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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1908
Page
9
Isabella Pox shawl or sable Isabella throw scarves priced from $10.95 to $25.00. From muffs to match, the items shown offer coordinated accessory sets and color options.
The town page reports multiple funerals including Lester H. Winslow at Congregational church with Odd Fellows and Masons in attendance. interment at Hillside cemetery. Christopher Gilson, longtime resident of Prospect Street, dies. funeral to be held at St Francis’s and cemetery. John Dullard’s funeral at Maple Street and St Francis’s. pallbearers named. New York New Haven Hartford RR seeks side track on South Main Street. Ladies Aid supper at Baptist church on Prospect Street. Borough board to meet this evening. Methodist meeting set for Wednesday at Mrs Gladding’s home. Local residents Harry Stowe and Mrs William Jones visit. Chief Schmidt returns from Wallingford trip. A newborn son to Mr and Mrs Daniel Monohan.
William G. French who has been ailing for some time is improving. Joseph Smith and family of Ches hire have been visiting at N. W. Barnes. JH. M. Hickox has, been,commoned, to Hartford to serve aetferor in the United States District court. Bishop Brewster will make his annual visit to Christchurch on Sunday evening, December 6. Mr and Mrs W. A. Jones of New York who have been visiting at William Jones's returned home yesterday. William O'Dell and family have moved into the house formerly owned by Henry T. Dayton and now St. John's church.
A vintage ad offers painting and paperhanging with full supplies for 259 dollars per room. It urges customers to visit the business on W Abbott Avenue, notes contact phone 1278.6, and emphasizes professional border work and labor.
Advertisement from Oakville Connecticut publishers lists P O Freight and Express address, Waterbury telegraph address, and New York office at 48 Howard Street. Items imply a wire and metal goods manufacturer with regional notices and contact points. Local business directory style entry notes multiple contact locations and a postal address.
Nutmeg grating I, six year old daughter of Thomas Leonard, died at 604 North Burritt street shortly before midnight from burns received Sunday afternoon while playing at a bonfire. The day’s other item recounts Samuel Clemens’s seventy third birthday celebrated at his home with his usual morning ride.
One hundred twenty eight bodies have been removed from the Marianna mine of the Pittsburg Buffalo Coal company and placed at an improvised morgue. John H. Jones has checked 148 miners listed as underground at the time of the blast and doubts the death toll will exceed that figure.
Princess Helen of Servia, daughter of King Peter, is viewed as a potential bride for the young king of Portugal. She is described as beautiful and accomplished, several years older than the German princess who is 16.
Helen Margaret Kelly Gould wife of Frank J Gould seeks an absolute divorce in New York supreme court alleging improper relations with two women. She details a North Sydney house visited by Gould and claims gifts of jewelry and money to several women, while Gould disallows revealing their names and asks for Mrs Gould to provide them.
A dealer advertises matched pairs of heavy drafters gentlemen's drivers and general purpose horses. He recently brought twenty five from Indiana plus twenty in hand and thirty consigned from outsiders. He also offers business wagons concords runabouts carriages sleighs harness and blankets with a sale starting at 1 o clock no weather postponement.
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