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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
7
A local retailer touts its broad selection of affordable undergarments and durable fleece lined vests and pants. The display features white and peeler colors, regular and extra sizes, with prices ranging from 20 to 50 cents per garment and up to $2.98 for selected ribbed unions. House brands include fleece lined ribbed pieces and black ribbed cotton hose for boys and misses.
Funeral for Christopher Gil son held at St Francis Church with a requiem high mass. Interment in St Francis cemetery. Court Juana D of L officers elected for the year including Miss Mary K Neary and Miss Margaret Dea Bin. A O H officers named led by W P Rowe. Ever green chapter to meet with three candidates to be initiated and social session after. Police patrolman George Hosford gains bloodhound for night rounds. Baptist Ladies Aid sale and supper on Prospect Street 2 to 8. City transfers $2,340 military tax to state treasurer. Anna Louise Rott installs Bridgeport lodge officers. Mrs William Sullivan returns from Hartford visit. Mary Svilogl shoots Miss Anna Szenek. Svilogl attempts drowning but is rescued. Charles A UlIns Jr arrested for forgery in Manchester. Voters raised seven votes from $90 to $490 each totaling $1,845.
Mrs John Norton is critically ill. J A Sennett has joined Oakville Pin factory. Charles Roberts and son nearly finish shingling St Johns church. Services held in Episcopal and Methodist churches. Mrs Henry B Frost in poor health, very low. Waterbury B A C basketball team to play K O K A quintette in town hall at 8 15 with a preliminary game. R V Magee, representative elect, leaves for Florida for vacation. E P McGowan will run his office in his absence.
Broadbrook and David Foley, 41, fell from a third story boarding place in Holyoke last night and broke his neck. Proclamation offers $50 reward for information to arrest parties shipping cattle into the state from New York to Pennsylvania. Niantic Miss Minnie Gibson, adopted daughter of Mr and Mrs James Gibson, died by taking strychnine at home yesterday. Yale Class 108 moves to establish the Sheffield 1901 Sheff scholarship fund for needy students. Automobile Club of Hartford board meeting discusses speed law violators and a club member’s complaint is dropped.
The National Trotting Association board at Murray Hill hotel New York hears James Farley aka Viattspurg appeal the decision by Middlebury judges on his pacer Judex now dead. Farley argues right of way in the stretch as Hearings continue with attorney Moore and panel members named.
A refined young woman identified on the hotel register as Mrs S. H. Falconer, Sioux Falls, S D, is found dead by her own hand in the Clarendon Hotel Brooklyn with a bullet wound. She wore a canary colored suit by Thatcher of New York and carried costly gems, a gold coin, and initials suggesting a New York origin and possible alias Mrs Doty. Several labels imply affiliations and a sister named Mrs A L McMurty of Sound Beach, Conn.
Major General Alexieff former viceroy of Manchuria has been indicted by order of Minister Dikoff on charges of peculation and receiving bribes during service. He was attached to the department of marine artillery and has been publishing sensational revelations about the marine ministry.
Ido and Longboat are paired with Meret for a December 15 garden marathon. Dorando and Longboat agreed after a conference. both start training. Longboat will train with Tom Bek. Indian may run country roads for conditioning. Dorando in good form. Canadian fans expected to flock. Johnny Hayes seeks rematch with the Italian in early next year.
Philadelphia reports the death of Dr John B Taylor formerly the University of Pennsylvania champion quarter miler He died at his home from typhoid pneumonia He was a Penn veterinary graduate and the first colored athlete to bear the American flag in Olympic champions ships running the 400 meter and the relay event.
In New York on December the Equal Rights Association met at Mrs Henry Villards home to consider juries of women for women accused of crime. Mrs L D M Weiss argued women face court discrimination and that female juries would ensure fairer treatment. They questioned whether men are peers of women in the constitution.
Canadian authorities drop attempted murder charge against Lord Sholte Douglas in Winnipeg. Attorney general review finds inciting circumstances and blames Mowbray for provocation. Gun reportedly fired accidentally in heat of passion.
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