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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1919
Page
14
A lengthy society column from Bridgeport details parties, dinners, and meetings at homes across the city. It mentions Mrs Bartrams charming bridge, guests from Brooklyn, social events at churches, YWCA groups, and local clubs with plans for receptions and outings. Highlights include visitors from New York and California, a farewell for Henry Biederman, and upcoming dances and sewing club meetings.
Theater opens box office sales for the Park Theatre extravaganza Sir Harry Bradstreet role to be played by Ilian Gox Murray pupil atwa Susan Hawley Davis praised for blonde hair and poised acting, Del Blackman and Mrs Smith also starred. Charity events plan patronesses and box parties. local society members and clergymen attend rehearsals amid community notices and civic society updates.
The Boy Scouts Troop 16 held an anniversary celebration at their headquarters with guests including Scout Executive George Butler Deputy Commissioner Frank B Maitland and Dr A Campbell Wach. An address on scoutwork was delivered as prizes in a point contest were awarded White Darey won first with 178 points Butterfield Green tied for second with 176 points and C Peck took third. Prizes included an aluminum cooking outfit a canteen and a knife.
Local Boy Scouts report selling Victory Loan bonds and soliciting across the city to support the loan drive. Notable contributors include Wayne Thrall, Kenneth Wallace, Phillip Sherman, William Butterfield, Cecil Hoagland, Edward Ives, William Ortlepp, Arthur Schietinger, Waldmere Tigon, and others with amounts ranging from 360 to 1,550 dollars.
Christopher Luther, 80, of 98 Poplar Street, was struck by a single trolley on Tuesday. He lies unconscious at St Vincent's Hospital with a skull fracture. Frank Wynne of 167 Lewis Street is in police custody on $500 bail.
The Brilliant Musical Club closed its season with a program at the High School auditorium honoring John Adam Hugo for his opera The Temple Darker. Miss Myrna Sharlow of the Chicago Opera gave a second act recital, with Librettist Mme Jutla Bell-Ranske delivering a lecture on the production. Concert artists Ada Tuck Whitaker and Lorenzo P. Oviatt accompanied Hugo, with Sharlow's aria selections and other classical pieces praised by attendees.
A rural caller recounts a grandmotherly tale about Dr True’s Bilin’ Pive laxative and a bottle of medicine given to a gravely ill child. The story claims the child survived, later bore a daughter, and continues using the remedy for family health.
Henry Cliff, superintendent of the city parks, will conduct a horticulture lecture and demonstration course for the YMCA beginning tomorrow at 3:20. It opens a series of eight lectures at Beardstey Park and other locations with a Friday session in the Golden Hill gardens. The course covers vegetables, flowers, fruit trees, landscape gardening, and related topics open to all interested. A drafting class for dressmaking opens at the center, with basketry and glasswork starting Tuesday. Thompson Street man was arrested on related charges.
Advertising copy describes various fabrics and garments with colors and patterns. It lists voile and gingham yardage and prices, Madras cloth, heavy fabrics for children and women, and lightweight undergarments like bloomers and corset covers. Sizes and trims noted include lace and embroidery details in several items.
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