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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1920
Page
4
A July clearance sale offers exceptional values on lingerie shirt waists and orgette shirts with waists, silk petticoats, marabout feather capes, and reliable fur scarfs for shoppers seeking bargains this season.
A vintage ad urges mothers to treat pale weak teens with Dr Williams Pink Pills to enrich blood and boost health. It promises red blood, strength, and a preventative role in heart health during adolescence, offering mail order and local drugstore availability with a free booklet.
An old advertisement warns thousands die from kidney disease and promotes Dr Carey's Marshroot as a cure. It urges readers to buy via Hindle's Drug store, claiming relief from eyes, headaches, and urinary symptoms with a “wonderful emption” price.
Coroner Phelan finds Sar el White Biitingham 24 died July ? at 1804 Nort avenue after a car struck by another on Neeth avenue near his home. He concluded no criminal act or carelessness by any party. The boy, walking with his sister, was hit as he stepped into the path of an oncoming car, suffering a fractured skull but dying from the injuries.
Coal shipments via rail and water routes through New York rose by 16 220 tons in the first half of the year, compared with last year, with total loads reaching 7 161 cars against 5 198 previously. Despite gains, demand outstrips supply, prompting greater use of waterways to speed delivery.
Hartford July 21 The matter of revamping the civil service law will be considered by the civil services commission Pariday There are 26 departments under the civil service law and 21 more are subject to pay scales The commission says the system does not give adequate protection to state interests About 1800 persons are employed by the state
An official Bolshevik wireless message details alleged atrocities by retreating Polish forces in the Gey district. It claims many villages were burned and Jewish farmers driven into flames, including 26 Jews killed in Potowise. Warsaw reports Jewish avenging factions organizing a district council to aid Polish authorities.
Bridgeport accounted for more than one sixth of Connecticut’s 28,290 births in 1918, the highest share among cities. The Census Bureau report notes a 28.7 per 1,000 state birth rate with foreign born white mothers at five percent, up 12 percent overall.
A demonstration in Dublin today supported the James Larkin release movement from a New York prison. A general strike was called but limited turnout. A procession passed the American consulate with few workers participating while police guarded the area. Some armed men halted tram service for two hours, though overall transit continued.
Beirut dispatch reports that Syria's Hardie Iveisal has accepted General Gouraud's ultimatum. King Welsal reportedly appeals to the League of Nations against the French mandate terms including language and currency adoption.
Paring Pp Christensen, Farmer-Labor party candidate for president, telegraphed Senator Harding and Governor Cox urging them to join in a demand upon President Wilson for the release from prison of Socialist nominee Debs Velch, detained in a political prison in Denviin Colo for symbolic reasons.
A shipside greeting in New York welcomes 881 American soldiers home from overseas aboard the steamship Princess Denade and Antwerp Treen. War brides of trench and German nativity are among the returning passengers.
A Rosindale woman testifies to relief from severe stomach pain worms and general fatigue after using Dr True's Elixir. She reports renewed energy, better sleep, and improved digestion, recommending the medicine to others suffering similar misery and weariness.
An old advertisement denounces soaps with high alkali for drying and brittling hair. It urges Olive Oil shampoo as pure and gentle, claiming it cleanses, rinses easily, and leaves hair soft, bright, and manageable, removing dust and dandruff.
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