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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
14
Two children of I. D. Quelette of Three Rivers Quebec died from burns after an oil stove in their home exploded. The incident details the fatal accident and the family’s loss.
Stratford church representatives finalize plans for the annual June walk of Sunday schools. The event will start at the Methodist church, proceed to the Congregational church, then to Academy Hill monument for exercises with songs and an address by Rev. Co. Carpenter. A anti suffrage meeting and community notices follow.
Fairfield reports Mrs W H Youngs of Greenfield forgot her pocketbook in her wagon near the center yesterday. She went shopping, returned to find the pocketbook gone, with no trace of who last saw it. Also notes a May party hosted by Miss Bessie White at Gray Rock and other brief items including a Boston man’s speeding arrest and a New Bedford visitor.
The highway commissioner ordered daily watering of the new state road below the railroad station. Oil ing all town state roads is expected to start about June 25, aimed at reducing dust and easing nuisance for residents along these roads.
A 1915 study shows kindergarten missions in Japan linked to the Panama Pacific Exposition and the International Kindergarten Union. The Sioux City Bird Club promotes local avian knowledge. Doctors learn Egyptian licensing needs, and Cleveland forms a Playground Institute. Child activity, school clubs, class athletics in Tacoma, and colored kindergarten initiatives in Richmond and Chattanooga reflect progressive era social reform. A Boston-Transcript style joke appears. Chairman Jones plans a bill for Filipino independence.
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