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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1909
Page
9
The New York office of Representative A. Menet is located at 225 Fifth Avenue Brunswick Building Room 404.
President Taft spoke at Yale on Wednesday asserting that if the Republican party fails to meet public expectation it will become the minority opposition in Congress. He warns of tariff burdens on consumers and argues for American marine rehabilitation by protecting native industry rather than subsidies.
A survey of innovative claims spans tides harnessing in Amherst Nova Scotia to record egg laying by Leghorn hens in Australia. It notes a Chicago building shaped like a letter E with 800 windows, a dinner table ornament with built in lights, and an 1827 reaping machine claim. Other items cover aeroplane surface design, asbestos thread, electric ship propulsion, crater heat used for pig feed, Romanian watermelon variety, bee navigation senses, Adria archaeology, water purification raises, and many more tech and industry notes.
An Adrian Georgia reader claims relief from a female weakness and disease after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad extols feminie ailments it cures including inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities pains backache indigestion and nervous prostration and invites letters for confidential advice.
Fairfield County news reports the resignation of Assistant Postmaster Elbert Adams at Norwalk, with Captain Charles L. Wing expected to succeed him. Wing is Adams's son in law. The article also covers a near fatal swimming accident in Norwalk where Vincent Falcone eight, and James Tortorelli eleven, jumped into a boiler-heated pool behind the Connecticut Power House. Falcone escaped, Tortorelli remained until rescued. Additional items include a lightning strike on Mrs. Fannie R. Wheeler of White Hills with minor injuries, the death of Norwalk's wealthy resident Charles Munson Raymond at 66 from heart trouble, and Charles Warner of Shelton suffering serious injuries after falling from a cherry tree.
East Canaan residents recount a Wednesday fire at a house owned by G. Archie Adams and occupied by Edward Hunker. Most furniture was saved. Separately, probate news reveals will provisions from Caleb J. Camp including a 25000 bequest held to double for widows and unmarried women. William Strong left 1000 to Woodbury First Congregational. Also, three cows owned by William Butler of Falls Village were killed by a train after straying onto tracks.
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