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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1908
Page
2
An advertisement touts a liberal credit house offering low weekly payments and a large, high quality stock. It stresses honest treatment, no shoddy products, and union made clothing bought for 44 stores. Customers can open an account with easy terms and refunds on unsatisfactory purchases.
Denver reports the Women's Christian Temperance Union adopts abstinence resolutions urging equal suffrage, morality standards, and Bible reading in schools. It condemns the Personal Liberty League, backs juvenile court, and calls for national probes on liquor effects. Also notes whiskey seizure ruling and locker club legality in separate items.
Ethel Jackson, the original Merry Widow, married Benoni Lockwood Jr a New York lawyer who represented her in the divorce from J Fred Zimmerman Jr last week The union followed publicity of a possible match while Zimmerman faced divorce actions and Mrs Lockwood charged her husband with a statutory offense in a related case.
Taft addressed thousands in the Clinton and Academy of Music in Brooklyn and New Haven where Yale students pledged support. A Yale Taft club parade and a large armory gathering ended with the Yale yell. Taft kissed his Yale son Robert at the station before a Portchester speech. Sherman Answers Charge.
A charity scene features Anty Drudge asking a lady to help the Home for Broken Down Washerwomen. She donates a box of Fels-Naptha soap and urges following wrapper directions to ease washing, claiming the product reduces back strain and washday effort.
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