Last Days of Season at Steeplechase Island Carnival
Steeplechase Island closes its season with Labor Day weekend events. Captain Boyton hosts free afternoon attractions, Ben Butler's cake walkers, Coast Artillery band, and a miniature battle of Bay with real ships. Monday features athletic and water events, boys’ contests, greased pig chase, prize waltz, boxing, and grand fireworks finale. Weber’s shore dinners available before closing at midnight Monday. Also church notices and library closure announced.
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Captain Boyton
Ben Butler
Coast Artillery Band
Weber
Steeplechase Island
August Was Average Month Says Jennings
The Volunteer Weather Observer Jennings reports Bridge Port had an average August with two thunder storms. Mean temperature 69 degrees, max 98, min 48, rainfall 3.59 inches, most rain on the 16th. Clear days many. barometer steady near 30.00 inches, with small swings. Also notes officers of the fair and prizes, a birthday visit to Mrs. Walter DePledge, and a Men's League clam bake at Fairfield Beach next Monday with trolley transport.
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Jennings
Bridge Port
Clarence H. Bradley
John Boyle
Theodore Sturges
8. C. Bradley
Walter DePledge
Fairfield Beach
Men’s League of Immanuel Baptist Church
Bridgeport
Fairfield Social Column Notes Supper at Beach Pavilion
Rev Dr and Mrs Frank Child hosted a supper for about 35 guests including Miss Ruth Child and several local families and Hargrove school students. W S McKinney Jr of Pittsburgh to leave Hargrove for Yale. photographer of local scenery shown. Moonlit hay ride among Hotchkiss and Donaldson families. Watercolorist Morris sketched Hulls Farms houses. Greenfield Country Club Fair adds a dog show with prizes. committee in charge.
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Frank
Child
Ruth Child
Brett, Fisher
Talcott
Wheelers
Glovers
Dawson
John
Hargrove School
Bradford
Holloway
Moore
Decker
McKnight
Hemmetter
McKinney
W. S. McKinney, Jr
Pittsburgh
Yale University
Hotchkiss
Donaldson
Morris
Compo Beach
Hulls Farms
Greenfield Country Club
Jackson's Paid in Full and Chorus Lady at Jackson's
A Bridgeport cast led by Bianca West presents Paid in Full at Jackson's tonight. Rose Stahl shines as Patricia in The Chorus Lady on Labor Day matinee and evening. The Merry Widow opens Sept 7 with lavish production and witty book. The Honeymooners with Geo M Cohan plays next Wednesday, plus Cecil Spooner in The Little Terror Friday. Want ads: CENT A WORD.
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New York
Bridgeport
Bianca West
Jackson’s
Patricia
Miss Stahl
Eve
Jackson's
Merry Wisdow
Geo. M. Cohan
Cohan
Cecil Spooner
Jackson's Theatre
Remnant Sale in Dry Goods Store Offers Fabrics and Patterns
Silver and Glass Section on lower floor features organdies dimities and batistes from 11% to 9 yards with dress patterns. Extra 10 percent reduction applies for a few days. Wash Goods Section highlights dainty items among selections.
Panicked tale of money and panthers in old homemaking notes
A fragment from a household department item contrasts a wife’s request for fifty dollars with a husband’s affable reply. It segues into a globe trotter’s tale of two panthers in a Persian district, then explains natural mummification with a Honduras case of a man found years after his disappearances, a hot iron hut, and self strangulation.
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Battersby
Household Department
Ilf
George
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Hon. S. Wolffsohn
British Honduras
Sibun
Sind
No Bones Broken in Venice Charity Ball Tale
An uncle falls from a hotel window in Venice but survives without injuries. The exchange turns to a charity ball as the cause of the gathering, with witty banter about giving. A light skit from London Punch humorously contrasts misfortune and generosity.
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Venice
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National Realty CO
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First Church of Christ, Scientist
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Lear
Ayer
Jackson
Rose Stahl IN
the Chorus Lady
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Middle St
Radford
B. Smith
Main St
Fairfield
EAGLE
London Telegraph
London
E. Halligan
Bssd
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Elem
N. Buckingham & Co., Inc
State Street
Joseph P. Coughlin CO
East Main Street
INCL
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Hudson
Fairfield Avenue
Piernes 22Nd Street
Pier 27
East River
York
Navigation Co
D. D. Smith’s
D. D. Smith
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