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Newspaper

Bridgeport Evening Farmer

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Mar 14, 1913

Page

4

Plan to Start Paying April for City Paving Work

Bids will be sought soon for permanent paving of East Washington Avenue Noble Avenue Barnum Avenue from Seaview to Central Avenue Park Avenue from Fairfield to Laurel Avenue and Fairfield Avenue from Clinton Avenue to the via duct. The plan aims to begin after April with wood block stone bithulithic and Hassam pavements. The Commission warned patchwork on Fairfield Avenue will not be tolerated and sewer work funding decisions were delayed pending money availability.

East Washington Avenue Noble Avenue Barnum Avenue Seaview Central Avenue Park Avenue Fairfield Laurel Avenue Fairfield Avenue Clinton Avenue Paving and Sewer Commission Sherman Street

Trumbull Grange Meets. Debates Pan Am Toll Question

Trumbull Grange No. 134 P. of H. holds a regular meeting with an after-meeting program by lecturer Leland Williams including a piano solo by Charlotte B. Plumb and discussions on farming progress and spring work. Also notes on local incidents, schools, and parish concerns.

Trumbull Grange No Grange Hall Leland W Wiliams Charlotte B. Plumb Plumb Nichols Howard Beach Harry Coori George Klein Albert E. Linley Plumb B. Nichols William Schaulagenhaus William F. Beach Benjamin J. White Frederick Schuma Martin Castle Banford S. Beach Daniels Farm T. Yeoman Williams Congregational Church Yal New Haven Boston Yale Harvard Panama Williams Stephen J. Parks Elmer T. Nichols White Plains White Robert C. Deming Trumbull Houston Tashua Hill Dean Bridgeport Tashua Long Hill Chestnut Hill Daniels Farme

Cold La Grippe Then Pneumonia Fatal Sequence

Barnegat Postmaster R G Collins reports a severe La Grippe cough that exhausted him until Foley's Honey and Tar Compound stopped the coughing spells. A Stratford Avenue resident, F B Brill, endorses the product as unbeatable for La Grippe coughs.

R. G. Collins Barnegat N. J Foley F. B. Brill Stratford Ave Sixth Street A. S. Jones Lee Pharmacy Chico Calif Sixth St

Newtown News Briefs Include Moves and Illnesses

Newtown reports Bourquene t moving to Mile Hill home from Botsford and Mrs. Greenman hosting Will Clark and family at Cola Spring Farm. Edward Couger of Huntington is very ill under Dr. Smith care. Dorothy Bartram seeks eye operation in Bridgeport after multiple surgeries. Margaret Campbell of Sandy Hook dies at 58 in Bridgeport. funeral planned with interment at St Rose's cemetery after body prepared by E W Troy and transported by train arriving 10 30 Saturday.

Newtown Bourquenet Botsford Mile Hill Josephine Murphy Will Clark Hopewell District Cola Spring Farm H. M. Greenman Margaret Campbell John Campbell Sandy Hook Hamilton Street Bridgeport E. W. Troy St. Rose's Cemetery

Prospect of Sandy Hook Property Sale for Block led Block

Negotiations are in progress for the purchase of Charles E. Gilbert property in Sandy Hook by a New York resident. Jacob Block, Botsford real estate agent, conducts talks. It is understood the buyer plans to erect a business block on the front portion.

Charles E. Gilbert Sandy Hook New York Jacob Block Botsford Real Estate Georgetown Brown County Ohio Middle West Cincinnati

Conversion of Sewage into Fertilizer Live Question

Hartford March 14 The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station studies the sewage to fertilizer proposal in a bill of 3000 dollars advocated by Fletcher Enfield. Director Jenkins notes obstacles and the state health board pollution bill will be drafted after hearings on Beardsley Pond Norwalk and Wilton rivers.

Hartford Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Fletcher Enfield Committee On Public Health and Safety Jenkins Beardsley Pond Sharon Norwalk Wilton State Board of Health

Cigar Spending and Chicago Tobacco Trade

Chicago reports show 1,000,000 cigars daily with an average $22 per man yearly and over 10 million dollars total tobacco investment in the city. In 1912 production exceeded 232 million cigars as the trade shapes a sizable local economy.

Chicago Cigar and Tobacco Subdivision Committee Chicago Association of Commerce

Curious Riddle From A Glasogow School Curate's Egg

In a Scottish country school a teacher chastised a boy for poor home lessons and compared him to a curate's egg good in parts. The boy sobbed loudly and asked a classmate what kind of bird a curate is, revealing confusion and amusement among peers.

Glasgow News Wullie

A relic of old Brighton demolished brewery site

The Black Lion Brewery in Brighton, the oldest surviving building aside from St Nicholas Church, was demolished along with its interior. Derrick Carver, a Protestant martyr who began brewing there in 1545, was said to have been driven from Spain for his faith and burned at Lewes on July 22, 1555. Archaeologists could not save the relic.

Black Lion St. Nicholas Church Brighton Derrick Carver Spain John George Bishop Carver Lewes Old Brighton London Evening Standard

Livestock Market Report From New York March 13

Fairly good steers sold at 8.55 per 100 lbs. Oxen 5 to 6.75, bulls 5 to 6.75, cows from 3.25 to 6.60. Dressed beef 10.4 to 13.4 cents per pound native sides, Texas beef 9.4 to 10.4. Veals and sheep prices noted. dressed mutton 10 to 13 cents, lambs 11.4 to 16.4, hog dressed 17 cents, country dressed hothouse lambs 6 to 8 per carcass. Heavy to light hogs 9.40 to 9.60 per 100 lbs, roughs 8.25, country dressed hogs firm 9 to 12 cents.

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