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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1918
Page
7
Y M C A boys will travel to First Lutheran church near Laurel avenue and Grove street for a special program arranged by Rev H C Arch. All boy division members meet at the Y M C A at 6 30 p m before walking to the church.
C F Reynolds of 412 Herrick St Elmira New York writes he suffered kidney trouble for months and was bedridden with back pain. After starting Foley Kidney Pills he was soon able to rise. The advertisement from Flindle's Drug Store promotes the pills for kidneys bladder and related pains.
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets as a gentle liver and bowel cleanser. It claims to relieve headache colds sour stomach coated tongue and indigestion by taking one or two before bed and again in the morning. The box costs ten cents and is pitched as harmless and non-gripe for children.
Weston notices report the death of Clerk William T. Haviland of the Superior Court in Bridgeport. Other local residents and juniors express regret while brief items note jury duty for Charles R. Morehouse, weather flooding roads, Red Cross sewing, Norfield club meetings, and residents returning from Waterbury and New York trips.
A boy narrator recalls a dream of execution and escape while hiding from detectives in a city, then recounts mischief with Jubilee near a pond. He describes schoolyard antics, a tense classroom scene, and wary glimpses of law officers as he plans to stay out of town until he gains “whiskers.”
A garbled diary style fragment discusses supper, odds, and a misheard plan. It mentions a dinner, tension over a bet, and a mistaken statement about nine dollars. The passage reads as a fragmented stream of thoughts with unclear subjects and actions.
Greenfield Hill reports the death of Ruth Godfrey, 20, daughter of Eugene Godfrey, from pneumonia after a three day illness while visiting Little Swiss, New York. The body will be shipped home for funeral arrangements. Also noted are two navy recruits sent to New Haven for enlistment, William Gerhard, 21, of 44 High Street, apprentice seaman, and Ulyssrant Lyles, 18, of Sachs Street, Stratford, apprentice seaman.
Regular monthly meeting of the M G A boys cabinet will be held next Tuesday evening at Somme.
Josiah Shepperson of 504 Howard Avenue was arrested at the Second Precinct last night on a charge of evading responsibility after allegedly driving a coal wagon into a jitney on Noble Avenue yesterday afternoon and speeding away after exchanging insults when asked for his name and address. The pursuing jitney driver aided by witnesses followed the wagon and identified Shepperson.
The driver said the coal truck operator hurled coal at him. The incident was reported to police, leading to the arrest of Shep and his detention for city court this forenoon.
Eugene J. Lennen, 26, of 815 Willer Street, was accepted for service in the aviation corps of the United States Army yesterday at the army recruiting station on Fairfield Avenue. He was sent to Wort Slocum, New York, for enlistment.
Miss G. C. Schweidtle, a Maplwood school teacher, reports her room is 100 percent perfect in Christ Stamps. William T. Hincks, chairman of the general committee, asks that any room achieving 108 percent in Thrift or War Savings stamps report immediately.
Edwin C. Phinney of Minneapolis died of pneumonia in a French hospital. A banker for twenty years, he went to France in January as a business secretary of the Y M C A. He was 35, survived by his widow, and his death marks the second Y M C A secretary to die in war work in France.
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