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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1926
Page
4
An advertisement touts Fruit-a-tives orange tablets as a highly effective laxative to improve skin health. It urges continuing cosmetics while emphasizing internal cleanliness and health as the real basis for a beautiful complexion. The reader is invited to try the product and read its story inside the package.
DeWollf Hopper will crown the program at 9 P.M. Eastern Time and 9 P.M. daylight saving time with the microphone for the Eveready Hour. He will showcase Eveready Hour artists and his famed operatic recollections from a long career in musical comedy. He plans to sing songs characteristic of Hopper and deliver a signature curtain speech plus Casey at the Bat.
A medical seminar displayed promising results for a treatment called Teneo, claimed to reduce hypertension symptoms in 92 percent of cases with an average 40 percent drop. The private compound purportedly restores arterial elasticity, contains no narcotics, and offers a two week trial with money back satisfaction. Available at several local drug stores including Levetty, Hindi, and Flantigan, with addresses listed.
Poslam is highly concentrated medicated to act the moment it touches irritated skin. Itching stops instantly eruptions vanish and the skin returns to health. Affordable skin health available at druggists with price details and a mail offer from Poslam Co New York.
A dense OCR of radio schedules across numerous New York and regional stations listing programs from morning through late night. Entries include news, music, talks, weather, market reports, and special broadcasts with performers, orchestras, and hosts spread over WHAF WNYC WMCA WGBS and others.
A loop chart explains how a loop aerial points toward a station to optimize signal strength. After tuning a station several times, the correct direction becomes familiar, guiding adjustments to outdoor aerial dials for best reception.
A vintage instructional piece explains using a paper dial compass to align a radio loop for distant stations, advising marking towns where signals peak and plotting between points on a map. The page then lists dense station time slots and program schedules across multiple cities, with concerts, weather reports, stock updates, and sports scores interwoven.
Edmund Lowe, 27, with prior Massachusetts and England records, pleaded guilty to pocket picking outside a New York movie theatre. He asked leniency for companion James Murphy, who claimed innocence. Lowe got four months. Murphy was remanded for investigation. Lowe had a prior five year state prison sentence in Rutland Massachusetts for assault and robbery in 1923, with escapes and subsequent recapture details.
An advertisement for Associated Dentists promises relief from tooth pain through painless drilling and filing. It touts free examination and advice, X rays to reveal root conditions, and emphasizes saving time and money. The office hours are 8:30 AM to 9 PM with Sunday closed, located on Main and Cannon Streets in the Citizen Building.
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