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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1912
Page
5
June 17 report describes rival political camps vying over the Aldrich central bank proposal. Taft forces back the plan while progressive and conservative factions push alternative money controls. Debate centers on central bank power and government finance versus private control.
A fragmented item notes Sy ee P. Quiniy and a joyful baby girl, with playful chatter about cigars and bric a brac on the mantlepiece. The snippet hints at Nugget events but contains mostly garbled text and unclear details.
The will of William Stapley is filed detailing dower rights for his wife and income from the estate for her use. A minor son Sydney R Stapley is provided for, with trust provisions if he dies before reaching a specified age. The estate upon death is to be divided among Bertha L Butterfield and Sydney R Stapley Jr with appraisers named.
Fragmented notice describes a flag raising event at H. B. McChesney’s cottage on Lake Kenosta with attendees including Jo y Messrs Burnham, Logan, Banks and the Gelegation. Forty participants expected. catering listed as beef and clams. event overseen by the club steward. Also notes militia muster and Fort Wright fire control context.
Chicago June 17 Mrs Charles D Blaney a California delegate urged that terms suffragette and suffragist alienate voters and urged using plain appeal to vote for Constitutional Amendment No 8. She said women should stand with men at the polls and prefer action over labels in advocating suffrage.
Chicago, June 17. Taft managers plan to urge a national convention investigation of bribery accusations. About six affidavits are in Taft hands alleging delegates would be paid up to 5,000 to switch allegiance. Roosevelt forces call an affidavit by F H Cook, a Vadalia La Taft delegate, about a Thompson of Colorado, too ridiculous to deny. Cook swears he was offered 1 000 to join Roosevelt. Californians adopt a 1912 model rebel yell to rally delegates amid convention clashes aided by New Jersey insurgents, as West Virginia origin voices suggest shouting louder.
The Wilkenda Land Co has erected signs at Hard's corner Stratford with selectmen's permission and will remove them if any objection is raised. The signs aim to guide automobile parties from Waterbury Derby and beyond who previously had difficulty reaching the land company's site.
New York stock market opened irregular with gains and losses about evenly split. Early trading showed a firm tone despite slight concessions in the first hour. Government bonds held steady while other issues remained dull.
Poli Theatre выигры new Main Street site progresses toward a September opening with a vaudeville house at the Poli on Fairfield avenue to become a stock company venue. The old house will host top stock productions while the new venue offers the largest vaudeville seating between New York and Boston. Ida Adair headlines this week with Seven Days, a fresh comedy of a quarantined house party. A reception after Thursday matinee invites all to meet the cast.
Boston June 17 two men were seriously injured and several others cut by flying glass in a Boston Elevated crash on Watson street near Codman Square Dorchester. John Devine a high school student who faced the board last week over alleged fraternity links will appear again tonight as bids for the Burns lot schoolhouse contract are opened and the annual teachers list is reviewed.
Old Home Week vaudeville opens at the Park theatre for a week with two daily shows. Lane and O Dunne from Buffalo lead a strong local talent bill including Lunatic Tumblers Looping the Bumps and the Adonises of all dancers, plus LaRex and Bijou Four, John and Gertrude Ross, and a big orchestra. Mayor to attend tonight. crowds expected nightly at popular prices.
Tonight at Polis theatre the Great Chiefs of the State Red Men visit local tribes for the performance of Seven Days. Gala program includes song hits and parodies by Frank Braithwaite and the Criterion quartet with Wowompon tribe members in the right box led by Sachem James Bundock. Delegations from Konckapotawauh and Okenuck and Ackenash tribes fill the house. Visiting chiefs include Great Sachem Oetzel of Danbury and others from Waterbury Stratford and New Haven.
Frank F. Clayton, lessee of the Sea Breeze Ballroom, announces an elaborate cake walk featuring 11 professional walkers and expert judges. The event opens a season highlighted by a monster shell in Sea Breeze park with electric lighting and enhanced acoustics for nightly concerts, vaudeville and other amusements. Public transport runs at ten minute headways on weekdays with even more frequent service on weekends as warm weather arrives.
A 62 foot diameter monster carousel with flying horses swings chariots and other devices arrives at Sea Breeze Island this Saturday. The self playing orchestra and equipment are included in a $15,000 outfit secured from Henry B Audy a Philadelphia based amusement device maker.
City Clerk Boucher circulated letters to all towns and cities proposing a statewide trolley plan with reduced rates, extended rate zones, local control of streets, and company contributions to street repairs. A meeting was set in New Haven City Hall on July 20 at 2 pm.
Boston leaders of 3500 striking motormen and conductors vow legal redress against the company. They say a strikebreaking motorman sped through a licensed parade on Columbus Avenue, sparking a riot at the mass meeting of 75,000 union members on the Common. Police report injuries to several officers, arrests and wrecked cars as tensions rose amid the march. In Connecticut, commencement exercises for the Literary Institution opened with a Bachelor sermon at Second Baptist Church by Rev. Dr. Jat Bob R. Brown.
Chicago on June 17 Thomas W Lawson of Boston called the convention a critical clash between popular self government and machine rule. He warned that machine politicians have suffocated the people and praised Murray Crane as a lieutenant in politics, not a leader, forecasting a public rejection of Bosses and their influence.
A mystery shrouds the death of an unidentified man cut in two by a trolley car near Paradise Green at 10 40 p m Saturday. The victim appears between 40 and 50, likely a sailor with weathered face light hair and blue eyes. Found clothing includes black underwear gray shirt gray trousers and black coat. a bundle of undergarments lay nearby and a sailor's palm and needles were in his pockets. Doctors found no intoxication and could not identify him. the body lay at a Bridgeport morgue awaiting further examination.
Boston marked the 137th anniversary with a 21 gun salute from Charlestown Navy Yard at sunrise. Thousands waved flags as battleships Florida Utah Delaware and other vessels joined in the harbor celebration. Fireworks and public speaking highlighted Charleston's largest observance, surpassing even the 4th of July.
John Joseph Baker aged about 46 of 61 West Avenue died in Larchmont hospital after being shocked by a high tension wire while foreman of a painting gang on a bridge over the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad near Larchmont station. A steel bar in his hand completed the circuit when he touched the wire with his nose. The accident occurred Saturday during work by Remerrodes painters Rochelle and others. The funeral was to be held from his home with burial in Bridgeport. he leaves a wife and two sisters.
Courthouse proceedings in White Plains on June 17 accompany a bid to obtain releases from the state asylum for a man linked to the Thaw family case. Attorneys argued habeas corpus rights did not prove insanity, as Judge Julie Keogh presided over the chaotic hearing.
A freight train collision near Ogaki injured and killed passengers including an infant. The casualty list shows several deaths among travelers bound for China in the garrison transport. Authorities investigate cause as emergency crews scene.
Angers France June 17 The aero club car and arena of the Aero Club of Oto reese Traces was marked sling today of an aerobus five passengers. One leg broken others escaped hurt Sixteen contestants started in an early tail Aviator Bidlovde In an ea cle was seriously injured The grand prix is known as the Aerial Derby and is worth 10000 to the winner Stamford June 17 L Patrick aged 28 years committed a local saloon last night by poison His health is thought to have caused his net He had recently been in a sanitarium
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