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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1919
Page
5
An eccentric tale recalls Florence Walton the only woman in America who tallies stockings, arguing nine dollars per pair was too steep. She shaved costs by rubbing her ankle with pumice stone before dancing, leaving the public unaware the stockings were missing.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Fort Trumbull Bee Nose Company plans a whist and pinocle card party at the Hre Hoves on most Thursday evening at eight o'clock. Prizes will be awarded to winners.
First Selectman Manley J. Cheney and Commissioners William M. O Hara David A. Clarke A C Gardner Frank Winter and E Harris attended a Walnut Beach outing hosted by former Fire Commissioner A W H Botsford. The delegation traveled in Botsford's automobile.
Captain Edwin S. Munson, post commander of Milford American Legion Post No. 34, has been selected as a delegate to attend the state convention to be held in Hartford on October 11.
The article traces early ideas of international federation from Rousseau and Saint-Pierre to Henry IV and Paine. It notes Rousseau’s Project for Perpetual Peace influencing a later League of Nations concept, with Paine predicting a federation to curb war and foster free government.
Milford Oct 9 Eugene W Coe formerly town assessor whose resignation surprised Milford political circles leaves Milford to move to Syracuse to enter business with Clifford Smith former Milford police commissioner.
J Hamilton Lewis arrives in Washington to discuss the Middle West political situation. He notes many hyphenated Democrats and Republicans, arguing real Americanism must blunt the hyphenated vote to keep national unity amid mixed reactions to the peace treaty.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a gentle overnight cleanser for the stomach and bowels. It contrasts Cascarets with harsher laxatives like calomel salts oil and violent pills, promising relief from headaches bad taste foul breath dizziness sleeplessness and biliousness without causing griping. It claims Cascarets remove sour undigested food foul gases bile and waste, flushing poison from the bowels while you sleep and at low cost.
The text notes Mihogany trees scattered in forests with dense undergrowth. Macholen is described as a boundary spot where New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts meet. It mentions prouth of the Rhinn and nine le sites with seasiles formerly home to warlike chiefs.
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