Third Operation Prevented Details Lost in Fragment
Fragmentary report notes a patient stating a third operation was prevented and that life depended on surgery. Text is garbled with incomplete words and unclear identities.
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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1909
Page
13
Fragmentary report notes a patient stating a third operation was prevented and that life depended on surgery. Text is garbled with incomplete words and unclear identities.
Town Clerk Robert Weber certifies inspectors and electors for Bridgeport as of May 13 1909. The notice lists applicants for licenses including a druggist and a retail liquor license at 2835 Fairfield Ave. and confirms no other applicants or endorsements beyond those elected.
The Board of Education of Bridgeport invites bids for building a nine room brick addition to Summerfield School House on Grant Street and Avenue. Plans and specs are at Architect Joseph W. Northrop Room 407 Court Building. Bids due five PM May 28. Bid security 5 percent. Board reserves right to reject any bids. May 17 1909. Local probate notice follows.
The Poli Summer Stock company presents Her Own Way with Alice Fleming as Georgina Carley delivering a splendid performance. John Ince leads with strong talent while Jessie Pringle shines as a character woman. The cast includes four children and a reception on the stage next Saturday with a chrysanthemum gift for lady patrons and a diamond bracelet raffle on May 31 with coupons starting next Monday. The Road to Yesterday follows, featuring elaborate scenic effects and Minnie Dupree in the star role at Herald Square Theatre.
Seventeen years of rapid progress have shaped Bridgeport's Moss & Krieger into a leading outfitting store. The semi annual sale runs May 22 to May 29 with bargains on men's youths women's and children's wear, rugs, furniture, and household goods. Credit options headline, with Moss and Krieger offering the flexible plan.
This notice advertises a summer vaudeville event by the Apollo Prothers offering a 50 prize for carrying a 350 pound bag of sand from the stage. Several aspirants expect to win as the crowd watches them struggle. Three daily performances start at 2:15 pm and 7:15 pm with evening seats mostly just ten cents higher. Also a druggist refund offer for Foley's Honey and Tar cough remedy is noted.
Four female workers at the Overbrook Insane Asylum in Montclair New Jersey hazed newcomer Donato Collona by dressing as mentally ill patients cuffing and kicking him. He fled the building and says no money would make him return. The board orders hazing to stop.
Salvatore Alonza of Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania was acquitted two weeks ago of a murder he did not commit. After five months in jail he lived in constant fear of the scaffold and has now become violently insane and was sent to the Danville Asylum. Doctors fear he will not recover.
Six new Bridgeport patrolmen appointed by the Police Commissioners will start work on Memorial Day, reporting to precincts after the parade and receiving rubber coats pistols boots and billys. Names include Daniel J. Ryan James Ramsey Thomas T Reegan Thomas Malone Dennis Keogh and Otto Kraft with assignments to East Bridgeport Third Precinct and traffic squad. Starting pay is 2.75 per day.
New York May 21 Through a deed recorded in the County Clerk's office it was disclosed that George J Gould and others as executors and heirs of Jay Goulds estate sold the Old Grand Opera House property to the Opera House Realty Company for a stated consideration.
Mrs Helen Kelly Gould wins an interlocutory decree from Justice Gerard on grounds supported by referee Edward G Whitaker. Custody of daughters Helen Margret and Dorothy Gould is split December to April to Mrs Gould and May to November to Frank J Gould with alimony not awarded and no further naming of consent.
A dated advertisement touts Parisian Sage as a guaranteed dandruff eliminator from Levity & Bro, claiming two weeks to rid dandruff and stop hair loss. It emphasizes affordable pricing at 50 cents a large bottle and appeals to society women seeking refined hair care.
New York May 21 Dr George G Rambaud head of the Pasteur Institute in the United States is defendant in a matrimonial suit brought by his wife Lulu Fowler Bryan Rambaud. Justice Gildersleeve appointed Arthur D Truax as referee to take testimony and report findings to the court. The location of Mrs Rambaud is unknown. The couple married October 9 1900 in Houston Texas.
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