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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1909
Page
2
Governor Weeks signed an anti spitting bill defining spitting as expelling secretions from chest throat mouth or nose. Violators face fines from 1 to 5 dollars or up to thirty days imprisonment.
The Pierce Mfg Company was awarded two sewer contracts by the Permanent Paving Commission last night. In Hallett they will build 45 Timeal feet of sewer 14x21 inches at 1.38 per running foot plus 4.25 for manholes and 3.50 per cubic yard for rock. In Osborne street they will lay 947 feet of sewer at 51 H jta a running foot. The bidder was B D I Mtg Company. STEEPLECHASE ISLAND novelty attraction features two life figures in baseball uniforms. the batsman is operated by a concealed mechanism and the catcher moves to catch pitches. The trick rings a bell to deliver a cigar to the thrower. Luken's troupe appears afternoons and evenings in a lively act. the display continues Saturday night.
Washington July 20 The United States Forester Gif ford Pinchot writes to railroad presidents urging forest conservation and better timber utilization. He notes three times faster forest cutting than growth, fires waste, and private timber still driven by present profit. He proposes five concrete measures including treated ties, use of inferior woods, land management, planting on agricultural land, and cross railroad cooperation to standardize specs and promote fire prevention and sustained timber supply.
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