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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1915
Page
10
The illustration shows a dance dress in maize colored pussy willow taffeta. A lace trimmed drop peeps from under the circular skirt while a bodice features a satin girdle and streamer ends. Suk net folds and pleated sleeve caps with small flowers complete the bodice detail.
A Lodz refugee describes life under German rule in Moscow. He praises outward order and cleanliness, police discipline, and white glove police, but notes food shortages and high prices. Bread is 12 cents a loaf, meat $1.25 per pound, butter $0.50 per pound, eggs $3 per dozen, exchange rate 75 kopecks per mark.
In a chatty scene Mrs Brown and Mrs Jones praise Rockwell's for offering stylish suits waistlines and dresses at competitive prices. The store highlights scientific pricing, broad assortments, trained sales staff, and fresh arrivals including fiber silk sweaters and silk skirts at modest rates.
This 1915 column offers advice on homesick youths and moral choices in love and work. It contrasts wandering, seeking betterment with honest guidance from strangers, urging readers to value family, resist improper liaisons, and seek respectable, lifelong partnerships.
Miss Libbey replies to reader letters with guidance on submitting notices. She emphasizes correct name and address for attention, requests use of ink, and instructs to keep letters short on one side of paper. Address Miss Libbey, 916 President Street, Brooklyn, New York.
A woman in a rural town asks Miss Libbey if her husband in a distant city still cares. The adviser replies that a wife should join her husband where he resides and be supported there, implying the wife should stay with her husband rather than remain with her mother.
A girl of eighteen writes about her yearlong relationship with a twenty nine year old man. She has no parents and asks for guidance on marriage, hoping a good, capable provider will give her happiness and protection, ending her loneliness.
Madrid June 24 King Alfonso will likely keep Eduardo Dato as premier but appoint a new cabinet after a royal conference. Dato met the king at La Granja and returned to Madrid this evening. The king plans a meeting tomorrow with monarchist leaders including Mara Romanones Alhuemas Besada and Villanueva.
Rome June 24 newspapers mock disbelief at the Paris La Liberte interview with Pope Benedict XV until the Vatican affirming Osservatore Romano course settles doubt. Giornale Italia questions the Pontiff’s language while Tribune foresees wide debate in France and Belgium and a significant impact.
In Leigh camp a German soldier concealed himself in a garbage can. A farmer carting camp refuse spotted the weight and found Schmidt. Schmidt was later shot and killed at Leigh a week ago while trying to escape. Alexandria Day was marked in London with Queen Mother honors. Governor Slaton gave a farewell address to the Georgia Legislature. Funeral designs and bouquets by John Reece and Son.
A poem by Judd Mortimer Lewis printed in the Houston Post depicts a tired child seeking quiet, sugarcoated by a mother's kiss and a father's comforting embrace. The speaker laments weariness and a budding ache, then collapses into sleep while seeking reassurance and love from family.
San Francisco reports Dr Douglas W Montgomery at the American Medical Association session rejected the idea that leprosy is highly contagious or a medieval inheritance. He cites its slight contagiousness and slower progression, comparing it unfavorably with smallpox and tuberculosis. Also noted were calls for sickness insurance to aid wage earners and a humorous aside about two cent stamps as napkins.
A compact collection of home baking and cooking tips. It covers coffee cake dough preparation with milk sugar salt and yeast, doughnut style rings, a sugared cake batter, and a boiled mutton with parsley sauce. It closes with a social observation on fashion and manners in America.
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