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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1918
Page
18
Local druggists are offering 20 day trial packages of Vapor Rub externally applied to the throat and chest for children with colds. The ad promotes avoiding internal medicines, recommends fresh air and light exercise, and notes a 30 day trial offer with coupons valid in Bridgeport and nearby suburbs.
An old advertisement touts a hair removal treatment titled Just One Application and the Hairs Vanish. It promotes a delatone and water paste, applied for a few minutes to remove unwanted hairs. The copy claims one application suffices, advising to buy Aclatone in original packaging for certainty.
The Air Mail service will operate daily between York and Washington beginning April 1a under wartime aviation plans. Army pilots will fly one round trip daily except Sundays, with a three hour NYC to DC route including a stop in Philadelphia. Fields at Potomac Park, Leagueland, Philadelphia, Van Cortlandt Park or Mineola. First class mail of 100 pounds per trip in limited space.
Italians in the city rally behind World War I allies, adopting a no German or Austrian products policy. Enrico Caruso lodge F D L passes resolutions calling for total boycott to weaken the militarists and support Italy. The piece ends with a jab that the Kaiser should receive treatment in Belgium, a sentiment echoed by Belgians.
Hold two men, Willino Mirzenko and Stanley Wilkoski, on charges of theft and breach of the peace after a room at 207 Gregory Street was ransacked and about $90 missing. Both suspects, lodging in the house, were arrested early yesterday morning and remained in custody for investigation ahead of today’s city court arraignment.
A long obituary list details funeral times at various homes and churches for Carrie St. Cantichl Canfield Ena Schoenberger Rose J. Mudgett George Curry Edward Tolste Mary Kerrins Fedete Del Veecchio James Turney Sarah Anderson Peter Carey Hattie Krapp Agnes MacNadd Mary Rogers McBride and others in local cemeteries with burial plans at Lakeview St Michael's Mountain Grove and Bethel Baptist churches. Surviving relatives and service details are noted for each case.
The War Bureau finance committee will license all entertainment charity drives, dances, and public events with proceeds to war work or charities. Licenses require thorough accounting of receipts and expenses, with exact remittance to war relief agencies and proof of funds reaching headquarters. The committee will assess expenses against receipts, ensure applicant reliability, and curb excess or duplicative campaigns while extending oversight to all local charities and advertising plans.
A dated 1908 advertisement claims a long standing kidney remedy sold by Witpier's Swale Foot amsin for twenty years. The writer asserts the product as a valuable preparation, stating reviews of swamp foot ravaging and ovary satisfiettory pesnite. The letter is signed Tune 12, 1908 from renourd, NS.
A garbled ad fragment from DY Kihner & Co of Binghamton New York promotes Swamp Root with dubious claims. It instructs sending ten cents to Dre Milner & Co in Minehaniian New York for a supplementary size bait and offers a booklet of information. It references Bridgenart Tetegram Lost Meditny and Lodles drag store sale details.
New York a twenty year old girl was trapped between two street cars after an auto collided with a surface car on Fifty third street. A conductor freed her using the emergency brake and she escaped uninjured saying she had a date. The other woman involved denied wrongdoing.
Jonbn St. Wood and W. H. Stockwell of Bridgeport are elected among Connecticut delegates to attend the first national convention. Other Connecticut delegates are named.
A new national political party is formed in Chicago on March 6 uniting Republicans Socialists Prohibitionists and others to stay together on national affairs regardless of party policy.
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