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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1916
Page
6
An advertisement lists an extensive range of white hats and trimmings at low prices. The page also records multiple funeral notices from May 1916 for residents including Annie Beckman, Mary Smith, Maurice Dwyer, Johanna Kiley, Simon Duggan, Walter Wetstine, Emilia Peet, and Eugene Birmingham, with funeral details and burial locations.
Classified style notes describe several properties in Connecticut including a two family Wood, a four family on Sixth Street, cottages on Jane and Staples streets, and a Norman Street dwelling. The ad mentions sell or exchange options with modern improvements and no agents, listing contact at Lund, 211 Warner Building, Bridgeport Connecticut.
Bridgeport officials report city ownership of a 50 foot slip on Burr Creek and a 200 foot Black Rock harbor frontage plus a 0.75 acre triangle near Bartram estate and Welch. A tentative double leaf bascule bridge 50 foot span is planned with seawall extension and boulevard drive access subject to federal approval.
The city records multiple deaths and services. Eisle Jane Crans died at 466 Wilmot Avenue aged 80, with Philipsburg burial planned. Mrs John Gabriele, 276 Hallett Street, died after pneumonia, survived by husband and children. Mary Smith aged 58 died at 411 Catherine Street. Michael Cavanaugh and Jeremiah Sheahan had late Masses at St Marys and St Patricks, with full funeral processions and burials at St Michaels. Johanna Kiley of 821 Housatonic Avenue died after heart trouble. Thomas Kilian of Iranistan Avenue had a Sacred Heart church mass. Ralph Douglas Gutchess, 25, died of meningitis in Grasmere Fairfield, survived by widow Evelynne, parents, and siblings.
The Democratic town and city convention at Sagal's hall endorsed Woodrow Wilson and chose delegates to the state convention. Seven at large delegates were also selected, with details of absentees and proxies recorded as the group lines up for May 11 and 12 in New Haven.
The convention pledges support for Woodrow Wilson as next nominee and praises Jefferson era peace and prosperity under current leadership. It designates Daniel B. Walker as district delegate to the Democratic national convention. Also notes British colonial troops held prisoners number 37,047 and a Rotterdam dispatch reports a crippled Zeppelin sighting near Ameland.
Washington May 6 Five hundred persons took part in a pageant for the centennial of the American Bible Society foundation. Fourteen tableaux showed progress through Bible teaching with President Wilson Vice President Marshall Speaker Clark and Senators Cummings and Jones on tomorrow’s program. Forty Hours devotion opens at St Charles church with a 10 20 oclock mass. Confessions available Sunday Monday afternoons and evenings by visiting clergymen. Devotions close Tuesday morning with high mass. British cotton mills plan to strike on the Bal liol proposition.
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