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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1916
Page
5
A list of traditional preserving recipes and kitchen preparations. Quince honey and brown bread mix with soda, molasses cream cake, currant cup, lemon tapioca pudding, veal salad with walnut dressing, beet puddings, sweet pickled beets, mashed beets with potatoes, sugared peaches, buttered beets, and peach fritters with lard, spices, and fresh produce.
On a city porch youngsters discuss inventive ideas in a lively, humorous chat. Sid Hunt imagines self-lacing shoes, Sam Crawls proposes a responsive catching device, Puds Simkins envisions a lentil laughing stick, Ed Wernick heckles arithmetic aiding pens, and a joke about a self washing face device draws cheers from the group.
A reader column weighs the ethics of divorce and staying married. The text argues couples should part only when unavoidable, considering children and stability, while acknowledging cases of deceit and irreconcilable difference. Advice emphasizes financial readiness and legal wisdom.
Feature describes an autumn blouse and jumper set in white or with brown or purple jumper, adaptable to single or two-piece wear. It explains fabric requirements, cutting layout, and assembly details for a home dressmaker, noting fit through a gathered shoulder blouse and yoke-front jumper.
The garment uses cream white crepe with chiffon underblouse and a collar cut in one with the blouse front. Fancy buttons trim the vest and sleeves. Available in navy brown purple or black over white and offered in sizes 34 to 44 inches with a modest price.
Miss Libbey answers to letters require correct name and address for attention. Initials printed. Write short letters on one side of paper using ink. Personal letters not answered. Address Miss Laura Jean Libbey, No 946 President St Brooklyn N Y.
A letter from M. E. asks for guidance for an 18 year old girl torn between admirers. The reply urges honoring the mother's view and persisting to win over the mother if the chosen suitor has good character and proves capable of a lasting commitment.
A concerned sister asks whether a Jewish man should marry a Catholic woman by priest rabbi or judge. The piece argues the couple alone must decide, as the choice profoundly affects their life together and should satisfy them in the years ahead.
A steady job is urged for young men by reader L P who signs as an all around steam and electrical engineer earning 160 per month. He praises the columnist’s life topics and asks for guidance for the new generation.
The poem Rock Me to Sleep Mother is attributed to Elizabeth Akers Allen born October 9, 1832 in Strong Maine. It first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1860 and has since been set to music by many composers.
New York Oct 9 Mrs Ben Lindsey wife of the Fighting Judge of Denver enrolled with the Women's Bureau of the Democratic National Committee to aid Wilsons re election in the West as a vice chairman. Mary Ware Dennett executive secretary notes unsolicited western affiliations and cooperation from Massachusetts leaders Julia O Connor and Mabel Gillispie. Maude Swartz of the New York Womens Trade Union League is already active. Fire destroyed Albany Councils bowling alleys on North Pearl Street causing a $3000 loss.
A four point appeal touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for backache irregular periods and other female ailments. It claims forty years of use and invites women to write for confidential free medical advice from the Pinkham Laboratory in Lynn Massachusetts.
New York Oct 9 Rube Marquard plans to pitch for Brooklyn against Boston but has a separate contract to support Woodrow Wilson. He signed with the National Woodrow Wilson College Men's League to speak across New York City after the World Series. He vows Wilson will win and hopes to rally other players to help.
A Baltimore Sun item extols town pride while reporting Corp. Leopold L. Lovell of Company K 2d Maine Infantry shot and killed in Laredo Texas as he walked from a store. Also notes damage to the Norwegian steamship Forde after leaving Rio de Janeiro for Philadelphia. Just arrived Dutch and French bulbs.
A Taft Roosevelt love feast at the Union League club boosts Democratic funds by 250 and sways San Francisco Progressive A C Hawkins to back Wilson. He criticizes Hughes and urges clear policy. other notes include Brazilian minister Laura Muller in Para, letter carrier Sickels dead post cafe fight, a fatal shooting at a North Bergen dance, and Englewood mothers opposing 8:30 am school hours and wealth-based discrimination.
The leaders of the New York traction strike summon Mother Jones to boost the protest. She delivers an inflammatory speech to wives and relatives of striking workers, sparking women to attack a passing surface car with fury. Jones, famed for miners’ strikes, warns of a great industrial revolution.
W L Saunders of Ingersolldi Co mails a letter claiming facts behind past soup kitchens and tariffs citing Grant Hayes Roosevelt and 1907 panics. He argues tariff influence weak, contrasts with Farrel and Vanderlip. Two white men were killed and a third wounded by seven black assailants in a race riot near Hi hill Meagher County Montana.
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