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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1919
Page
8
An advertisement extols daily hot water with a small amount of limestone phosphate taken before breakfast. It claims the mixture cleanses the stomach and liver, purifies the alimentary tract, and eliminates sour fermentations, gases, and toxins. It asserts improved appetite and reduced bile and constipation.
An old advertisement touts Ely's Cream Balm as a quick remedy for catarrh and nasal congestion. It claims a single dose clears air passages, relieves hawking and headaches, and helps breathing within minutes. The copy urges readers to buy from their druggist and apply a small amount inside the nose.
An old time advertisement proclaims that St. Jacobs Liniment relieves pain and neuralgia instantly without skin burning or discolouration. It claims rapid, harmless effect on facial pain and elsewhere, urging trials to prove it defeats neuralgia and pain in any body part.
Read about a supposed new cure called VAMPIIGROLE claimed to end catarrh instantly without lotions sprays or apparatus. A testimonial from Mrs Ficasantville Terrace NS asserts the remedy cured nose throat and coughing issues, plus foul breath and health decline, with an offer to call and reveal details.
An old advertisement touts Weller's Sage and Sulphur Compound as a natural hair darkener. It claims gray hair vanishes after one or two applications, leaving hair luxuriously dark and youthful, with millions of bottles sold annually by a well-known druggist.
City merchants approve extended shopping period delaying early closing. Stores including participants in the new elogs movement will stay open Saturday Monday Tuesday and Wednesday before Christmas. The policy contrasts with prior practice of three open nights causing mixed reactions among merchants and shoppers.
Poston Pennsylvania Frank T Sears vice president and general manager of A J States company was sentenced today to one year and one day in jail for three indictments charging conspiracy to defraud the government. The government alleged fraud and conspiracy. Sears was allowed bail while the case moves to the Court of Appeals.
Graphophone Co plans a Baltimore plant on 315 acres to support expansion. Groundbreaking will start immediately for buildings to serve Baltimore and Toronto operations. When online in 1920 the plant will manufacture parts for Columbia Graphophone products, with five times the current acreage and further developments anticipated.
Hartford Jimmy, also known as Hartford Jimmy Jones of Wartford and Bridgeport, was arrested in New York on a bigamy charge linked to a Bridgeport woman. He had been sought after a Chicago arrest in the Rinkowitz case and brought to New Haven before release pending innocence. He had been nabbed in New York while trying to obtain a pin valued at 1000 dollars and carried 200 dollars in cash. released on bonds.
The National Tidenje in Towa reports the Prussian Bolsheviki present demands to Isthenians. They call for recognition of the savick government, release of political prisoners, resumption of diplomatic relations, disbandment of a feared force, and borders altered by a formal peace without an armistice.
Hartford December report shows 694 new communicable disease cases last week to the state health department. It lists 3 tuberculosis, 114 diphtheria with 20 in Waterbury, two influenza cases, and 124 scarlet fever cases, the highest tally in the region.
Ten additional crewmen of the American steamship Liberty landed at Udner after the vessel broke in two near Pershingling, Tralland, last week. Cable advices to Barker and Company report the rescue. The War Department received the highest bid for Camp Mills, Mineola, Long Island, at a later time.
A fragmented notice lists offerings and events including a private lesson schedule and an evening entertainment at the Firemen's Hall on Thursday. It mentions a dancing class on Saturday and a novelty performance, with several unclear or garbled names and captions.
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