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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1913
Page
2
First Bridgeport National Bank corner Main and Bank Streets public notice from T. L. Watson & Co. announcing the oldest private banking firm’s careful attention to matters and services to the state, indicating established banking presence and inquiry contact points.
Bridgeport Conn June 19 1913 trustees of this Bank declare a semi annual dividend for the six months ending June 30 1943 at the rate of four percent per annum on all deposits. Accounts made on or before July 5th will draw interest from July 1st.
Sunday services listed for Trinity Church, Nativity Church, St. Luke’s, First Presbyterian, Park Street Congregational, The People’s Church, First Congregational, Bridgeport Christian Union, King’s Highway, Washington Park M Burch, First Methodist, Olivet Congregational, South Congregational, Salvation Army, and First Church of Christ Scientist. Indicates service times, sermon topics, pastors, and special events including a Beecher anniversary address and memorial observance.
An inspector questions boys about removing coats in an English school. A boy answers the bear cannot take off his coat because only the good Lord knows where the buttons are. The piece ends with an ad from the Farmers.
Hartford June 21 As usual St. Thomas Seminary held no formal commencement this year. The term closed with a solemn high mass. Twenty graduates include John Baldyga New Britain Adrian Brennan East Hartford James Butler Naugatuck Stephen Coffey Hartford John Dillon Hartford William Dower Hartford James Dargan Bridgeport Robert Frey New Haven Maximum Gaudet Thompsonville John Godfrey Hartford Cyril Higgins Westerly R L Adelard Jalbert New Haven Edmund Kane Waterbury James Ledwich Middletown Michael Martin New Haven Bernard Moffit Danbury John Walsh Simsbury James Wotszkey Stamford. Bishop Nilan addressed students on vocation. Revs Myles Galvin and Walter McElroy will be ordained next Tuesday. Revs Sigismund Woromecki Vincent Korkowski also ordained that day. Revs William Dunn John Landry Earnest Lynch to be ordained July 1 2 at Louvain. John Heller Branford to be ordained at Hix stat. Revs John Anderson Bridgeport Andrew Farrell New Britain ordained in Rome last October return August. All above are St Thomas Seminary graduates.
Cambridge Massachusetts June 21 John Gottfried Ohsel, driven from Russia for revolutionary views and accused in a Riga report of spying for Russia, denies being a revolutionist or police spy. He is an American citizen, living quietly with wife Obsel in Cambridge. He has studied at Harvard and hopes to complete a PhD this fall. He says the spy report is false and cites his social democratic past as misinterpreted. Ohsel notes Russia as a foreign country now that he is American, and predicts reform within years under pressure from external creditors. He was among fifty five social democrats indicted for conspiracy before the second Duma’s dissolution. He fled to Finland, then Riga, and returned to the United States in 1907 via England under an assumed name. He is now a correspondent for several socialist papers. H Dillon Co 1105 Main St advertises Panama hats with big savings.
The store showcases a large range of bridal gifts including silverware cut glass clocks and cutlery at varied prices. Visible items listed are tea sets salad forks carving sets trays bread trays vases fern dishes knives forks spoons and water sets from M. J. Buechler.
A survey of Poughkeepsie regatta history recalls close finishes between Cornell and Syracuse with dramatic judge reversals. It notes Columbia’s 1896 submarine regatta win, Foote brothers endurance in 1904, and Schooner-like river perils. Also covered are 1910 Papke Sullivan bout, 1912 Kilbane Kilbane Kilbane, Lester versus Dorain, and boxing promoter reform calls.
The Australian boxing impresario Hugh D. McIntosh, famed for offering 30000 to fight Jack Johnson and boosting boxing in Britain, has sold his Sydney interests to focus on theatres. He visited the columnist for two days en route to Europe to scout vaudeville acts for his Australian theatre circuit.
The article assesses Kid Julian as a rising featherweight with a powerful punch and potential to challenge champion Kilbane. It notes his roughness, occasional flaws such as a tendency to duck right, and the need for polishing defense and style. His forthcoming bout at Jamaica’s Nicholas A. C. and East Coast interest are highlighted.
A Baltimore man recounts sending a wedding present note to his bride with a lyric about a cherished etching. The bride quotes the note as a pleasing keepsake now hung in the parlor above the piano. Readers are invited to see if similar ads, such as “Girl Wanted,” appear in the Farmer Want Ads.
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