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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1916
Page
16
Amusements review notes Edward E. Rose as playwright of The Daughter of Mother Machree at the Lyric. The Irish drama features Maead portraying Sunshine O'Brien, a backroom girl who returns from America to claim her rightful place and help thwart a scheming English fishman and unite with a Wyoming suitor.
Polis Pinkie may stay as an advancing feature draws strong crowd. The bill blends desert life scenes and Pathe's Pictorial News reviews world events, while Hans Hébert and Company present Cold Coffee comedy and a brisk musical offering. Holmes and La sippaiee finish with songs and dances, all well received.
Review lauds Plaza production featuring Billy as lead, Hulda Pmith, and a strong quartet. It highlights the comic balance, engaging costumes, clever Lerner and Ward duo, and strong acting across a five part piece. Audience enjoyed two encores and the Keystone comedy.
In this fragment from a Toledo Blade item a wife and husband exchange quips about yielding in disputes. The dialogue hints at domestic humor and the mother’s advice on avoiding arguments with a woman.
A short moral piece urges readers to make the best of every situation and think well of others. It emphasizes that by choosing constructive thoughts and actions, individuals uplift themselves and those around them toward a higher way of living.
A dated veterinary style ad urging readers to try Kilmer’s Swamp Root for backache and kidney bladder issues. It claims quick, effective results and offers a sample bottle by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer and Co. at Binghamton. Local notice mentions Bridgeport Farmer as reference.
The Christmas toy season will see fewer foreign made toys as Japan bets cheap labor while U S manufacturers face shortages of machinery and labor It will be a toy shortage as domestic makers cannot fill orders since July and foreign dolls replaceable with limited supply of the real articles Trumpeted by Ives of Ives Manufacturing Bridgeport and the Toy Manufacturers Association of America
The passage notes a nationwide shortage with fewer cheap toys expected than before, while higher grade toys will rise in price due to advances in raw materials and labor.
The article weighs how long Germany could sustain war, tracing the Thirty Years' War from Bohemia to its 1648 Westphalia treaty. It notes the balance of power outcome, territorial shifts for France and Sweden, and the limits of religious toleration won only for princes, with masses suffering religious atrocity and political subjugation under the Habsburg Emperor.
Inflamed by zeal, rulers and cardinals fought for political gains as German Emperor's authority waned after the Osnabruck treaty. The war raged thirty years, ravaging northern Germany and turning prosperous towns into wastelands, with widespread slaughter, sackings, and long years of hardship. Historians describe Germany as trampled and broken, a landscape of wolves and robbers in the south and west.JUST ARRIVED DUTCH AND FRENCH BULBS. JOHN BECK & SON farmer Want Ads. One Cent a Wory.
Henry Clay Hansbrough, longtime United States Senator from North Dakota, declares himself a Wilson Republican. In an open letter to Hughes he imagines a reverse presidency, praising Wilson’s peace policy, Tariff Commission, Federal Reserve Act, Rural Credit Bill and Eight-hour workday measure, and questions Hughes’s judgment if he had presided during those events.
A speaker questions the impact of party labels and President Wilson's record asking if a patriotic citizen would vote for the better man who has achieved big things over one who neglects larger issues. The speaker notes a shift toward supporting Wilson after hearing an early campaign speech.
A stray cartoon exchanges humor about marriage and finance. Mrs Longwed jokes that before marriage one pays compliments while after marriage they pay bills. A pen and sword quip follows noting damages in a breach of promise case.
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