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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1920
Page
2
An advertisement extols Gude's Pepto Mangan as a cure to restore rich iron blood and vitality after illness. It warns that poor digestion or iron loss weakens blood and strength, and claims the remedy enriches blood, boosts color, and improves overall health, with both liquid and tablet forms sold in druggists.
A centennial event honors Florence Nightingale with speakers Campbell and Dr. LeRay Wilkes, praising nursing progress and training schools in New York and New Haven. The program features musical selections by Ruth Williams, Hana Northrop, Mary Hill Hinchcliffe, and Lillian Brandt, with Brandt performing from Samson and Delilah and The Bells of Youth.
A dockworker, John Jenkins of West 184th Street New York, was injured when a chain attached to a gang during docking at the New Tongland Navigation Company dock at Union Street caused a fracture. Police and medical aid were summoned to the scene.
The Man from Borneo, a two act comedy, drew more than 230 people at St Pauls Parish as St Pat's Association staged it. Cast included Hopwood, Arthur Rundle, Margaret Swales, Willerd Wiesener, Roydon Pratt, Brewster Coley and Vivian Haun. Dancing followed the performance, directed by Mrs Joseph L Peabody who has coached church groups in recent entertainments. The play will be repeated tonight.
Eastern New York sees rain Thursday and Friday with cool north temps and little change elsewhere. Southern New England expects increasing clouds and Friday night rain while Northern New England remains partly cloudy with Friday showers. Central valleys stay much cooler with near normal temps elsewhere as rains sweep east of the Mississippi River though the upper lakes stay cooler.
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