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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1912
Page
8
Household notes give practical tips for cleaning knives pots and kettles. Advice covers stain removal from linen curtains and aging fabrics, door hinges, stenciling methods, and using salt and lemon juice mixtures. The piece ends with a brief notice about carbon copies and a call to read the want ads.
A collection of historical cake recipes listing ingredients and methods for Orange Cake Velvet Cake Snow Flake Cake Cup Cake Marble Cake and a butter milk batter mix. Ingredients include sugar flour eggs butter milk baking powder and flavorings with notes on icing and frosting.
A Hartford based Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association update notes an active movement across New London and Norwichtown with meetings June 11 and 11 in London County. Leagues are forming under Mrs. W. A. Norton, with Newtown Equal Suffrage League emerging as a state leadership focus. Public meetings and social events continue, including a Winsted aviator event drawing farmers and wives to promote Votes for men.
Long coat fabrics and street wear offered by Dillon Co at 1105 Main. Anatomik Shoes touted for foot support designed by a physician, fitting for men women and children, sold by W K Mollan at 1026 Main. Also perfume, beauty items, rubber goods, abdominal belts, and trusses advertised. The Women's Drug Store at 70 Main Street, tel 1990. Crawford Laundry Co promotes weekly wash service with convenient pickup and delivery, cheaper than home effort. Farmer Want Column offers 1 cent per word ads for needs and listings.
Variety enters a dainty white whipcord suit through gray green revers adding color. The dainty youthful suit features silk trim ball fringe and crystal buttons on the coat. The short skirt reveals white buck buttoned boots as a stylish finish.
A detailed survey of season trends highlights pleats in skirts, knife-kilted frills on gowns, and copper color pairings with blue. Hats feature ribbon trimming, parasols in white linen and odd shapes, with grass trim and crystal button accents. Lace jabots evolve slowly while belt use rises and white kid gloves, capes, and embroidered collars finish outfits.
The Ramona club of the Y W C A will host a lawn fete on the board ing home lawn at 629 State street Tuesday evening at 8. Ice cream cake and home made candies plus a cabbage patch musical program and a fortune teller are featured. The young women invite friends and all who may be interested to attend on Tuesday June 18. Also an advert for a skin safe stove polish is included.
A compiled list of Sunday services across Bridgeport churches including First Church of Christ Scientist First Presbyterian Park Street Congregational Olivet Congregational First Congregational West End King’s Highway Congregational A M E Zion South Congregational and other faiths. Details include service times 10:30 a.m. 11 a.m. 7:30 p.m. Sunday School times, special sermons topics such as God the Preserver of Man Wearing Out Life With Worry Does It Pay and Growing plus events like nature studies infant consecration and youth programs. The notices urge all to attend and note midweek meetings prayers and choir offerings.
The Feast of the Sacred Heart will be observed at Sacred Heart church on Sunday June 16 with solemn high mass at 10 30 am. The choir presents an elaborate program from Mozart 12th mass and Gounod Messe Solonelle featuring organ prelude Arioso Thalberg Asperges Me baritone solo and chorus Kyrie Gloria Credo Offertory Jubilate Deo Sanctus et Benedictus Agnus Dei and Postlude March De La Reine with soloists and chorus and Miss Margaret cum mings soprano Mrs T J Lennon alto William Chew tenor Louis Serre bass Molly J Daly organist and director.
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