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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1920
Page
12
The Seventieth Annual Meeting of the Bridgeport Protestant Widows Society and Sterling Widows Home will be held at the Sterling Widows Home on Tuesday, Web. 11th at 2 45 P M for election of officers and other business. Ed Edwards Corresponding Secretary Hubbard and Harris incorporated.
By law every male aged 21 to 60 must pay a personal tax of two dollars in place of other local taxes. Tax due from February 1, 1929, at City Hall Rooms 4 and 5. Tax Collector Howard F. Smith will collect daily 9 AM to 4 PM except Saturday until 12 noon. hours adjusted for Saturday.
New York bakers may not raise bread prices without showing cost data. Auditors from the Justice Department will review bakery checks sent from Washington to determine if a one cent per pound increase is permissible. Federal food administrator Arthur Williams said the margin of profit was too slim to justify the rise.
Funeral services for the late Walter P Phillips, long associated with the Columbia Graphophone company in Providence R I, were held yesterday. The body was placed in a vault at Swan Point. Phillips, an inventor writer and song composer, died last Saturday at Oak Bluffs Massachusetts after a long illness.
Examinations for clerk and carrier positions in the post office will be held in this city on February 29 by the Civil Service Commission. Full information may be obtained from the secretary of the commission at the Federal Building.
Universal Service New York Deli reports a likely decrease in cost of living tied to the drop in British exchange. Percy Sonnsion, president of Chemical National Bank, says the exchange decline will reduce exports and flood local markets with American goods, probably lowering prices. The surge in exports in recent months created abnormal exchange conditions.
The American Electric Railway association canceled its dinner and meeting at Stratfield because of influenza. The gathering was postponed with no date set for the future session. City transportation and traffic-improvement plans were to be discussed at the event.
A well known home remedy touts Pinex 2% into a pint bottle with sugar syrup or substitutes for cough relief. Claims speed from 24 hours or less and benefits for bronchitis and throat irritation. Warns to ask druggist for 234 ounces of Pinex and guarantees satisfaction or money back.
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