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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1919
Page
11
Peter Rabbit observes Yellow Wing the Flicker and other woodpeckers on the Green Forest ground. Jenny Wren explains woodpecker diversity, noting Redhead and Danny the drummer, while Downy performs a busy display. Peter compares birds’ shapes and asks about Woodpecker traits.
Goodwin Beach & Co investment brokers in Hartford bought 4,406 shares of stock from the first Reinsurance company at auction under the alien property Custodian Franc P. Garvan. Deal awaits approval by alien property attorneys in Washington. They also purchased 42 shares of Golantay Trust Co. stock at $150 a share with Mr Beach making bids.
Beckie Burr of Redding was found guilty of stealing 600 pounds of ground feed. Irou Harry and A Lounsbury, also of Redding, appeared in common pleas court yesterday. Judge Ives imposed a 50 dollar fine and 380 days in jail, suspended. Harry Gomberg was fined 35 dollars for reckless driving on the State road at Newtown. Stamford doctor Rosa G Phillips dies. long time Stamford physician reported.
In Paris on June 11 American ambassador Hugh C. Wallace hosted leaders of the trans Atlantic flight. Commander John Towers Lieutenant Commander A C Read and Lieutenant P N L Bellinger were honored guests. They will be hosted by the Aero Club of America at a luncheon with French aviators tomorrow. The aviators depart for the United States via Brest at week’s end.
A woman riding a jitney on State Street and Myrtle Avenue fell while alighting in haste and was run over by a rear wheel. The driver Walter Medifeat of East Main Street removed her to emergency hospital, later to Bridgeport hospital, where the injury was confirmed.
An advertisement warns that age does not protect men from kidney trouble and uric acid buildup. It promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a quick relief, with a money back guarantee if not satisfied. The copy urges early use to prevent back pain, indigestion, or rheumatic symptoms and possible Brights Disease.
A vintage advertisement promotes lemon juice and white orchard lotion as a cheap, harmless freckle and blemish remover. It instructs squeezing two lemons into a bottle with three ounces of orchard white to make a fragrance lotion for the face, arms, and hands, claiming clear soft white skin without irritation.
A fragment describing foul bread and a sick stomach hints at a casual note or joke about illness and unhealthy food, suggesting a purchase of a boxed product as a remedy or mock remedy. The text is incomplete and lacks clear entities or a complete event.
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