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Newspaper

Bridgeport Evening Farmer

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Dec 15, 1916

Page

14

Holiday displays and sales at Cheerful Credit Store spread wide

Holiday stocks are shown across Cheerful Credit Stores main golden hill and middle streets with fur models jewelry and gift articles in attractive holiday boxes. The department features house slippers shoes and staple lines offering small weekly or monthly payments under Cheerful Credit while no money is due at purchase. The text also mentions blind schools and a national conference in Washington, plus Christmas trees wreaths and roping by John Beck & Son.

Main Golden Hill Middle Streets Fifth Avenue

First American school for the blind and its founders

The Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind in Boston 1832 founded through the efforts of Dr Samuel Gridley Howe and Col Thomas Handasyd Perkins. Perkins’ name endures in the institution he funded. Born 152 years ago.

America Perkins Institution Massachusetts Asylum For the Blind Boston Samuel Gradley Howe Julia Ward Howe Thomas Handasyd Perkins

Historic Doucet Dolls Bought For Toledo Art Museum

An anonymous donor paid 30000 for the B F B Permanent Blind Relief War Fund s collection of Doucet Dolls, the most complete display of French fashion from the Sixth Century to the present. The dolls, about 75 inches tall, are on exhibit in Boston and will move to Toledo after December 20. The purchase supports art education in Ohio and relief for war victims, highlighting Midwest cultural prominence.

New York Toledo Museum of Art B. F. B. Permanent Blind Relief War Fund Allies Boston Toledo Ohio Washington Middlewest Blacklock Plaza Hotel Sainte Clotilde Clovis Eugenie France Napoleon III England Marguerite of Flanders Catherine de Medici Mary Stuart Marie of Anjou Louise de la Valliere Louis XIV Madame de Pompadour Anne de Bretagne Louis XII Paris Louvre Luxembourg Doucet la Vie’ Feminine Valentine Thompson America Lafayette Fund George A. Kessler B. F. B. Fund

Aerial Postal Line From New York Considered For Air Mail

Washington reports the Post Office Department is weighing a $100000 experiment toward a regular aeroplane mail link between New York and Chicago. Proposals outline night departures, emergency stations every 22 miles, multiple landing and relay points, and 8 to 14 hour travel times for the 720 mile route depending on wind.

Post Office Department New York Williamsport Niles Ohio Napoleon Chicago Boston

Postal Aeroplane Service Could Link Chicago and New York

Post office experts visited Chicago to study a proposed air mail route between Chicago and New York. Captain E L West, head of railway mail service, said aeroplane delivery is inevitable and initial funding for experiments is being sought from Congress.

Congress Postmaster-General Chicago Post Office New York E. L. West

Premier Cort Vanderlinden Warns Holland War Risk

London dateline December 15 Premier Cort Vanderlinden told the lower House of the Dutch parliament that the government still believes Holland faces danger of being drawn into the war. The statement came in a Reuters despatch from The Hague.

London Cort Vanderlinden Holland Reuter’s the Hague

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