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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1918
Page
13
A Strand showing today features a seafaring tale full of swaggering sailormen budka mates and hard fisted skips, with seventy foot yard arms and a seething forecastle atmosphere that grips the imagination. It emphasizes brisk action, ropework, and nautical bravado in a compact, period tone.
An advertisement touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as the key to beauty by improving digestion. It links stomach comfort to clear skin and lowers pimples, rash, and dullness, urging women to take two 50 cent boxes for relief.
A young man credits Phosphated Iron with restoring sleep, appetite, and vitality after weeks of exhaustion and nervous strain. He details rapid recovery, improved color, weight gain, and renewed strength, noting doctors endorse the remedy and urging consumers to obtain genuine tablets from trusted druggists.
A nostalgic advertisement extols Cascarets for women and girls claiming to improve liver function mood digestion and complexion. The copy promises clearer heads sweeter stomachs and rosy complexions with a 10 cent box available at drug stores.
Park theatre features Billy Watson burlesque with Katheryn Pearl and Beatrice Harlowe plus a new act. Poli’s presents nine operatic celebrities and a photo play with Sins of Ambition. The Plaza offers a vaudeville bill with the Australian Creightons, Broadway Duo, The Singing Highlanders, and Maciste in The Warrior. upcoming Girl Outside at Theatre Beautiful and assorted reviews of acts and performances.
The famed feminine impersonator Julian Eltinge hurries to work on his Paramount film The Clever Mrs Carfax directed by Donald Crisp. The Hippodrome offers a big double feature tonight and tomorrow with Douglas Fairbanks in Double Trouble.
An advertisement promotes a DIY cough syrup using Pinex and sugar syrup. It asserts lower cost, better relief than store bought remedies, and quick action against coughs bronchitis croup whooping cough and asthma. It notes Pinex is a concentrated Norway pine extract and warns to buy 2 1-2 ounces with full directions.
A Strand reel program features Patricar les style comedy with Dakota Dan and William 8 Hart. Several other pictures round out the program, including William Russell's new play Tomorrow: George Wash in the Sea Master.
A testimonial from Father Lynch of St. Peter's Church Danbury 1886 1905 extols Linonine as the best remedy for coughs bronchitis and wasting diseases. He reports rapid relief after starting the first bottle and urges others suffering from bronchial or lung troubles to use it. Look for the familiar trade mark.
A 17 year practice by Dr F M Edwards sold olive colored tablets from common vegetables. Marketed as a safer substitute for calomel they claim to improve complexion and relieve constipation. Sold 10c and 75c per box with emphasis on women patients.
Tomorrow features Gladys Hulette in Over the Hill a Pathe drama. The Fors company includes Clarence Burton Perry Banks Rena Carlton and George Fisher with Chan Celia Billington among the supporting cast.
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