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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
3
Entry notes births and deaths of Harriet Martineau Bryant and McDowell McCook. Also mentions astronomical details and mass of editorial opinions on peanut cultivation in Burma, congressional force bill politics, mail literature distribution in Hartford, and European versus American streetcar service quality amid municipal ownership trends.
Excerpts discuss transit fare differences for Hartford trips via Berlin Junction and New Britain, police chiefs on caricature depictions, garden plots for urban relief, Washington DC fire vehicles under speed laws, Bryan voting dynamics and Republican chairmanship debate, and a 1883 Sabbath school picnic growing to 6000 attendees in Courtville.
Bridgeport hosts a state tuberculosis commission session as leaders plan an anti tuberculosis association for Fairfield county. Dr Stephen J Maher reports Connecticut tuberculosis data and notes urban density and unsanitary environments as key factors.
The report notes tuberculosis occurs in all rural areas of Connecticut with higher frequency in badly drained homes. It finds limited support for urban proximity to unsanitary barns driving cases and documents a decline in death rates over fifty years. It highlights possible “consumption houses” but stresses cautious interpretation.
Mr and Mrs John Platt wed at Bethlehem's Christ church and fled toward Waterbury to dodge friends. The chase involved double teams and an automobile over fifteen miles in about ninety minutes, ending in Waterbury where the couple went into the street as pursuers regrouped.
Miss Agnes H Mills a fifth grade teacher at Noah Webster school died by self inflicted gunshot yesterday. Medical Examiner H S Fuller ruled the death a bullet wound and noted melancholia as a factor. The 30 year old taught in Hartford about six years and previously at Northeast school. Her home was West Haven and she had boarded with Mr and Mrs William R Kendall at 4 Re Bent streets.
Train times listed for southbound and northbound trips include departures to Ansonia Haven Watertown Woodbridge and Torrington with services at 6:07 a m 6:04 p m 1:05 8:00 6:47 8:35 and 7:06 p m among others Sundays service noted with additional times.
The fragment lists multiple timetable stamps around Providence Putnam and Boston with arrival and departure times including connections to Hartford Springfield Worcester and Boston. It notes a D A R E E and freight express lines with Oakville Waterbury and Howard Street addresses, signaling a regional rail goods and passenger timetable snippet.
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