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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1918
Page
11
Florence Clancy edits the women's section with notices urging clear signatures and addresses from contributors. Readers are invited to send items, with telephone availability at Barnum 6100 for submissions and confirmation.
Navy guest and guests of Ensign Stewart and others visit in New London and Fairfield. News notes include family visits to Chester Pa, reflections on Christmas plans, church meetings, and a long list of residents attending gatherings, sickness, travel, and club events around Bridgeport and nearby towns.
The first monthly entertainment and dance by the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew association drew over 200 members and friends with a large regional delegation. Plans include a Purim celebration with a musical program and a sketch by members, organized to benefit the group and its supporters.
Bridgeport draft boards praise Minute Women led by Mrs. Zarah Grant for clerical work and list checking that kept boards operating on time. Grant, active with Division Six, assisted after chief clerk resignations and continued through tag days, Red Cross, YMCA, and France orphans knitting. More devoted women like her are welcomed as boards close their work.
A Bridgeport appeal calls for $15000 immediately to support French orphans whose fathers died in battle. Mrs. Charles G. Sanford heads the Motherless Children of France committee with Mrs. William Grippen as chair. Children are urged to save pennies in school boxes and attend sales at Read's and Howland's for a book by Mary Shipman Andrews.
In a tense scene Blake refuses to stay with Elizabeth, moves to his studio, and ends their relationship after she accuses him of seeing Meredith. He reveals her insult to a guest last night and announces he will rent a studio elsewhere, ending their affair as he prepares to leave the building.
Practical advice on cereals cooking noting risks of undercooking and need for long simmer times for certain grains. Emphasizes salt as flavor, factory pre-cooked cereals, and keeping leftovers hot. Then discusses cheese as a staple, its nutritional value, serving ideas, and how it can constitute a meal with bread and sides.
A surprise party Saturday night at Miss Marion Baker's Westport home drew over 25 local youths. The evening featured vocal and musical selections, monologues, dancing, and refreshments with performers including Miss Anne Wiles, Miss Selma Kane, Edgar Young, Karl Zymoth, Joe Krentzman, Marion Whitney, and others.
At Kitchen Sets the catalog lists granite or aluminum items from 75 cents up on the second floor with special prices and boxed orders of thirteen pounds or more on the main floor. Kindergarten Books colored letters and pictures, 60 cents. Animal Books mounted on linen, 60 cents. Drawing Books of fairy tales with colored crayons, 35 cents.
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