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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1919
Page
15
A woman narrator debates marriage on gender roles with Crittenden. She tests a theory of women as hard and manipulative by provoking a quarrel to see if patience or reforming influence can change the dynamic. The exchange explores power, emotions, and the idea of reform through a child.
Milford Oct 6 The 32nd annual Harvest Festival hosted by the Mary Jayior M E church Ladies Aid Society will run Thursday and Friday afternoons and evenings in the church parlors. Supper 4 30 to 7 30 nightly followed by entertainment including recitations by Edward Mallory and a Suny day School orchestra. A display of fancy articles vegetables and more.
Evelyn writes about Coningsby Dawson and Justin Smith new books at Carry On, plus James Oliver Curwood’s River's End. The note covers holiday preparations at Lane's store, decorations and favors, and stylish clothing at Vogue Dress Shop. Anecdotes reveal daily mishaps and a plan to send Pierre's clothes to Lewandos dyeing.
The store offers a dedicated children’s books section with works like The Runaway Boy and A Child’s Garden of Verses, plus Sam Lloyd’s Puzzles and Rhymes and Pictures. A diverse display includes illustrated classics and fairy tale volumes. Nearby, a fashion group features silk jerseys, taffetas, changeable satins, and novelty skirts with prices from $5.95 to $17.50.
A formal dedication for Perry Arch will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. in Senaide Park Bridgeport. Mayor Clif Dbeen accepts the transfer of the Perry estate from trustees George W Wheeler and Morris Theardsley to the city. George Ames will become president of the Board of Park Commissioners as custody is transferred. Reverend Stephen Fish Sherman will deliver the invocation and Reverend Dr. William Horace Day will give the address. Alvin Brent will lead community singing with the Wheeler Wilson band performing a special program.
Marie Vartovich mother of seven, grandmother of four, eloped with Oscar Zon from Philadelphia to Bridgeport. Arrest followed after train trip. case before Judge Frederic A. Bartlett continued with $500 bond for examination. She said her husband beat her for 27 years and preferred jail over return to him.
Paris newspapers characterize Germanys reply to Alved demand as unsatisfactory and aimed at buying time. Berlin says it will remove troops and proposes an Allied commission to verify. LU Homme Libre objects, arguing against interference in Germanys international affairs.
The Bureau of Vital Statistics shows 131 deaths in Bridgeport in September 1919, down from 142 in the prior year. Infant mortality fell from 32 to 26, while cancer deaths rose from 10 in September 1918 to the same month this year. Pneumonia and influenza deaths declined from 15 in 1918 to 12 this year.
AT MOLLAN'S The Edwin C Burt Cantilever Shoe for Women offers scientific arch construction to exercise all foot muscles and promote normal foot conditions. The shoe fits the instep arch and entire foot with accuracy. The National Board of the W A earnestly recommends the Cantilever shoe for women. The Y W C A special shoe features a straight inner border room for toes low heel flexible shank and free ankle use.
In the china area the tables show dainty sets and odd pieces for women. Nippon hand painted sets feature blue white and gold tones with medallions. Tea sets 17 pieces from 7 to 22 dollars, cake sets 3.50 to 16, chocolate sets 3.15 to 12, berry sets 2.50 to 7.75. Basement offers assorted items and salad jars. Main floor highlights silk stockings 1.75. An elephant Kraal display of small black or red enamel figures on a tray adds luck charms and jewelry counter nearby.
Small heavy tin pots with long necks designed to reach deep into conservatories and under ferns or palm trees. Handsomely enameled in blue rose green and lavender.
A compact article describes convenient cookie cutters that revolve to create three or more shapes. Children will enjoy the variety, and dough can be cut into multiple designs with a single stroke, depending on cutter dimensions.
Local store advertises Yale and Carter union suits in medium and heavy weights and Glastonbury and Bristol shirts and drawers. All sizes now in stock with complete ranges available.
A catalog listing includes Without the Walls a reading play by Katrine Trask priced at 1.40 Jimmy the Carrier a story by Israel Zangwill set in rural Essex priced at 2 John Masefield Collected Plays containing nine pieces and Collected Poems featuring Sea Fever The Wanderer and sonnets priced at 5 the set floor display in the shop window.
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