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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1918
Page
6
Stratford residents discuss homegrown pork during a festive season, noting many keep pigs in pens and cellars to ensure Christmas meals. The piece also covers a War news roundup with Captain Warner’s France briefing and a Canine canteen program for soldiers, plus local obituaries and shipyard notes.
Fairfield July 17 pledge cards for Connecticut Canning Corps will be distributed by Mrs. William B. Glover and the Home Economics committee. Housewives urged to sign pledges to can at least quarts, aiding wartime food conservation. Fairfield quota set at 29392 quarts. Red Cross and band events noted along with local civic updates.
London reports thirty five American sailors from the former lake steamer George Eliot arrived after the vessel foundered in a storm. They escaped in lifeboats, were rescued by a warship, and brought to London. Also notes Miss Marjorie Hill and Miss Hazel Connelly visiting. Camp Fire girls show and thrift stamp drive at local schools.
Wilton observers forecast a shorter apple crop than last season as only a small share of blossoms set and many apples dropped. The drop portends higher prices for cider and vinegar with spring barrel prices at a record 18 dollars. Prohibition politics loom as states west and south push closer to nationwide changes, influencing demand for juice if crops improve later.
Milford July 17 Special The patriotic baby show at Walnut Beach will run the week of July 29 under Walnut Beach Business Men's Association with a schoolgirl vacation jubilee. L M Rich will manage. 18 prizes worth 250 dollars. Carriages transported from the city by a Connecticut company. Events include a baby carriage and go kart festival a schoolgirls jubilee parade a dainty white dress contest and coronation at Strand Theatre.
Yale University emeritus professor of history Arthur Martin Wheeler born Weston Conn January 21 1836 died at his Grove Beach Westbrook summer home. longtime Phi Beta Kappa lecturer on Waterloo until two years ago and author on historical topics. He retired in 1906 and was a lecturer on European history until 1911. Funeral planned for Friday. survived by two sons and a daughter.
London dispatch reports about 500 people dying daily from cholera in Petrograd with deaths spreading to Saratov and Finland. The note adds Finland and other regions suffer, as disease expands across Russia and parts of Europe.
Southport July 17 Special Mrs. Howard N Wakeman hosted the Current Events club for a sewing session producing hospital shirts for the Fairfield chapter of the Red Cross. Enlists in Navy John B Sherwood son of Mr and Mrs Herbert B Sherwood of Pequot road enlisted yesterday in the United States Navy and will leave Southport Friday morning for Newport.
A lightning bolt struck James Dodd's barn two miles south of New Milford during a severe storm, igniting hay and burning two cows. Total damage estimated at $7,000. Nearby tobacco barn owned by Robert Strong also blown over, with corn and tobacco losses. Firefighters protected the house nearby.
Lieu tenant Harold C. Mills a Trinity College 1915 graduate and Berkeley Divinity School student who joined the army last year after Fort Benjamin Harrison is dead in France per word received today His father is Rev S A Mills Rocker of St Luke's Church Troy N Y
William D. O'Brien former Telegram police reporter now a United States Marine visits this city and Norwalk home. He has spent seven months at Paris Island North Carolina and wears a sharpshooter badge. He has spent recent weeks instructing new recruits in firearm use.
Joan Wade Hemingway of 1 Lewis Street Stratford enlisted in the merchant marine yesterday at the office of Special Recruiting Agent William P Hindle under the Southport Current Events club auspices. The Pequot School is expected to be ready for occupancy this fall amid slow progress due to material and labor shortages.
Thomas J. Mooney departed San Francisco with Sheriff Finn and a deputy for the death row at San Quentin where he awaits execution on August 23 for murder tied to the Preparedness Day bomb explosion. The report notes the caption’s political framing about wartime rhetoric.
In these times every housewife should know Jiffy-Jell. It promises rich fruity desserts made instantly without sugar, and desserts with half the cost of pastry. It also suggests fruit with jelly, salads from leftovers, and jellied meat loaves, while noting sugar is scarce for canning.
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