Tea and music to follow bridge charity event
Bridgeport schedule notes a large charity bridge party at Brooklawn Country Club tomorrow to raise funds for the West End Bay Nursery Associated Charities. Tea hours follow for nonplayers with Liberty Chorus providing music under Mrs. Grannis. reservations via Mrs. Jennings. Numerous ladies listed as subscribers.
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Brooklawn Country Club
West End Bay
Charites
Liberty Chorus
Frederick Grannis
E. A. Jennings
Walter J. Lashar
4. McNeil
Charles
ID. Davia
A. E. Lavery
Harry Rennel
Andrew R. Smith
Fannie
Helen Wordin
Lewis B. Curtis
Henry Stoddard
D. Fairchild Wheeler
Susan Sanford
Waldo C. Bryant
Florence Bartlett
John M. Hawley
Bliss Emily Sanford
Carl Siemon
George H. Noble
A. Beers
William Nothnagle
Sanford Stoddard
Washington Avenue
Milford Visiting Nurses Show Progress
The Milford Visiting Nurse Association reported 144 visits in October by nurse Miss Shiels who cared for 20 patients. Social service worker Mrs. Edgar T. Clark noted many visits and extensive travel. discussion covered school lunches, health centre rooms, and relocating the nurse's office before winter.
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Visiting Nurse Association
Miss Shiels
Edgar T. Clark
Clarke
Needlework Guild distributes 195 garments locally
The Needlework Guild collected and distributed 195 garments within the area. Twenty five went to the Cancer Hospital in New York City and to Grace Hospital in New Haven 25 each. The Church Home in Hartford received 38 pieces and St Agnes Home in Hartford 20. Danbury Time received 32 and Mount Vernon Hospital 50. The Kennedy Settlement in New York received 50 and the Home for the Aged in New Haven 20. The Children’s Home in Newington received 100. Milford Branch lists 17 directors with Miss Sarah O Connor as president and officers G A Roberts and Ralph Peck among others.
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Cancer Hospital
New York City
Grace Hospital
New Haven
Church
Hartford
St. Agnes Bome
Danbury
Awards and honors for World War I veterans and a Belgian ammo explosion
More than 36 oak leaf clusters were awarded to Americans in France. The Distinguished Service Cross twice earned indicates recipients held two such honors. The Distinguished Service Medal replaced earlier certificates of merit, with pay implications for enlisted men. Certificates of merit were issued during Civil War and World War I. In Belgium, a large ammo dump near Fort Diave exploded, with four of fourteen British sentries reporting for roll call. others feared lost as explosions continued.
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France
Germany
Washington
Namur
Belgium
Fort Diave
Cotton Sells At Record Dollar Per Pound
In Pine Bluff Arkansas on November 9 W G Key sold a bale of cotton for one dollar a pound the highest price paid since the Civil War signaling a historic market peak and strong demand.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
W. G. Key
Beginners' Dance Classes at Residence Park Ave
Waltz one step and Fox Trot taught Mondays and Fridays evenings from 8 to 10 with six lessons for eight dollars. Private lessons by appointment. Register at Residence 1660 Park Ave. Tel Bar 4766-5. D C Loesiier, teacher of dancing.
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Park Ave
D.C. Loestier
Mukeri Poet Dhan Gopal Mukerji To Speak At Bridgeport
Bridgeport Business and Professional Women's club opens a lecture series at the Bridgeport Art League rooms with Dhan Gopal Mukerji addressing on the New Status of Women in India. He has studied in Tokio and Calcutta, graduated from Stanford, lectured in New York, and spoke at Garrick Theatre on The Drama of the East. The club invites Chamber of Commerce members and friends. music by Mrs. Sumner Coggeshall and Miss J. M. Hawley.
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Bridgeport
Art League
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Tokio
Calcutta
Mukesi
Iceland
Stanford University
New York
Garrick Theatre
New York Drama League
India
Elib
Sumner Coggeshall
J. M. Hawley
Business and Professons Women's Club
Raymond Fosdick
League of Nations
Fosdick
Old Plate on Exhibit at First and Plymouth Churches
The Connecticut Society of Colonial Dames displays rare silver pieces from 17th and 18th centuries at Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford. Pieces include a baptismal bowl from 1781 by Cornelius Kierstead, Claude cups attributed to Winslow, two tankards from the Portsmouth Church, and several beakers and bowls tied to families like Stow and Balch.
