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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1916
Page
24
Tomorrow this store at 7 1057 1073 Broad Street near the Post Office inaugurates a large sale of beds and bedding. An entire floor features brass, steel and iron beds, new springs, mattresses and pillows at special sale prices. Wide assortment promises big savings and liberal credit terms for bedroom needs.
Local police prepare for a heavy automobile traffic pattern in New Haven heading to Yale Bowl. Citizens along Mirfield Avenue John Street and Maine Street expect mandated route changes and road closures tomorrow to accommodate the Yale pageant traffic.
Leon R. Andrews, 35, of Putnam Connecticut died after a brief illness. He attended the National Dairy Show in Springfield Massachusetts on Wednesday and is believed to have contracted the disease there. He had lived in Putnam for two years and previously worked as a butter maker in Hartford.
Funeral services for Jennie Rebela will be at 10 30 at home 127 Gilbert street then high mass at Sacred Heart church burial in St Michael's cemetery She died yesterday at St Vincent's hospital survived by husband one son William Wignell one daughter Frances two sisters Severina Venaglia died at 64 at her Stratford home born in Lucca Italy Frences incomplete arrangements Patrick Gilligan funeral at 845 in Ganons parlors with mass at Sacred Heart church burial in St Michael's cemetery died yesterday at his sister's home after a two week illness employed by Standard Coupler born in Ireland 44 years ago member of Loyal Order of Moose and Sacred Heart Church Theresa Taylor Tyler died yesterday at her mother's home Norwalk born 34 years ago survived by mother husband son and siblings Lena and Clarence L Taylor.
Edwin Leslie Fletcher of 59 Chambers Avenue is named sole heir to the $18,000 estate of his father Edwin J. Fletcher who died on April 29. Administration papers were filed today with Judge Paul L. Miller in the rebate court. The estate comprises securities and the elder Fletcher, 59, had been under conservatorship for years.
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