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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1916
Page
8
Bridgeport volunteers launch Save-the-Babies Week to assist mothers with infant care. The drive encourages donations of one dollar to fund Day Nursery operations and support families while caregivers work to earn a living.
This item lists multiple obituaries from October 1916. William T. Costello aged 43 at 533 Brooks Street. funeral arrangements set for October 25 at 6 30 am from his residence and St Charles church with interment at St Michael's cemetery. Patrick McCarthy aged 63 of 273 Frank Street funeral from Jory Cullinan Mullins parlor with services at St Patrick's. Ella H wife of Thomas Ann aged 65 years 4 months 9 days noted for a Sunday death in this city.
A World War I-era image caption notes French soldiers laboring to move giant railroad-mounted guns used to destroy German trenches ten miles distant. It explains steam power, underground German fortifications, and why Thiepval fell only after months of brutal fighting amid tangled trenches and defensive wire.
Police describe a brutal killing of Yorke, a Hungarian immigrant with a peg leg, found in a field near Railroad Avenue. The victim was stripped and mutilated after a throat slash and stab to the abdomen. investigators note alcohol and a degenerate motive. Yorke, 230 years in the city, had worked in Pennsylvania coal mines and recently lodged on Garden Street.
An Agile member notes Smithers is so active in church that the finance committee cannot locate him for subscriptions. The quote, from the St. Louis Post Dispatch, discusses his prompt support for the pastor's salary.
A Detroit Free Press quotation explains contentment as happiness with what you have even if others have more. The line attributes boldness to brave men facing hardship, echoed by Silins Italiens on resilience.
A compact digest traces the crescent's adoption by the Turkish state after 1453 and notes the Koranic prohibition on images. It then shifts to anecdotes from London and Paris about a hat mishap, a dramatic ballet in Napoleon’s era, and a list of the world’s largest islands with rough figures.
A compact collage of quips and anecdotes featuring domestic sparring, pennies saved, marriage jokes, tattling children, and a lobster anecdote. The piece blends humor with social sketches as lines from Puck and New York Globe echo through a series of small comic vignettes.
Here are rug savings with several sizes listed at reduced prices. A 36 by 63 inch rug drops from 4 to 2.75, 27 by 54 inch from 2.50 to 1.75, and Congoleum stove rugs replace oilcloth with lighter rug like finish. Sizes include 36 by 36 0.50, 36 by 72 1.54, 4 by 54 1.50. Located at Carpet Hall on the third floor.
Orange Pekoe tea marketed as the most delicious with a limited time special price. Promotes Howco and White Rose blends in pound cartons with discounts per pound and per two pound quantities.
An illustration shows adding 1848 to 1848 using Arabic numerals yields 3606 in four figures, while Roman notation would spell MDCCCXLVIII. The piece notes how numerals reduce toil in sums and references Cigero and Homer’s sums for Aga Memnon’s fleet, with a digression on Herod.
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