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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1926
Page
11
An old time advertorial urges mothers to use California Fig Syrup for upset stomachs and constipation in children. It claims the remedy quickly cleanses bowels, relieves sour stomach and feverish signs, and promotes a well, playful child, while warning buyers to ask for the genuine California Fig Syrup Company product to avoid counterfeit versions.
Informal guide claims Hill's medicine cures colds fast and promises symptom relief. Warns to monitor fever and bowels, suggests taking a pill nightly, and asserts results by tomorrow with growing strength claims. Mentions a U shaped det g est frhary and other unclear phrases amid promotional language.
Miss Victoria Larmour, executive secretary, describes the Catholic Charitable Bureau work in Bridgeport on family welfare and child welfare. The family welfare department aids handicapped families and addresses root causes like broken homes, poverty, illness, and neglect, with 277 families served last year and extensive outreach including visits, letters, and coordinated agency cooperation. The Child Welfare department then works to keep families intact, preferring to place children outside only when a family cannot be kept together due to death, unfitness, or proven failure to sustain a normal home.
The department aims to place each child in the most suitable setting including free homes boarding homes wage homes or institutions. Fairfield county is served with headquarters at 224 Washington avenue and two visitors handle 142 cases last year investigating 62 homes making 78 placements while completing 1720 visits 722 letters 44 officer interviews and 1468 phone calls.
London reports boastful claims of oyster eating prowess as Lord Peel challenges Sir Arthur Pineru to a contest. A Regent Street restaurant sees a patron consuming 100 oysters per sitting, while another customer ate 218 when prices were lower. An autogic broker keeps four dozen oysters ready daily.
The Massachusetts Parent-Teachers Association passed a resolution endorsing enforcement of prohibition, backing World Court participation, and supporting child labor and education reform. The group recorded its stance as aligned with the national board.
Anthony Scala of 1995 Main Street was arrested last night on charges of reckless driving. He allegedly passed a standing trolley car on the left, struck an automobile driven by Fred Schultz of 167 Charron Street, causing about $80 in damage. He was held at the Fourth Precinct station.
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