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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1924
Page
9
A drug advertisement touts ABnarhus pedal Formula No 2 as quickest, safest relief for neuritis pains. It claims pills reduce nerve pains within 24 hours, with continued use over 2–3 days banishing pains from neck shoulder or legs. Hindle Drug Stores or any good druggist will supply it.
A chemist claims months of tests yielded pure castor oil infused into high grade chocolate candy without detecting the oil. The ad urges parents to give children Kastor Jenna and even recommends two doses for husbands as a bowel remedy, promoting Eastor Jems at 40 cents.
Captain Elijah Squent narrates a whimsical holiday misadventure in a pastry hotel in Sawa Claus Land. The lobby clerk, a bouncing jack-knife–earred redhead, assigns pogo-stick elevators and icing decor. A courier note promises Santa Claus will meet Captain Squint at 10 AM Friday, with tale continued tomorrow.
Fairfield December 15 telegraph report notes Mary Matis of Grasmere Avenue fined 159 dollars and given a 39 day suspended jail sentence after arraignment in Town Court before Judge Cont on charges of keeping liquor to sell and three counts of selling liquor. Martin Marsk of Cedar Road dies after falling from roof of his house Saturday afternoon at St Vincent's Hospital from a broken neck. He was a carpenter working on a leak repair when he slipped and fell. burial planned in St Joseph's Cemetery Stratford. Fire Company No 1 to meet at Reef Road Fire House for annual meeting next month. American Legion planning monthly card parties at Legion Ball. Christmas party planned at Greenfield Grange. Edward McManus and Rev Michael O Flanagan visited. Roger Ludowe High School freshmen to hold Christmas party in Legion Hall. Dr H Hersey from Bridgeport Hospital to speak on Community.
The Fairfield lunch conference at Champ's Farm Blark Hook hosts a noon meeting titled Responsibility of the Hospital. Southport Current Events club heard a lecture on An old colonial home by Mrs. Katherine Spalding at Pequot Library this afternoon. The club's next meeting is Monday January 3 with Eunice Avery of Springfield Mass lecturing on Current Events, hosted by Mrs. Middlebrown Everts Holman Paffard and Miss Williams. In January's second meeting on the 79th Miss Mary Dennin will review Family Welfare Society plans. Mrs Harehl Clark speaks to Stratfields Parent Teacher Association on Famous Women in the United States Tuesday January.
In Oak Park Mrs Grucci Shaw mourns as son George Shaw, a shell shocked war veteran, is charged with murder after fatally wounding his father with a saber during a family dispute. George, drinking, attempted self harm in custody, while witnesses recall a cabaret party at the Shaw home.
Hartford dispatch reports Selku Zaslowski a 45 year old coal company employee of 109 Wortland street was struck and killed by the Washington express at the Avon street crossing while en route to his morning shift. He moved around the left of lowered gates as the train neared and ignored warnings to stop, attempting to cross in front of the onrushing locomotive.
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