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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1916
Page
9
The Carrizal clash heightens U S Mexico tensions as scouts clash and reports hint at General Gomez possibly killed. If Gomez died, Mexican losses rise. pending official facts, judgment should be suspended. A plausible hypothesis suggests Gomez opposed American movement north, risking war.
The piece argues the Connecticut Company trustees misdefine conservation by caging assets like a dollar in tin foil and a mowing machine in a barn. It urges using franchises to serve people, notes rising disenchantment with New Haven influence, and predicts political pressure to strip unused rights and even consider state operation.
The Hartford Post attacks The Courant for its sympathy toward Mr. Cummings while noting his limited desire for the National Chairman post. It argues McCormack’s election frees Cummings to pursue the Senate seat, potentially aiding Senator McLean’s fate and challenging Courant bias toward Roraback.
The Courier notes that Cummings was Hartford area’s first choice for national chairman but will retire McLean from the United States Senate. It portrays McLean as warning against foreign goods and urges the state to send Cummings, urging calm and resolve.
The article reports Jacob H. Schiff denouncing public use of Yiddish by Jews and withdrawing from politics of religious groups. It notes Jewish press criticism, argues language evolves to English over generations, and states many Jews share Schiff’s views yet value his service while disapproving his step back.
General William Eliot Peyton, after thirty years in service, routed Bedouin uprisings in western Egypt, crushing Arab resistance aided by Turkish and German agents. His swift campaign broke the tribes, despite harsh marches through flood and desert, and left Arabs dependent on British camps for food.
The text notes an early war casualty fatally wounded while leading a bayonet charge. It states Sir Rider is unlikely to report to the Colonial Institute and plans to author a book on the empire's agricultural resources.
The English inventor John Day, who built a diving box to test underwater duration, failed when his craft ran out of air after a 24 hour trial in Plymouth Sound on June 22, 1774. A gambler Blake funded the project, but Day never surfaced, and a magazine later misattributed the disaster to other technical flaws.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, English novelist and practical farmer, turns fifty nine or sixty to-day and marks a career from 1882 with King Solomon’s Mines and She. He tours the world on an agricultural mission for the Royal Colonial Institute, studying colonial farming and veterans’ resettlement after the war. He has long engaged Africa and other empires in his work. Capt. Haggard, a favorite nephew, is mentioned.
Madeleine Force, widow of John Jacob Astor who perished on the Titanic, faces loss of a 5 million dollar income and the Astor Fifth Avenue home if she remarries. The prospect of marriage to William K. Dick, a wealthy Brooklyn native, drew public interest as their son John Jacob Astor was born in 1912, months after his father’s death.
Eighteen young women graduated from Mt St Josephs academy in Hartford yesterday afternoon. The ceremony in the chapel included a processional, Veni Creator, diplomas presented by Rt Rev John J Nolan bishop. Valedictorian Genevieve Nolan New Britain salutatorian Anna Slavin Waterbury among graduates from Windsor Newburyport Danbury Ridgewood Knoxville Deep River and other cities.
A brief look at Richard Hildreth born in Deerfield Massachusetts, author of the abolition novel Archy Moore 1835, and its enlarged American edition The White Slave 1852. The piece notes his Harvard graduate background, work as editor of the Boston Atlas and New York Tribune, and time spent on a plantation in the South. It also mentions his later roles and writings, plus a side note on the Senate deciding to extend Pneumatic tube service in four major cities.
A line of sample garments offers many styles for women including union suits vests and corset covers in long or short sleeves. Prices range from 35 to 79 cents with regulars up to 1.50. The sale features small assortments in cotton suits and high neck options, on Friday morning on the main floor north aisle east.
A fashion note praises Chantilly Venise and Net flouncing for summer wear. It describes a flounced frock with a Taffeta Coatee, calling the ensemble quaint, becoming, and practical. Shadow Laces and Net tops with novelty edges appear, including Bruges and Chantilly silks in white, cream, and oyster.
Nemo Corset prices rise to three fifty after July 1 due to higher materials. Self reducing models Nos 318 319 321 322 and 326 affected. The Priscilla Fancy Work magazine for July is on sale at Pattern Section at ten cents a copy and one dollar for yearly subscriptions. Free knitting and embroidery instruction in the Art Section. Begin your summer knitting.
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