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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1908
Page
6
E W Mooring offers a three family house on the north end for 500 down and 5000 total price with over ten percent payoff. Several good real estate bargains available. If you seek a home call and see W Lawlor at 4 E Mats Loom and Tel 17741. Open trees.
A grand gathering at Hamilton park under the Waterbury grangers attracted over 1700 attendees from surrounding towns. Mayor William Thoms gave the welcome, with Superintendent Walker overseeing park preparations. The Cheshire Military band provided a concert and later accompanied athletic events and a ball game between Mad River and Prospect granges. A promotional note for Kodol followed the public events.
The Waterbury Evening Democrat will publish notice beginning August 20 1908 recording Lulu J Wheeler Eggleston petitioner and Charles Eggleston defendant absent from the state and a divorce action to be heard on the first Tuesday of September 1908 in Waterbury Connecticut suggesting the motion for divorce is pending in the Superior Court for New Haven County.
William H Borchardt of Waterbury Connecticut certifies a trade mark for Bottles Boxes and monogram W H B to be stamped on Bottles or bores used with port ale beer and lager. He claims first use about November 19 id and exclusive rights. The certificate was filed with the secretary of state and the New Haven county clerk, prohibiting sale or traffic in said bottles or boxes under penalty.
The notice covers multiple funerals including William Forrest of Past Liberty Street dying at Lang's sanitarium. Interment at Riverside cemetery after service at Hall Memorial chapel. Also details Louis H. Schuyler funeral with lodge involvement and cemetery burial. Catherine L. Ward funeral at St Thomas church with Notre Dame classmates as honorary bearers and a large out of town turnout. Burial at St Joseph's cemetery follows a solemn requiem Mass.
Pittsburg August 19 Harry Pinkerton a police alarm operator and double artificial legs user saved William Wilson who clung to a live trolley wire carrying 1500 volts by grabbing him around the waist and pulling him away The nonconducting cork and wooden legs prevented current from reaching Pinkerton's body and he escaped injury while Wilson suffered agony but survived.
Local notices from Oakville and surrounding towns report residents visiting relatives in South Norwalk Torrington and Northampton Miss May Fitzpatrick returns from Litchfield and Bantam while letters advertised list several names Machinery purchased Westport for Falls avenue wagon factory project and Block Island trip for Musgrove family Sealed bids due August 24 for mail carriage between railroad station and post office A Watertown man works on a highway ditch improving access William Davidson injured opening cans at Earle's store Local residents attend New Haven exercises including Misses O Connell Cleary OBrien Elisabeth Fion and Mrs Sarah Knapp Funeral details for George H Cs and a boarder search persists for a 25 crate solution.
Mills H. Barnard of Bristol, Hartford county juror in the last Superior court term, invites fellow jurors and officials to meet at Compounce on August 27 for a social reunion. Judge Milton A. Shumway, Sheriff Edward W. Dewey, and Court Officer Charles P. Trumbull are among those invited. The jurors bonded over meals and small treats during the lengthy term.
The Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee calls a two day convention in Hartford at the Auditorium on September 16 and 17 1908 to nominate candidates for state and federal offices and conduct convention business. Delegates are apportioned by town with Hartford leading and several towns listed with delegate counts. caucuses and primaries must be held seven days before the convention. CHAS W COMSTOCK Chairman EDW 8 THOMAS Secretary.
Oscar Culver of Williamsburg died in Eastern district hospital after revived life support failed he had previously been revived by strychnine and artificial respiration following a three minute death on Monday night Culver lived at 262 South Fourth Street and worked at a rolling mill near Kent Avenue and South Sixth Street
President Roosevelt’s children visited In Christ Episcopal Church on Sunday. All family except Teddy Jr attended. Quentin hurried out after noticing his mother’s purse, returned soaked in perspiration, and was fanned by Mrs Roosevelt. Archie showed a carved keepsake from his tutor, while Mr Parker interrupted the scene at the Rev Mr’s sermon.
A collage of brief notes and anecdotes. A New Yorker in Paris laments the French tongue while recounting a tourist mispronunciation exchange at a restaurant. The piece also riffs on Napoleon pasando to war as a study and recalls Hannibal's legendary campaigns through New York American and Penarson notes.
A fragmented column carries sharp quips on education and gender from Baltimore American and a noted editorial page. It contrasts a jab about teaching with a mocking line on family stupidity and adds a wry remark about women and men at work.
A historical note explains that a day is not 24 hours but the interval between successive solar transits at local noon. It states the true solar day is about twenty hours fifty six minutes and a solar year causes the sun to shift four minutes after one Earth rotation. The passage discusses Earth's orbit causing the sun's apparent east to west drift and the need for extra rotation for the sun to be exactly south again.
A historical note on Spartan upbringing detailing harsh military training and fat regulation from seven to sixty. It also describes quirky European customs such as pantry rites, birthday cake knobs, and mince pie rituals said to bring luck or banish bad omens.
A New York era piece recalls Louis VII shaving his whiskers to appease bishops, provoking Eleanor of Aquitaine to divorce him. She wed the Count of Anjou, aiding a claim to the English throne and Poitou. The tale links to wars that ravaged France for three centuries and millions of deaths, sparked by the king’s shaved mustache.
Overview from the regimental Journal of the Fighting Fifth recounts Colonel FitsRoy then Captain FitsRoy firing at an adjutant, a bird protected by law, causing a fatal accident. A court of inquiry investigates the adjutant’s death. the narrative includes hubbub and misremembered details amid fragmentary text from 1800 era material.
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