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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1919
Page
17
An advertisement claims CCC Tablets cured a crippled patient after three years of rheumatism. The text offers a regular $1 treatment sent on trial, postpaid, and invites readers to mail one dollar to Sentral Chemical Co. Bridgeport, Conn., Dept A for the remedy.
A vintage health promo extols inner cleanliness for vitality and beauty. It warns constipation as a disease cause and hawks castor oil May-apple pellets and Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. It touts Dr. Pierce’s Anurie for kidney and uric acid relief, urging readers to mail ten cents for a trial pack.
The report from Seuko in Irener Be lin describes officials and merchants diverting food aid into private channels. Carloads of rye, 600000 pounds of dried fruits, 600 carloads of corn meal, and large quantities of canned meat are alleged to be moved for profit. An alderman is implicated in the grafting scheme.
Dr Eugen Swan told an International Conference of Woman Physicians that teachers lack knowledge on sex matters and that sex education should be taught at home or by physicians. He urged both men and women to avoid schooling by paid instructors and to keep sex topics out of schools. He cited authorities from Sweden and Norway supporting home or physician led instruction.
Pittsburgh and Washington reports reveal that union railroad men around steel mills not under contract will strike. John Fitzpatrick says railroad brotherhood chiefs informed by fatherhood laws contracts must act on their own initiative. A walkout could tie up traffic at mills where contracts exist or where striking brothers are not replaced.
Senator Capper of Kansas told the Senate the farming side bears the burden of high living costs. He said farmers sell products at a loss while consumers pay rising prices, blaming policy and embargoes for depressions in agricultural income. He urged remedies to raise production and warned of farmers leaving rural areas for cities.
Atlantic City notes from the first public session of the International Trade conference in Atlantic City. About 2 500 delegates from major business and government groups discussed stable government, suppression of sects enemies, and world prosperity. Remarks by A G Bedford of Standard Oil warned of a common foe within. British delegates sought no special credit, while French experts projected large commodity purchases and a ten year credit maturity during deto.
Don’t stay stuffed up Quit blowing and snuffing Take a dose of Papes Cold Compound every two hours and three doses usually break up a cold It eases clogged nostrils headache feverishness and sore stiffness It acts without assistance tastes nice contains no quinine and costs only a few cents at drug stores
Bridge Garrett an All-American guard elected captain of the Rutgers football team to succeed Frank Kally who departed Rutgers for a new post last week. The report notes sixty two trade routes listed from American ports to global destinations.
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