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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1918
Page
4
Readable text fragments show a personal name Joses and a reflection on loss and pride. The imperfect OCR yields unclear context but indicates a brief note or quotation possibly about identity and defeat. Further details are not discernible from the fragment.
Despite a school vacation, Bridgeport thrift stamp sale rooms reopened to show an increase of nearly 2000 in sales from the prior week. The campaign total of thrift and war saving stamps sold in the schools up to this week reached 35,666.
A narrator recalls the morning after Jubilee and friends learn Henner y is recovering from illness. The class celebrates his improving condition, sharing apples with the sick child’s family, reflecting on death’s absence, and the village school marking his return with cautious joy. The tale chronicles small-town life, care from neighbors, and a moment of communal relief amid illness.
A reflective strip questions the fate of the old fashioned ballplayer who once earned $500,000 in Confederate money to switch to the Federal League. The speaker wishes for daily recovery and jokes about marriages for money as insurance, ending with a nostalgic musing on baseball's past.
In Connecticut these exquisite silks called Summer Foulards are touted as light as tissue yet durable for church wear, travel, street, evening, and dress occasions. Patterns include Taupes, Belgian and marine blues with Futurist and Batik designs, coin spots, circles, and eccentrically colored diamonds. Waterspot proof, they keep their lustrous finish indefinitely.
Cheney’s figured pongee offers light weight silks for linings or draperies with Japanese style patterns. Blue grounds host apple blossoms lanterns dogwood petals and large butterflies. other designs feature red poppies chicory blossoms and blue white motifs. Visit the Silk Section on the main floor for a varied display next week.
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