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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1918
Page
14
Peter Phillips of 7 Water street faces a city court this afternoon on a charge of opening his barber shop on Sunday morning to shave and hair cut several men. He was arrested yesterday noon at his Water street shop with customers inside. He was taken to police headquarters and booked.
In Philadelphia, Mrs. Mancarrt Ness reports a seven year back and pelvic pain improved after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She endorses the remedy for irregularities, inflammation, backache, headaches and related symptoms. The ad invites others to try the root and herb product and contact Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co for guidance.
Report outlines a Senate Republican Democrat coalition aim to modify the war control draft while House Republicans plan another conference. Me dco to press railroad legislation hearings. naval and military inquiries advance with warnings of war time limits on government operation and shipbuilding measures.
Bridgeport plants including American Chain Bryant Electric Warner Bros Harvey Hubbell Crane Valve and Singer faced mixed exemption news as Washington issued orders under Garfield. Local administrator Carl Slem on pressed for direct guidance while six large operations reported no exemption requests and await formal rulings as fuel rules affect idle workers and freight loading.
An article explains that anemia is a lack of blood common among growing girls and worsened by overwork and inactivity. It promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a blood tonic, citing Mrs. Morgan Bowen of Minneapolis who improved after use. Pills cost 60 cents a box, or two boxes for 2.50, from the Williams Medicine Co. Schenectady NY, with a free booklet available on request.
The latest account of the Sultan Yavuz Selim notes bomb drops by British airmen during a July air attack near the Turkish coast. The former German cruiser remained out of action for months due to damage. A June 1947 Turkish report recounts the Midulla in a successful Black Sea engagement with Turkish units against Russian land positions and minor craft.
The piece notes a plan to supply soft coal at nine dollars per ton to some workers failed. Washington promised 1500 tons weekly of hard coal, but none arrived. A coal train from Harlem River gateway passed Bridgeport with spare freight, while Bridgeport and Stamford face shortages and loadouts.
Rev Daniel M Lewis of the Newfield Methodist Episcopal church leaves for Gordon New York area to work for the YMCA for a month. Rev Joseph Peacock of Westerly R I will occupy the pulpit during Mr Lewis absence.
Report from Prussian officials notes ten percent of wartime births were illegitimate. Unmarried mothers in Prussia reportedly total around twenty thousand annually, reflecting social and demographic strains during the period.
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