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Bridgeport Evening Farmer

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Oct 19, 1916

Page

13

Remarkable Cure Reported By Rheumatic Patient

F W Mason of Providence later 418 Main street Bridgeport credits Wilderbs medicine with curing twenty years of rheumatism stomach and bowel trouble after other doctors failed. He reports improved digestion appetite sleep weight gain brighter complexion and renewed energy. T S Jackson a Dr Pierce expert endorses Wilderbs and offers free blood pressure checks at Hindle s store as testimonial volume grows.

F. W Mason Providence Main Street Mason Wilderbs T. S. Jackson Pierce Golden Medical Discovery Fame Hindle Bridgeport Adv

Cummings Tired For First Time In Swift Tours

Waterbury based U S senator candidate Homer S. Cummings toured Litchfield and New Haven counties speaking to crowds in Ansonia Derby Stamford New Milford Bridgewater Roxbury and Oakville. He noted fatigue after 57 speeches since Monday and was accompanied by editorial praise from John Temple Graves.

Waterbury Homer S. Cummings United States Litchfield New Haven Elton Connecticut Mayors’ Association Ansonia Derby Cummings John Temple Graves Hearst Publications Mr. Cummings Connecticut United States Senate Graves Stamford New Milford United Bank Bridgewater Roxbury Watertown Mayors’ Association Oakville Boutell New England New York State Thomaston Terryville Pine Meadow Torrington

Social Notes Highlight Vera Curtis Recital and Local Events

The Wednesday Morning Art club hosted Vera Curtis of the Metropolitan Opera in an Indian music recital at Mrs. Curtis’s home 154 Coleman Street. Curtis read on Indian music while her daughter sang with Willis Alling at the piano, with further recitals planned at United Congregational Church. Other items note Mrs Amile C. Canning’s return to New Orleans with a newborn, Judge Beardsley’s Democratic rally, an Art League rummage sale at Rakoczy hall, and community notices including weddings, showers, and a Red Cross talk.

Vera Curtis Metropolitan Opera Company John C.curtis Hiawatha Stratfield Miss Curtis Mr. Alling United Congregational Church Building Fund Metropolitan Opera House Metropolitan Opera Co Amile C. Canning Morris B. Beardsley Park Place New Orleans Art League Rakoczy Hall Bostwick Avenue Stratford F. M. Patterson W. J. Hammett David Rhoades T. S. Ferguson Bric-Abrac F. EB. Pickett Magerie H. D. Sherman C. B. Doremus Edward Warnes Harold Fish William Stagg

Obituary notices for Frank H Smith and Elizabeth Whelehan

The funeral of Frank Herbert Smith was held from 26 Bunnell Street at 2:30 yesterday with Rev W H Jepson officiating and burial at Park cemetery. Elizabeth Whelehan widow of James Whelehan of 240 Grand Street was interred after services at St Patrick's church, with burial at St Michael's cemetery. bearers included Fritz Heyse and others, and the mass featured Domine, Jesu and Nearer, My God, to Thee. An exchange item notes the resignation of a worker over payroll treatment, and a schooner Lissie Metaner went ashore near Oswego in a 60 mile gale.

Frank Herbert Smith Frank Herbert Smith Bunnell Street W. H. Jepson St. Luke's Episcopal Church Joseph Dowdall Lodge R. of P Park Cemetery Elizabeth Whelehan Elizabeth James Whelehan Grand Street Otto Rosenbaum St. Patrick’s Church John C. Lynch Fritz Heyse Edward Cowan Charlee Heck Richard Fagan John Shaughnessy John Thornhill St. Michael's Cemetery

The Criminal Sentence Overseen In Court

The judge sentences a convicted vagrant to thirty days in county jail after the man explains he had not eaten for twenty four hours. The inmate quips that asking for ten dollars would have yielded a life sentence. The excerpt appears in the Louis Post Dispatch.

Louis Post-Dispatch

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