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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1924
Page
14
The column presents a veritable catalogue for Christmas shopping with economical ideas. It promises a right gift for every relative and friend and urges daily reading as a profitable habit.
Local ads promote Orientel Goods China Ware and various furniture, automo biles, tools, and home goods with special low prices. West Main Street and Langden area stores offer plants, jewelry, and holiday items, including cemetery wreaths and Christmas cards. Muscle Shoals area rep advertises services while Abe Katz's Furniture Store urges shoppers to buy jewelry at discount prices.
Multiple notices request owner returns for a hidden Irish Terrier puppy injured by a vehicle near Bridgeport Veterinary Hospital. Other rewards offered for a brown Airedale, a pink jacket pin, a string of pearl beads, a dog marked BOG, and a lost wallet and pen with phone numbers. Citizens urged to contact various addresses and phone numbers to reclaim items.
Local adverts offer free egg and chicken delivery, firewood, belts and pulleys, gas radiators, coal, stove repairs, housework help, and various trades. Listings include Mrs. Keats skate items, wood prices per cord, mattresses reconditioned, chimney work, radio aerials, electrical installations, and Christmas cards, all with contact addresses in Stratford and nearby streets.
A jumble of pet listings includes Pekingese and Pomeranian puppies, police dog pups, and assorted terriers and poodles. Ads promote AKC registration, various prices, and listed addresses in Boston area kennels. Some lines mention boarding kennels and stud services, reflecting a dense classifieds page.
Listings offer dock pier rental on main channel for freighting and trucking, a Mal order business with stock priced at 35, grocery stock and fixtures for Stratford Ave, multiple coffee mills and equipment at Washington Ave, pipe manufacturing inquiry, auto accessory business for Buick Nash Studebaker, and a Bridgeport address with a 21x62 heated space.
An old classified item listing promotes musical instruments and toys for exchange or sale. Entries include an upright piano, a mandolin, a banjo, a leather cass, and a phonograph, with contact details referencing Barnum and Stratford. Also advertised are typewriters, including repairs, sales, and exchanges through Piuromer Typewriter Exchange at 166 Fairfield Ave.
An OCR fragment lists painting and paper hanging services with prices and contact hints. Includes mentions of Cadwell & Co at 490 Bishop Ave, Barnum 1561-14 painting done, and various local business names and Christmas greeting lines. Details are fragmented and unclear.
Special Christmas offer promises a free Pease Clothes tree with every Savage Wanker purchase at Christmas Green's located at 119 Som. The ad mentions Christmas gift ideas and highlights a free accessory with each sale.
A busy Fairfield avenue marketplace lists dozens of used cars for sale including BUICK, CHEVROLET, FORD, HUPMOBILE and OVERLAND models with prices from 50 to 285. Also offered are auto tops, radiators, upholstery, glass, and miscellaneous car parts plus local movers providing household and piano moving within city and long distance service.
Auto Livery at 425 John Street proposes rental cars for all occasions. Contact WM1 Madson via Barnum 6594 or Barnum 1046 for bookings.
A cluttered ad page lists multiple houses for sale or rent including 199 Courtland Street and 189 State Street Astoria Avenue properties with details such as 4 baths, steam heat, breakfast rooms, sun parlor, tile kitchens and coal or hot water heat. Also offers 12 room seven room homes, six room rentals, and a 4 room cottage near Harmony Street. Rentals include boarding houses and rooming options with meals. Also notes land and business opportunities and a couple seeking light housekeeping near city center.
Multiple tenement advertisements describe 4 to 5 room flats with all improvements, near East Main Street to Fairfield Avenue, Stratford and Bridgeport. Agencies Maree & Casey Inc and The Schwarz Bros. Co list units priced around 26 to 35 monthly, with amenities including heating, water, and janitor service. Also noted are furniture sales and housewares in nearby areas with varied items for sale.
Classified loan notices promote second mortgages real estate loans and private party financing. Brokers claim favorable terms low rates and large availability at multiple addresses and offices including Johnson Bidg Barnum Main St Fairfield Ave and Middle St. Corner John.
Classified notice from 1969 seeking to purchase used furniture and farm items including stoves and machinery. Indicates store at 1041 State Street and requests buyers to contact with full details and prices.
Readings by a practitioner every Friday at 8 pm in Redines on West Avenue. Contact Mrs Noble at 2353 for details. Community spiritual circle hosts Priday and Runday sessions with portable price of 1 dollar.
A fragment notes a black fur coat with collar and gloves priced at 10 dollars. Mentions several ladies and a location at 118 Sherwood Avenue.
Washington December 21 The Mayflower with President and Mrs Coolidge and their son John home from Amherst College for the holiday anchored tonight off Haines Point near Washington after cruising down the Potomac to Quantico Virginia Church services were held aboard the yacht shortly before noon.
Multiple rental notices list houses to rent and rooms for let. Entries include 1603 Main Street near Beet ton Ave with steam heat, 305 Fayette with eleven rooms and hot water, 911 Lafayette, 169 Harmony Street with four rooms and three-car garage, 162 Riverside Drive with amenities, and 513 West Ave plus Myrtle Avenue and 189 State Street addresses.
Patents forn Wooster and Davis Wortreey advertise a house and a grocery store for sale or exchange at 1115 Main St Bridgen t. In Probate Court December 17 1924 the estate of Emma T Feet of Stratford is given six months to creditors to file claims and those failing to present attested accounts will be barred. James H Feet is administrator Stratford Conn. John Smith Sudes of Probate.
Low money rates spur stock market activity in York with a buoyant week. Public interest and call money eased after mid month, lifting stock values as industrials reached postwar peaks and rail averages climbed to seven year highs. Broad advances in steel copper and lead ores accompany gains in wheat corn and ore. bear traders cover on weak issues.
Federation Bank of New York, a $7 500 090 labor institution founded 18 months ago, has declared its first dividend at 2 percent annual rate for the quarter ending December 21. President Peter J Brady announced the decision to stockholders of record that date, noting earnings have covered organizational costs and show 1 percent on outstanding capital after restoring the surplus.
Multiple obituary notices list decedents with dates of death in December 1924. Names include Anna Anderson, Anna Bertucci, Robert Bleuler, Emily Coley, Margaret Colles, Julia Donohue, James Flannagan, Marion Goodman, Mary Herzog, Alfred Maddock, David Nagle, Mary Playfoot, Angela Probert, Louis Shelton, Evie Sherwood, Blanche Smith, Willem Zang. Details cover funeral or burial arrangements, residence, church services, and cemeteries in Danbury, Westport, Fairfield, Green Farms, Stratford, Nichols, Easton, Redding Ridge, Allentown, and nearby towns.
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