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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1909
Page
4
A collection of excerpts on pricing psychology, national meals, and domestic life. It contrasts discounts with justified reasons, notes how lease expiry can drive sales, and includes quips about breakfast habits and a quiet new maid.
Theatres present Charmion as headliner with three extra shows this week at Poli's, drawing big crowds. The bill features Elsie Harvey and her boys, The Ollivetti Troubadours, Muller Chunn & Muller, Jennings & Renfrew, Carter Waters & Co and Myers & Rosa, plus Ben Grinnell Marguerite Haney and Mark Hart in Hotel Laughland. The season ends with high class acts and motion pictures including The Watermelon Trust and Corcoran & Dix in burnt cork skits.
Delightful and instructive superstition pictures with two illustrated songs headline tonight. The Virginian staged tomorrow in matinee and evening shows with Wister La Shelle dramatization of Wyoming life. The Show Girl musical satire is breaking sales records next week with 26,000 previous attendance and over $600 in electrical effects. Margaret McKinney leads Western-bound cast and performs her specialty. Daily matinees all next week.
A compact sampler from an old issue notes Hindoo nose jewelry as a sacred wifehood symbol, a doctor’s view on human temperature, a glimpse of early Japanese mail runners, and a brief want ad. It blends colonial curiosities with medical trivia and historical postal methods, all in period voice.
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