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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1908
Page
2
Patrons praise buttermilk as a cure and strength booster with humorous quips about health and wealth. One man follows a doctor’s orders to eight glasses daily, while others hail the drink as better than beer. The shop also advertises tea coffee and butter for sale in the city.
A dense notice lists meetings for many organizations including Boys' club Naturalist club Patrick Sarsfield club Court Adelphia J C F Waerbury tent No 36 K O T M Court America No 98 F of A St Michaels Drum corps Water ville Mattatuck council No 713 Royal Arcanum with no dates or venues specified. The entry reads as a compact catalog of group meetings likely from a local newspaper items section.
A broad city page notes a boys' suit sale and a variety of local items. Birth celebrated for Edward ONeill and news includes school coal contract meeting, weddings of Annie Keefe with George Slaus and Benjamin Bauer with Ethel Holtzer, plus court fine for Atwood and judge Cowell moving offices along with a vivid nest anecdote. Also covered are baptisms, church candidate lists, and Pythian memorial services.
Upson Singleton Co notes the Guards of the Sacred Heart receiving new members at the Sacred Heart church yesterday afternoon. Water department completes a Wx inch main on Martin street replacing a 1 inch line used for 25 years. Various councils attend service at Third Congregational church with memorial by Rev C D Chunn.
In Greenwich on June 22 the Rev W F Wakeham of Portchester preached at Greenwich First Methodist Episcopal Church that excessive worry is the nation’s great ailment. He contrasted France’s licentiousness and England’s drunkenness with America’s worry, saying it makes people peevish, fretful, and prompts continual crimes.
New York on June 22 reports a shipment of about a ton of hair from executed Chinese bandits arriving on the freighter Wray Castle. The hair will be used by American stylists in making rats and similar fillers for hairstyles, with the shipment valued at $5,000.
Classified bidding drive seeks buyers for sale offering a single item. Advertisers are urged to place a $200 display ad in the Democrat to reach a broad audience and secure a prompt sale.
Rent notices describe 55 Johnson street second floor with five rooms and pleasant verandas, updated features. Also available top floor in same building with latest improvements. 96 Fairview street offers three rooms at eight dollars per month.
Full line includes Palmer hammocks from 98 cents to 9.98 each with full size models at 1.25 and 1.50 plus extra large hammocks at 3.98. Also verandah screens in bamboo and bark finishes with limited stock and garden hose with varied fittings priced per foot.
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