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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1910
Page
7
A sharp shift in sentiment targets high tariff policy as living costs surge. A U S Labor Bureau report shows wholesale prices rising from September 1908 to March 1910, with March prices 49 percent above 1897–1899 averages and 4 percent above 1590–1899 levels. Senator Dolliver joins others in declaring change, sparking nationwide talk of reform.
The article surveys Senator Hubkley defending recent federal laws including the Aldrich tariff and naval expansion at a Putnam address, labeling him a mere machine of Aldrichian aims. It also covers Taft’s patronage claims, La Follette’s opposition, and comments by George B. Chandler on Speaker Cannon. It concludes with Edward M Shepard’s views on lawyers guiding clients through legal loopholes and the moral ambiguity faced by corporation lawyers.
The Wheeler and Wilson band has postponed its Seaside Park concert scheduled for Wednesday due to busy engagements. The group will perform at various campus events Thursday and Friday, with new appearances announced for Seasite Park a week from Thursday evening.
Real estate deals from Bridgeport and nearby towns include Frank Miller and Michael J. Jordan selling lots on Pootatuck Park to Anton E. Carlson. Other transfers involve J Monroe Blackman to Albert Barrow, Burr and Knapp handling multiple parcels at Pootatuck Park, and Mary L. Pence purchasing lots in Sachs Park from Haddon F. Stutts and later selling to Barmth Sachs. Administrators of Jane Gauntlett sell Lot 92 in Sachs Park to Barmth Sachs, with several other parcels described along Avenue A and King Street.
A long list of real estate deeds records transfers in Bridgeport and surrounding towns. John S. Griffith and Frank Phelps modify parcels in Bridgeport. multiple properties and lots on Rowan Avenue Compo Cove and Strawberry Hill Park change hands among individuals including Mary Phelps Eunice Hurd and Siegfried Christensen. Several parcels along West Avenue Imperial Place and the Saugatuck River area shift between buyers such as the Bridgeport Savings & Loan, Dy Giovanni and Craufurd families, with prices ranging from 300 to 1 500 dollars.
The Probate Court decrees that real estate descends to Maggie A O Brien as heir at law of Jeremiah O'Brien subject to Maria O’Brien’s dowry. Parcels include two acre plots and a pasture lot, orchard and homestead areas, with bounds by McFarland, Seidt, Dietrick, Lehn, and others. several tracts described, and related transfers to Staples High School and others.
The piece explains ptomaines from bacterial growth in foods such as ice cream milk meats and fish can render food unwholesome or fatally poisonous. It notes that poisoning stems from food decomposition products rather than body infections and cites a recent fatal outbreak in California killing eleven.
The D. M. Read Co. advertises many bargains in ribbed and plain balbriggan underwear starting at 25 cents and up.
An article warns about home canning dangers citing July Good Housekeeping advice. Emphasizes sterilization, replacement of old rubbers and damaged cans, and careful handling of fruit and jars to avoid bacterial contamination and summer illnesses.
June M-Hon. F. W. Matthews, founder and longtime head of Maine Bureau of Labor Statistics, collapsed at his daughter’s home in New Haven due to acute indigestion and heart failure. A Colby graduate and former statistics commissioner, he was well known in Maine politics and closely connected with Blaine and McKinley.
Waterbury report says Thomas H. Goodspeed refused to let his dead brother be named a town pauper and demanded from the Superintendent of the Poor a bill for all Brookside Home expenses. Philander P. Goodspeed, seventy four, long known as a watch repairer and jeweler, died at Brookside Home and will be buried in Allston, Massachusetts. The Athol National Bank president had not heard from him in twenty years and had believed him desolate. He is staying at the Elton after learning of the death.
New Haven June 21 In consequence of the sudden death yesterday of Mrs Elizabeth Ferry sister of Clarence Deming one of the arbitrators in the contention between the Connecticut Company and its trolley men the newly organized trolley arbitration board will not meet on Wednesday as had been calculated. The death occurred at Litchfield The conference will be opened probably in this city and at this meeting all arrangements of procedure will be completed Judge Wm S Case the third man on the board is holding court at Winsted this week It is likely that the hearing will be held either in this city or Hartford The arbitrators wish it public W D Mahon international president of the Trolleymen union has been notified of the naming of the third arbitrator and may be present at the hearing.
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