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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1918
Page
7
An old advertisement notes that cold weather keeps people indoors, linking digestion shifts to uncomfortable symptoms. It promotes Foley Hartic Tablets as a thorough liver cleanse and claims regular bowels prevent indigestion, biliousness, and breath issues, urging readers to keep the bowels regular.
The body of John Blunt, an American ranch manager in the Juarez valley, was found yesterday in an irrigation ditch with a deep head wound. Authorities believe local squatters may be responsible, amid missing persons reports and rumors of boastful threats.
Eligible applicants aged 18 to 45 may take postal service clerk carrier exams in Bringeport on March 24. Applications and blanks are available at the registers window in the local post office.
Fragmentary OCR passage hints at a domestic economy discussion urging thrift and debt avoidance. Note unclear names or dates present in the readable text.
Officials in Houston and Fort Worth, urged by Washington through Congressman Garrett, warned that vice conditions near Camps Logan and Bowie must be controlled or soldiers will be removed. Secretary Baker asked Governor Hobby to convene a special legislative session for immediate measures.
A dense listing of churches across Bridgeport area with ministers, service times, Sunday schools, and special programs. Includes Advent Christian, Baptist, Congregational, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Universalist, Italian, and other denominations with pastors such as Gardner Brown Hill Day Le Voy Woodruff and others.
Abraham Y. Reinstein, a Manhattan cloak and suit maker, won $300 from St Nicholas Baths Inc after a glass shard from a broken tumbler at a pinochle game cut his foot and forced two weeks of lost work. The incident occurred at No 27 Lenox Avenue in New York.
A faded newspaper ad urges readers to cut out the slip and mail it to Foley & Co in Chicago for a trial package of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds, Foley Sidney Gilks for pain and rheumatism, Foley Cathartic Tablets for constipation, and notes a Findle's drug store origin.
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