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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1916
Page
11
Eager feet hurry the children to Toyland and joy each day as much as possible. The holiday season is short and deserves full child delight. Royal waists priced to attract buyers are offered at reduced figures.
A collection of breakfast batter directions for flannel cakes sour milk griddlecakes and sweet milk griddlecakes. includes ratios for flour sugar salt baking powder eggs milk and optional yeast and rice variation with steps to bake in hot ovens or on a greased griddle.
A short poem titled The Honey Bee presents the honey bee contemplating flowers and their murmured secrets. The verse personifies blooms from lime blossoms to lavender and briar rose, concluding with the bee hearing that life is love and love is life. The piece attributes the lines to Edmund Beale Sargant.
Berlin reports Lieut Banfield, the Austrian aviator, engaged two Caproni airplanes on December 3 over the Corso Plateau and shot down one Italian airship. Four occupants were aboard the fallen craft. one seriously injured, one slightly wounded, and the other two captured.
A H Hart Schaffner Marx or House of Kuppenheimer made the overcoats with good fabric tailoring and service. Men can find stormcoats at $22.50. Child dresses range 59c to $6 with empire styles and lace trims. Gloves $1.50, mackinaws $5 to $9, felt slippers from 59c to $2. Center and main floors detail.
An advertisement touts smoking jackets as ideal rest wear for men, noting their use as house-coats for non-smokers. Fabrics are quiet yet lively with frogs, corded edges, and fancy pockets. Available in brown, blue, green, and tan from the main floor rear, priced five dollars to twelve fifty.
A terse catalog describes cheerful rain protection umbrellas with silk covers in blue red and purple. Handles vary from straight to corded, with durable silk texture and lustrous finish. Prices range from 3 to 8 dollars with men and women styles noted. Purple is especially popular.
A local merchant offers two shoe lines priced at four or seven dollars. The four dollar shoes emphasize strength and service with calfskin leathers and comfortable fit, while the seven dollar shoes highlight fineness, good shoe making, and high style with cord tip and blind eyelets. Both are described as suitable for work or dress, located near Fairfield avenue door.
Fourth floor display features mahogany tray 3.50, cut glass bowls 2.50 each, celery tray 2, olive set Nippon china 0.65, mayonnaise set Nippon 0.06, horn handle carving set 6, cut glass orange bowl 3.50, water set cut glass 12, Nippon cake set 7 pieces 3, tea and toast Nippon 0.60.
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