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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1918
Page
16
Ruth Cameron recalls a dressing-up box from childhood and urges parents to provide dress-up trunks for children. She describes a leather trunk with two compartments holding old garments, wigs, and props, used for imaginative play and rare happiness. The piece reflects on memory, play, and the value of creative dress-up in youth.
A fragmentary satirical item lists dress-up trunk nostalgia and postwar prices for catnip as Russia’s hunger fuels price hikes. It references Mason Jarrs and a 1918 Brazilian contract law shift, noting typewriter use spreading and stenography schools amid wartime austerity.
The article outlines common gastric ulcer symptoms such as constant or intermittent pain after meals, vomiting with possible blood, heartburn, and constipation. It explains diagnosis by bleeding evidence, rest as primary treatment, and includes dietary, medicinal, and surgical options, with reader Q&A on related digestive issues.
A collage of jokes and quips from Luke McLuke and other contributors. The piece parodies medical piecing and social foibles with puns about whisky marriage doctors and lawyers, plus short humorous exchanges and observations. It references Oswald Bears and a Joe Miller contest among lighthearted jests.
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