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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1918
Page
5
A woman deeply engaged in Red Cross work before wartime becomes fixated on charity dancing for foreign causes after a London hospital letter reveals her cousin, an ambulance driver in France, was wounded by a German shell.
The model shows a jacket with a crystal belt arrangement at the front, a gathered peplum longer at the sides, and fur bands emphasizing the extra length. A plain skirt is gathered by fur, and fur forms the high collar and deep cuffs. Medium size requires 5 yards of 54 inch material.
Ellen Lane Spencer offers practical guidance for women in business on resisting envy of higher paid peers. She compares perceived success to a grain of salt and urges subtracting others' salaries from a hypothetical total to gauge personal worth, insisting on self measured by real achievements rather than rumors.
News notes cite Helen Hazel Chase marriage to Sergeant Otis Norcross Lewis in Hudson New Hampshire and Army links. Local society items cover club meetings, lectures on Juvenile Delinquency by Mrs Otto Wittpenn, furloughs of servicemen, house guests, receptions for State Equal Suffrage leader Katherine Ludington, and various visits, travels, and entertaining in Bridgeport and surrounding towns.
A large audience enjoyed a benefit concert at St. Vincent's for a new hospital wing. Prominent guests included Mrs William E E Aiken and Mark A Luescher of the Hippodrome New York, plus Sylvester Poli and Father Waring. Dorothy Perrin and the Elm City Four highlighted a varied program, raising about 2060 dollars for the charity.
Miss M Stella Sprague will explain the conservation program at an open meeting for Bridgeport women in the Art League rooms on State Street January 30 at 3:00 PM. As Connecticut Food administration head and National Defense Council food committee chair, she links home economics to wartime relief and postwar aims.
Joseph Smith sued George Goelbman in common pleas court for S400 claiming damages tied to a Ford auto sale. A judge noted uncertainty in the filing while witnesses and parties including Mrs. George White and Charles Poland appeared.
Department of Justice Agent C H Lane and John Hickey arrested ten saloon keepers in the city last Saturday for selling liquor to U S soldiers while in uniform. The arrests indicate future plainclothes monitoring of local saloons to enforce selective service law compliance.
Captain Carl T. Vogelgesens is named by Secretary Daniels to head an American naval officers commission to Brazil to instruct the Brazilian naval cadet school. The other members remain to be chosen as the United States honors its pledge to aid Brazil in war preparations.
Adele Garrison narrates a tense visit to Lillian Underwood to hear a secret linking her past to the narrator's husband. Mrs Underwood's maid Betty pressures with wine and care, while the two women anticipate a revealing interview that will unfold in a pink boudoir as the history class and library work loom ahead.
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