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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1908
Page
5
A promotional list compares A&P prices and stamps this week, touting bargains on tea coffee and canned goods. Items include Fancy CHOP TE and STAMPS offers, 1 lb and 1/2 lb quantities, Raisins Currants Cocoa Catsup Lip. The ad highlights various A&P staples with reduced prices and stamp bonuses.
A long roster of district representatives by name and town in Hartford New Haven Bridgeport and other cities appears. The note mentions U S election figures Charles Gerth Thomas Reilly Henry Hunter Lynn Wilson John McDonald and others with discussion of Taft trip to Connecticut and voter reactions. The piece also covers Uruguay locust control and a British mining education experiment with Wu Ting Fang’s remarks in Washington.
A discussion of abstinence and ethical living praises pure food air and thoughts, while noting Roosevelt’s controversial campaign stance. The piece then reports Orville Wright’s recovery from the Fort Meyer crash, expected tests next month, and Wilbur Wright's plans amid a strong backing network and German sympathy parallels.
Letters mock and critique echo across papers as editors joke about Roosevelt and a jungle campaign while other items discuss a soldier fined for eating apples, deer season delays, enforcement gaps in obsolete laws, lagging building contracts, and charges of padded rolls in New York elections.
District Attorney pressures gamming house operators as they promise reform and hand keys to investigators. News notes lobster stocks rising along the North Atlantic with Maine catchers reporting over 80 000 lobsters, while a Philadelphia student argues education is accessible through US schooling avenues.
The Burdett camp commends Comrade Eldridge for thirty years of pursuing relics from the Civil War. He gathered affidavits proving genuineness and the group hopes the state preserves these home made weapons and tools for public education about the conflict. Signed by Adjutant Nathaniel G. Valentine.
A group of Burdett camp United Spanish War Veterans visited J W Eldridge on Wethersfield Avenue to view his Civil War relics and mentoes. The camp passed a resolution thanking Eldridge and sending a copy to the Hartford Times for publication.
Waterbury fire alarm log lists numerous street intersections and landmarks, including Scovill Manufacturing, Waterbury Mfg Co, England Watch Co, and Rose Hill house. It notes responding units and addresses such as East Main and Niagar, Grand and Field, Liberty and River, and West Willow. The garbled text references multiple cor divisions, plaques, and city sites, with a superintendent listed as Lt. Twestrom.
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