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Plymouth
Connecticut Society of Colonial Dames
Wadsworth
Hartford
Alice ‘Buckingham
Cornelius Kierstead
New Haven
New York
Claude
Edward Winslow
Boston
Abigall
Samuel Stow
John Dixwell
Plsmouth
Swift
George Clark
Noah Baldwin
Mertha Welch
Ebenezer Balch
Middletown
Saybrook
Frill Fashion Persists Amid Ever-Shifting Blouse Styles
The article notes the enduring popularity of frilled blouses as designers struggle to add novelty. It describes a Colienian collar with a wide Fillet lace band below the shoulder, forming a V throat vest, plus a frilled face finishing the collar edge and a front closure with a ribbon bow.
Hospitality for suffragists in Bridgeport convention
Bridgeport Equal Franchise league and Connecticut Woman Suffrage association plan the first suffrage convention with a banquet and luncheon reservations led by Mrs. Albert E. Macdonald and hospitality chairwoman Mrs. H Willard Fleck. Delegates hear speakers including Ex President William H. Taft and Miss Katharine Ludington with sessions Wednesday and Thursday featuring Senator Pittman and George Bass. Meanwhile Rev John Herman Randall resigns as pastor to join a community church reading group.
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Bridgeport
Charles d. Sanford
J’. M. Wilder
Theodore Steiber
Charles Deus
Benjamin Brownstein
3B. I. Flatt
James Mizer
William HH. Yatti
Wlethher Debris
Chicago
Schusler Merritt
Katharine Luddington
Holford
Senator Pittman
George Bass
Committee to Investigate 24 Hour Time Method for England
A government appointed committee in London reports on the feasibility of adopting the 24 hour time method used in Western Canada for about a dozen years. The system, already common in the United States and Italy and widely used on the continent for rail, post, and telegraph, counts hours from midnight with hours 13 through 28 replacing 1 through 4.
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London
Canada
United States
Italy
Trains Delayed As Bridge 15 Repaired
Trains were delayed 15 to 30 minutes as mechanics repaired the roller lift bridge over the Pequannock river. Westbound service held at the station while work continued, forcing rerouting to east end yards before resuming passenger flows to New York.
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Bre Pequannock River
City Trench
New York
Endangered winter health warning ads for Father John’s Medicine
Advertisement warns that neglect of a simple end causes many winter illnesses and lung problems. It urges starting Father John’s Medicine at first sign of a cold and touts its doctor prescribed, alcohol free formula with a guaranteed safety for all the family.
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Father John
Mather John
Armistice Day events at Milford feature Savith home leave
The Red Crags roll call ends in Milford on Armistice Day with full figures announced at the American Legion meeting in the evening. Many subscribers were in uniform, showing the ease of securing support. Milford Business Men's Association holds a regular Armistice Day meeting with guest Cunio Alvin Savith, recently returned from two years overseas service, expected to speak amid music and a collation.
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Red Crags
Milford
American Legion
Milfor Business Men's Association
Power
Cuninio Alvin Savith
Children's Book Exhibit and Registry at Monday Morning
A wide stock of children's books is highlighted with many classics and new titles. A special Registry for Children lets young readers enter names and desires for Christmas books, with Santa Claus in communication. Various titles and prices are listed, including Mother Goose and Treasure Island, plus series like The Rover Books and Khaki series.
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Santa Claus
Devon Improvement Association Meeting Discusses Saturday Train Stop
Devon Nov 9 The regular weekly meeting of the Devon Improvement Association will discuss having the noon train from Bridgeport stop at Devon on Saturdays to accommodate commuters using the railroad for work.
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Devon Association
Devon
Devon Improvement Association
Gridgeport
French strike fails in Paris railroad action
Paris officials report a failed strike as only a small fraction of railroad workers joined. The movement collapsed quickly with most men continuing other jobs. The effort did not disrupt regular operations and appeared limited in scope.
