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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1918
Page
13
Notices invite women readers to send items with signature and address for the Telegram Woman's Page. Contributions may be telephoned to Barnum 6100 for appearance assurance.
The page notes multiple local social items including the Cronin daughter Jean Marie born at Bridgeport hospital to Mr. and Mrs. John Cronin of Lordship, various marriage announcements such as Miss Diana St Germain and Sergeant William A McCarthy, and Thanksgiving events. It lists community notices from Maplewood Association, Mothers' Comfort club, and Round Table club, plus Navy and Army personnel updates, visitors, and upcoming receptions, all reflecting wartime era social life and local club activities.
An advertisement touts a hair care method using Canthrax as a dissolving agent for dandruff oil and dirt. It describes a home sham poo that creates a cooling lather, rinses to a clean scalp, and leaves hair glossy and fluffy, claiming easy, affordable use for all hair types.
The estate of Biflie May Fray, who died October 19 in this city, is valued at about $60,000. Charles T. Fray and Imma Zink, half brother and sister, have applied for administration. Charles B. Dint is named administrator.
Mr. A E O'Brien a longtime New York barber promotes a home remedy to darken hair using Orley powder dissolved in water brushed through the hair. He claims the product changes gray streaks to black brown or light brown and guarantees it does not contain harmful metals or derivatives.
The narrator recalls a blissful two weeks with Blake touring southern California from Los Angeles to Pasadena and beyond. She revels in closeness, details their home life, and notes Blake’s ease with her family while balancing Aunt Helen’s warnings about unselfish love and marriage.
The Brooklawn Club women's committee announced December plans including a Victory dinner dance on Saturday with Walker's orchestra and vocalists. Several fundraisers follow, such as a December 7 bridge luncheon with a prize donated by Mrs. Richard Neithercut and a December 14 bridge hand, dinner, and film screening. The club will also showcase Jack Pickford in The Varmint and The Goat with other social functions set for December 28 and 31.
Mr and Mrs William Fredericks of 1995 Barnum Avenue celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary on Saturday night hosting friends at home. Dancing followed by supper, many useful gifts received. guests included Lillian O Leary Isabel Cuddy Gussie Wills Lillian Mattoon McCarthy May Blickey Kathleen Nolan Mary O Leary Barnes Johnson Montague Newman Maral Russell Sauires George Madsen Daniel O Leary Louis Metages Willikin Meschlise Sonn Barely Harry La Pond and more.
The influenza committee of the Fairfield Red Cross chapter ran a diet kitchen for a month serving seventy five families. The operation closed Friday as no more work remained. Two hundred twenty eight meals were served with milk soup and vegetables donated. Fourteen women assisted. eight cars were loaned to transport food daily.
The Parish Fair of St. Pauls Episcopal Church, halted last Friday by the parish house fire, will continue tomorrow night in the Y M C A rooms on Beach street starting at 9 o'clock. Miss Sallie Hopwood, recently back from China, will serve a chop suey supper. An entertaining program will be presented as various parish organizations assist in the event.
A wartime note details plans for a Victory dance at the Black Rock Shore and Country Club on Saturday night to celebrate Thanksgiving and the Allied victory. An exhibit of captured German trophies, a Rambeau menu feature, and holiday preparations with flowers, gifts, and a service record book for Harold. Reservations by 6 p.m. and 4 p.m. for dinner and dance.
Classified notice lists a reading room dimension 36 by 50 feet on the building's third floor. No other details provided.
A beautifully tempting assortment in artistic boxes. Paper and correspondence cards offered in variety with mission oak boxes that lock and may store jewels. Liberty blue boxes priced 50 cents to 2 09, on the main floor.
A nostalgic feature extols the family clock as a valued heirloom, praising its reliability and suggesting readers acquire such clocks in fumed oak or mahogany with bells and chimes. The page admires portraits of Pershing and global figures, then lists modestly priced women’s wear and small hardware items from a book section.
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