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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1920
Page
7
Orphans at Vinunger School awaited a Christmas event as Santa emptied a large gift pack. New toys and sleds delighted the children who crowded the room, filling the morning with holiday cheer before classes began.
The Mistletoe Charity ball plans a festive setting with evergreen trees and colorful decorations. Society guests and officers of the Associated Charitable committee announce dining, entertainment, and reservations, naming numerous attendees and organizers in a formal social notice.
A vintage ad extols Crawford Laundry on Fairbank Avenue at Courtland Street offering relief from laundry drudgery. It highlights cleanliness and care as key benefits, positioning the service as a long standing local business catering to women overwhelmed by weekday loads.
A garbled report describes cement sack processing and a recovery method involving tar and water. It mentions sacks, consumers, and a procedure to drain or empty sacks, noting some stock and material movements and a bizarre digression on amphibious cranes and natives.
Local social chatter highlights upcoming events and engagements. Mrs Stiles hosts at the breakfast gathering. Hobwell orchestra to provide dinner music. Mrs Coarse Wy Bantos host. Engagement announced for Miss Caroline Luippard to Milton Marks. Skating party plans and Christmas supper at Franklin Country Club noted.
A local society notices a large New Year's Eve dancing party with many guests including Miss Marioris, Miss Ruth Auge, Miss Alice Fitzribbons, and Miss Esther Dorothy Thapin. The guest list features numerous locals such as Miss Willian Cast Barrier, Floater Lovegrove, and Robert Sehwerdtle along with several others.
In Wisconsin towns saloons are being donated or bought and converted into church buildings. Methodist ministers report pastors and parsonages, district superintendents, and home missions officials discuss closing saloons and forming new church spaces. A chapel is planned for Medford with renovations and parsonage provisions.
A colossal 840000 pound power generator drives the world’s largest steel plate mill in Durham England. It operates at forty revolutions per minute within a maze of hot steel weighing ten tons, measuring up to seven feet by four feet by one foot, producing stern plates for battleships up to thickness and length.
The sale offers fur coats suits dresses and millinery with drastic reductions after Christmas. Beaded georgettes tricolette frocks silk dresses and taffetas are heavily discounted with many items shown at prices well below former tags. No credits no refunds no exchanges. Second floor.
Winter hat sale offers a wide range of headwear including Knox and Gage hats and velvet fur and beaver styles. Prices drop to as low as 2.50 for kids tams and up to 20.00 for remaining hats once valued up to 65.00 with many groups organized by price.
All remaining Toys will be placed at great reductions on Monday morning. Early shoppers will be paid for coming for bargains. The Basenics says it is not desirous of carrying these Toys through the coming season and prefers sacrificing profits in storing them.
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