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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1908
Page
4
A quirky ad style piece offers riddles and joshing dialogue about tea coffee and butter from East Main Street. It features a Thurstonian street dialogue, a shopper from Thomaston, and repeated promotion of Phelan's tea coffee and butter with playful answers and a sales pitch.
A surge of volunteers for the US Navy followed a shift in advertising strategy. The Bureau of Navigation spent $50,000 last year on various outlets and found recruits from magazines cost 15 to 65 dollars each while daily ads yielded about 3.56 dollars per recruit. This year funds were redirected to daily papers, and results are emerging.
National Association of Stationary Engineers holds meetings tonight. Melchizedeck No 200 and L. O. B. B. announce gatherings for tomorrow with local fraternal attendance and scheduling details.
The Walcott fair is set for October 14. Waterbury Business College opens fall term next Tuesday September 1. Ivy Temple No 5 Pythian Sisters met. one application for membership. Over 500 woolen samples now available. Lyon and Grimes reported at Journeymen Plumbers' union meeting. Mizpah colony U O P E could not meet due to Redmen move. Speeds hall K of P to hear Dr S B Munn on Johnstown Flood. Lallier's Military Band concert and dance at City Hall tonight. Pride of Hawthorn lodge elected eleven candidates. Foresters plan forty five league. Incorporation filed for Waterbury military store with $5,000. Mt Third Congregational sermon planned. Advertised letters list published. Juvenile branches plan urged by Division A D H. John P Sheehan re-elected state secretary at New Haven convention. Whist party in honor of Miss Florence Harris of Brookline. Local guests and residents noted. refreshments served. Evening program included vocal and instrumental selections.
Monroe's Business College presents itself as a model institution offering individualized, practical instruction for swift, affordable business careers. The principal notes strong job placement help, experienced teachers, and Mr Monroe's ties to the Waterbury Business Men's Association, with two thirds of local positions filled by his graduates. doors open for evening inspection.
Notices report the deaths of Mrs Sarah Israel aged twenty two at 13 Hill street with funeral at Brass City lodge cemetery, John P. Broderick's mass of requiem at St Patrick church and burial at new St Joseph's. Mrs William M. Tyler and Mrs Mary Eastwood funeral details. a note on Robert W. Chambers new serialized love story starting September 1 in the New York Evening World.
Satur day night sale offers deep cuts across women and children's apparel and home goods. Ladies white lawn waists, skirts, coats and kimonos, plus men's shirts and ties, boys’ shirt waists and suits, cottons, calicoes, and carpets all advertised with low from prices and percentage discounts.
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