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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1913
Page
6
A muddled OCR fragment notes a plan to re establish Swiss Guards at the Vatican. It mentions a mutinous detachment leaving the Vatican and hints at remaining guards and allied forces. Names and precise details are unreadable.
A distraught young widow appeared unconscious at her husband’s grave near Lar ge Hill. Police say an empty bottle once holding poison was found nearby and she was taken into custody after displaying severe distress. Relatives recall a past tragedy and say the woman had warned of danger surrounding the grave yesterday.
Hydraulic company plans to purchase Sanford land in Redding, with construction near Lowestown Road set to begin next week. Personal notes indicate interest in the project and local development impact.
Speeial to The Partner reports Bridgeport Hydraulic Co audits of Stephen Sanford holdings in Pressant Valley with no flaw found in titles. Sanford insists on outright purchase rather than dam removal compensation. Miss Grace aprehensively awaits program details. Olga Anderson wins a Danbury State Normal school scholarship. Miss Banks is an alternate. Lonetown road-building contracts discussed with Draken trap rock from Putnam Park and a steam crusher planned. Pisasant Valley mill remodels into a garage and tenement. Suffrage League meeting postponed. a special session upcoming. Local residents return from hospital, family travels, and August at the Ridsonola Inn fills.
Hastings Corset Parlors at 1386 Main Street showcase the smallest corsets designed for Mme Elizabeth the living doll. The exhibit highlights miniature pieces by Mrs Hastings, with new machinery installed to manufacture corsets, drawing crowds and praise for precision and craft.
July 24 report from Wemington notes the meadowlark’s principal diet includes cotton boll weevils and grasshoppers with predatory ground beetles. The department calls the bird a valuable destroyer of injurious insects and a beneficial ally in protecting crops.
Panama Hats advertised with best values from 81.00 to 88.00, plus 2.00 peanut braid and 51.00 ratine hats. An assortment of 480 700 hats claimed at less than half price appears in the sale notice with garbled extra text.
In Homewood, Chicago, July 14 1924 the western Epic championship opens with Evans and Allis facing Brana Jr and a strong Wisconsin challenger. Local favorites Evans Gardner and Wood lead the early round, with 46 hole matches in play and perfect weather drawing a large crowd.
Boston on July 24 marks mid tournament day at Longwood with twelve players left in the Longwood Bowl singles and eight doubles teams contending for the eastern championship. Larned Wright of Summit N J and B C Wright of Boston face New York pair F C Baggs and S H Vashej in a veterans versus newcomers clash as weather stays unsettled. Also eyed are New York and Boston duos Touchard and Washburn versus Taylor and White in a key doubles match. The day features scheduled Sunday rounds at 9:20 with athletes Beloin Barrett Allen Robinson Morrissay Maseicotte Mesener Connors Hartmut and Daley to challenge the Athletics. Bill McQuire plans a White Sox trip to New Haven to face the Washington Glee Club nine after nine straight wins.
Wakefield July 24 The New England interstate match for twelve men teams a key event in the New England Military Rifle Association shoot was held today. Distances noted were 200 600 and 1 000 yards with other events including the Essex County rapid fire and the service match at 200 000 and 1 000 yards open to any noted rifleman or state team of twelve men.
Mrs Frank Carlaon signs with friends in New York. Mrs Percy Knapp returns from Brooklyn visit with Amelia Meyer. Nathan Olmetead visits Stratford, Mary Olm, Frederick Banks and Anna Banks at Lake Waccabue. Florence Banks, Helen Godfrey and others from Lake Waccabue outing. Miss Louies Wekemen stays with Adele Sturges. Sterling family travels. J Miller family at shore. Miss Jane A Smitts visits Longmeadow and Holyoke friends. Capt W R Fearn on auto trip to Maine. return next week with Carol and Irving. Station Agent M F Carrofnas back from ten days’ vacation.
Taunton man George R Wilsen buys a five passenger car becoming the eightieth in Newtown CT, a town banner for car ownership with one vehicle per 37.6 people. Two fuel oil tanks arrive for state road work while Grange and church events unfold amid local society notes and misc town notices.
Bridgeport figures challenged Spittler for state offices at the state convention in Bridgeport. Francie Wade was chosen as state president, Spittler elected state vice president, and Daniel J. O Connor lost re election as state secretary as opponents argued Bridgeport should not hold two offices. O Connors defeat marked the only discord in a large field day and parade.
George W. Carroll and Sonn Hiney of Elizabeth New Jersey, visiting Bridgeport with the Order of Eagles, praised the city and its citizens after entertaining royalty during their stay. Carroll, a Wilson supporter and old college friend of the president, and Hiney, active in state politics and New Jersey land development, own land at Port Jefferson. They departed by boat after expressing lasting enjoyment of their Bridgeport visit.
Weather today shows fair and cooler conditions in New Haven with showers this afternoon or tonight. Across Connecticut showers tonight and Friday likely give way to fair, cooler weather with moderate south to west-northwest winds. A disturbance moving from Michigan through the St Lawrence valley has caused showers and thunderstorms in the Lake region and New England, with warm muggy conditions this morning east of the Mississippi River. Local showers and cooler weather are expected Friday, watch for squalls on the sound.
The Bridgeport Common Council votes to notify interested parties to appear August 4, 1918, at City Hall to hear about the establishment of grades on Harbor View Avenue from Grover to Wandland, Woodland from Brewster to Harbor View, Walnut Lawn from Homestead to Woodland, Homesites from Brewster to Harbor View, and Sanford Place from Washington to Vine. Attest Stephen F. Boucher.
At a Bridgeport Common Council meeting around July 7 1915 the action was adopted directing the City Clerk to notify interested parties to appear August 1915 to be heard on the petition of Facete Levy for a sewer along Bowtch Avenue connecting with the present sewer in that street near Wordin Avenue and extending southerly to Morris Street. City Clerk Stephen Souhon.
Notice records a 1913 Bridgeport common council hearing regarding the extension of the sewer along Central Avenue Canal area from a point near Range Street, to extend about 1000 feet south. Persons in interest are directed to appear August 7, 1913, at 3 60 o'clock in the evening to be heard on the project. City Clerk Stephen Boucher attests.
At a City Council meeting in July Fin 4023 the council resolved to relocate and reconstruct tracks from State Street southerly to South Avenues. The City Clerk was directed to notify the parties and proceed with required steps.
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