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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1918
Page
10
The year 1918 will expand women's opportunities as occupations previously closed to them reopen. Women should consider using evenings or hobbies to support the country and industries, reflecting wartime sacrifice. The article urges progressives to prepare to contribute more than in the past year.
Bridgeport local notes record visits and departures from Mansfield and Bridgeport. Thomas A. Reilly departs for the south after a stay with his mother. several Bridgeport high school girls aid Italian War Sufferers drive. families welcome guests from New Milford and Stepney. the Bridgeport Ladies' Charitable Society hosts a Valentine Tea February 8 at 169 Boston Avenue with monthly sewing and aid activities. An exhibition in D M Redd’s window by sculptor Cregario Felline offers a vase prize for fundraising efforts. Community updates include appointments, reunions, and society events. Red Cross fuel conservation efforts are noted.
Instruction on two frock designs for informal entertaining. The first uses fig ured noolle with a divided tunic, deep satin collar and cuffs, velvet girdle, and specific yardage for medium size. The second features velvet or satin materials with a high collar, embroidered waist panels, and left side adjustment with pockets, plus yardage estimates.
Community notices report Olivet Congregational church changing activities to Monday for midweek meeting and fires remaining two days weekly. Additional items mention convalescents, travelers, a birth, hospital updates, social events at the YWCA and Stratfield, charity bridge, and upcoming art lectures.
Fragmentary OCR passage describes a female narrator raised with refined behavior and hidden rough experiences. References to a peench teacher and dancing teacher hint at guidance figures while garbled words obscure concrete events.
Miss Clara Katherine Haywood, leading woman billiard player in the United States, will visit New England this winter for exhibitions to aid the Billiardists' War Ambulance fund. She is touring via Milwaukee Chicago and moving toward Detroit Cleveland Dayton Buffalo Rochester Albany New York Philadelphia. Proceeds from exhibitions and matches go to the ambulance fund. She may face Alex Elmstie and Charley Ellis of Milwaukee early next week.
A new passenger proclaims pacifism in a British railway compartment, urging nonviolence if victory cannot be achieved in three years. A stern woman demands a man named John Tamson exit the carriage, sparking astonished murmurs about pacifism and prolonged war.
The column recalls Harriet and Marriet’s wartime roles with typewriting and clerical work for the Red Cross, plans for Rosemary School students moving to Florida to escape coal shortages, and Heifetz’s celebrated Bridgeport recital. It notes mothers arranging wardrobes, local fund drives, and women volunteering for war relief efforts while Aunt Mary guides household help and Aunt Rosemary’s schooling plans unfold amid fuel scarcities.
Fragmentary text shows a notice about stopping new shipbuilding contracts. Names and places are garbled but indicate a government or authority action in the wooden ships division. No clear date, organization, or complete names are readable. The readable elements suggest official action affecting ship construction and contracts.
In a hospital scene Dicky Graham and his wife await news as Dr. Pettit frets over a patient’s pneumonia risk. The nurse Miss Sonnet arrives. the wife’s care earns Dr. Pettit praise, and a developing romance hints at deeper ties as the couple fears for the patient and finally retires for rest.
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