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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1908
Page
3
Young Mr Amos complained of headache and fever. He told Mrs Knipp he had malaria or he was in love, and said he had both. She recalled the scene where he joked about his girl and the copper none, then gave him a hard look and added charcoal to revive the fire.
A long list names many district and congressional representatives from Hartford to Lime Rock and beyond with scattered biographical notes. The piece then shifts to a miscellaneous report of military court martials, temperance rhetoric, suffrage-related satire, and a high profile European engagement involving an Italian Duke and Miss Katherine Elkins. It closes with comments on Washington society and Admiral Evans.
Reuters style synthesis notes Secretary Loeb denying Evans on circumnavigation, Taft campaigning for labor and Sherman denouncing unions at Akron with Diamond Match boss Barber proclaiming anti union stance. Mentions Roosevelt Lilley support, Barrett and Yale voters, and sociopolitical commentary across Bridgeport, New Haven, Norwich, and Ansonia papers.
P M Sharples of Separa tor Works warns West Chester could lose its large plant and 1000 plus workers if William Jennings Bryan is elected president. He orders employees to attend a Republican parade and cites orders to cut stock if Bryan wins, urging self preservation amid fear of sales collapse.
Connecticut inventors are listed with patents including C A Coe New Haven for a faucet H B Fanton Danbury for a riddle device for blowing a machine H Hubbell Bridgeport for locking electric sockets to fixtures B N B Miller Hartford for a cushion for footwear and H T Sloper New Britain for a coin controlled gas meter. Readers may obtain copies by sending ten cents in postage stamps with the paper date to C A Snow & Co Washington DC.
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