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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1921
Page
9
An article likens body care to maintaining machinery and extols Grape-Nuts as a superior food. It credits whole wheat and malted barley, explains long baking pre-digests nutrients, and argues rapid digestion supports vigor, bone and red blood cell health, and delayed aging. The piece touts taste, convenience, and global popularity.
This concluding installment in a series exposes bootlegging along the Pacific coast. San Francisco and coastal cities offer whiskey brandy wine and moonshine at low prices despite enforcement. It cites large illegal stills in California and Canada smuggling via log rafts, and argues for expanded law enforcement and public support to end prohibition violations.
In Dawson Yukon Avenue 17 pioneers from the Klondike gold rush attend a twenty fifth birthday parade and sour dough banquet by the Yukon Order of Pioneers. Old timers renew friendships swap tales of the late nineties when gold fever swept the land and fortunes rose quickly.
Industrial conditions across BL factories show an improving trend in employment numbers and hours worked, based on figures from the Manufacturers' association. The gain begins on July 2 and is expected to strengthen this week with a five day week at the American Chain company and a larger record department staff at the Columbia Graphophone company following new orders.
Ten factories covering about a block in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, were destroyed by a fire in New York today. Loss estimated at 2,000,100 dollars. One building brick, others frame. Principal losers include Greenpoint Manufacturing, Manhattan Shawcese, Rattan Furniture, Newell Street, Kreischer Manufacturing at Diamond and Calyear streets.
Fragments describe closeout sale details for hair nets labeled No 999 in cap or fringe shapes. Boxes contain twelve units with Whation Stock widths 5 and 6 priced at 12c each.
Dress fabrics priced by size from 10 to 20 cents with Valenciennes laces and new round mesh edgings and insertions. A 12 yard piece offered for 50 cents, described as main finer quality material.
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