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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1926
Page
7
Women urged to stop delaying dental care as decay worsens. The ad promises a free examination and painless X rays to reveal root conditions and potential relief, asserting fillings or replacements are easier than leaving decay to affect health.
Do you suffer with cold feet and rheumatic pains. The ad touts Mike Martin's Liniment as a cure for cold feet when rubbed on feet and ankles before bed and again at dawn. It claims warm feet all day in winter and notes use by stage stars.
The famous Mission San Diego de Alcala, perched above Mission Valley, survives in a crumbling state while the bell rings atop a hill. The article recalls the mission’s founding in 1769, relocation in 1774, irrigation works, and 1808 earthquake damage, noting secularization in the 1830s and the present decayed walls that endure as history.
Worcester, Feb 24 AP Irving Longwell twenty six of Worcester faces three charges of attempted larceny in district court after using forged checks to order stocks valued near 100000 from brokerage firms. He allegedly used aliases and targeted firms in Rutland Barre Templeton West Boylston and others. Police say he profited about 830 on the Dodge Brothers deal as the stock rose after a refused 700 payment and later returned checks tied to the order.
A 20 foot diameter flywheel weighing 12 tons burst at the American Woolen company plant in Webster Massachusetts. The blast wrecked the engine and two adjoining buildings, forcing 60 percent of the plant to shut down. No injuries reported. Assistant mechanic Charles A Blais jumped through a window to shut off power valves, preventing further boiler damage.
A large crowd gathered at Trinity Episcopal church Southport for the funeral of Howard N Wakeman a longtime Fairfield official and former state legislator who died of bronchial pneumonia at Bridgeport’s Park City Hospital in his seventieth year. The service included Masonic rites by Temple Lodge 66 Westport with several civic leaders in attendance. Burial was at Oaklawn cemetery. Surviving are his wife Grace and two daughters Katherine and Clara and a son Tallmadge Nichols Wakeman. He served as secretary of the Bridgeport Historical Society keeper of Barnum Museum justice of the peace tax collector and longtime Fairfield Republican official. Additional notes mention plans for a Connecticut youth conference and various local club activities and rehearsals.
Hartford Feb 24 AP All creditors of the bankrupt estate of G Harold Gilpatric will be afforded an opportunity to examine the bankrupt Referee in Bankruptcy Saul Berman said today in response to a letter from Attorney John F Carpenter of Putnam. Carpenter complained he had been denied the chance to question Gilpatric during an earlier examination at Putnam Bank and questioned the wisdom of allowing Gilpatric at the bank on a holiday when the receiver was absent.
Nicest laxative Cascarets offered at 10 cents promises to relieve bilious and constipated feelings. Take one or two pleasant tablets to gently stimulate the liver and bowels, clearing the head and sweetening the stomach. Directions for all ages on each box at any drugstore.
A reader describes a warm bath followed by Sloan's liniment in hot water. After soaking a cloth in the mixture and applying it to the throat chest back and legs, the person is wrapped up warmly and sits with feet in the mixture for five minutes before drying quickly.
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