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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1920
Page
8
Musterole promotes relief with a clean white ointment marketed as a mustard plaster substitute. It claims to ease sore throat, chest pains, colds, bronchial issues, rheumatism, lumbago, and muscular aches, priced at 300 and 600 jars, hospital S12.
Rabbi Meyer Berlin has been elected president of the International Mizrachi Conference. The body, with about 20,000 members in America, convened in Amsterdam to discuss plans for return of Jews to Palestine amid a world Jewish population around 8 million outside the United States.
A coroner ruled there was no suicide after four year old Vivian Davies swallowed a toy balloon while deflated. The balloon expanded midway down his throat causing a life threatening situation and prompting medical attention.
Special Correspondent for Universal Service and the London Daily News reports from Rome on travel woes, currency chaos, and strained rail and telegraph systems in postwar Italy. Business leaders express guarded optimism despite German indemnity doubts as they pursue recovery with foreign aid and domestic reforms.
A well known eye specialist and Dr Judkins report Bon-Opto strengthens eyesight and may reduce the need for glasses. They cite cases of rapid improvement in children and elderly patients and suggest widespread use in practice. The remedy is sold in drug stores with a money-back guarantee if not effective.
The Bureau of Home Economics proposes a miniature kitchen sugar mill using sweet potatoes and malt. The process covers malt preparation, potato washing and boiling, mashing, controlled heating, and pressing to extract juice for syrup, with careful temperature control throughout.
The Society of Meat Importers reports English adults now eat 24 percent less meat than before the war. UK prewar annual meat consumption was about 1,800,000 tons. current figures around 1.2 million tons, blamed on sustained high costs. Englishmen and women remain fond of meat but cannot afford as much as in the past.
A dense draft describes live theater and film attractions. The Poli Players present The Wormian Laikoom with Mary Ann Dentler and Arthur Chattesdon star in snappy dialogue while Willard Dagheil plays the wronged husband. Next week Up stairs and Down may run twice daily. Other acts include Sopie Maginova in Stranger Than Death and Beatriy Michelena in Heart of Juanita at the West End. Also listed are dance classes and private lessons with multiple showings at local venues.
Marches parades dinners and ship model expositions will launch nationwide demonstrations to boost the American merchant marine. F 2 W Ross says events run April 12 for one week with leaders John Barton Payne and WW Alexander attending. The program centers in New York but aims to be national in scope.
Fiorello La Guardia, president of the board of aldermen, urged raising New York City policemen wages to cover expenses. He noted his own salary of 7500 dollars and that his wife took on family washing duties, illustrating the burden of police pay.
Women assert equal voice beyond home duties and praise Wah Dyk Quali-Teas as the best and most economical option by far in a community endorsement.
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