggs by state and nearby regions and for miscellaneous commodities like cucumbers mushrooms radishes rhubarb and potatoes.
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Northern Spy
Baldwin
Ben Davis
Timothy
Connecticut
Eeeaes Ae Diack
Dean's Ointment Ad Promises Quick Relief for Itching
An old advertisement lists prices for muskrats and skin products and touts Dean's Ointment as a fast relief for itching and disfiguring eruptions. It claims lasting cures with a fifty cent price at any drug store. 2246.
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Dean
Points of Interest and local shopping notices
A collage of local ads and market notices. B. H. Dillon & Co. promotes winter millinery and coats at 1105 Main St. Hayes’ Market touts fresh seafood and groceries at 629 Water St with a Bridgeport Public Market branch. East Main St. location lists seafood variety and a bakery. Regals shoes from Davis & Savard highlight fit and style.
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B. H. Dillon & Co
Main St
Hayes
Water St. Tel
Bridgeport Public Market
East Main Street
Davis & Savard
Orchestral Oversights and a Geologist’s Theory
In a Providence Journal excerpt, a snare drummer improvises across instruments while a bystander notes a missed cue in the score. A scientist recalls two geologists and a rock rolled down a mountain to fit a theory, despite a dinner bell intervening.
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Providence Journal
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Eastern Star
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Sons OF American Revolution
Silliman Branch
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Cannon St. Model Food Market
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Federal Express
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A. B. Smith
Conn
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Los Angeles
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Chicago
New England
W. Massey
Washington St
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