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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1918
Page
8
A column encourages businesswomen to calculate weekly living costs. It cites a discussion with about thirty girls who cannot estimate expenses and provides a sample budget for those earning 100 to 125 dollars monthly, outlining limits for rent food and clothing to guide prudent spending.
Miss Dorothy E Went of 25 Park Street is elected by the Mount Holyoke College senior class to be among the commencement week speakers. The item also notes various local social updates and Club meetings around Bridgeport.
Huntington Folk's Farmill River grange plans wartime actions and community benefits. Meetings feature war songs, new exchanges, Liberty bond, Red Cross gift, and talks by Miss Gladys Green on War Breads. Members discuss conservation and time-tested recipes while welcoming new applicants.
A New York beauty powder La-May Poudre L Ame claims to stay on until washed off without white lead or rice powder. The ad offers five thousand dollars to chemists who prove any white lead presence. It touts benefits for enlarged pores blackheads and pimples with a pure medicinal powder. Large size priced fifty rents and half size twenty five cents. Save this notice for information and purchase.
Notice lists Mrs Edward D Waters as a caterer at 31 Court Street with phone Baram 2464 and repeats. Another entry notes Henry Cenicola formerly at 383 East Meet with opticals ices at 19 ai Street and telephone Barnum 4560. Office hours show 1 to 6 and 7 to s by M.
A mil ford Epworth League anniversary gathering at the Gordon home on the New Haven turnpike featured an American flag and flower decor, supper for 26, and a program with toasts by Rev A J Martin and remarks from Miss Janet Lyon, Miss Marion Green, and Mr Seavel about service members and loved ones. Attendees included Rev and Mrs A J Martin, Gertrude Gifford, Mrs John Campbell, Janet Lyon, and the Green sisters, with a warm, brief program and social time.
The article describes a black satin skirt with white check, a crepe Georgette blouse with a self material jabot and deep shawl collar, and a maize cashmere one piece frock featuring large plats over checked silk panels. It notes yardage for fabrics and mentions spring shoe widths and trimmed dulls.
The sun rose as the transport anchored at a port in Trance. Mildred and her fellow passengers crowded the rail to study the unfamiliar docks and quaint houses. Tugs moved about, one officious tug halted alongside, and boarding preparations began with the first person over the rail being a French-
An advertisement letter describes a putyode party at Black Rock Shorea and Country Club on Washington's birthday eve. Speidel's orchestra promises a lively crowd with refreshments, a casual gathering, and talk of enlistment, candy deliveries, fashion notes, and distant Harold's likely activities amid war times.
In Adele Garrison’s tale, the narrator watches her family tensions unfold as Harriet and Dr Braithwaite arrive with a fast paced agenda. The mother-in-law frets over delayed visits while Dicky’s sister and Edwin push a bustling social schedule into the home.
The passage depicts a tense domestic moment as a narrator observes a wife striving for self-control while a mother-in-law weeps. The speaker notes strong wifely devotion, yet suggests it may be overdone, hinting at ongoing melodrama.
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