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Newspaper

Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Aug 10, 1927

Page

16

They Wouldn't Believe By Roy Vickers

A fragmented synopsis follows Connie Linore and Don ald Hancee amid an estate plot at Harrowby. Secret love and betrayal entwine as Grleity, Querk, and others scheme to cheat Donald Brierly’s fortune. Connie uncovers danger in the library and signals police as the plot unfolds toward a tense confrontation and murder reveal.

Donald Brierly Hoa Connie Linore Donald Hancee Telly Dye Weston Donald Fieste Comthy Old Ela Lunald Olive Connie Fondon Dilve Comite Sandle Olleiters Harrowby Sanile Mr Briers Tila Portes

Outlaws in a Desperate Scheme Move to Rubington

Olive Weston and Donald Brierly become outlaws as they scheme to outwit Scotland Yard. Olive plans to publish a relentless stream of fake life details while meeting Don at Charing Cross, arranging rooms and legal help, and facing pressure from daily editors and foremen.

Olves Don Rubington Olive Ives Goa Charing Cross Querk Rubicon

Radio prolongs career of former actress

A San Francisco report from August notes actress Miss Melville, once a leading figure in opera and theatre, remains active on air at 78. Once prominent in English premieres of French operas and linked to Edwin Booth, she previously ran a theater in Australia and built a public persona through radio.

San Francisco A Melville Miss Melville Philge Cheng Dess Indy

Fragmented Humor and Classified Bits From a Teletype Page

A collage of quirky items and jokes from a Telegram-Post page includes jokes about summer fashion shrinkage, a domestic abuse echo, a one syllable romance, a zoo misinterpretation, a bank loan exchange, and a series of Telegram-Post classified ads promoting quick help and room rentals. The mix showcases light humor, small anecdotes, and ad copy in one readable fragment.

Telegram-Post

Efficient Picnic Planning And Recipes For August

August is picnic month with affordable supplies from short stores. Recipes describe eel steaks and light dairy fillings for stuffed eggs, cheese and olive mixtures, and pink beet and onion sandwiches. Ideas include marshmallow fruit spread on white bread and fruit choices for future picnics.

Poetry Society to Buy Tennyson Home Aldworth Purchase

London August 9 Mrs Alice Hunt Bartlett American editor of the Poetry Review contributed 6000 pounds to the Poetry Society fund for the purchase and preservation of Aldworth, former home of Alfred Lord Tennyson.

London Associated Press Alice Hunt Bartlett The Poetry Review Poetry Society

Correct Nursing Schedule for Baby Well Being

The article outlines keeping the baby on a fixed nursing rhythm every three or four hours for better digestion and milk supply. It advises lying down to nurse, staying hydrated, and avoiding discomfort. It stresses breast cleanliness, fissure care, sterile gauze, and preventing thrush through hygiene and infection prevention.

Personal Advice Column Invitation to Write to Mrs Eldred

Telegram readers are invited to write Mrs Eldred about intimate problems and receive a personal reply. Address letters to Mrs Mittle Meyer Eldred at the Bridgeport Telegram.

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Our Children by Angelo Pate

Our Children by Angelo Pate follows Betty and Jean as the three year old and two year old perform puppet like eye tricks and facial expressions for playful audiences under a elm tree and in Miss Maria’s blue house with chocolates and a toy broom ending with a motherly scolding and a Telegram-Post Classified Ad closing line. Betty’s antics amuse siblings Prissie and Jean while drawing disapproval from adults who fear “awful” macunmers and monkey tricks as the day winds down with chores and a joke about a Telegram-Post ad.

Jean Betty Prissie Prissle Tabitha Betty Adams Blue House Miss Maria Maria

Best age to marry says statisticians twenty four for women twenty eight for men

Dorothy Dix notes statisticians who study Marriage License Bureau and divorce court data conclude that marriage at 24 for women and 28 for men yields lower divorce risk. They warn against early marriages under 20 and late marriages after 30, arguing maturity and adaptability ease long-term happiness.

Greef Hosbend Snd Gee

Auction Bridge by Milton C WorK A Bridge lesson from the day’s hand

South declarer in no trump must plan the first two tricks. West leads diamonds, dummy covers, and clubs lead to establish dummy’s cards. Declarer counts two diamonds two clubs and a spade and must win four hearts to make the game.

Declarer Hearts J. West Pia Éttier

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