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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1926
Page
14
George Nev ite of Bridgeport Connecticut testifies before Justice Randolph that after years of severe kidney disease and weak bladder he found relief with Matamel. He says after one month of the Mexican remedy he considers himself completely well. The notice urges readers troubled by fatigue high blood pressure and related symptoms to obtain Matamel from Hindie Drug Stores.
At the Chicago convention Professor Macy Campbell of Iowa State Teachers College warned that big farmers are leaving the land, while smallholders remain. He framed it as a healthy economic readjustment and noted not every child can farm. Mussolini plans a bachelor tax starting New Year’s. spinsters exempt.
E. M. Bodenheimer, 60, a booster of South Highlands, La, was elected mayor of a town of 3 608 for five consecutive terms and drew only five votes against him across the five elections. South Highlands, adjacent to Shreveport, is residential and has its own public utilities. In elections the city votes a blank ballot with no primaries.
A hair dressing claims to keep curls with sheen without salon work. EDNA WALLACE HOOVER'S Wave and Sheen is sold at toilet counters for 75 cents, with a money back guarantee if it does not delight and double beauty.
A Shock Kentucky man writes how a 35 day acute rheumatism attack left him unable to sit up. After one bottle of Sloan’s Liniment he could sit up, then walk without a cane. The ad claims Sloan’s relieves pain, swelling, and stiffness and promotes healing through blood flow. All druggists offer a 35 cent bottle.
The guide outlines gradual dietary changes as a child ages from two to four, reducing feedings from four to three meals daily unless underweight. It details breakfast lunch and dinner menus with cereals, milk, eggs or bacon, bread, soups, vegetables, desserts, and fresh fruit, emphasizing milk and varied nutrients.
Telegram readers are invited to address Mrs Myrtle Meyer Eldred of Bridgeport Telegram with their intimate problems and receive a personal reply. Letters should be sent to Mrs Myrtle Meyer Eldred.
Milton C Work outlines bid strategies for semi two-suiters with equal strength suits. He explains prioritizing the higher valued suit when length is equal, and shows how to reveal both major suits in certain four card contexts. Examples illustrate bidding choices for dealer hands and the impact of showing hearts after spades.
A brick building in Haverhill Mass heart of the shoe district was destroyed in a fire causing about 50000 dollars in losses. Clerk George Dearborn was burned when turpentine leaking from a barrel ignited after he soaked up the liquid with sawdust and shoveled it into a furnace. A fire captain suffered cuts while fighting the blaze.
William B. Shearer, inventor of a torpedo boat and amphibian tank, warned before Government officials that Britain and Japan pose potential threats to U S security. He argued nations are building ships secretly to bypass the Washington arms treaty, noting Britain and America view Japan as rapidly expanding its naval capabilities since the treaty.
Dr William Charles White of the United States Public Health Service urged a nationwide study on the health effects of smoke focusing on throat and lung diseases. He proposed Pittsburgh as the central site with other cities participating, noting it has the world’s highest constant pneumonia death rate and a low tuberculosis rate.
Vancouver BC December 7 AP Abolition of liquor export houses in British Columbia as chief sources of illicit import to the northwest states and California likely to be pursued as legislation before Canadian parliament opening in Ottawa. BC has led the drive and a previous measure passed the lower house but was vetoed by the Senate. Ontario's decision to substitute government control of liquor for its temperance act is seen as strengthening the plan.
Sturhahn, Yale All-American guard, will speak at a Fairfield high school dinner tonight in the Roger Ludlowe cafeteria. Yale letter and gold trophies for football players across one to four years will be presented to the team members and guests attend.
A long list records births for numerous couples with dates from November 28 to December 4 and addresses across multiple streets. A marriage entry notes Thomas Marshall, age twenty, of Harborview avenue, and Bertha Simmons, age twenty one, of Elmwood avenue.
Torrington December 7 AP Harry H. Mitchell of Watertown, earlier jailed on false pretences and released on 200 bond, was arrested again on embezzlement charges. William Welch of Torrington also held on embezzlement, released on 5,000 bond for Saturday trial. Mitchell detained at police HQ awaiting bonds. It is alleged the pair collected money on stock of Severin Mig Co Torrington then kept the funds.
Manuel Atashian thirty six owner of a Bristol restaurant was bound over to the December term of Superior Court on a forgery charge Judge Hungerford set a two thousand dollar bond The alleged crime involved forging the signatures of Mary Hovenesian and Morris Jackson to a three hundred dollar note discounted at the New Britain Trust Company The forgery was not detected until Jackson learned payment was due months prior
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