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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1915
Page
5
An excerpt notes puzzles in mathematics shared by an New York engineer on a branch rail line survey and recounts eye physiology claims by Sir J. Thomson about rods and cones, plus aRemarkable Toad of Surinam whose mating eggs attach to the mate’s back via adhesive skin cells.
Egg hatching cycles described with strange receptacles where young emerge after gaining limbs. A Surinam toad back reportedly bears over 120 eyes. A collage of quips and items follows, including a humorous exchange about truthfulness with an office boy, and a note on Porto Rico’s air-plant telephone growth on insulated wires.
Private Secretary Donald Lowrie reports on warden Thomas Mott Osborne's five months at Sing Sing focusing on self government reforms. Prisoners gain responsibility, the court of peers, and shift of guard duties toward protective roles, with guards acting as community public servants and improvements in morale and safety.
Stratford residents are invited to donate for a chemical fire engine, with funds possibly funding an additional automobile chemical unit. If enough money is raised, the current center engine may be replaced and moved to Nichols Avenue. purchases depend on subscriptions. Local marriages and minor incidents are also noted alongside social visits and charity meeting announcements. The King Constantine of Greece remains in critical condition.
Coroner Phelan is reappointed by the judges. The piece lists court terms for various districts, summer chamber allotments, and appointments including William T. Haviland as clerk, Fred F. Tracy and Michael J. Flanagan as assistant clerks, Samuel A. Davis as Danbury assistant clerk, jury commissioners Lyman Catlin and William Hincks, Charles S. Evans as court messenger, Galen A. Carter as assistant state's attorney, and John H. Perry joining the state board of police commissioners with other members named.
An illustration shows Italian reservists aboard the steamship Decy degli Abruzzi bound for Naples. Reservists enrolling at the Italian consulate are booked in steerage, with no outbreak of enthusiasm as they sail, amid signals of a potential army movement and neutrality concerns from Germany and the United States. Another illustration depicts Italian infantry leaving for Austrian battle lines.
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