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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1910
Page
7
An editorial laments delays and missteps in the Congress street bridge project. It criticizes awarding the contract to a higher bidder and a foreign firm, notes lack of forfeit clauses for delays, and urges wiser public utility oversight by residents and officials.
The D. M. Read Co promotes heavy discounts on shirts from 89 cents to 2 dollars and a wide range of wash and white goods. Neckwear and handkerchiefs show steep cuts with tubular silk ties at 19 cents and 3 for 50 cents. A slim iron with sleeveboard is offered for 39 cents.
The first passenger airship, the Deutschland, crashes in gale conditions among Teutoburg forest trees. All aboard survive except one injured after panic and jumping overboard. Recovery and rebuilding plans for a new craft to carry 40 passengers begin immediately.
The piece argues public schools must deliver secular education while parochial schools provide religious and secular training. It notes the tax burden of supporting both systems, envisions a future deaf school as a combined model, and recalls Connecticut’s ecclesiastical origins with Davenport Hooker and the early blend of faith and schooling. It highlights religious toleration and the challenge of unified creed in public education.
New Haven June 30 Dr Elmer L Styles of New Britain was acquitted by a jury in a common pleas court after an appeal from Meriden police court. Styles was charged with reckless driving that damaged Dr B W Smiths automobile on Cook avenue Meriden. A key moment was the objection to introducing Styles license as testimony and its sustenance by Judge Wolfe.
Special from United Press reports rising antisemitic pressure in St. Petersburg as General Nesswich of the 48 barracks at Nazare faces calls for dismissal for befriending Jewish soldiers. He gave a pro Jewish speech at a barracks dinner and publicly greeted a Jewish soldier. The mob cites the actions as a threat to the empire. Court Officer Christopher Finnegan begins a vacation trip with Mrs. Finnegan from Boston to Norfolk Newport News and Baltimore after a week in Berkshire Hills Springfield and other stops.
The New Haven county probe closed at 5:05 PM after a Commission hearing where lawyers will file briefs by Saturday. The audit by Sydney P. Waud Audit Company was chosen over a free review. The investigation saw tension with the Pastors Union and a single sensational allegation of hush money in a defalcation, later deemed nonfatal to county finances.
The Connecticut public library committee conducts a two week library institute at Danbury Normal School from July 11 to 22. Morning sessions cover small library work, afternoons cover general lectures. Instructors include Belle Holcomb Johnson and Winstead with daily 2 pm lectures on topics from cataloging to pamphlet handling.
A list of wholesale price ranges for dairy extras and butter, eggs, fruits, hay and straw, poultry, vegetables, and related items. Includes prices for butter, eggs, apples, cherries, raisins, strawberries, hay, straw, poultry, ducks, geese, pigeons, squabs, potatoes, asparagus, lettuce, onions, peas, and beans with various pack sizes and quality descriptors.
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