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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1926
Page
17
A reader named Brooklyn Me E A Schumacher shares how years of indigestion and constipation eased after trying Carters Lite Liver Pills. The letter praises the purely vegetable laxative formula, free of calomel, mercury, mineral salts, or habit forming drugs, claiming safety for all ages.
Advert says drastic relief for sour stomach and acid reflux with Pape’s Diapepsin. Claims fast easing of bloating belching gas and flatulence. Promises overall well being after a single dose, with the benefit of a $0.60 package at drugstores.
A prominent Townsend Va man suffered severe rheumatic pain at night until Sloan's Liniment provided immediate relief. The writer claims Sloan's not only deadens nerves but stimulates circulation and helps clear poisons causing pain. Light application brings warmth and quick comfort. Available at all druggists 35 cents.
A benefit ball aboard the liner Duilio, moored at West 58th Street, will raise funds for Park City Hospital. Hosted by Paul Hippo ltus and De Trippolitus, guests will enjoy dinner and music from two orchestras aboard the ship with Captain Lagliette and staff aboard to greet attendees. Prominent state figures are expected. tickets are limited.
Families of ex service men will benefit from a large board party organized by the Woman's Auxiliary of the Harry W. Congion Fest 11 at the Legion home on Friday afternoon. The event will feature a display of the welfare board award won at the state convention in September for top welfare work. A large committee led by Mrs. John Fay and others will run the event with several local residents assisting.
About 159 attended a Kyota Council reception hosted by the Great Council committee in the evening. A supper was served by Fidelity Rebekah Lodge members at 1087 Broad Street with several women in charge. The event moved to 62 Cannon Street for a program with songs and readings followed by dancing.
Mrs Walter B Lashar announced that Mrs William Stuart Rodis Jr will chair Bridgeport Red Cross Braille activities. Her committee will coordinate volunteer work across clubs and organizations to expand braille literacy with a new transcription class. Curtis was notified Washington accepted The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote with 22 pages, loaned via Stratford Library. Curtis previously transcribed Our Northern Neighbors, earning a Red Cross certificate.
The Elk lodge fair and bazaar starts tonight at the Elk's home on Statestrret, running ten nights. Entertainment features include the University Male Quartette, radio broadcasts, and nightly dances with orchestras. Special programs include Poll's amateur performers tomorrow and Masonic night on the second night with Bridgeport Masons expected in attendance.
Dr Daniel P. Griffin president of the Bridgeport mental hygiene society will speak tonight to the special class teachers of Bridgeport and all others in room 105 Bridgeport High School at o. clock. He will discuss mental hygiene in general and its application to the special classes in the schools.
Mrs Fifi Widener Leidy will marry Mutan Holden a socially prominent broker in Philadelphia next Thursday. The divorce parents confirmed the marriage plan after Leidy's 1920 elopement with Carter Randolph Leidy. she recently obtained a divorce from him.
Mrs. Philip Carlson chairs the Park Avenue Temple Sisterhood arranged Chanukah program at Roosevelt School this evening. The program opens with a Rock of Ages chorus, a candle drill with Selma Schnee as Shamas, and features a three scene one act fantasy Enemies of Israel. Participants include Milton Lieberthal Marjorie Birnbaum Alvin Cederbaum Joseph Gerstie Betty Loewich Harriet Wagner Pearl Wolf Eunice Levy Elizabeth Ashelm Helen Werner Beat rice Gilman Beulah Winstein. The six handmaidens of truth are Beatrice Carlson Ruth Carlson Adele Adler Cora Ruben Beatrice Golden Eleanor Leewith. Children listed include Edward Goldenberg Fenmore Shapiro Anita Steber Ruth Reich Harold Schine Barbara Goldstein Albert Golden will perform a violin solo with Beatrice Golden. The Underited Menorah is by faculty, with closing Our Heroes. Cast includes Lucille Shapiro Leonard Birnbaum Milton Horn Jack Birnham Esther Carp Ruth Tischler Sydney Goldstein Marvin Levy Leonard Schnee Philip Sobel Jerome Spelgal Charles Schnee Miriam Lieberthl Stanlev Wienstein Bernice Warner Alvin Friedman Jack Feinepstein Dorks Goldman.
