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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1928
Page
15
Extraordinary high perigee spring tides were noted yesterday along the shore. Tides peaked around 1 PM and again near 7 PM, with noticeable rises and minor damage risk reported.
Agnes Traney, popular dancer, promotes a new hair regimen called Danderine. She claims it reduces oily strands, cleanses the scalp, and keeps hair neat with less brushing, noting its fragrance and beauty benefits.
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Miss Katherine Wall of 15 Liberty Street is named delegate from the Connecticut Elmira College club Alumnae council at the college today and tomorrow. She is president of the local chapter with officers Mrs. Arthur Brown, New Haven, vice president, and Mrs. Frank Stisser, city, secretary.
Mrs Kaufman chairs a North End Talmud Torah dance at the Ritz on February 28. The Twelfth District Republican club hosts a pinochle evening at Union and Stratford with prizes and refreshments. Girls’ Friendly Society at Christ Church meets Monday at 7 30 led by Miss Marjorie Grant and Miss Joyce Bursey. Christ Church Rector’s Guild hosts a Lenten clam chowder luncheon Wednesday from 4 2 to 2. Mosaic club met at Mrs George Hathway’s Clinton Avenue home. A six lecture course What Psychology Offers the Modern Girl will be led by Doris Perry and Marionelis at 363 Golden Hill Street. English class attendees invited to International Institute Monday at two for talk and food demonstration by Miss Louise Spence. Refreshments by Council of Jewish Women. Ladies Guild of Black Rock Congregational will meet in Woodruff Memorial Hall Ladie’s Parlor at 10. Harmony Rebekah Lodge No 26 I O C F meets at 7 30 with cards at 8 30.
Connecticut Light and Power directors meet in Waterbury to act on Meriden protest against North Walk district victory and to plan playoff among Waterbury Meriden and Norwalk for second honors. President Thomas J Flanagan appointed to preside.
The recital at 4:15 tonight in the Stratfield hotel sun parlor features 26 numbers by pupils. Mrs. Lealia Joel Hulse pays for the event with Mrs. Helen Christie as accompanist, presenting a wide program including classical songs and operatic selections with several named performers and pieces.
The first Lenten musicale of the United church calendar will be held Monday afternoon at 4 o clock in February 1897. Frank Kasschau organist of Latoush Congregational Church Brooklyn and Frederic Baer baritone of the First Presbyterian Church Brooklyn are the featured artists. Kasschau directed Bridgeport Oratorio Society until recently and Baer also performs locally. Organ recitals are planned by Mrs Elmer Beardsley. Five recitals will follow this year each Monday afternoon during Lent.
William Brownell, seventy, died yesterday from a paralytic shock after being a patient at Hillside home. He lived with his wife Anna at 30 Butler Prague and was hospitalized after December 17, 1927. His condition had been senile and no prior shocks were known. The body was taken to T. T. Hanks undertakers at 314 Pairslelet avenue for funeral arrangements.
Washington February 14 The War Department ruled that olive drab shirts must stay with enlisted soldiers, rejecting white shirts and collars as too expensive. The decision followed investigation into costs and uniform practicality for the Army.
New York February 23. A woman artist, Phoebe Fay Whitney, age forty three, died suddenly in her lower east side studio where she worked on a mural or poster. Her brother and her assistant present in the same room could not respond in time. Whitney had maintained a career in commercial art.
A fragment recalls expeditions where the telephone reached the Arctic circle while radio traveled further north. It notes women rarely boast of education and imagines a woman claiming membership in the class of '98.
Portland readers learn that a four schooner fish fleet arrived ending a fish famine. The Incal fishbog fleeh delivered an aggregate catch of 19000 pounds of fresh fish. Dealers paid the season's highest price, bidding up to 11 cents per pound after a week with no fresh fish available.
The public is invited to the dedication of the Junior College of Connecticut this evening at 8 p.m. in the College Assembly Hall, with tours starting 7 p.m. The event signals support for a new cultural center serving community needs and outlining expansion plans for a 7150 student capacity in a Tudor-style tapestry brick complex at 1001 Fairfield Avenue.
At a meeting in Prague the Nations Bank Governor announced that Czecho-Slovakia would adopt a gold standard in the near future. The move aligns the country with the prevailing global financial trend.
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