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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
11
The text notes coats made from pure wool that are waterproofed and feature easy raglan shoulders for comfortable fit. It highlights spring outerwear in natural fabric and practical design elements.
Fragmentary OCR yields scattered obits and death notices listing names such as Mullins, Taylor, Lon, Andrews and Barry with vague dates in May June and various places. The text is garbled but clearly references spouses, ages and burial details.
Manager B Poli presents a cool theatre bill in Midas Street featuring Francisca Reading and company in the farce Honore. Pisano and Bingham perform impersonations with songs, Eveing its lady accordéoniat charms the crowd. Blondie Robinson sings and talks, Mrs Vernon Castle features, and the season includes other acts and novelty numbers.
The Plaza Theatre presents a quirky program by Anderson and Burt featuring two boys and a girl in a two reel sketch and a song filled with odd pleasantries. The audience response is described as enthusiastic as the performers deliver a well received sequence.
The Lyric Theatre presents a vaudeville and film bill featuring Sexymour, Dem sey and Seymour on screen followed by Jake, Jery and Mandy on stage. The reviewer notes upbeat acts, high merit, and strong attendance as evidence of audience appeal and the theater’s lively week.
A free lecture on science will be held at the Plaza theater Sunday evening June 7 at 8 oclock. Virgil O Strickler of New York will speak under the auspices of the First Church of Christ Scientist of Boston Mass. The talk will cover important aspects of the science and its daily life applications. The event is open to all.
Weenington June 4 Carranza looms in mediation talks as the United States and mediators weigh whether to limit talks to Huerta or expand to Mexico’s pacification with constitutionalists at Niapare Falls. Notes circulated via telegraph amid delays as constitutionalist officials refuse to reveal contents while awaiting guidance from leaders. Negotiations aim to unify parties and restore peace, with Bryan Roosevelt and other officials signaling progress though navigation and blockade questions linger.
Niagara Falls Ontario June 4 mediators plan to continue work on a peace plan awaiting word from General Villa about delegates. The plan, two weeks in progress, remains partly incomplete and will be affected by the constitutionalists' stance as negotiations proceed.
Officials from the war and navy departments discussed the formal opening of the Panama Canal in Washington on June 4. Secretary Garrison and Acting Secretary Roosevelt conferred on the date but no final decision was made.
The forecast indicates showers from Montana eastward across the lake region to New England with heavy rain in the lake region. Raw totals include Green Bay Wisconsin 4.82 inches and other notable amounts. Temperatures remain relatively steady east of the Rockies as unsettled, showery weather persists. Tonight and Friday forecast call for rain with moderate to fresh east to south winds. drivers urged to light lamps at 7 22.
Handful of sellers quote electrolytic copper at 14 1 8 cents per pound delivered in 30 days. Decline stems from weak demand and a soft standard market due to unfavorable May statistics. Domestic buyers take small lots. foreign demand minimal.
Kansas City news reports the Kansas City Mexico and Orient Railway to be sold at Wichita on July 6 for 6 million dollars. Judge John Pollock ordered the sale in Federal Court to lift receivership. stockholders will form a reorganization committee to take over with no outside bidders. Work to extend the line from Wichita to Kansas City will begin immediately after the sale.
Judge R. Lovett of Union Pacific and A. H. Harris of New York Central warned a Senate interstate commerce committee that six railroad security regulation bills threaten rail carriers. They argued the measures could split Union Pacific from Oregon Short Line, depress security values, and force some systems into receivership by hampering financing. The witnesses urged Congress to reconsider the proposed reforms.
Rail freight costs have doubled in 15 years while railroads increase capacity with larger cars and longer trains. Freight car prices climbed from 419.66 to 979.49 dollars, annual repairs rose from 31.69 to 70.06, and per car mile costs grew from .0046 to .0088. Locomotive costs also jumped from 15 000 to 25 000 daily, with wages up about 25 percent.
The central west reports a 200 all steel freight car order for auto transport from Davenport Iowa to be built at Union Pacific shops in Omaha. Missouri begins to test a rail refusal right amid new rate law debates. W D Cantillon retires after 40 years, with Strickland Towne and Vilas named to key posts as successors amid ongoing regulatory changes and a New Jersey peace transportation provision.
In Milwuakee Ketchel beat Papke in a hard fought ten round bout to claim the middleweight world championship. Papke pressed hard but a early crushing punch left him dazed as Ketchel built a narrow victory. The bout followed by three more fights before Ketchel proved the better man. Also noted 1862 birth of Robert Fitzsimmons in Cornwall and 1913 Jim Savage stopping Whitey Allen in two in New York.
William B. Kelly of 457 Harral Avenue worked on George P. Moore’s moving crew and drank a mislabeled liquid in New Haven, causing hospitalization. He was living in New Haven and the liquid, initially thought safe, led to medical concern though not described as life threatening.
Washington officials announced a new parcel post link between the United States and Liberia. The service will take effect on July 1, expanding mail and parcel delivery between the nations.
Washington June 4 representatives of every Confederate state and army units, cabinet members and other dignitaries gathered for the unveiling ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. President Wilson was the principal speaker with General Bennett Young and General Washington Gardner also on the program as the exercises began in the late afternoon.
In Morristown a salesman named Salman Horn covers territory for a company when an automobile accident at Meropla Hospital leads to serious injuries. Names include Lésle Forman and associates Robert Deseh and Frederic Humphreys in New York telegraph lines. Authorities report three seriously injured. details remain unclear as police investigate the Sunday event.
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