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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1918
Page
6
An incomplete City Journal fragment mentions a woman’s remark about not living alone and a man’s calm response. The garbled text hints at a discussion of social clubs and wisdom, leaving the core story unclear but suggesting a dialogue on community and independence.
A rambly Thursday through a boy’s perspective recounts plans for Saturday visits to a porn house graveyard and breakwater, with riffs on teachers, a bully named Bunt, farm chores, potato and rock mischief, and crude talk about food and bets on rough mischief by river and woods. the narrator muses on schooling, friendships, and crude adventures.
A Cincinnati chemist’s discovery offers a tiny bottle of Freezone at drug stores for a few cents. Apply drops to a corn or callus, and the corn supposedly lifts out with no pain, without irritating surrounding skin. It claims to work on hard or soft corns and calluses, even between toes, and urges ladies to keep it on their dresser.
Red Cross reports February work totals including 16 sweaters 16 socks 25 wristlets 26 mufflers 44 bed socks 27 comfort bags 12 pajama sets 12 hospital shirts. Meetings are Wednesdays at Mrs Strederick home 18 Silliman. Mrs Green field visitor Mary Staples. Charles Keller to sell Thrift Stamps. Ralph E Marsh welcomes a daughter Sunday evening.
About 106 war saving town chairmen and committees gathered at the capitol for a conference presided by State Director Howell Cheney. Dr Luther of Trinity College told how 800 Trinity men served in the war, with 10 in the trenches, urging economy at home and investment in national securities to sustain the war effort.
Rome reports that three directors of a silk waste utilization company were arrested amid a silk sale scandal to the enemy. The Italian press cites 14 railroad cars loaded with silk permitted to go to Chiasso near the Swiss border last week in February, from which the silk likely reached Germany.
Uncontested divorce cases to be heard in superior court short calendar session Friday list includes Stannard versus Ethel Stannard Ruth Fuller versus Arthur Fuller Anna Hoffman versus Charles Hoffman Rose Cavallaro Demerro versus Bennie Demerro Eliza Hallock versus Frederick Harlock and Mary Griffith versus Harry Griffith.
Bridgeport schools reported thrift and war savings stamp sales totaling 16,476.34 by March 4 week end. Depositors reached 10,595, representing 19.5 percent of registrations. The High School led with 780 in stamps.
Jennie a well known figure at Mount Holyoke college will have a new shelter after Williston hall burned last December. The 35 year old skeleton of an Indian saguaw has only 22 ribs instead of 24 giving her a principal claim to a college laboratory residence. Plans are completed for a temporary science building to house exhibits and equipment of the college science departments.
Federal cases in Hartford allege conspiracy to steal bolts of silk valued at 40 000 dollars from interstate shipments. Defendants from New Haven include Charles Lavin Charles Johnson Joseph Degnan Frank H H Sibley James Askew Thomas O Neil and William Ford. Names linked to New Haven and New York firms appear as receivers and involved parties.
Boston dated report states William QO. Withem, postmaster at North Scituate, who vanished during a government funds audit, has been indicted for embezzling 7142 dollars in federal funds.
affidavits in supreme court allege three families paid 2500 to ex New York athletic commission chair Frank S O Neil in hope of draft exemption for sons. An order requires O Neil to show cause why he should not return the money. multiple plaintiffs claim refunds for failed exemptions and separate payments for promised transfers or favors.
A Little Rock advertisement warns that changeable March weather brings coughs and whooping cough. Mrs. W. H. Thornton says Foley's Honey and Tar saved her boy from a severe croup attack, noting two doses brought relief and that she would not be without it. Hiney’s drug store advertises the product.
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