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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1918
Page
3
Local newsrooms report a drop in magazine sales tied to fewer young men entering national service. Lighter issues with stage photographs suffer most, while serious weeklies and New York sports papers see weaker demand among youth.
A Greenfield Country Club meeting is planned for May 14 with president Ds SS Wanton arranging a whist. The note hints at a hospital recovery leading to an admission that a prior foe was misjudged.
A fire at 601 Wenfield Avenue in a six family block started in a bedroom and is thought to be caused by a cigarette. A still alarm was sent to No. engine house at 9:58, with damage listed as trivial. The report ends with a stray reflective line about a tramp taking risks to reach nowhere.
Out of 789 draftees from this city headed to Camp Upton on May 24, 117 come from Division Six. They must report for roll call May 23. Included is Dr Bartholomew C Pasuth, commissioned as first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps, stationed at Emergency hospital since November. The list provides names and addresses across multiple states, reflecting a broad mobilization of local draftees for the Sixth Division and the upcoming training at Upton.
Community dances at Grange hall Haston Center raised fifty one dollars for the Red Cross fund. The list of donors includes Bartholomew Pasutick and Marian Malozzi among many others, with addresses in Philadelphia Troy Yonkers Everett Akron and more.
Mother's Day observance conducted at 7 20 p m in the Evangelical church featured choir songs recitations and an address by the pastor. Superintendent William Herring directed much of the program as thousands of flowers and service pins honored mothers and sons serving in the United States or France. Miss Anna Jarvis proposed Mothers and Soldiers Day to reflect ongoing wartime service and greetings exchanged.
An advertisement extols Wood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Sarsaparilla as standard tonics and blood purifiers. It claims forty years of success, treats scrofula, rheumatism, catarrh, loss of appetite, fatigue, and general debility, and suits all ages. It emphasizes pleasant taste, digestion aid, and vital-blood benefits.
A period advertisement claims constant back ache headaches dizziness and urinary disturbances stem from kidney weakness. It promotes Donn's Kidney Pills as a cure and best recommended remedy, stating thousands cured by the product.
Mrs H W Roberts of 502 Asylum St Flint Michigan reports her young daughter was cured of worms after using Dr True's Elixir. She asserts the medicine helped and advises readers to obtain Dr True's Elixir from dealers. For further information write Dr J F True & Co Auburn Maine.
List of gas and oil stoves for sale including gas cookers with 16 inch ovens and multiple burners, box cabinet ranges with double ovens and broilers, perfection oil stoves, Florence blue flame stoves, and small ovens for one or two burners. Prices range from $2.50 to $45 with various burner configurations and features.
Good staunch doors and screens offered in five screen door styles from 2 1/4 by 6 1/2 feet to 3 by 7 1/4 feet. Some styles use black wire others pearl wire. Prices range 2.10 to 4.50 including hinges springs and knob. Also wooden frame window screens 7 sizes 35c to 90c and steel frame window screens 6d to 1.10. Netting for refitting doors and screens sold in 28 30 32 36 inch widths black 15c per foot pearl 15c per foot.
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