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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1926
Page
14
Three Rivers Quebec November 10 AP A coroner's jury held Joan Bellefeuille of Grand Mere criminally responsible for his wife’s death. Mrs Bellefeuille was found choked to death while she suffered poisoning and was confined under guard at St Joseph's hospital.
Women tell women that a new sanitary pad called Kotex is now preferred over the old-time pad. Doctors urge its use, claiming it is five times more absorbent, deodorizes, and reduces embarrassment. Available at drug and department stores, a package of 12 costs a few cents. many believe the old methods are unnecessary risks.
A simple elegant frock design No. 635 features navy wool rep and beige crepe silk, with a tiered skirt and multiple fabric options. The page also offers a mix of humorous anecdotes, patient notes, and health tips, including infant sleep guidance and dental care during pregnancy.
Comic and dramatic snippets share the temperance theme with a film reel style script featuring a 90 year old teetotaler and ministers. The piece blends humor about new trials and a punchline on a drunken patriarch, plus unrelated anecdotal vignettes.
A reader describes an eight month old baby weighing twenty pounds with two teeth. The parent lists feeding times including milk, juice, cereal, and bottles, and notes the child eats well but stops mid sentence.
Telegram readers are invited to address Mrs. fiyrth Meyer Eldred with their intimate problems and receive a personal reply. Letters should be sent to Mrs. fiyrth Meyer Eldred at the Bridgeport Telegram.
A social guidance piece urges mothers and teachers to teach boys grooming starting with a white comb and clean hair. It argues white tools show dirt, daily brushing, and hatless indoors habit improve posture, pride, and future success, claiming neat hair boosts a boy’s carriage and effort.
Birth notices list multiple families with new daughters and sons, including Paul and Mary Smith, Andrew and Joseph Gaffney, Francia and Minnie Cullen, Herman and Lillian Rosenthal, John and Anna Smullgo, Richard and Mary Shannon, Abraham and Kate Greenberg, and others. Entries include ages, addresses on State Street, Stratford Avenue, Pembroke Street, Arctic Street, Ogden Street, North Avenue, Lenox Avenue, Washington Avenue, and Boston Avenue, with dates in late October and early November.
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