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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1927
Page
14
A rugged scene unfolds with Henry C. Rowland’s installment featuring bold dialogue and interior reflections. The narrative sketches nautical hints aboard a ship, detailing characters like Gertrude and others, amid tense exchanges and contemplative monologue, hinting at danger, pursuit, and evolving stakes on deck.
Advice on wearing proper outer garments to prevent illness and exposure. Emphasizes hats coats and boots as sensible, not signs of weakness. Includes reader questions on worms bronchitis and voice hoarseness with standard guidance to boost general health and provide self addressed envelopes for further details.
A playful how to for mothers and children describing a simple stick horse. A thin board becomes a horse head, painted and covered with oilcloth, attached to a broom handle, with leather ears and a rope mane. It suggests mothers may discourage crafty cutscapes on rainy days.
The Post Office Department advised Congressman Schuyler Merritt that a superintendent of mails and an additional regular clerk at Norwalk are authorized to start February 1. Merritt had pressed for the appointments noting postal business has outgrown the current staff and the new workers are needed.
Dorothy Dix argues that nine of ten unhappy wives are unhappy not from abuse but neglect. Men are seen as bill-payers with little regard for wives as partners. Nagging, tears, vanity, and extravagance by wives ruin marriages, while some husbands fail to praise or care yet love their wives. The piece laments gender roles and calls for balance to save marriages.
A fragment from a vintage housekeeping column outlines breakfast and dinner menus including prunes, cereal, codfish balls, and beef casserole. It also gives detailed doughnut recipes, yeast raised and baking powder varieties, with step by step ingredient lists and rising times.
A fragmented recipe explains heating vegetable oil in a double boiler to 375 400 degrees. Doughnut rings fry until brown on one side then turned to brown the other. Drain on brown paper and roll in powdered sugar. Ends with a misspelled line about the recipe.
Switzerland and France face a severe flu outbreak with Europe broadly affected. A League of Nations epidemiological bulletin, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, lists Great Britain Belgium the Netherlands Germany Denmark and Spain as also affected. Over 5 000 cases were reported in Basel in late December and more than 3 000 in Geneva in early January.
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