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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1909
Page
9
The article discusses silverware purchases highlighting sterling and plated options and the idea of owning lasting tableware. It lists prices for different pieces such as dessert forks spoons and knives and mentions patterns and sets with varied costs.
Fragmented notices announce multiple deaths and burial details. Includes age six with a March 26 1909 date, interment at Park Cemetery, and names such as Thomse Halpin. Also mentions a March 25 1678 date for an obituary in Stratford Connecticut Putney and a 36 year old David B. obituary with Putney Cemetery, plus Eucharistic League events at St Michael's and St Charles churches.
The Court of Probate for the District of Bridgeport announces letters of administration for Alma A. Warner of Bridgeport. Creditors have six months from the date hereof to exhibit claims for settlement. Failure to present accounts within time will result in denial of recovery. All indebted persons are urged to make immediate payment.
A fragment from a column notes enduring Scottish pedantry from church courts to railway stations and markets. It cites Ian Maclaren on meticulous thinking, a mother’s porridge exchange, and a quip about “Coordinate Jurisdiction with mutual subordination.” A music publisher anecdote describes a court of last appeal for customers seeking elusive tunes, with a joke about the “Dink Waves Waltz” and a $10.90 salt special at a store.
Special from United Press Washington March 9 a rough and tumble clash was barely stopped on the House floor. Representative Fordney Republican Mich spoke on thrift when assailed with questions about a lumber trust. Byrd Democrat Miss started toward Fordney, coat off, then was restrained by surrounding members. After protests and apologies the matter cooled and debate resumed.
Rev P Mating will lead a series of evangelistic meetings at the Kings Highway church from March 29 to April 11. Services are evenings except Saturdays with weekday times 7 45 and 7 90. Topics listed include Sins Widespread Power and The Cure for Sin followed by a sequence of daily themes through April 11.
New Haven March 26 Judge Cause today temporarily appointed JC Alling of New Haven to act as State s Attorney to fill the vacancy created by Will Mame appointment to the Superior court bench. The permanent appointment will be in June. Alling resisted Williams.
Latteur Tit the French crack with Parfrement aboard captured the Grand National at Liverpool. Judge with Bibby Caute finished second, while Tony Gobin and another rider placed. The win carried a substantial prize and drew strong betting interest as the field closed exhausted after a dramatic run. Also Anna Elebecher is named executrix of Lena Liebseher's estate with Bernard Lachacher and Albert Schaller as appraisers.
A damaged ad copy promotes a stomach remedy promising quick relief of sour taste, belching, gas, and stomach upset. It touts a large tin of a laxative tea and asserts strong cure claims for biliousness headaches and foul digestion, urging purchase at 30 cents.
Judge Edwin G. Gaeer presided as the divorce petition of An toinette C Morrill versus Walter C Morrill moved forward in the Civil Superior Court. The couple, previously divorced with custody awarded to the mother for two minor children, faces a dispute over visitation and alleged contempt of court as the father seeks to void arrangements and regain care, with the mother having remarried Baron Von Momberg of Germany and relocated to Berlin. The hearing focused on motions to expunge prior actions and the procedural steps completed today.
Aldermanic Street committee voted to have the city clerk write Connecticut Co to confirm if it will comply with the council order to lay grooved rails. Rewards and candidacy notices appear amid a rush of miscellaneous items and public notices.
Washington mourns Mrs Caroline Hamilton Lorillard wife of Pierre Lorillard Jr a renowned society figure as coroner settles death by own action after autopsy note found in her room. police secrecy surrounds the case while her husband and a nation watch for further details and the buried envelope contents remain sealed.
A United Press dispatch notes early trading broadening with interest in low priced stocks, offset by room traders pushing on the reaction. In Winsted, floods threaten while snowfalls in Norfolk and Copake add to a winter storm tally. New Haven reports wreckage along the shore from high tide with Montonese House damage, as A Elwood & Son announces a public auction of North and Park lots next Wednesday at 2:00 pm with sewer and trolley access.
March 26 1908 Hoow Lane advertises new hat collection for spring. Hats are described as graceful tasteful and rich in color and crafted by skilled workers. Buyers urged to choose now while assortment is fresh and fashionable.
The article touts a spring costume collection with fixed correct fashions and fabrics. It highlights rich fabrics and decorations or minimalist elegance, careful tailoring, and exceptionally well-fitting garments with individuality and charm, priced from $25 and up on the second floor.
An atlas measuring 12 by 15 inches closed has 368 pages and features maps of states and territories and numerous towns. It includes colored diagrams and statistics with over 100,000 cities and villages plus geographic descriptions, offered at 25 dollars but selling for 2.25 in this bookshop sale.
A fair-sized lot of embossed elastic belts will be distributed to those who arrive promptly Saturday morning. These belts, sold previously for $1, are of extra merit and beauty. They feature embossed effects in blue, pink and heliotrope with gilt tinsels and handsome gilt buckles, worth more than the price of the belt.
At Indianapolis on March 26 the miners' executive board convened at noon with President Lewis present to canvass the financial condition and discuss plans from the Scranton convention. Former secretary treasurer W. Cr Divan cites 176,000 potential union members vs 25,000 enrolled. bituminous miners had backed anthracite during past strikes. A weather system near Montreal brings high winds and rain to the north Atlantic coast while pleasant conditions prevail east of the Rockies except parts of New England.
A store advertises Princess Victoria gloves from an eminent French maker in select kidskin with fine models and excellent value. After a proposed tariff raise, these gloves will cost more elsewhere, but they will be sold for one dollar while supplies last in tan gray navy white and black.
Madison wallpaper company failed in business and went into bankruptcy court. Its stock, including met yaa paper and popular papers, was sold for well below wholesale cost. The sale begins immediately with 10¢ papers at 30, 14¢ papers at 8, 20e papers at 12, 0e papers at 186, 50e papers at 28c, and Ingrai papers up to 350 at 18c.
A tiger in a jungle scene teaches cubs to kill by letting them worry a disabled bull while the tigress watches and sometimes strikes with her paw. An East Indian officer witnesses the method and notes the cubs act like kittens as they advance and retreat. The article also notes Venezuela’s plains once fed by cattle then depopulated by civil war.
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