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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1927
Page
13
Peking report says at least half of Shantung and portions of central China face serious famine. about 9,000,000 people destitute. Drought locusts and ongoing warfare worsen conditions. 93,000 villages in Shantung affected.
An old advertorial touts Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as a cure for lingering coughs and conditions like euralgia or headache. The ad cites 631 E 46th St Chicago as the supplier and claims the remedy quickly yields to the druggist’s assurance, with calls to buy it everywhere.
Mushroomlike villages of wooden barracks spring up overnight in coal fields as 1300 families displaced by non union mines move into hastily erected shelters. Union leaders say villages at Russellton Moon Run Wyano Ella and Youghiogheny river districts provide sanitary housing while families hunt meat and work odd jobs to endure a protracted strike.
The annual income of the Methodist Episcopal church Board of Home Missions and Church Extension rose from 823 in 1820 to 2,500,000 in 1827. Dr E D Kohlstedt, corresponding secretary, reported at the board’s annual meeting in Philadelphia where eight bishops and delegates from many sections gathered for the session. Bishops named include Joseph F Berry of Philadelphia, Clair of Covington, William F Anderson of Boston, Charles E Locke of St Paul, Thomas Nicholson of Detroit, R E Jones of New Orleans, E L Waldorf of Kansas City, and Ernest G Richardson of Atlanta.
Eighth District Republicans will hold a victory dinner and dance tomorrow night at the clubrooms on Capitol avenue and Hudson street. Dinner starts at 7 o'clock with dancing and entertainment to follow. Mayor Behrens and other newly elected Republicans are invited.
London reports A A Milne has amassed a fortune writing nursery rhymes for his son Christopher Robin. The third book sold 60,000 copies at seven shillings sixpence on publication day, with sales likely doubling since. English and American sales were substantial.
The imperial household of Japan, which sets its own annual budget, announced it will cut expenses by 6,000,000 yen for 1928. The 1927 budget was about 20,000,000 yen, roughly 6,100,000 pounds.
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