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Florence Clancy edits this women focused column urging contributions to be signed with sender's address for verification. Readers may call Barnum 6100 to submit items and ensure appearance.
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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1918
Page
15
Florence Clancy edits this women focused column urging contributions to be signed with sender's address for verification. Readers may call Barnum 6100 to submit items and ensure appearance.
Bridgeport social notes chronicle residents visiting New York and returning home from universities. Families travel to Lawrenceville New Jersey, Hartford and Atlantic City while others attend dinners at Taft hotel New Haven and Lakewood. Several members at local churches, schools, and clubs host meetings, teas, and sewing circles, with illness updates including typhoid and pneumonia.
City clubs prepare victory celebrations with a Brooklawn Country Club dinner dance on Saturday November 30 featuring a patriotic program. Patrons have reserved in advance as patriotic songs and flags decorate the event. Other clubs held or planned dances in recent nights while broad color and national symbols mark the season.
The Bridgeport fridgeport day nursery opened a new three story building next to the Visiting Nurse association on Main street. It accommodates 40 to 60 babies daily with meals on a set schedule and kindergarten classes taught by trainee teachers. Mrs. Anna Magai will continue in charge, and a public opening is planned. Daily cost to mothers is ten cents with an average of fifty children cared for each day this week.
CHICAGO November 21 The International Women's Association of Commerce was organized at a conference of women from various nations. It aims to advance women in professional industrial and commercial work worldwide and to unite women for mutual help. Officers include President Miss Florence King Chicago and Secretary Dr Annie FR Ranes Chicago. Headquarters will be in Chicago.
Members of the Bridgeport Protestant Orphan Asylum plan a Hoover food sale on Thursday December 5 at the asylum on Fairfield Avenue. Mrs Frank Rennell heads donations and Mrs William Morrison oversees the sale with assistors Mrs W E Trubee Mrs Charles Godfrey Mrs S W Roessler Mrs Hamilton Shelton and Mrs Frederick Seeley. Mrs John Howland will decorate.
Christmas cartons for soldiers ready to send to France should be left at the Seaside Institute early next week. The department will be closed today and tomorrow but open then to receive packages. A Mother's Prayer communicates a mother praying for her son, the town clock striking eleven, bells and whistles signaling night, a son’s victory hoped for, and tears as prayer is answered.
The piece urges Connecticut households to avoid waste during Thanksgiving and Christmas. It cites State Food Administrator Robert Scoville calling for food conservation amid wartime shortages. It notes patriotic women vow no waste unless sons return home from overseas.
Federal food administrator Robert Scoville announced a new ruling to preserve food after the war, prompting Mrs. D. Wairchild Wheeler to seek a definite determination. He said over a million people face starvation and urged Home Economics committees to ensure compliance.
Comfort Club Two led by Mrs. Margaret Payton Myers and Miss Antoinette Davenport has sent hats and blankets to Black soldiers at Camp Devens and Camp Merritt. The group plans to pack Thanksgiving boxes this Sunday and urges people to submit names of relatives in service before then.
The letters describe Sherry and Marion delaying their departure until Harold returns from France and a Thanksgiving gathering with the family. they visit Whiting's grocers for fruit baskets and holiday treats and discuss dining room sets and home furnishings at Buckingham’s and Fairchilds. plans include a Victory dance at Black Rock Shore and Country Club with soldiers home for the holiday.
The advertisement lists Dinner Plates at 2.25 and 2.75, Meat Platters 25, 45, 70 cents, Sauce Dishes 95 cents, plus Mixing Bowls Sugar Bowls Cream Pitchers Vegetable Dishes open stock. It also promotes a Wonder Top 25 cents, Surprise Boxes for girls at 50 cents, and a 35 cent Rattle of woven reed for babies.
Marsh announces a complete stock of safes for home and office use at his new store located at 622 Pairfield Ave. The shop is open Monday and Saturday evenings, with telephone 4963-5.
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