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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1921
Page
16
A historical advertisement urges readers to try Nuxated Iron as an organic iron supplement. It claims benefits for tiredness, weak digestion, pale skin, and nerves, urging a blood count test before use and promising a refund if not satisfactory. It warns against imitators and notes tablets carry KN I on packaging.
A bustling Aug. afternoon on Main and Fairfield captures a parade of locals. Policeman John Halpin, railroad detective Juavis, and banker Philip Holzer mingle with shoppers and a chorus of named residents. Conversations center on a Beardsley park golf fund, the city beautification push, and social chatter at Wagner’s Garden as townsfolk toast community ties and local figures.
Naval history note describes hundreds of homing pigeons released from Lake Torpedo Boat plant at Seaview to announce that sub 5-41 is last contracted by Navy and to signal new contracts. Some birds aim for Washington and possibly the White House. Peach stakes offer 80 percent of coal heat value for winter fuel.
King Peter's son III unable to attend Belgrade funeral due to serious appendicitis. Prince Alexander, aged about five days, remains in Paris under care of Dr Bernard Cullen and Baron de Bandelae as operation decisions loom. Official report says prognosis favorable yet condition stationary.
Convicted of manufacturing while intoxicated and unlawful possession, Tod Murowatki of 773 Maplewood Avenue was fined 100 with costs and a five day suspended sentence. An appeal was entered by Will Lin of 117 Wooa. Another defendant, Jos Pollesmen, was fined 150 for aiding and abetting keeping liquor with intent to sell.
New York August 1 Ralph W Treur Bol and Roland Hooker returned from an airplane tour of Europe after graduating in 1920 at Yale They recounted adventures including flirting with two girls high above Nice a cloud swallowed their plane after a 40 mile pursuit Flooker is the son of a former Hartford mayor and the pair avoided trains during the trip
Cambridge Massachusetts August 18 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology receives 1,000,000 and Wellesley College 500,000 from Francis Applicton Foster of Weston who died recently. Foster headed F A Poster and Company, a Boston firm, and was a director in several textile mills. Seth Sprague of New York, a nephew, is left 500,000 and named executor. Other small public bequests are noted.
London Aug 13. Two Scotch boy scouts will join Sir Ernest Shackleton on his Antarctic expedition aboard The Quest after selection from ten competitors. They will accompany him on a venture many dream of, sharing cabin duties aboard the ship.
Miss Nellie Collins of 188 Connecticut avenue Bridgeport reports Tanlac increased her appetite and strengthened her health after eighteen months of indigestion and weakness. Her father’s sample order helped, and she and her mother endorse Tanlac as restoring vigor, digestion, and energy, noting improved sleep and daily functioning. Advertisements note sales in Bridgeport by Tindie Pyring Sterds.
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