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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1908
Page
7
New stock of dress goods offers wide selection with fresh patterns and low prices. Includes diagonal stripe suiting, taffeta cloths, herringbone serge, broadcloth, worsted plaids, satins, and rajah suiting in multiple colors. Aimed at children’s dresses and waists as well.
Miss Mamie Jenkins of Hartford visits friends in town and returns home while Mr and Mrs Florence McCarthy of Chicago stay with Wiliam H. McCarthy on Central avenue. The board of warden and burgesses will meet Tuesday evening to transact business. Priscilla circle meets Tuesday evening at the Parish house with refreshments after. St Francis T A B society hosts ninth annual concert and dance at Columbus hall Saturday October 10 featuring Geary's Orchestra. The Columbia football team beat Reynolds Bridge 6 to 0, with the home team near the rivals goal line several times. Registrars of voters set room 5 in town hall for October 8–10 and October 12 to list voters. objections and notices for voter changes, with registrars George P. Young and Thomas P. Reilly.
Watertown notes report a scoreless Taft versus Pawling game with Pawling player McCreery injured. A double truck collision near Cherry avenue injures Motorman Dunn and Edgar Brouette, with Dunn losing a finger and Brouette hospitalized. wrecking crews clear the scene as schedules shift from thirty to fifteen minutes.
Local notices report Mrs Fred Davis's illness and several residents traveling or relocating. A trolly derailment near Driving Park delayed Oakville line service. A new pool parlor is set to open on Main Street run by Mr Smith of Watertown.
In Middletown the Roberts farmhouse in Hubbard district burned last evening. Mrs Roberts roused nine children who escaped safely. Loss about 3000 dollars insured.
A critical editorial denounces women wearing bird plumes on bonnets as slaughtering Florida birds like herons and ibises for fashion. It condemns plume hunters and the fashion industry, urging restraint and noting the birds’ ecological loss. The piece questions elegance through cruelty and labels the practice a shared crime.
English actor Cooper Cliffe, touring with William Fa Versham, laments Americans rush to wealth and speed, contrasting British values with American the dollar standard. He notes English life values scholars and peers over money, and recalls English leisure versus American breakneck pursuit.
The Maine was destroyed by a probable improvised mine made from a wine cask packed with gunpowder and acid, fitted with a contact fuse. The device could float above the seabed and below the surface, placed about 30 feet ahead of the ship to trigger as she swung at Havana harbor. The theory cites Civil War mine tactics and naval history up to the Spanish American War.
Passage describes hoeing tactics and possible undeclared attacks involving ships near Havana. It references the Maine, merchant vessels at Havana, and fighters crossing the bay to threaten ships, with Beehler noting a hypothetical tactic to drop an unseen strike from shore as the Maine maneuvered southwest.
In police court Judge Richardson heard how Alice James used a bucket dubbed the cunjer box as a paying investment. Three witnesses, including Ida Mastings, described how she borrowed coins and a shoe, tapped a bottle, and prayed to reveal truths about marriage, with the bucket allegedly producing winnings.
A seller offers up-to-date dental moulds and promises sets below the price of older styles. They invite customers to trade in old ill-fitting dentures, boasting the largest variety in the city and urging action now to obtain replacements.
Mrs. July and Mrs. Frank report a swindle involving a talking bucket promising buried gold and a cunter box, while city attorney D W Howell inspects the bucket’s contents. Judge Richardson jokes about the offender’s fine, and a Kansas City Star tease about Sniggsley’s wit underscores the humor of the column.
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