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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1918
Page
15
Foster Besse Co promotes a dollar day sale claiming bulk purchasing saves money for customers. The ad highlights the store as part of a 38-store system and boasts buying ten million dollars worth of clothing and furnishings yearly to justify lower prices.
A vintage store circular advertises discounts on men and youth Union Suits, hatch and Taco brands, Beacon white socks, Silk Neckties, and Palm Beach and straw hats. Offers include $1.00 reductions on trousers and suits, half price on straw hats, and a blanket $1.00 off on Palm Beach and B V D items. Limited to listed stock with regular price marks.
Classified notice lists boys apparel discounts including Bell Blouses for four for $1.00 Koolfit Kadets unions pajamas and Nainsook union suits at 4 for $1.00 Collars six for $1.00 stiff cuff shirts at 3 for $1.00 Linen pants two pairs for $1.00 Black Cat stockings three pairs for $1.00 and two pairs of boys stockings for $1.00 with prices noted.
Advertises big discounts across many shoe types including children's leather play shoes at 2.48 and 2.75, white Nu Buck pumps at 1.00, women's and bathing shoes, poplin oxfords, canvas and leather sole shoes, and brown black oxfords with discounts up to 2 off. Includes light blue and tan chambray work shirts and grey chambray shirts.
Washington reports casualties from American expeditions. Killed in Action total six, Died of Wounds eighteen, Died of Accidents and Other Causes includes several named Privates and Corporals from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, New Jersey, Illinois, and beyond. Wounded Severely named include multiple Corporals and Privates across towns. Prisoners previously reported missing listed with named individuals and addresses.
Amsterdam dispatch quotes Frankfurter Zeitung critiquing President Wilson on a lasting peace. The paper says Wilson’s generalities risk eroding American and Entente influence in territories including Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines, and regions of Africa and Asia, unless his prominence is sustained by a true peace.
The draft board notes few delinquents with most questionnaire work due. A recent order by Pro Voet Murshid delays action while deferments are tracked and redistributions occur. Charles Maliry of Mallory dies in Greenvich. survived by two brothers, Henry and Stobert. member of several clubs.
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