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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1909
Page
6
Readers are offered a one year subscription at the stated advance rate. The notice lists prices and payment details, indicating a single Seer in advance and the address at 225 Fifth Avenue. The wording emphasizes prepayment for ongoing service.
The report covers tax amendments, including a 2 percent income tax above 5000 with exemptions for public officers, and various tariff adjustments on barley duty, lemons, and other goods. It notes shifts in tariff policy amid international affairs and references figures like Harriman and Count Zeppelin in a wide-ranging economic and tech discussion.
Corporal Tanner laments that Memorial Day is treated as a holiday of diversions rather than a time to honor Civil War remembrance. He notes generations alive vs survivors and argues the public’s vivid memory rests mainly with 15,900,600 survivors, while most see the day as leisure. A stray ad for Williams Hoot Beer closes the piece.
Paul Armstrong's Califor'ia play Salomy Jane continues to attract growing audiences at Poll's Theatre Bridgeport. The stock company receives high praise, offers coupons for a Parisian Callot model gown to a lady at next Monday matinee, with a box opened on stage for a winning number and a stage reception after the final act Saturday matinee.
Smiths large audiences again attended yesterday's vaudeville performances and praised the high quality. The bill and pictures earned hearty applause with Al Connors and Howard Goulden delivering a noted piano and xylophone act. Children half price afternoons, even ing shows run 15 to 10 30 with open admission for all.
A letter from President Charles S. Mellen argues against a proposed Public Utilities Commission bill in Hartford. He warns the measure would force premature disclosure of capital plans, restrict bond issuance based on asset value, and hamper New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company finances, potentially harming growth and service to communities. Mellen emphasizes the need for flexible finance and criticizes rigid state oversight as economically harmful.
A testimonial states a wife with inflammatory rheumatism across muscles and joints improved after using Dr Detchon's Relief for Rheumatism. It claims rapid relief within three days after eight physicians failed. Curtis Pharmacy at 149 Main St advertises the remedy.
Winsted reports typhoid cases rising before health officials traced source to a farm well on Leroy Millard’s Riverton road. Water from the well showed drainage contamination while stream water used for milking was satisfactory. Five new patients noted, hospital total forty.
In New York on June 2 Bridget Toror an Irishwoman aged 70 died of cancer at 221 West Eighteenth Street where she had lived with servants. The will filed for probate leaves her entire estate to James Edward Johnson a Black man who had become her confidant after she left Mrs Taft's employ. The document was signed by mark as she could not write.
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