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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1926
Page
5
An old advertisement promotes Pape's Cold Compound offering twortablers every three hours until relief, with a first dose described as relieving the cold and subsequent doses expediting recovery. The price is five cents and a stated guarantee is included.
Mrs A Kret Thomas of Trenton reports relief from bladder and sleep troubles after using Matamel, a Mexican Maguey plant extract. She claims improved energy, less pain, and uninterrupted sleep, endorsing the product as safer than doctors and drugs. Available at Hindun Drug Stores with professional backing from Dr Philip Newton.
Long hours and irregular meals strain digestion and raise constipation risk. Medical authorities approve Nujol as a safe natural lubricant for the intestines that softens waste matter, aiding thorough movements without forming a habit and can be discontinued anytime. Ask your druggist for Nujol.
An advertisement claims Aderika relieves stomach gas and indigestion, aids intestinal evacuation, and eases constipation within about an hour. It lists ingredients like buckthorn bark and glycerine and promotes sales at Drug Star, Main & Congress, and other local shops.
Scott Nearing was escorted to a police box after starting a street talk in Boston but returned to finish his address before Paine Memorial Hall. The hall was closed amid plans to hold a protest for Lithuanian lecturer Bimba, with officials declaring meetings unsafe.
In specially equipped cars, 596 wild elk from government ranges in the Flathead Reservation near Molise Montana moved through Chicago en route to Middleboro Massachusetts. The large train of ten baggage cars was rushed by Northern Pacific and Burlington rails on passenger schedules. Horns were sawed off, cars steamheated and electric heated, floors stripped to prevent injuries. The herd is destined for a 22 008 acre tract in Massachusetts owned by Percy R. and M A Jones who are paying the transport costs.
Chicago February 21 AP speakers at the Child Welfare Institute of America final session urged society to support unmarried mothers and place their children in proper environments. A state welfare law backed by records to force paternity and name recording was advocated. Miss Henrietta Lund Bisymarek claimed fathers are willing to provide for illegitimate children if not deterred by relatives and harsh welfare workers.
A sprawling list of radio programs across New York stations detailing concert broadcasts, birthday tributes, orchestra and chamber performances, dramatic readings, and public affairs talks. Notable entities include WNYC WHN WOR WNEW WMCA WLWL and several named performers, conductors, and venues. The schedule covers Washington’s birthday programming and various regional broadcasts, with times ranging from morning to midnight.
F M Russell describes charging a storage battery using direct current with a bank of three or four sixty watt bulbs. When connected in series with the ignition and the storage battery the lights burn dimly at first and brighten as the charge progresses.
A fragment references storage battery with the term smitch and nov pe, suggesting a note or item tag. The readable text centers on a storage device entry or brief cataloging label with unclear context. No dates or entities beyond the word nov appear.
A chaotic OCR listing schedules from many stations across the United States for Washington's Birthday programs. Includes opera, violin and vocal performances, weather forecasts and market reports with times, stations and performers.
Vice-President Dawes opened the Elks carnival in Honolulu by pressing a button to send a wireless signal from RCA’s WRC studio in Washington. Photographs show Dawes pressing the button. the ceremony was intended for transmission to Honolulu and publication in morning papers there.
In Doorn Holland February 21 ex Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife have shifted from poverty to pomp as Germany contemplates reparations compensation. A gala dinner hosted by the Governor of Utrecht featured the former royal family among official dignitaries and Dutch aristocracy, followed by dancing.
In Palntsaville on February 21, James Foster mortally shot attorney J. K. Wells on a street. Foster was spirited to Catlettsburg for safekeeping as tensions cooled. Wells died after an operation to remove bullets following the four shots fired during a street exchange.
A Detroit to Bridgeport air mail letter via the new private contract service arrived in about twelve hours, signaling a rapid transit era. The piece discusses the US government push for commercial aviation, a Boston led Colonial Airline plan, and Bridgeport’s potential as a landing ground amid forthcoming air routes and passenger freight prospects.
Acting Captain J. J. Grennan and three other Hartford firemen were overcome by smoke during a stubborn vault fire at Grove and Prospect streets. The blaze caused eye injuries and was blamed on carelessness during demolishing. Grennan returned to duty after treatment. others received care and continued. Fire fought as the toughest of the year.
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