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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1925
Page
14
Natalie Dear Evelyn reflects on Christmas shopping at The D. M. Read store toy shop. She notes toy variety, cost estimates, and holiday cheer, praising local institutions and the Christmas Club concept while joking about long shopping days and festive plans.
Pohtatuck Grange in Newtown reports 25 members and three visitors at Tuesday’s session. Willis F. Arndt featured a spelling match while Mrs Bertha F Peck arranged a violin solo by Mrs Stanton with Mr Dorner of Bridgeport.
The Shelton Methodist Episcopal church turkey supper and fair attracted more than 200 to the parish rooms. Ladies served an old fashioned turkey dinner with a grab bag, fancy articles, and home cooked foods. The event is praised as one of the society’s most successful fairs. Assessors are busy appraising Shelton property ahead of January 15 book closure for next year’s tax levy. The Shelton Knitting Co. began moving machinery into the former BE Ilses factory to produce bags for slaughterhouse use and various textiles, a new industry brought by the Board of Trade.
Derby, Dec 2. Special. I.7 Hoffman, Derby theatre magnate, announced plans to build a 1200 seat motion picture theatre on lower Elizabeth street in spring. It can be converted to vaudeville or playhouse if city supports such uses. The move ends outside interests seeking a vaudeville venue and replaces the worn Sterling theatre with a modern play house.
Vital statistics list births for several local couples with street addresses. Daughters described for Ruliman Popovich Markova Milla O'Donovan Bradley, and a son noted for Kieln, with dates ranging November and December.
The Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce meeting at Stratfield next Monday will be an open forum. A universal Christmas celebration plan will be presented by Rev. William Horace Day, committee chair. Carl Dietz will present the Construction Gang constitution and by laws amid rumors of its aims. Secretary Robert A. Croaby will mail new calendars to over a thousand members with the slogan team Wark Telly.
James McDonald of the Foreign Policy Association will speak at a World Court mass meeting at 8 pm in the High School auditorium. Sanford Stoddard chairs the local committee, with William T. Hincks presenting the speaker. The event is free and aims for large attendance as McDonald discusses World Court and world relations. Connecticut League of Nations Non Partisan Association hosts business meeting and dinner at Stratfield hotel with delegates arriving at 4:15 pm. Mrs Wrank Day Tuttle of New York will speak after dinner. McDonald will attend but not speak.
Providence Dec 1 AP A gang of masked men bound and gagged Frederick B Weiner a Brown University actor and debater at 2 am took him in a machine gun to Rehoboth eight miles away and dumped him by the roadside in scant clothing Weiner a Brown junior from New Rochelle New York home unknown.
Fire razed two summer cottages at Commicat Point Providence County today, with five more damaged. Officials estimate about $10,000 in damage. Police suspect incendiary origin as six fire engines battled high winds to control the blaze. Nearby homes were at risk as flames spread before crews contained the fire.
An advertisement claims a simple combination of soothing essential oils can quickly banish chronic asthma torture bad coughs obstinate cells and throat irritations. Oxidaze Tablets are sold in tablet form by Lever Brothers druggists with Oxidaze branding.
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