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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1958
Page
18
Advertisement for a printed sewing pattern Misses' Sizes 12 14 18 18 20 36 with sleeved or strap options. Provides yardage 444 for 35 inch fabric and printed directions. Request fifty cents per pattern plus mailing five cents for first class. Send to Anne Adams Pattern Dept New York NY.
Cooking notes present a marinated cucumber salad recipe with ingredients and method. The article also reports Marlene Meeter in Grand Rapids, Mich, losing a billfold with $30 and being charged six cents for postage to return photographs taken from the wallet.
Oswald Jacoby explains Dave Warner as declarer in a $ worth contest where East signals first with hearts and diamonds. Dave wins with a heart discard, trumps a low club, then uses a diamond finesse and heart queen discard to claim. The article notes East needed the spade ace for overcall and that defense errors let Dave seize the hand. The column ends by posing a bidding question: with South holding a certain hand, after partner bids three no trump, what should be next.
A dress description outlines an exploding or hobble hem design with a ruffled flounce. The silhouette divides the figure into two thirds at the top and one third for the flounce, suggesting adjustments for height. Only a tall figure should divide the figure in half.
The Confraternity of St Raphael’s will host a spaghetti luncheon at noon and a spaghetti supper from 5 30 to 8 30 p.m. in Center street church hall to raise funds for the religious school picnic with Immaculate Heart of Mary members aiding. Also noted is Jim Grant’s 1957 minor league pitching record with San Diego.
The notice promotes a scrap quilt pattern 665 by Lasora Whee with directions and yardage for single and double beds. Send 35 cents plus 5 cents per pattern to The Bridgeport Telegraph Needlecraft Dept. New York address and order two Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book patterns as a bonus. Also references sales and a separate note on the Black Death killing an estimated one third of Europe's population in the Fourteenth Century.
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