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Paris
Associated Press
Admiral Rodgers Arrives in Ross Vladivostok Visit
The United States cruiser Broo, under Vice Admiral S Williams, commander of the American Asiatic fleet, arrived here last week. A chronometer competition in Switzerland set a world record for timepiece accuracy with one instrument deviating only six one hundredths of a second per day.
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Rodgers UN Ross Vladivostok
Broo
Vice Athmiral S.william C
Switzerland
Handkerchiefs In Stock Demand Warned By Ads
Handkerchiefs arriving as inventory grows with early initials urged. Women’s handkerchiefs in a $1.00 box, men’s white corded with colored initials, plus linens luncheon cloths and domestics. Third floor.
The Question of Fur Coats
A lengthy new catalog lists luxurious fur coats and dolmans offered this month. Hudson Seal designs range from plain 40 to 48 inch lengths with sash belts self collars and cuffs priced from 500 to 875 dollars. Variations include sable squirrel collars, beltings, shaw collars and skunk borders, with several 45 inch options and a second floor display.
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Hudson
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Willard Ward
Associated Charities
Stratfield Ballroom
Ixate Brown Ward
Edward A. Jennings
Brooklawn Avenue
Emily Sterling
Constance Hathewar
Clinton Avenue
Hannah Matthews
Frederick Levy
Council of Jewish Women
Levy
L. H. Schwarz
Stone
D. Neisner
Frances Nelson
B. B. Stelber
Goldman
N. BE. Franke
Willan Carlson
The
Woman's Guild of Christ Church
Stratford
Alexander Trumbull
George van Hornpost
Bridgeport Hospital
Mill Hill
Wiliam Xvon Phelps
Sprague Memorial Hall
Phelps
Strindperg
Yale University
Dramatic Association
John Drinkwater
Sprague Hall
Joseph Alsop
State League of Independent Republican Women
Alsep
J. G. Grezory
Norwalk
Fairfield County
H. Willard Fleck
Katherine W. Woods
Taakeland Highlanes
Florida
Lady Mowe Council
Daughters of Liberty
O'Cloek
W. Lamond
Nosedale Street
Madeline A. Sterling
Walter McCormack
Springfield
L. B. Finch
E .V. Morey
Aweatogue Country Club
Ralph E. . McEldowney
RB. A. Lockhart
Roy Youngs
W. W. Beers
I. Neefus
James Dunnnegan
E. H. Kincaid
Harold Fish
George Houston
Mire
W. FP. Coney
Harold Goddard
W. B. Marsh
Mabel Smith
Lillian Kerr
Gertrude Close
Agnes Pind
William van Viletunstown
George Gunn
Yates Brown
Mr. Gunn
Tyler Patterson
George W. Osborne
Cleveland
Eloig Cleveland
Franklin Foundry Company
Ansonia
Arthur B. Clark
Orange
Everett B. Clark
Omaha
Nebraska
Frederick M. Clark
Wepowaug Manor
Waller Clark
Arthur
Clark
Eunice ‘Avery
Current Events
Stratfield
Miss Avery
Oriefly
Mary Silliman
I. Wf. Pons
Bridgeport Avenue
Colonial Heights Sunshine Society
Mra. BD
CG. Saunders
Sunshiners
Ak Box
Devon Hose Company
Sociation
Shiels
Melord
National Needlework Guild
Mukeri
York
John Herman Randall
Ai Labete
Mount Morris
England
Bridge 15
Tanderfoot
Victor Machine
Ty Dante
Old King Cole
Little Bo-Peep
Simon
Jessie Wilcox Smith
Polk
Flanders
Jean de Bosschere
John Martin
Voland
Peter Potter Book
Treasure Island
Maurice Maeterlinck
Saint Joan of Arc
Mark Twain
Stokes
Lord Fauntleroy
F. H. Burnett
Bears
Little Red Riding Hood
the Rover Books
Tom Slade
Khaki Boys
Ruth Fielding
Malin
Tate Nuother
TEE & Duond
Best
Aina Bellabs
Rogers, Wallace, Alvin
BILTZ
Shady Brook Brand
Hudson Seal
Ted PH
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