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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1912
Page
8
The article describes gowns with silk and velvet trims, a blue and brown palette, and buttoned closures. It highlights new wall papers imitating hand air-brush effects and grass-cloth designs, plus economical grass-cloth options and decor tips for matching draperies and tapestries with wall coverings.
The recipe fragment lists spongo cake with sour eggs sugar and baking powder, Lady Cake with powdered sugar butter and milk, and Tocglato Cake with butter sugar flour sour milk and gelatin. Also includes general cake instructions and a molasses spice mix with cinnamon and vanilla hints.
The Jennie Hamilton Pharmacy changes ownership marking a major Main Street business shift. Hindle, longtime head clerk, advances to partner with Fnonein and Ham ilton Pharmacy as the new proprietors, boosting the city’s drug store landscape.
The Arion Society of this city travels to New Haven for the 11th annual sangerfest of German societies in Connecticut. With 32 singers under Prof F K G Weber, they perform Lent in Winter Angerer in Woolsey Hall and aim for top prizes in the second class contest. The event features a 1900-voice concert and a 25 000 dollar organ recital, followed by a German picnic and parade.
The bell-ringing horses act from England and Europe arrives in America as a top priced import for Barnum and Bailey. Claimed the finest trained animal performance, the troupe from Black Rock will stay through summer with possible Saratoga visits. Mrs. Calvin Hull notes Francis J. Breen of Black Rock Avenue won third prize in the Munson contest at Yale.
Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth arrives June 28 in Bridgeport with 110 big acts, 400 artists, and a baby giraffe noted as America’s only in captivity. European novelty acts include Katie Sandwina and the Fillis family, plus aerialists, elephants, seals, and a high wire artist. The forenoon parade spans three miles, and the Cleopatra production headlines a 1250 actor cast with 350 dancers, a 100 member orchestra, and grand scenery.
Deputy Attorney General Keller was appointed guardian ad litem for Ava Alice Muriel Astor eleven in a partition suit against the Van Cortlandt estate. Keller will safeguard the interests of the late John Jacob Astor’s daughter as the case proceeds in New York.
A distinguished physician extols natural ice water as a near universal cure, arguing that purification by freezing surpasses boiling and distillation. He warns that public supply waters carry impurities and stresses ice’s safety, cost, and health benefits supported by medical authorities.
New Haven June 18 Yale class of 1912 lists readers and debaters with Veit Bridgeport as Philosophical orator. Waterbury figures headline high orations and dissertations include Camp Garney and Phipps. St John's Lodge to work Master Mason degree. Turkish bath ad promotes health and pleasure at Hotel Atlas. Ladies Day Friday.
The German Lutheran chapel on Hollister Street Stratford will be dedicated Sunday June 23 at 3 p.m. It serves Sunday school purposes and was built by local volunteers led by Rev. Paul Clemen. Out of town ministers will attend and the facility accommodates future population growth.
Auburn June 18 Ralph Friedman and Jacob Kuhn were electrocuted for the murder of George Schuchart, a Rochester storekeeper, on November 10, 1910, after farewell prayers from attending priests.
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