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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1916
Page
9
A historic health claim describes fruit juices as the cure for many ailments and explains a physician’s method to extract a potent bitter principle. The resulting product FRUIT-A-TIVES, made from orange, fig, prune juices, is sold in the United States at 50 cents a box or six for $2.50, by Fruit-atives Limited, Ogden or New York postpaid.
Assistant Prosecutor E Earle Garlick called for harsh punishment for drivers who strike pedestrians and flee without aiding victims. Judge Frank Wilder fined Sam Saxe 235 dollars for hitting Harry Turpin at Norman Street and North Avenue on October 21 and failing to stop. A fire in an American Tobacco warehouse in Richmond Virginia destroyed 43000 hogsheads of tobacco valued at 320000 dollars.
Organist and Cambridge Theological Seminary instructor Richard Gilmore Appel will perform a free organ recital at St. John s Church on Monday October 30 at 7 30 p m. The program features works by Moussorgsky Kieff Merkel Bach Reger Wasner Vienne and others, with a note on audience and local organists attendance. May Lewis of Newark is hospitalized with internal injuries after a car accident, having been thrown through a windshield.
Elm City labor union Local 566 of New Haven endorses the Wilson administration and Thomas L. Reilly for Congress in the Third Connecticut district. The resolution notes consideration of labor bills and praises Reilly as a friend of the laboring man, pledging union support to elect the current administration and assist Reilly in the upcoming election.
Civil service examinations scheduled for the near future are listed with positions in aeronautical material, electrometallurgist, agrostologist, organic chemist, grain sampler and assistants. Details include locations Buffalo and Boston, job titles, genders, dates in November, and pay ranges from 1,200 to 3,300 dollars.
The Travelers Insurance force of Fairfield County gathered in Bridgeport yesterday to honor F. L. Way, vice president, and W. A. H. Hatfield, president of the county Travelers club and head of local business. The Hallowe’en themed banquet featured talent from agents and a morning session included talks by officials such as J. B. Allern and E. Dennison. Way’s address said Bridgeport is a stepping stone to home office honors and that insurance safeguards families while philanthropy shines in the agent’s work.
In Chattanooga Tennessee a Cadillac Eight completed the Signal Mountain ascent on high gear, earning a 100 percent public rating. The factory fresh car, driven with minimal miles, climbed from the city center to the mountain crest at about three miles per hour, facing a partly blocked road and oncoming traffic without shifting gears.
Washington reports the war department will not hasten the West Point senior class graduation, preserving the regular term through June. About 140 cadets remain in the class with around 1,000 expected to appear for commissions from civil life after exams. The note outlines ongoing enlistment and the delay contrasts with earlier January targets.
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