Night Watch on Post and Postage Rates Stir Public Minds
Amid scattered editorials a Hartford Courant digest touches on House leadership, Speaker Cannon, and party divisions as Republicans show reluctance to oppose him. It notes postal rate changes boosting mail volume, and critiques on corruption allegations against Fox while musing on maritime orders, naval readiness, and railroading demands.
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Speaker Cannon
Hartford Courant
House
Speaker
Railroads, transport costs, and farm to market losses
The piece argues railroad attitudes deter investment in new equipment, suggests waterways may ease the transport burden without dredging, and notes farmers and middlemen move products long distances. It warns that much retail food travels 500 to 1000 miles due to middlemen and railways, stressing the need for better logistics.
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Ratlway
Christmas Shop Ready Early Says Wise Matron
A Hartford note recalls a matron who orders all Christmas shopping by December 1, writes Merry Christmas cards, allocates gifts, and wraps packages in advance, ensuring mail or express delivery ten days before the festival. Separate items remark on Chinese immigration, New York high pressure fire systems, city procurements, and an apple show in Spokane.
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Express
Hartford Post
Mexco
Canada
Norwich Bulletin
New York
Niagara
Meriden Journal
Metz
Legislative
Ft Ile
New London
Louisville — Courier-journal
National Prohibition Party
Taft
New Haven
Spokane
Washington
Great Northwest
New England
Holdgeport
Martford Women Targeted by Local Sales Scheme
In Hartford on December 12 a group of out of town women advertised jewelry and fancy goods to local women, using circulars. They claimed lack of a vendors license blocked delivery, then departed with unsent merchandise. One seller used the alias Miss Bragon of Springfield.
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Hartford
Nee
Martford
T We
New Haven
Bragon
Springfield
Mary Krouss versus August Krauss divorce petition
Mary Krouss of Waterbury sues August Krauss once of Waterbury now missing for divorce in New Haven county Superior Court Waterbury. The defendant is absent from the state so notice of pendency will be published in the Waterbury Evening Democrat for three weeks beginning December 5, 1908.
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Mary Krouss
Waterbury
August Krauss
Werbury
State of Connecticut
New Haven County
Ald
Waterbury Evening Democrat
New Haven
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