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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1918
Page
5
The piece observes a cheerful druggist amid a casual sale of a postal card, noting the willingness and amiable tone that colors ordinary shopping moments. It emphasizes everyday humor found in routine service interactions.
Miss Fra Kenny of Newark New Jersey recounts three year struggle with nervous breakdown headaches and weakness despite medical care. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound from day one she improved and is now able to work and endorses the remedy.
An Ohio physician touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle liver and bowel tonic to improve complexion and energy. The product, described as a substitute for calomel, is sold in olive color boxes for 10c and 25c with druggists distributing the remedy.
A narrator recounts a cold morning, milking cows, breakfast, and skating plans, then describes planning pranks at a private school involving a blue-nosed teacher. The day ends with pond scraping, a half dollar earned, a tense exchange with his father, and a dream of running away in a boxcar to be a man with long pants.
Dennis Totten of Milford won a competitive examination for an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point. He stood first in a class of 41, with examinations starting on the 19th and lasting three days. Local events include a Ben evolent union meeting, a Lincoln supper, and Red Cross activity.
The piece blends remarks on speech, music, and poetry with Carlyle’s view that deep thought is musical. It notes accent as a form of chanting and describes how passion in language becomes musical, calling poetry musical thought and asserting sincerity and depth define a poet. The excerpt shifts to a maritime scene with a captain wearing a protective beard, Madge visiting, and two officers on deck spotting subs.
An advertisement touts Peptiron as an iron tonic that combines iron with pepsin, mux, celery, gentian and sedatives in pill form. It claims quick improvements for anemia, thin blood, paleness, nerve debility and brain function, advising one or two pills after meals.
An advertisement by Henry O. Hanley of Belfast Maine promotes Dr True’s Elixir as a great medicine and worm expeller. It claims to tone the stomach, move the bowels, expel worms, and notes signs of worm infestation in children. The ad lists prices and states the product has sold for five years and ships from Auburn Maine.
The funeral for Joan T. Keane was held from her late home in Zoar district and St. Rose's church with a solemn high requiem. Attendees included numerous relatives and local residents, with pallbearers named. The report also notes a Red Cross benefit entertainment by Dodgingtown Fire Company and various local social updates, including military enlistment and library event notices.
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