Middletown, November 40 1AP Robert Frost, renowned poet, tells how life is expressed in metaphor during a Memorial chapel address at Wesleyan University under the Bennett Foundation. He is a Wesleyan speaker for two weeks and Amherst College faculty member. He also reads some of his verse and gives a poetry talk.
Miss Cornelia Judson of Stratford returned from Japan where she founded a missionary school and spoke at the Bridgeport Wellesley club meeting at the Business and Professional Women's club on Park Avenue. The session included club leadership changes, a memorial report, and plans for a Wellesley Christmas tea for Bridgeport students.
In Chicago on November 30 AP reports Rupert B a Hereford steer born January 4 1926 won the grand championship at the 27th International Livestock Exposition. Owned by Oklahoma A and M College Stillwater he will be auctioned Thursday before slaughter and dressing. Last year's winner Mid Jong from Town State College placed second. Breaking Blackus an Aberdeen Angus owned by A A Armstrong and son Camargo Ill was runner up.
Hanover N H November 30 AP Plans for two new Dartmouth College buildings were announced by President Ernest M Hopkins A dormitory for about 150 students will likely occupy the Hitchcock estate The other structure will house natural sciences including biology geology botany and zoology Construction of both is slated to begin in the spring
Postmaster Arthur F. Connor continues to occupy the ground floor offices of the post office. Alterations are underway in the former Internal Revenue department space to accommodate the postmaster and staff. The caption Superintendent of Mars is on the door, but the postmaster and staff will not leave until new quarters are prepared.
The state motor vehicle department released a list of seventeen drivers whose licenses were suspended for one year for driving while under the influence of liquor. Three cases were appealed. one Connecticut operator was convicted in another state. Names include Eat Hoath Derby, John B Hudak New Britain, George Koests Fairfield, Peter J t Middletown, and others. Citizens urged to report any suspended drivers operating a motor vehicle to police.
Hartford November 30 After a brief hearing in the state capitol the Public Utilities commission sanctioned and authorized the sale of Maple Hill Water company property in Newington to the Maple Hill fire district for 6000 dollars. The transferred property is inventoried at 6200 dollars and there was no opposition to the transfer.
A busy schedule features Dudley M. Morris displaying a moving picture collection at a Christmas fair to aid the library fund and a soccer match for students. Lincoln circle and Orient Sewing circle announce meetings, and a roast beef dinner hosted by Christ Church Men’s club lists several notable attendees and organizers. Prominent Episcopal church figures will speak at an inter parish dinner in Bridgeport with guests from New York.
Peter M. Lux of Shelbyville Indiana captured the third annual North American corn king title at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago. Higson Thomas was crowned junior corn king.
The Young Peoples society of the German Evangelical Reformed church presents a minstrel show in the church parlors on Chapel street this evening. Preparations promise a pleasing program with many novelty numbers. Endmen include Paul Hoffmann inter locutor Ernest Davis Herman Wiemer Henry Degeg Henry Kausler Reinhardt Grah and Robert Isaacs. Chorus members are Elsie Windhovel Luddy Gerber Fred Nelson Charles Ritenie Louise Christenson Lilan Merz Josephine Foehrenbosch Fre da Schampp Matilda Wiemer Ostegee brothers Dorothy Bauer Evelyn Steiner Minnie Fritz Ortlepp Almira Ruoss Irene Ruoss. Henry Hart acts as accompanist.
In Superior Court today Mrs Sarah B Mead of Greenwich sues Clara I Minor as administratrix of Samuel A Minor estate for 1872 alleging nonpayment for board and lodging. Defense claims Minor repaid by doing chores and wood work while staying with Mead. A cousin of Mead’s late husband testified.
Los Angeles on November 30 1931 the arraignment of Aimee Semple McPherson her mother Minnie Kennedy and Mrs Lorraine Wiseman Sellaff for conspiracy to defeat justice was postponed from January 4 to January 19 to have all proceedings heard by the same judge who will try the case District Attorney Ana Keyes announced.
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