Bridgeport Centers on Baby Health With New Weighing Card
Bridgeport launches an intensified baby health campaign using a detailed weighing card with six birth and early development questions. It aims to classify all children five years and under, advise mothers on care, and direct unhealthy cases to physicians or the Hall Home clinic for free treatment. About 200 children weighed so far. weekly school lectures planned to promote awareness.
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Bridgeport
Washington
Leroy B. Wilkes
Wilkes
Hall Home
Main Street
Betty Frisbie
Esther Nashnagle
North Main Street
Stratford
Nichols
W. Brzozowski
W. Krawczyk
Bruce Avenue
T. H. Corbit
F. L. Shanon
Lordship
Barbara Dargo
Lorenzo Silvestro
Homecrest
Jere Holmes
Tessie E.S. McGrath
Holmes Street
Marcial
Fox
Warner Street
Stephen Johnson
Antonio Deleon
Jessie Avenue
T. F. McElaney
L. H. Sorbit
G. C. Maiello
Mary Caulfield
Lyric Park
Town Hall
Charles H. Peck
Methodist Church
Congregational Church
Charles Stevens
Broadbridge Road
Barouin
Yeogirls Defy Navy Stocking Rules in Boston
In Boston the seam of a Navy wardrobe dispute grows as young yeomen resist an official rule requiring cotton hosiery and eight inch skirt clearance. Some insist silk stockings aid their work, while others bow to regulations, leaving Uncle Sam's enforcement uncertain.
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New York
United States Navy
Boston
Navy Yard
Washington
Uncle Sam
Falls From Cab To River In Hartford Line Crash
Howard Dart of Hartford, a freight fireman on the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad, suffered an eighty foot fall from the cab into the Naichaug river while crossing the stream near Wilimantic. Rescued by train crew, he is 25 years old and in a hospital in critical condition.
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Wilimantic
Howard Dart
Hartford
New York
New Haven and Hartford
Naichaug River
Scoville Ready to Go into Ice Investigations
Hartford June 9 The Federal Food Administration will not tolerate sudden ice price increases. Federal Food Administrator Stobert Scoville said the agency aims to conserve perishable foods and prevent waste. He noted attention will target prices charged to families in congested urban districts and cited cooperation from large ice dealers.
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Hartford
Forestville
Federal Food Administration
Stobert Scoville
Connecticut
Food Administration
The
Fce
Scoville
Receiver in Service Court Permits Delay for Buckley
Superior Court allows four postponements in filing and reporting for the Giant Plaster Board Company of this city as receiver William J. Buckley serves in the aviation corps. Creditors did not demand an immediate report since the company has no assets. Petition filed by J. Harry Crossley, once a stockholder, before his embezzlement-related incarceration. IHD-TWO INJURED.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Buckley
Aviation Corps
Plaster Board Company
J. Harry Crossley
Crossley
IHD
Hartford talks aim to pave East Main Street in tarvia plan
Mayor Wilson and J A Cour tace depart Hartford to meet Highway Commissioner Bennett and seek oil supplies for tarvia paving on East Main Street before winter. The group notes an oil embargo hampers the project and stresses completing paving now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Wilson
J. A. Courtade
Bennett
Main
Causes and progression of Bright's disease in plain terms
Dr. Andrew F. Currier outlines how Bright's disease arises from factors like lead poisoning and alcohol excess, with signs including abnormal urine, kidney damage, heart strain, eye changes, swelling, and possible coma. He recommends quiet living, sun and dry climates, simple foods, milk and vegetables, moderate activity, and rejects patent medicines as curative.
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Bright
Fire at Housatonic shipyard tests Stratford teams
Stratford June reports a blaze in a Word car at the Housatonic ship building yards along the river Saturday morning. Yard crews and top-scouts controlled the fire before Stratford’s department joined none. State rifle range squad practiced, and Stratford Americans baseball team coaches under Edward Benedict prep a young roster for upcoming games.
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Stratford
Housatonic
New Yard
Bridgeport
Stratford Fire Department
Company L
Fourth Infantry
Fred Palmer
Fisher's Island
Stratford Americans
Edward Benedict
Howard Fairchild
Aldwin O’neil
Miles Anderson
Pack
Edward Hurley
Edward DeAngelus
Arthur Greenhil
Morton Twist
Alfred Anderson
Woman's Nerves Made Strong By Vegetable Compound
Winona Minnesota woman recounts four years of nervousness and sleepless nights eased by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits improved sleep and energy to the tonic and endorses its use for displacements, inflammation, ulcers, irregularities, pains, backache, dizziness, and nervous prostration.
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Winona
Minn
Lydia B. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Health Dept
Ice Investigations
Andrew F. Currier, M. D
Ford
Shipyard Tests
A.J. W
Coeker
Currier
Andrew F. Currier
Dorset's Main, Elm and
Middle Streets
Lydia
E. Pinkham
Sykes Comfort Powder
Vinci
the Comfort Powder Co
Maia
Genercle
Philo Hey Co
Newark
State Street
Federal Reserve System
Bridgeport War Savings Club
War Thrift
U. S
Bridgeport Telegram
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