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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1911
Page
7
The common schools of America are praised as the greatest coeducational institutions. The daily Barnum prize contest showcases strong female intellect, with women repeatedly winning honors, underscoring local female leadership in learning.
Danny Stratford fights to reclaim property as East Broadway residents push for a highway to serve Connecticut Co tracks. Town would pay about 10000 dollars, meeting yields opposition. Private citizens and company offer two thirds. townsfolk pay one third for communal benefit. The town meeting system curbs machines and speeds public will.
Bald Dr J N McCormack of Bowling Green Kentucky told a Bridgeport audience that doctors failed to unite as lawyers did to guide the people during the formative period of government. He warned that had they, health boards might have been as embedded in state and national machinery as courts and that Providence prevented such a contingency.
The article notes infant mortality rises with summer heat and that infants under one year remain the most at risk. In 1910 there were 26,681 births with 3,434 deaths before age one and 1,419 between ages one and five, while the first-year death rate was 19.6 per 1000 births, still lower than 20 years prior when 148 per 1000 died before age one.
Worldwide readers recount Friedrich Ludwig Jahn as the founder of the Turn Platz near Berlin in May 1811. His idea linked mind and body and urged all people to pursue physical development for the community, not just athletes.
The text extols a health philosophy aimed at all ages and occupations. It links end goals to a balanced body and mind, notes health education in schools, and describes a democratic system benefiting the many. It asserts widespread influence on gymnasia and exercise schools worldwide, with his exercise formulae modified over time.
Governor Baldwin argues for a pay as you go policy in a Civic Federation speech in New Haven. He warns that taxpayers face growing burdens from assessments, paving, and sewer projects, urging less borrowing, fairer taxation, and immediate changes to state and national tax laws. He stresses that living must pay for what they use and produce, and debt grows with interest.
Governor Eugene Foss urged replacing the tax on intangible personal property with a state income tax in a special message after Massachusetts lawmakers failed to ratify federal income tax amendments. He argued income tax would raise more revenue, ease burdens on real estate, and adapt to conditions, though it is an inquisitorial levy.
Albert Fink argues judges must protect both majority and minority in a legal state, independent of factions. A Dubuque Telegraph-Herald retort says Fink errs in claiming judges’ role is to protect the minority, noting the constitution aims to guard rights against perversion and that true enemies are judges who defy humanitarian principles.
A three days sale at the DR M Read Company during the last week of May offers 20 percent reductions on porch rockers chairs settees tables and veranda furniture in white enameled walnut oak forest green and natural finishes. Special values include Prairie Grass Willow furniture and veranda cloths with low priced linens and cottons in various patterns and fabrics. Veranda cushions and wash goods offered on the lower floor with vivid discounts on linens and cottons.
Black and white percales and blue and white checks offered at 25 cts. The sale of dinner ware continues.
Japanese rugs of a practical size 36 by 72 inches offered in artistic designs. Ideal for porches summer sitting rooms and bedrooms. Carpet Store on the first floor features these durable, decorative pieces suitable for various living spaces.
Hartford May 24 Governor Simeon E Baldwin issues a proclamation designating Wednesday June 14 as Flag Day. Public school commemorations to mark the 134th anniversary of the United States flag, adopted by Congress in 1777, urging all citizens to display the flag in support of constitutional principles and homeland. Proclamation signed at the Capitol May 23, 1911 by Governor Baldwin and Secretary Matthew H Rogers. Nuggett in the north end.
In Gallatin Tennessee Judge David Barry went to a negro cook’s cries for help and was fatally harmed by a black ex convict known as Jim Sweat who then killed the cook. Posses formed, found the accused in an old barn and dragged him out. White townspeople then lynched him in a corn field.
Under Mrs William Carroll Mrs J M Johnson Miss Min nile Ellsworth and Miss Mary Carroll four members of the Ladies of Charity hosted a whist and dance at Warner Institute last evening. Eighty tables filled the room with handsome gifts as prizes. Top scorers included Geo Stafford H Feeley George Hurley Edward McKeever Mrs J Hanley William Lee Moran Mrs J Farrell Miss M E Lyddy George McCarthy Mrs A Rowland J Cooper Miss Catherine Coughlin Edward Carroll Mrs H Feeley H Campbell and Mrs P
Alfred Me May 24 More details of the alleged weird household in Cambridge kept by the widow of Ole Bull the Norwegian violinist emerged as the will dispute resumed. Testimony described mystic rites with masseurs barbers and oriental students and the holy room where followers chanted and used furniture polish as ointment to cast out evil thoughts. The case also contends the widow was unduly influenced by her circle to ward off enemies.
Manchester May 24. It became known that the local plumbers strike, a month old, was settled by arbitration with the workers gaining a slight advantage. Upon returning to work they had given up the fight due to lack of funds. It later leaked that they resumed work pending arbitration of differences. They sought a Saturday half holiday and the employers compromised by granting the half holiday if workers agreed to an extra half hour daily. The agreement took effect this week.
In Constantinople on May 24 Russia issued a drastic dem and demanding dispowal of Turkey's hostile moves against Montenegro. The Turkish cabinet weighs a reply as Turkish troop concentration on the Montenegro frontier continues. Cettinje reports soldiers being armed in anticipation of possible war. Get a Nugget in the east end.
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