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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1923
Page
5
The article notes growing interest in the Zain Advertising Contest with daily proof of public engagement. It mentions ongoing participation across the Bidse, Pot Post and Telegram, and hints at increasing demand for entries and related activities.
Contest offers prizes for ads written about the articles themselves. Ads should be sent to ad vertisers, not the paper, and judged by regular judges in readiness for nearby territories and the city. Contest invites all readers to participate, stressing effort and learning over prizes.
Local ad contest lists multiple merchants offering prizes for best ads. Prizes include hats, suits, stockings, thermoses, yarn, milk, enamel varnish, and more from JOHN FL RUANE CO, SPECTOR'S INC, MINER READ & TUELOCK, COMSTOCK WILLETT CO, MANTLER'S BABY SHOP, MITCHELL DAIRY, HINDLE DRUG CO, SHEFFIELD LUNCH, CONLIN & CO, NEUHOFY'S, THE A. W. BURRITT CO, COHN FL KEANE & CO, and JOHN F KEANE & CO. Submissions dated around August and September with ads sent to department.
Bridgeport Post Telegram outlines the Zain Adwriting Contest rules. Open to all except professional ad writers and newspaper staff. Entries may praise multiple advertisers, require separate paper per ad, with name and address on back. Ads judged by committee. weekly winner published. top ad to display with winner's details. Prizes emphasize ideas over spelling or grammar.
A dense OCR fragment lists merchants and businesses across Barnum and adjacent streets including Buick automobiles Arthur Lo Clark Co 1710 Main street and stores like New Hasen Dairy 271 John street Spector's Jeweler 497 Fairfield Avenue Neuss Floor Covering Shop Coram Broad State Streets and a variety of retail outfits such as John Keane Co Main & Joan Sis clothing furnishings Mitchell Dang Go 745 North Ave and Sheffield Lunches 1034 Main. The jumble shows a metropolitan ad page with business categories from autos to apparel to dining.
Miss Relly Wright of Myrtle avenue describes her YWCA work in China from Yutacho Shanai near Tientsin. She contrasts travel by motor road and ricksha with railroad and notes muddy roads, dry riverbeds, and rough carts. She plans further study of inland mission work on return trip by ricksha over two days.
Births list several families reporting daughters and sons with dates in August including Pravell Giovann avenue 342 and Giovanni and Angelina Megliari 169 North Washington avenue. Marriages include Donald L Banks and Mabel J Smith and multiple pairings with addresses on Main Street Commercial Street and East Main Street.
Neponset shop offers contest awards including Spector’s $5000 strand La Tausca pearls and a 26 piece Bird of Paradise silver set for the best ad. A $35 wrist watch and a $3000 suit from Hart Sehaftne & Mara clothing are among prizes. Promotions encourage ad creativity for store items.
Eleven divorce actions were filed in the Superior court here yesterday returnable on the first Tuesday in September. Eight suits by women and three by men name Edith VP as co respondent and allege adultery and intolerable crudity. The Norwalk couple Edith N Else Wilson and Alexander Wilson married December 21, 1917. Other cases include desertion and custody petitions with dates ranging 1905 to 1921 and involving residents of Norwalk Stamford Danbury Redding and Boston.
Milford police arrested Schultz and Louis Behlin of Myrtle Beach as part of a drive against alcohol related offenses and reckless driving. Schultz faces charges of operating under the influence and without a license, while Behlin is charged with drunkenness. Both are due in town court tomorrow morning.
Firemen from Milford respond to grass fires amid a hot spell. At 12:20 yesterday Chemical Company No 4 of Devon battled a brisk blaze at Rivercliff but it was extinguished with no damage. Later Chemical Company No 5 of Woodment fought a top of Ed's Hill fire, also put out with limited harm.
Stamford report says Joseph Tiufaro charged as look out for a gang that tried to blow the Woolworth store safe in the city center. He was bound over to the superior court on probable burglary charge with bonds set at 1600 dollars.
No teaching jobs available for 46 female graduates of City Normal School Class of 1923 as stated by Superintendent E. E. Cortright. Seventeen February class graduates also remain without permanent positions to be placed. Also noted, 406 applications for patents were filed by women inventors in Great Britain last year.
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