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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1926
Page
16
The mid winter meeting of Unc eld County Republican Women's association will be held at the Pickwick Arms hotel Greenwich March 13. A business meeting is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. followed by luncheon at La'cloth.
Sir Hargrave Wend erer a country gentleman and financier travels to Monte Carlo for a medical examination that portends a near death. Heendures his prognosis with stoic resolve while aiding Violet Martin a manicure girl in need. A web of romance and mystery unfolds as Horridge a suspected doctor vanishes and Hargrave.ind suffers existential reflection amid casino decadence and precarious hopes for Violet and her brother Robert.
The text discusses a parenting approach where children and mothers share experiences after events. It emphasizes children reporting on parties or picnics to build observance and polite expression, and when mothers go out, they expect a recount of their pleasant experiences on return. The tone reflects traditional domestic guidance.
The author argues that children’s stories should be true in form and spirit, even fairy tales. They must be hopeful with happy endings and convey truth without fear, guiding three year olds toward growth, trust, and moral imagination through well crafted language and engaging plots.
Three year old Margaret Pope died after a fire sparked by matches she handled while playing. The March 4 AP report notes she succumbed to burns the following day in New Haven.
A nostalgic health column argues many women reject rubbers, preferring dry feet and fashion over practicality. The writer mocks impractical fashion but urges safe use of rubber footwear only in wet weather, warning prolonged wear causes damp stockings and defeats protection. Also includes readers' health Q&As on digestion and muscle soreness with brief guidance.
A period reading compiles a breakfast menu with items like applesauce cereal poached eggs and French toast plus a dinner list featuring chicken and vegetables. It also preserves reader recipes for Pepper Steak Plum Duff and Plum Dufts with detailed steps, ingredients, and cooking methods from Mrs. Ru Mrs. McC and K. B. Plum Dutt, reflecting domestic guidance and culinary tips of the era.
Joan Lincon Daley son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Daley of 1658 North Avenue wins the Sterling memorial scholarship at Yale Shef field Scientific School worth 150 for tuition in the second term. Daley 18, Bridgeport high school graduate in 1925, an honor student.
Orono Maine March 4 AP Clarence a seven month old baby is added to the home economics practice house at the University of Maine. He joins Pauline and Barbara as a practical training subject for child care and welfare in the curriculum. The youngest of 11, his mother died when he was about three months old. Clarence nicknamed Blaster is popular and cared for by seven girls majoring in home economics in two week shifts.
In Boston on March 4 forty women workers at a dress factory, operating as an open shop during a needle workers' strike, panicked when a man fired a revolver toward a fourth floor window. The bullet struck about a foot from a worker. The shooter was on a roof across the street. The attack marks the second against a non union establishment in two days.
A jumble of humorous vignettes set in a department store includes a turtle and frog flirtation poem, a chef’s quip about slim meals, a child asking why God left feathers, and a lively floorwalker in the joke department. Readers encounter goofing customers, shop rules, and a musical punchline about facing the music.
A fragmented humorous verse sketch from Gertrude led classes titled Krazy Kindergarten and Krazy Hindergarten. The entries feature mispronunciations and playful lines about flapper girls, dieting, cosmetics, and improvised dialogue among teachers and children.
Readers are invited to submit original and unpublished humor epigrams jokes anecdotes poetry burlesques and bright items for children payments range from 25 cents to 1 per line for poetry depending on character and size editor judges. Manuscripts must be written on one side only and addressed to Pun Shop Headquarters Bridgeport Telegram.
Five persons were driven from their bed early today by a fire caused by a faulty furnace in an Asylum street house in New Haven. Firemen checked the blaze, and damage was not material. all suffered only inconvenience and cold. Timely discovery probably saved the building.
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