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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1909
Page
10
United Press reports in Haven that union members who began a three week strike against the Hog Bettie Company quit today after a majority vote. Details on next steps or reopen actions were not disclosed.
The union men left the city to seek work elsewhere. Die cutters brought in to break the strike were paid their travel fare home and today nearly all such work is halted in the area.
A fatigued Wire Chief Andrew Bertilson supervised crews repairing 784 telephones burned out by a gas main leak at Fairfield Avenue and Main Street. By noon only 121 were unrepaired after efforts since 4 am. Workmen from Danbury and New Haven aided the effort to restore service.
Chicago June 4 Patten wheat corner ends and H C Mottached chief clerk and adviser commits suicide as Melancholy returns after victory. He shot himself after watching market with renewed interest following Patten's retirement. Also report of a young girl found dead in the Nepaug river near Nepaug identified as Lillian Atwood 15.
Leverty and Bro gists offer Parisian Sage hair restorer at 50 cents a bottle with a two week guarantee. If it fails to cure dandruff or stop itching and shedding, money is returned. The tonic is praised as pleasant scented and capable of promoting hair growth for soft luxurious results.
A hometown notice previews Ringling Brothers World’s Greatest Shows arriving Friday June 25 with 40 elephants, giraffes, 375 performers, 650 horses, 108 animal cages, and a parade over three miles long. The six fold circus travels in 60 double length cars and features Davenport-McCree troupe, Daisy Hodgins, and the famous Schumann horses with novelty acts and a double somergaulting auto mobile.
The Appellate Division denied Harry K Thaw’s appeal from a Supreme Court order denying a jury trial on his sanity. He will remain at Matteawan.
Cloudy and rainy weather expected tonight and Saturday as a disturbance moves from the lower Mississippi valley to the Ohio valley. Rainfall was heavy from the gulf to Virginia with scattered showers in Kansas Missouri and Iowa. The Ohio valley system will likely bring rain tonight and Saturday, clearing Saturday afternoon.
New Haven june 4 bearing the signatures of president William H Taft Arthur T Hadley Anson Phelps Stokes and other eminent Yale men a call was issued today for a meeting of all alumni members in Woolsey Mall june 30 to consider plans for the erection of a memorial at Yale to Yale men both Union and Confederate who fell in the Civil War Over 1 000 000 has been spent in unsuccessful efforts to stop a mine fire burning for over 50 years in eastern Pennsylvania and now a concrete wall will be built to try to save adjoining workings that are threatened.
A list of May and June wedding announcements and deaths across towns including Williman Tic Shelton Huntington Centre New Milford Washington Stamford Norwalk and East Norwalk. Names include Mary Sweetman Henry Frecon Bertha Yale Ernest Nettleton Laura Buckingham Averill Lester Harvey Marion Ogden William Moore Helen Beardsley Albert Keeger Josephine Fitzgerald Charles Conley Electa Parmalee Natalia Hoyt Sarah Elizabeth Smith Edward Magner Charlies Sas and others with ages where provided.
A mixed read prints tales of deceitful gifts over shirts that won’t show soot, deformed perceptions in literature, eye poultice warnings, eccentric Count Bertrand's long life, comic quips about Congress, theater ticket tricks, sports optimism, and witty exchanges from daily papers. The compilation blends odd anecdotes with classic quips and cautionary notes.
The advertisement claims the remedy purges the poison from blood and kills surface germs to restore normal skin. It touts thousands of testimonials and invites readers to visit Jennie Hamilton's Pharmacy in Bridgeport Connecticut, sending for a free illustrated booklet.
A curio of humorous advertising contrasts with blunt honesty in a small town inn ad. Other items include notes on Ceylon’s forbidden fruit diwi kadura and a colorful street waif tale with a canine caper, plus snippets on Vanderbilt, Crimean remarks, and a worldly charity view.
Readable fragments describe a miscellaneous salvage sale with trial bottles cosmetic items belts threads laces corset steels and clothing undergarments with sale prices referenced among cottons ribbons and embroideries including various hose shirts and stockings all in a dense catalog style from a liquidation event.
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