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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1918
Page
18
The June Board of Education meeting will debate three hot topics. German language continuation in high school faces controversy. A petition seeks a $200 annual pay raise for teachers. The board also considers hiring a building engineer to keep school facilities in repair.
A petition from teachers urged a $200 flat raise, debated at a regular meeting with discussion about postponing action to a later session. The issue appeared on the table for a month and may reappear tonight.
Hartford June 9 The Food Administration issues a revised compilation of all special quotas and regulations governing bakers licensed by the United States Food Administration. The document, revised to May 3, updates numbering and arrangement of the bakers rules for public distribution.
The notice outlines changes to food rules including vegetable shortening definitions, thirty day limits on sugar and wheat flour stocks, and sixty day stocks for shortening. It requires bakers to be licensed, to report wheat usage, and to adjust production toward smaller wheat content and standard loaf sizes. Connecticut bakers failing to report by week’s end risk license revocation.
A traveling salesman recalls being run down with poor appetite and no ambition. He credits Vinci tonic with restoring health and strength within days, claiming it keeps him in splendid condition each spring and fall. The ad touts Vinci as a constitutional remedy with beef and cod liver peptones, iron, manganese peptonates and elycerophosphates.
Rev. John G. Sader in a Christ Church sermon urged bearing burdens with noble aims and trusting in God. He cited cross bearing as essential, urged by Jesus and echoed by a church ceremony where a Boy Scout carried the American flag as the choir sang America.
An advertisement fragment describes fatigue and debility with claims of nervous weakness and various tonics. It references a patient named Gael and cites pills, measurements of blood thinness, and promises of restoration via “Willkims’ Tink” bills and other remedies, inviting readers to respond with postpaid orders.
Rewle Reilly of 625 Fairgeld Avenue has found a gold watch. The owner can reclaim by identifying the piece.
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