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Florence Clancy editors a women’s page with tips for submissions. Readers urged to mail or telephone items, include signature and address, to ensure appearance in the Telegram.
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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1918
Page
15
Florence Clancy editors a women’s page with tips for submissions. Readers urged to mail or telephone items, include signature and address, to ensure appearance in the Telegram.
Mrs. Frederick Seeley and family spend the summer at a Sulphur Springs home with New York guests while Brooklawn Country Club unveils a July program including Hoover supper, a Fourth patriotic tournament, teas, and a July 13 feature film. Engagements, weddings, and travel updates fill the page with local residents visiting, enlisting, or honeymooning, alongside club dances and society news.
Harriet leads a bustling Meteor Squad in New York while others flee city summers. Bridgesport insights note clashes with police and taxi myths, seaside club scenes, and social rounds as families cope with whooping cough and wartime changes.
Dr. Walter Brown urged universal baby weighing and measuring at health stations to save all babies. The appeal targets all families, noting benefits from infant welfare courses for women and relief for visiting nurses as part of a wartime effort.
A large audience enjoyed a concert by pupils of Robert Weber at the Gutehess College. Genevieve Brown impressed as a finished artist while Florence Bjorlin delivered "Aida Return Victorious" with dramatic feeling. Sixteen year old Margaret Swailes showed notable promise and Miss Genevieve Brown led a varied program with robust violin and vocal support from August Berger and Samuel Sossin.
The National War Garden Commission Washington will send readers a free canning book for a two cent stamp to pay postage after washing and grading and paring and coring with a sharp knife as the first step in the single period cold pack method. Watch for Nov 2.
Advertisement notes fibre stockings for women available in six shades including black and white. Special price listed as 9 cents.
An advertisement for Read Co offers rust soap that removes rust fruit and ink stains from cloth or marble priced at 25 cents.
From the second floor ready-to-wear section three spring coats are featured in all wool poplin and wool serge in tan navy rookie and black. Special price is $20.00. These items cannot be duplicated at $30.00. Certain Important Specials from our ready-to-wear section
This group of dresses appeals to sensible women with large sizes from 16 for misses up to 52 for women. They were selling at 6.99, 7.50 and 8.50 dollars. Indefinite coloring lines, small figures in dull grays blues and greens, feature white organdie collars cuffs or yostees. Simple designs suit conservative tastes.
A catalog item describes a collection of dresses in plain and fancy colorings with ample fullness. Prices are reduced from 4.95 to 3.00 with no telephone orders. The note lists furniture pieces available on the second floor including a buffet and chairs.
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