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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1916
Page
7
Fragmented note notes a last chance sale and housing advert with phrases like Saint and home sale. Mentions Port Jefferson and a weekly price, unclear details. The garbled text suggests a real estate and sales promotion with emphasis on a single remaining trip or opportunity.
Notices record multiple marriage banns and engagements across Norwalk Danbury Norwalk area with names and dates, including Jarvinen Manninen Whittaker Bates Weed Dodge Gaff Carl Flemming Hanley Emans Spierce Bruner Morris Betts Johnson and others. Deaths note Jose M Dunn 43 and Mrs Caldwell 69 and Cameron 34.
Mrs. Elsie R. Smathers of Hammonton drives a touring car with her father and uncle after being held up by twelve masked gunmen near Atsion New Jersey. She is shot in the back and knee, her chauffeur wounded, and her father and uncle killed during a running gun battle before police launch a bandit hunt and seek $4,000 payroll in the car.
Tony Fafello of 1817 Main Street faced arraignment for bicycle theft of Edward Garnowitz's bike at 1136 Main Street. Garnowitz chased Tony who claimed he pursued a rider after his own bike was taken and blamed the police for not listening. Judge Bartlett sentenced Tony to 30 days in jail.
Laces and embroideries valued at 400 dollars were stolen from Boris Pokras's garage at 344 Capitol Avenue last night or this morning. Sleeve linings worth 15 dollars were not taken. Entry was gained by breaking a window. goods left in two traveling bags in the rear of the home. Detective Fox to recover the articles.
More than 20 000 people attended the Danbury fair with special trains from Bridgeport Waterbury and Poughkeepsie. A dense Midway crowd enjoyed the entertainment as automobile parties patronized the event. Fragrists and anti suffragists added booths and distributed literature while concession holders increased.
A city clerk received a letter from England seeking help to locate William Bradshaw's wife. She last heard he lived at 30 Atlantic Street and sent money promises unreplied. Mrs Bradshaw, with an eight month old child, says he earned three pounds weekly in a billiard parlor and has not been sending support.
New corporation filed incorporation certificates in Bridgeport with authorized capital stock of 50 000 dollars divided into 500 shares par 100 dollars and start of business planned. incorporators listed as D Fairchild Wheeler Alvin H Hancock and William Webb.
The forecast areas New Haven and Connecticut predict fair, cooler conditions tonight and Saturday with moderate west winds. A disturbance near Hatteras is causing showers on the south Atlantic coast while pleasant weather remains east of the Rockies and northern districts stay cool. Missouri Governor Major directs 200 penitentiary prisoners to build ten miles of road near Jefferson City.
Prominent Republican David Lubin, founder of the International Institute of Agriculture, urges President Wilson reelection citing rural credit progress. Edison, Burbank, and Ford also publicly back Wilson, praising his businesslike economics and practical leadership while Lubin notes Europe’s rural credit successes and calls for U.S. farm policy alignment.
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