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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1918
Page
10
Business talks to women Ellen Lane Spencer discusses how waste baskets reveal a stenographer’s thrift and discretion. The piece urges tearing up confidential letters and avoiding careless disposal to prevent leakage of employer secrets.
Miss Grace Bouton and Miss Frieda Luippold return from New York as guests of relatives. Several locals visit Boston and New Haven on business or to report for duty. Updates on Camp Devens assignments, hospital stays, and home visits appear amid social notes and public notices. A birthday party honors Nicholas Panuzio with patriotic readings and music. A marriage annulment petition and a political appointment are also noted.
The Y M C A Stage Circus and Minstrel tomorrow and Friday evenings promises an elite performance with new jokes a snappy cast and up to date costumes. Leroy Mundy leads a clever comedy skit while clowns including Robie Smith Bill Leverty Jad Shaw and others add spectacle. Milton Dayton will deliver a chalk talk and the borse department marks its fourth year staging the event with audience entertainment likely to be memorable.
Frieda Hempel, leading Met Opera soprano, headlines a six part Park Tonight concert. Paul Eisler accompanies at the piano as the program includes Verdi Ernani aria, Mendelssohn On Wings of Song, Tschaikowsky Cradle Song, Taubert Bird Song, and other pieces arranged for voice by Miss Hempel.
A passenger recounts how a police officer who led sapper engineers earned the coveted cross by resisting a German raiding party on a Man’s Land patrol. The officer, in charge of the ramapeng sappers and qiners, fought off attackers with improvised weapons.
Milford invites discussion on federal woman suffrage as Lucy Burns, a noted suffragist and organizer, is set to speak at the town hall Saturday afternoon at 3. Mrs W D Ascough of Hartford will also attend and preside. local women have organized to press Connecticut senators to support the federal amendment.
The Bridgeport Symphony Society with John J Raynolds will perform this afternoon for the Wednesday Afternoon Musical Club. A special program arranged by Mrs G Windsor features a sextette and soprano solos, followed by the Symphony No 8 in B minor and other works by Mozart Schubert Weber.
A personal letter describes longing for letter news from France, hopes for outdoor spring events in Mo Binek Rock Shore, and plans for St Patrick's dances, fried chicken dinners, and orchestra nights. It also follows daily life with Marion's rose decor, shopping for a rose satin bolster, and comments on the boys’ medicine and ice cream plans.
In Adele Garrison’s tale Mrs. Graham clashes with Miss Grace Draper as Dicky Graham and the model secretary plans a country day and house hunt. Jealousy stirs while a sudden city trip promises tension, with Dicky’s callous excuse intensifying Mrs. Graham’s fear of losing him to Grace.
My Style-Diary notes a canary yellow waistcoat over a white skirt and blouse with black piping and a rolling lapel. The writer envisions interchangeable buttons on shanks and matching waistcoats with hats and stockings for an economical, smart look, from Madame’s morning. In news, Berlin reports General Linsingen’s forces capture Kolenkowitz in Volhynia.
A garbled advertisement promotes a Marmoia Prescription Tablet claimed to remove excess fat quickly and harmlessly. It urges customers to buy at local stores or write directly, promising relief from dieting and exercise. The text imitates a medical remedy pitch from Detroit, Michigan.
Washington reports arrangements to relocate Americans from Moscow to Se mara about 500 miles east as part of wartime evacuation plans. The move aims to consolidate personnel away from advancing fronts and ensure their safety amid ongoing operations.
An advertisement touts Parisian sage as a quick safe inexpensive remedy to refresh faded dry hair, reduce scalp itch and shedding, and promote new growth. It claims the liquid is antiseptic, non greasy, non color altering, and guarantees satisfaction with money back.
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