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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1911
Page
14
A premature notice announces a Saturday clearance at Lon & Co offering large discounts on hats, veils, boas, ostrich plumes, coats, rainwear, batik waists, petticoats, and dresses. Readily available are trimmed hats, ostrich plumes, veils, and various long coats with prices steeply cut from former levels.
Fads and fashions describe bright colored tailoring in linen and silk suits, white glove tops, and patent leather accents. Trends include velvet trims, embroidered banding, pockets in gowns, varied hats with ostrich feathering, and pearls. Dress details cover jackets, capes, crochet flowers, knit chenille wraps, and beaded evening footwear in a period tone.
The article notes lime production in the United States, with 1909 output reaching 3,472,852 short tons valued at 13,805,405 and uses ranging from building materials to chemical processes. It highlights lime’s varied applications, magnesian versus high calcium limes, and the role of oyster-shell lime. It also contrasts sanitation advancements with urban dirt, citing numerous cities' ongoing sewer and privy challenges and quoting Lawrence Veiller on housing and public expenditure.
Americans who have visited China note the low value placed on human life as pneumonic plague devastates Manchuria. The Chinese deploy foreign doctors and isolated camps, permit burning corpses, and expect warm weather to end the deadly form. Bubonic plague persists. sanitary measures and isolation are urged to curb mortality.
A Danbury section lists multiple marriage notices including Richard D. Taylor and Mrs. Mary Hanchett in Danbury on June 8 and Albertine Susan Matheis with George John Cavanaugh in Norwalk on June 7. Obituaries note John R. Clark of Danbury, 60. Sarah M. Lobdell, 52. John Birmingham of Stamford. Samuel E. Wilmott, 27 in Coram. Jennie B. Mansfield, 63 in Winsted. William H. Guernsey, 75 in Riverside. Ednad Gilbert, Ridgefield, and Elizabeth Demarest Terhune of Danbury aged 71. Vernie Shelton Ambler of Huntington, 36. and Charles M. Thomas, 56 or 61 in Danbury.
Frederick Caulkins Middletown Conn automobile dealer and Thornton Thayer son of Union Trust Co executive were fined 20 and 4 costs after conviction for speeding in a city court Gorgas the motorcycle officer testified he tried to avoid arrest by paying a bribe but Caulkins denied the accusation, saying he only sought an immediate settlement The chase began at Ash Creek bridge at 530 pm with speeds around 35 to 40 mph and witnesses highlighted Thayer’s and Caulkins’ racing Regardless both men paid their fines
A familiar police figure Eva the Tramp revisits Hartford, meets officers, leaves valuables with a sergeant, and is later arrested for possible riot risk after a night of heavy drinking. She appears in court as a neat, contrite housewife, promises to leave the city, and boards a train back to Hartford.
New York June 16 United Press reports William Bley a longtime fund raiser for the Paddy's Market gang is slain after years of giving coins for beer. A powerful youth struck the horn player in the jaw and a second assailant kicked him as he fell. Police seek the attackers.
A June National Magazine piece by Joe Mitchell Chapple argues hobbies shape public life in America. It cites Taft Sherman Frye Tillman Knox Clark and others, praising hobbies as a practical spur to enthusiasm and ambition in a nation of energetic ideals.
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