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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1909
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR shows Bellitheane 27 Fairfield Avenue Bridgeport Conn with reference to FARMER PUBLISHING CO. indicating a local publication detail or address in a classified or notice item. No additional context or outcome is readable.
A. Menet represents the New York office located at 225 Fifth Avenue Brunswick Building Room 404.
Harbor Morris denounces railroad compensation as unjust and biased arguing the city sacrifices harbor access and property to the line. He claims the railroad promises are inflated and that public costs will exceed gains, urging officials to reject what he calls a gross injustice and defend city interests.
The piece discusses tensions between city and railroad influences, calls for proof before accusing officials, and notes slow General Assembly progress with adjournment unlikely before August. It contrasts rural legislators' expenses with the state’s acts, and shifts to China seeking loans for rail construction, with European financiers and American participants eyeing involvement in a broad financial endeavor.
The piece discusses financiers seeking a market for money, fears of European powers gaining influence in Chinese affairs, and John W. Gates remarks on tariffs. It notes optimism about eventual tariff outcomes, taft’s stance, and the risk of Treasury appraisers and courts exposing tariff tricks while Congress advances a highly protective bill benefiting the rich over the poor.
In Stratford last week funds flowed to local benevolent causes as $35 paid to Mr Avis for whistling at the library yielded about $20 net. A crowded Red Men’s hall hosted a Masonic fund benefit, food sale for lighting netted $32, and Rev Farrar’s lecture boosted Women’s Aid Society parsonage effort by around $20. Total near $200, spent on home institutions, with Main Street becoming a thriving financial hub. Farrar praised the Aid Society and urged patience, persistence, and honesty, sharing jokes and views on humanity’s vastness and the rise of great individuals from the crowd.
A town window into daily life features Brotherhood of St Andrew lessons on “A Good Fight” and a Methodist concert “Among the Flowers” with songs like Creation’s Praise and Summer Bells Are Calling. Socials include a wedding anniversary whist hosted by Mrs. Howard F House, with further games planned at Odd Fellows and a house whist for Mrs Ellsworth Wilcox. Memorial services by the Odd Fellows, Seaside Park snapshots by Lucius Judson Jr, and visitors such as Nate Miller and Wm Barnum join a busy schedule of lawn fetes and gatherings in King Street and Warwick Avenue while a scarlet fever case is reported for a daughter of Mrs. Booth.
Westport reports horse and wagon thefts with $300 loss to Leonard Gault and no trace found. Other items include a History Society meeting at Jesup library, Staples High School exhibition, a successful whist for bath-house funds, and plans for Compo beach improvements with new bath houses funded by local donors. Community events feature church activities, weddings, a luncheon by Natural Food Company, a surprise party for the Bakers, and a Greyood Lake trip return. The Compo skiff club plans a July 4 race amid ongoing selectmen battles over bath-house removals and town repairs.
Marlton New Jersey woman recounts ten years of chronic female troubles including inflammation ulceration and indigestion. After doctors gave up she tried Lydia E Pinkham's Compound and says it relieved all suffering. The appeal notes many testimonials and offers confidential advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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