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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1922
Page
13
Home dressmaking grows simple as a one piece neck to hem dress is shown. Cost about 70 cents for percale at 14 cents a yard and binding 20 to 35 cents. Pattern No. 1352 fits sizes 16 to 44 inches. requires 2 3 8 yards of 26 inch material. Pattern sent for 16 cents in stamps or coin.
The opening matches of the Industrial Service Center team tournament for beginners were played on YMCA courts with Meg Munsdo and Labor avenue staff refereeing. The event will continue next Monday. Swimming classes at Seaside Park draw crowds, meeting Thursdays. A campAltamont election will select campers Aug 14 to Sept 4 with nominees listed.
Children flood city playgrounds as baseball games begin amid a season of sports. Morning boys and afternoon girls compete while records and attendance rise, with July noted for peak activity and Wednesday free days offering picnics or postponed games.
A fragmentary diary style piece recounts Stella and Tad Tho visiting a cabin for a weekend, hikes, and aftermath including tears and a young man named Pierre crying. Harold calms the scene while Crawford Laundry is praised for handling outfits and care. The note mentions fashion buys, a wave set by Kamerling, and local real estate chatter at Fair Acres with prices and buildable lots. Stella plans a return visit and a boat trip to New Haven is proposed.
At Auteuil for the Prix de Longchamps a glittering crowd saw high style on trackside. Marie Normand wore a gold cloth gown with jade embroidery and diamonds in the hem, outshining even Fifth Avenue's best. Mabel, linked to a Paris fashion influence, denied engagement rumors with Prince Lornnima while noting Los Angeles as a future style hub. The event featured French society, Chicago guest Frank Potter Stewart in bold knits, and a noted disappearance mystery resolved as Mrs. Leeds explained retirement plans in Brittany before appearing at Deauville.
The Czecho Slovakian unit of the W C A holds a July 28 to 30 reunion at Stratford home of Miss Anne FR Smith. Speakers include Mabel Turner on unit work. Miss F Hesy and Miss F Lee sing in the native language. attendees feature Ruth Crawford, Maxy Herbert, Alpha Base, L Forlee, Anne R Smith and others.
Special music to be given at a wedding today. Personal notices include Mies Dorothy Guinn secretary of Wheatley Branch and others attending conferences. A wedding will be held for Elizabeth McElroy and Frank O’Brien with a detailed ceremony and three weeks honeymoon planned in Canada and the Adirondacks.
Miss Jeanette Kiskadden returns to her duties at the Central branch of the Y W C A after attending a High School girls conference at the THEM Stee Miexadden Bible class.
Kathryn Murphy of New York becomes wife of attorney Joseph D. Nunan and joins his firm as junior partner. The couple plans a single business and personal partnership with the firm name Nunan & Nanna, reflecting modern feminist views on marriage and career.
George Wakercat, driver in a Danbury Bridgeport road crash injuring three Rafers Peat Co. workers, was fined $126 in Bethel court for driving while intoxicated. Three injured men showed slight improvement in condition.
Vital statistics list several births with new daughters and sons. Notable entries include George and Eleanor Tonmaten at 7871 Hollister Avenue with a daughter born July 1, Elliot and Dorothy Logan at 65 Blackman Place with a daughter July 14, Leo and Anna O’Mara at 10 Hart Sorview Avenue with a son July 12, and multiple other families recording July births at listed addresses.
Shelton July 17 Charles J Schummingk of 11 Perry Ave died this morning after a long illness at about 75 years of age. He was a longtime member of the community, moving to Shelton after living in Derby and Darbyn Tu82 years ago. He is survived by his wife Pauline and six daughters, plus several sons and other relatives. The article also notes local social and school events and ongoing work on the new high school under contractor A Durschmit.
A large gathering hosted at Miss Mary Moles home, Happy Days cottage on Ping Creek Beach, showcased attendees including L Benedict and H Thayer couples, J T Cox and C Paray families, Doris Fardy, Loretta Beaudry, Mina Cox, Mary Beaudry, Herbert Wersh, Paul Webb, and J Pardy. Nearby notes report Mill River bridge work, a fire at Black Rock farm contained by the fire dept, a Bevins event featuring the Dodging Town orchestra, and a stream of week end visitors at Hotel Taquona including numerous Brooklyn Yonkers and Port Jefferson residents with various Leveys and Schofields among them. Charles Bergen visiting Walnut Beach. Bank Road work nearing completion.
A newspaper sale notice lists fabric discounts with various yard prices. Items include $1.93 for $1.45 72x90 and $4.85 for $1.35 63x96, plus 34 and 36 cent rates, 45 and 50 cent pieces, and imported Scotch corded ginghams in sought after shades. Former prices cited as 73 cents.
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