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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1908
Page
9
A bustling Bargain Day features a wide range of goods marked down for tomorrow. From fabrics like bed linens and pillow tubing to apparel items including gloves, chemises, and coats, prices are deeply cut with many items listed at a fraction of their regular costs.
Charles Lawson prepares to wrestle North Adams Massachusetts rival Thomas Lacey at the Gem opera house next Thursday evening. Lawson must concede about twenty pounds as Lacey is a clever grappler. the local wrestler vows to stay the hour in fine condition.
R V Magee visited Torrington on business. Taft football beat Gunning 10 to 0 in Washington. Court Merrit Heminway met with a new membership proposal. Supreme Court ruled surplus in Watertown bank goes to depositors. Health board to monitor property drains into highways. Assessors to collect tax lists with 10 percent penalty for late return. Democrats plan a rally Friday at the town hall with E R Bird as speaker and Thomaston band.
Fred Truelove joins American Pin Co while William Johnson moves to Eastern Concrete Co. Frank Manville sells his Manville street home to T L McIntyre. George D Castle returns from Vanderbilt cup races. Joseph Gill visits from Ansonia on Thomaston avenue. Martin Lodge moves to Dondero's house on Thomaston avenue. Wrestler Harry Shackley accepts John Brennan challenge for Thankagiving eve. Willis Oberman suffers laceration at American Pin Co. doctors Cooley Gailey Varlell treat him.
East Hartford barn damage from a noon fire due to limited hose access, house saved. Meriden grower raises unusual English walnuts with a likely half bushel harvest from a single tree. Windsor Locks ships 180 Hungarian partridges to the state hatchery for breeding. Shnield reports harvest crews finishing tobacco barns amid damp conditions. Middletown Columbia Trust suspends payments hitting Wesleyan students with anticipated losses. Hartford bridge abutment settles anew with mortar gaps widening. Torrington Kerrill Kimberley, former justice of the peace, sentenced to six months in Litchfield jail.
Kimberly pleaded guilty to three counts and the fourth count was nailed by the state's attorney. The plea of his counsel Walter Holcomb, reinforced by a petition of twenty Goshen citizens, asking for clemency, saved him from a state prison sentence. He has a wife and several children.
Falls avenue resident F. Slade Jr visits New York on business. Eugene Skilton visits from Main street with relatives in Gurnseytown. William McGowan and Charles Demarest will occupy John Lynch's new railroad street house soon. Cyrus Thompson returns from Mercer Pa where his mother, age over eighty, is seriously ill but may recover. Edward Champagne's new Height street house nearly ready. first floor tenants Mr Champagne family, second floor Hodges. Champagne rents former residence at 800n as he moves.
Extracts from letters by Mrs Claudia Haines to Captain Peter C. Hains recount a night in New York with Billy Annis and companions. They report going to Fifth Avenue venues, a party that included thefts and a plan to leave the area, with casual references to alcohol and social acquaintances.
A fragment describing a gown worn with a Directoire sash and a fashionable cloak, noting the refined material and doll clothing demand as part of the chic ensemble in a historic style.
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