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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1919
Page
14
News of Interest to Women requests reader input for the Telegram’s Woman’s Page. Submissions should include sender name and address and may be telephoned to Barnum 6100.
Miss Olive Casey of Benham and Miss Doris Casey sail through New Year greetings with families in Benham and South Norwalk. Local residents report visits, transfers, and greetings from Lt. Thomas F. O’Brien on furlough, and many short trips to Baltimore New York and Atlantic City. A Red Cross auxiliary sewing meet, widow society activities, and numerous New Year parties fill the local scene with civic and social bustle.
A personal letter recounts a lonely day in Fairfield turned lively by a Welsh rarebit party with a visiting lieutenant. shopping notes follow, detailing half price jewelry, silverware, and china from G. W. Fairchild and Sons and a surge of January sales at Chamberlin and Shropshire's, N Buckingham and Company, plus Lewandos cleaning and alterations for wartime wardrobes and home goods. The writer, Elizabeth Penner, reflects on fashion, clubs, and domestic comforts while noting local stores and sales as a cheerful counterpoint to harsh weather and wartime strain.
Miss Margaret Boyd of Hartford has been chosen to succeed Mrs. Ann Cullen as superintendent of the Visiting Nurse association. She began duties January 1 and is a graduate nurse with Johns Hopkins and New York philanthropy school training. President A L Riker said plans aim to enlarge the work, with many nurses already tied to Red Cross and overseas duty, and more to be recruited soon.
The Red Cross at Seaside Institute opened for work with about 20 women joining. The aim is to finish 12 000 refugee garments by month’s end, the only current project, while wool and knitted items are recalled and surgical dressings paused for two months. Mrs Worthen notes frontline effort to meet the deadline.
Florence Clara Way married Max St. Schmidt at her parents home on Stratford Avenue. Rev Robert C Whitehead officiated as relatives gathered for a small ceremony and reception. Afterward the couple departed by 4 36 train to New York for part of their honeymoon.
Prepare two boiled custards using cupful and a half of milk flavored with coffee. Add sugar, cornstarch, eggs, vanilla, and whipped cream. Cook seven minutes, chill, then fold in ground macaroon crumbs as it begins to congeal.
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