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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1908
Page
8
Annual clearance offers shirt waist and jumper suits and coat suits in white and colored lawns at 1 00 each. Also white enamel ware sale with many items at one half to one third off. Includes preserver kettles saucepans tea kettles and cups and saucers among 1500 pieces. Starts Wednesday August 12 at 8 30 p m with details in tomorrow's paper.
Three men died and eleven were hurt when striking miners fired into a passenger train on the Birmingham Mineral railroad at Blocton, Alabama. The train carried nonunion workers under militia guard. eight negroes were arrested as authorities vowed to restore order amid the grave strike turmoil.
Police report Bertha Hood killed in her Bergen Street boarding house by Ernest Seltz a former boarder who then fatally wounded her infant daughter and shot himself in the cellar collapsing in a dying condition. Seltz aged twenty four had left Manhattan where he worked as a hospital fireman after alleged rejected advances. Hood thirty two had not lived with her husband for a year and authorities say jealousy drove the killings.
Incendiaries sparked a chain of twelve fires from Fairport to Rochester over ten miles. Two major city blazes gutted Gleason Cold Storage and Eastern Basket plants. third fire damaged a Central freight car. Fire crews, police swore in twenty special officers as alarms spread across villages and cities.
Indianapolis Aug 10 a frantic 200 foot race across a Monon railroad bridge ended fatally for Hubert Staley aged 17 and John Weston 19 as a passenger train struck them. Their companion Herbert Jenkins 18 reached safety but witnessed the tragedy.
Captain Swift is presented by Poli’s Own Stock Company under H. Percy Meldon. Hartford leads the cast with Miss Nordstrom in a strong female role. The comedy promises witty dialogue, bright scenes, and elaborate production values with musical selections between acts. Ladies receive a gold watch at matinees, with Tuesday souvenir die and Friday flower matinee events.
The notice lists events: Aug 16 at Jacques Opera House an entertainment for John O'Brien. Sept 4 at Murray Hall a social and dance by the Ramblers. Sept 7 at Rick's Dancing Academy East Main Street a reopening reception and dance.
In New Britain Aug 10 rain halts the game and fuels baseball chatter. Cab bage, nicknamed Cabbage, is identified as Don Senor Luis Manuel Rafael Alfonso Cabrera a Guatemala president’s nephew. Par fecto Marsans credits tracing the lineage while Lula Manuel’s Cuban stint shapes his on field tactics.
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