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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1927
Page
9
Miss Mar Sinttery is expected in Bridgeport today to hold addresses at several churches and platforms. Local ministers, church groups, and residents are invited to attend as speakers cover topics from faith and community service to social issues.
An old advertisement promotes Rich in health building vitamins and a Tabletts for 6A children. It claims a combination of strength and growth support, with easy to swallow sugar coated tablets. The copy emphasizes weight gain and stomach ease, touting liver oil and brand names for kid health.
A reader asks how to handle a teething infant waking at night and being fed at the table. The column recommends weaning at seven months, suggests a feeding leaflet titled Weaning and Feeding, and invites requests with self addressed stamped envelopes.
Readers of the Telegram are invited to write Mrs. Myrtle Meyer Eldred and receive a personal reply. Address letters to Mrs. Eldred at the Bridgeport Telegram for intimate topics and responses.
A critique arguing schools undervalue hands on work. It urges every subject to include practical shop work, contending skilled hands turn ideas into action. The piece laments overreliance on book learning and calls for balance between study and manual training to prepare productive citizens.
Plans are complete for the elder girls conference to be held at the United church Friday and Saturday. About 200 out of town girls and 100 local girls will attend. Principal addresses by Miss Margaret Slattery and the Rev. Armin G. Wong. Discussion group readers announced for Saturday morning with topics chosen by the girls. Leaders include Miss Clara L. Carruth, Yale Divinity School. Miss Helen Clark, Warren Harding High School. Miss Marjorie Grant, Central High School. Mrs. W. T. Finney of Stamford. Beulah Pinks of Meriden. Hedith Walker of Bristol. Rev. Armin J. Wong. Conference begins at 10:45 Saturday morning.
The Hebrew Educational Center of Bridgeport finishes a set of Friday evening lectures at the North End Talmud Torah. Each lecture features a well known Jewish author or speaker and is open to all city residents for open discussion afterward. Debates on Jewish literature and culture will accompany the talks.
The Chicago Civic Opera company departed for a seven weeks tour with seventeen hundred fifty trunks and twenty nine baggage cars of scenery and paraphernalia. The company of three hundred will perform eighteen operas in Boston and eighteen other cities, costing over 3 000 000 for scenery and wardrobe and 117 000 for the cast, with transfer charges exceeding 172 000.
Readable items include linen scarfs, Irish scarfs by the half dozen, English prints, girls frocks, house dresses, aprons, women's handkerchiefs, gloves, skirts in flannel and tweed, silk and wool hose, brassieres, bandeaux, step-ins, and crepe gowns. Prices slash regulars on many downtown floor items with second and third floor displays noted. Also listed are garb and home goods such as portieres, wool blankets, veiled trousseau pieces, and tans art linen yardage plus candles and window ventilators for quick clearance.
In Chicago in Superior Court Simon Steinberg sought an injunction to stop his divorced wife from marrying Jacob Schaefer of the Bronx. He argued a Mexican divorce decree obtained by his wife is valid and that if she wed Schaefer she would face bigamy charges and irreparable harm to him. The court granted ten days for an answer.
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