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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1918
Page
15
Florence Clancy edits the women’s page with a call for contributions signed with sender details. Readers are invited to submit items by phone at Barnum 6100 to ensure appearance in the Telegram.
Local notes chronicle moves and visits of families at 27 Richardson Street and 680 William Street, departures for Williamstown and Canterbury, Red Cross meetings at Italian Congregational church, and a charity concert at St. Augustine's Hall with numerous soloists. Reports include service announcements for Navy, Army, and Quartermaster units, furloughs, and births.
The Q and A explains reducing sugar to three pounds per person monthly, excluding canning sugar. It notes canning raised shortages, cites 1917 increases, and details sugar sources, per capita rations in England France Italy and Germany, and total US availability versus needs. It urges cutting candy and drinks, boosting vegetables in summer, and using bean peas lentils as protein. It also outlines rural savings and substitutions to ease supply for Allies.
Marion calls from New York asking Natalie to visit and stay over. The notes describe shopping for toy cars, chocolate specials, curtain rods, and Leverty drug stores. Plans include meeting the station, lunch, ice cream, and a shore club event with fencing, tennis, dinner, and dancing.
War Garden officials H D Hemenway and the National War Garden commission announce a $10000 prize for the best canned vegetables from war gardens. Awards go to first prize winners at canning club exhibitions and county fairs via sponsoring organizations for national recognition and thrift stamps.
The graduation exercises were held Wednesday evening at Eagles hall. Rev. Hubert Dahme presented diplomas amid an entertaining program. Graduates include Frances Bassett Teresa Carey Louise Hagen Frederick Ehrsam Leo Griffin Theodore Kunkel Philip Lacher Bernard Lockhart Evelyn McDonough Charles McGee Otto Sauer William Wieler Lawrence Wolf Agnes Yaxtes.
St John’s Episcopal church Sunday school held a strawberry festival at the parish house to honor Rev Raymond Leeds Scofield who will assist Rev Stephen Fish Sherman Jr. Funds go to French orphans. Over 60 teachers and officers attended the canteen supper with various tables run by Mrs E N Hannell and volunteers including Kathleen Banks and Maud Clarkson.
Ad lists embroidered linen handkerchiefs with varied edges and prices from 25 cents to 2 1/2 dollars and initialed styles. Men’s white and bordered handkerchiefs offered. War effort note encourages canning this summer and mentions Read basement display of Three War Stamps to fund coats for soldiers along with kitchen canning supplies in the Basement.
Nemo Corsets advance in price July First with only a few days left to buy at old prices. Anticipated further increases and possible shortages loom as high quality corset materials become harder to obtain. Buyers are urged to purchase enough to last, citing health and efficiency benefits.
The house furnishing department features a full Aladdin and Wear Ever aluminum range. Rice boilers, tea kettles, sauce pans, bread and cake pans, colanders, drip pans, griddle pans, pans for fireless cookers, tea pots, coffee pots, percolators, frying pans, waffle irons, roasting pans, muffin pans and dish pans priced from 17 cents to 7 25 dollars. Basement stock implies portable, durable items.
Art Section notes a fire assortment of scarves for home decor featuring lace trims. Some designs use white linen, others cretonne centers, offering a colorful, varied display in the main Boor display.
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