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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1918
Page
23
The first documented European artesian well is the tube well at Grenella France built by the French government from 1884 to 1641. It reached 1,798 feet and produced about 600 gallons per minute at the surface, according to the Exchange.
The article explains egg production in hens, noting shells come from consumed non-food items. It lists extraordinary eggs from ostrich kiwi epiyornis and great auk, with measurements and values. It mentions the auk eggs totaling sixty eight known, with three in America at Washington, Vassar, and Philadelphia Academy.
The saying by hook or crook traces to English forest use rules where gathering fallen wood with a crooked pole earned the phrase. Apple pie order comes from early pies with an ornate upper crust edge, each turret forming an order, used to denote careful, precise work.
A French clock by Louis Desoutter on a Louis Seize stand, built by Janvier in 1789, features four faces and displays tides, mean and solar time, planetary motion, eclipses, age of the moon, and a perpetual calendar. San Diego houses a 21-foot clock with twenty dials showing world time, days, dates, and months, jeweled with stones, auto-winding by a 200‑pound weight, costing $3,000.
A nostalgic poem by Thomas Curtis Clark from UT, describing a journey through noisy towns and deceitful streets back to home. The narrator longs for familiar fields and the robin chorus, seeking heart’s ease and contentment on a homeward path amid memories of childhood and distant seas.
A convalescent’s hobby is drawing and furnishing paper houses from bungalow plans to city flats. The writer uses a quarter inch to a foot scale, edits plan proportions, and compiles color schemes from magazines and catalogs. Rooms are redesigned with harmonized walls, rugs, hangings, and fabrics, then reset to new effects without cost.
Guidance on preventing and treating infant constipation through diet and habits. Emphasizes maternal diet, limited tea, fruit, bran, corn meal, and gentle laxatives for bottlefed babies. Covers weaning, juice, beef extract safety, and age-based feeding schedules and foods for older children.
A mother recounts uniting father and children through daily "get acquainted" playtimes. She urges avoiding turning fathers into punitive authorities while encouraging open, joint parental guidance for discipline and family decisions.
Howard L. Ramin discusses the credit system as a test of endurance for small town merchants tied to 160 acre farms. He critiques mercantile agencies and deadbeat customers, noting how credit structures both sustain and threaten stores, with faded optimism about payments and a harsh view of debt and public trust.
A vintage style note discusses calico dresses, linen shirts, and a simple waist with vest and cuffs. It mentions fashion details like panel fronts and slide drapery, plus a sash of gingham. War era content notes two expert chauffeurs needed for the quarter at Fort Worth with an arrest case in the back.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch New York correspondent mocks a plan to trap German troops by scattering fly paper between trenches at night so soldiers become stuck and captured. The writer labels the idea simple and highly practical, urging war department adoption or accountability for rejecting it.
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