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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1912
Page
9
The farmer praised Washington but preferred Canada during a trip that included a St. Lawrence voyage. The journey sparked his idea for the Canadian Boat Song and left him exclaiming about the people and places he saw in May 1912.
A fragment notes a speculative metamorphosis imagined after death and a bard’s journey back to England via New York, hinting at Bermuda as a place of influence. The readable excerpt references gendered imagery and transatlantic travel in a historic context.
The Rhode Island State Sanatorium's 1911 ex-patients earned over 266000, three times maintenance costs. Ex-patients ranged 2 to 31 dollars weekly, totaling 102752 dollars. Free treatment accounted for 84 percent of 46540 hospital days, averaging 200 dollars per patient.
President Charles D. Davis weighs Bridgeport’s future growth and whether the city will reach 200 000 by 1836. He notes growth rates tend to slow as cities expand, considers annexation of nearby towns, and predicts Fairfield and Stratford may soon house the city’s overflow population.
Senator La Follette argues for support in Elizabeth New Jersey as Republican delegate counts show Taft Roosevelt and La Follette with a spread and sixty undecided. He vows to fight the trusts and outlines potential outcomes if a Taft Roosevelt tie occurs, noting his 34 to 36 delegate group and readiness to stay defiant.
A Newcastle editorial notes Tom Moore the Irish bard born May 1779 would be 133, recounting his Bermuda salary claim and a 1803 voyage to America. It characterizes the appointment as political graft of the era while praising Moore as Ireland’s soulful poet, with memories of Norfolk and Bermuda.
Exclusive Survey Press Bureau reports a three year Great Lakes sailors strike ended after 1909 season. The dispute centered on open shop rules, welfare rooms, and discharge books used to control employment, with unions claiming erosion of American seafaring and owners seeking nonunion hiring and arbitration avoidance. The stalemate highlights gaps in interstate commerce and federal oversight.
In Hartford yesterday 24 representatives from Connecticut and Southern Massachusetts trolley unions met the New England joint conference board to resolve wage disputes with the companies. They rejected a half cent per hour rise on a sliding scale and kept the demand for a 30 cent flat rate. No strike vote was planned at present as talks continued, with officials of the companies hinting at separate negotiations. The situation appears deadlocked and awaits the conference board’s next move.
In New Britain on Washington street yesterday afternoon a scaffolding fail caused Harry Buenay of Waterbury to plunge 14 feet to the ground. He was taken to a local hospital with internal injuries and is listed in critical condition. Corinthian lodge F and A M will confer the F C degree at 7 30 this evening.
A poem where Life, Father Time, and an infant race through life. Youth outpaces Time, seeks earthly pleasures, then Life and Time converge as age wears the man down. Death claims the prize as Life crowns the victor. Crawford at 875 Hallet St. City.
Prominent educators across 31 states and five Canadian provinces report a surge in bird study in schools to curb crop-damaging pests and protect forests. Nine states instruct students with costly programs and artificial nesting boxes, while 25 000 pupils join as Junior Members of the Audubon Society under funding from Mrs. Russell Sage.
The young Robert Hilliard born in New York fifty five years ago today. He leased the Criterion Theatre in Brooklyn and debuted in False Shame in 1886. His early amateur success attracted managers including Charles Frohman who soon engaged him. He later acted with Nat Goodwin and Lillie Langtry.
The B. M. Read Company promotes summer living room furnishings with Willow and Hong Kong pieces. It highlights high backed rockers, Bar Harbor chairs, rattan Canton chairs, divans, and other porch furniture in varied finishes and cushions, touting reasonable prices and daily deliveries from the fourth floor.
Noted actor and playwright Hilliard rose to fame in roles such as the Earl of Woodstock in Sporting Life and Richard Gray in Adrift. His first wife Cora Bell won custody of their son after a 18% divorce. In 1896 he married Nellie E. Murphy, widow of Edgar G. Murphy the wing shot.
May 28 1767 marked the first public piano performance at Covent Garden London. The instrument arose from Italian Cristofalli German J C Schroter and French Marius withZumpe building England's first piano factory. Upright pianos followed in England around 1800 inspired by Isaac Hawkins. Sir Humphrey Davy, English chemist, died eighty three years ago today and invented the safety lamp used by miners.
The Junior League of Park Avenue Temple presents a vaudeville show at the temple on Wednesday evening. With help from Mrs. J. Gilman and Misses Florence Loewith Marguerite Goldstein Lydia Landesman Augusta Rosenthal and Lydia Goldstein a lively program is planned. The club works hard and promises an enjoyable evening for all attendees.
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