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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1916
Page
13
An everyday Bridgeport chat explains how P and Q Shops cut costs through 20 stores nationwide, own tailoring in New York, and direct maker to wearer sales. They claim $15 suits and overcoats, double the variety, and lower prices than traditional merchants, fueling growth of the largest chain of retail clothes shops in America.
Miss Hartigan offers indoor ice dancing this winter with the Ice Waltz as a leading class. Other dances include plain waltz One-Step Fox Trot Twinkle Trot Two-Two Tango London Taps and more. Studio is at 968 Main Street Suite 411 City Savings Bank building Main and Bank Streets open day and evening for private instruction and club or party engagements. Telephone Barnum 2994 or Barnum 5650.
The sixteenth annual Forty-Nine Club meeting is set for Monday evening at the Seaside Club with an entertainment program. Engagement announced between Miss Henrietta Goldman and Jack W. Kane. Charity ball planned in January to fund two new Associated Charities nurseries. Current Event talks postponed due to Mrs. Latham's death. Benefit for B'nai Israel Sisterhood drew 200 guests at the homes of Mrs. Benjamin Brownstein and Mrs. Samuel Susman. Children’s dancing parties planned by Miss Lillian Hartigan at Lyric Ballroom starting Nov 9. English poet Walter De La Mare to address Courtland School Graduates on Dec 11. to read from his works and discuss Rupert Brooke, with Prof. Edward Bliss Read introducing. Catholic charities round table in St Charles hall tonight on Social Legislation. All-Package Co. banquet at The Stratfield. XMAS TREES, WREATHS JOHN RECK & SON.
Miss Lillian Hartigan of Bridgeport plans a weekly children's dancing series at the Lyric ballroom guided by Maurice and Isadora Duncan influence. Saturday will be children's day with sessions 9 am to 12 pm and 2 pm to 6 pm, featuring games songs exercises and dances plus a lucky number prize dance. Mothers urged to visit as Hartigan also prepares classes for high school pupils and adults focusing on graceful movement and posture.
Pittsburgh Dec 8 The National Association of Sheet and Tin Plate Manufacturers announced a new contract aimed at ending speculation by buyers. The pact binds the buyer to accept all orders or incur a penalty of 10 percent of the contract price. Previously jobbers could cancel orders if market demand fell.
A private citizens' committee opened a free bureau in Chicago to help men aged 45 to 65 pushed from industrial work by younger workers. Chairman Benjamin J. Rosenthal said thousands of capable men in Chicago face this challenge and seek opportunities.
London dispatch reports the sinking of submarines of the Danish steamship Nexos 1,013 tons gross and the Spanish steamship Julia Benito. Crews of both vessels were landed.
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