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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1918
Page
5
A brief note hints at tension in a household business setting where a wife suspects her husband’s stenographer may appear more attractive than she does. The source suggests gossip about professional relationships influencing private judgments.
Thousands prostrated influenza spreading across the East. At first symptoms, visit your drug store for 89¢ Munyon's Cold Remedy and 30¢ Munyon's Grippe Remedy, take as directed, alternating hourly. Claimed to relieve headaches, runny eyes, sore throat and fatigue within hours and days, with free advice from Munyon's doctors at 4th and Columbia Ave, Philadelphia.
Bridgeport machinist Henry H. Craw publicly praises Doan's Kidney Pills after using them to cure kidney trouble and back pain. He recalls three years of weakness and scanty secretions, saying four boxes completely and permanently relieved him. He urges others to try the same remedy. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y, distributes the ad sold at all dealers.
Stratford notes that the Ding Bat social club, hit by war losses and local dry laws, voted to put its Main Street clubhouse up for sale and move to smaller quarters while maintaining other clubhouse options. A committee led by Curtin, Wells, and Webb handles the sale. the club plans no disbanding and may relocate after disposal.
Robert Williams of 1590 Barnum Avenue was stabbed in the abdomen by two unknown men while attempting to intervene in an argument near the American Graphophone plant. He rests comfortably at incent's hospital and is expected to recover. police could not locate or identify the assailants.
Bridgeport's Plaza theatre opens the week with Charlie Chaplin in Shoulder Arms accompanied by a varied vaudeville bill. The program features the Boyart Russian singers and dancers, Wood and Wyde, Rosamond and Dorothy, the Wonder Bears, and the Allies Official War Review along with Gaumont news and an O. Henry story. Chaplin shows four times daily.
An advertisement extols Dr Williams Pink Pills to improve blood health in women and relieve anemia symptoms. It includes a testimonial from Misa M. White of Binghamton describing fatigue, pallor, and melancholia improving after use. Also notes price and ordering details. A second notice promotes the McEnellys concert at Colonial Hall in Fairfield Avenue tonight with singing and dancing.
Zurich dispatch cites Berlin Vorwaerts reporting that Philipp Scheidemann Socialist leader in the Reichstag and minister without portfolio met Prince Max von Baden to press the retirement of Emperor William. The move followed an agreement among Reichstag party presidents.
A traveling gentleman in Alabama asks an older man about slavery and postwar freedom. Ned answers gloomily that freedom did not come easily, reflecting on lingering constraints and the unspoken scars of emancipation.
All buglers of the fourth Infantry stationed in Bridgeport are ordered to report to the local armory tonight. Regimental Sergeant Bugler Hayes will command. It is believed that instructions for field music during the coming War Chest parade will be announced.
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