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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1918
Page
18
Vat HOME November 25 reports an American submarine sailing with its parent carrier Burkness Teft today. The fragment notes naval movement and implies a joined escort, but details are incomplete.
Plans to use school facilities and student groups to promote Red Cross recruiting are under way. Bridgeport students are slated to participate, with assemblies in each school during the campaign week to present the issues to adults.
Seven of eleven people arrested after a wedding at Budler's hall in Willard Street received 30 day suspended sentences. The woman arrested had a suspended sentence, while three men were fined 24 dollars for resisting officers.
An old advertisement touts Mother John's Medicine as a doctor’s prescription free from alcohol and dangerous drugs with sixty years in use. It promotes building up the body to resist grip, colds, pneumonia, coughs, and sore throats. It asserts purity and absence of opium, chloroform, or other poisons.
An old advertisement touts Nuxated Iron as essential to blood health and stamina. It cites Dr James Francis and others praising its claimed ability to restore nerve and muscular vitality, urging readers to test strength after two weeks of two tablets daily.
Mr and Mrs Edmund Thompson of 1806 Noble Avenue celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last night at home with immediate family. Guests included Mr and Mrs John Merwin, Mr and Mrs Percy Johnson, Mr and Mrs J J Billington and son Thompson Billington, William Griswold of Hartford, Mrs Mary E Thompson, Rev Arthur Lewis of North Haven, Mr and Mrs Marcus J Mallory, and Mr and Mrs William Mallory of Saratoga Springs. The event conveyed greetings and good will to the couple and their relatives.
A speeding Ford runabout struck two pedestrians along the Devon roadway near Beard's corners at 7 pm injuring Mrs. Willis Hiulke Schoenfeldt fatally and badly bruising her daughter who escaped serious harm. The driver fled, passing Milford center before police alert. Mrs. Schoenfeldt died from a skull fracture while her daughter suffered only bruises.
Captain Carl Reiland arriving from overseas will give a stereopticon lecture at the Bridgeport High School auditorium at 8 this evening. He will discuss the American Red Cross and the “Call to Service” and describe the work from transatlantic relief to support at the front, highlighting the care given to husbands brothers or friends.
Medical Examiner SM Garlick ruled accidental asphyxiation in the deaths of Patsy Vincensa eight and his wife Gaetinin forty two found in their gas filled apartment on Wallace street. No self harm cause evident. a gust of wind from an open window may have extinguished the flame. They are survived by daughter Migs Josephine Vincensa.
The fragmentary notice lists several named couples with ages and occupations, but text is garbled. It references marriages and licenses in a building named Wellaure, mentioning Avior UL PuNe, Mary of Lawnapreis, Harald AM. Tlalston, Margaret bile, Toh G. Phelan, Anita TT O'German, Viola Muth, Timothy 7. Driscall, and Sanna Ranis, with inconsistent details.
Protest filed in city clerk's office opposes a proposed oil station and line of facilities at the corner of Coloreduicut Oil bonny and Southeast Earn Monantrio Civove street. Officials weigh impact on sight lines and traffic near Fate Street and Mautrfield Avenue.
United War Work drive officials report progress toward a $600,000 goal with Bridgeport area subscriptions nearing $192,000 over the original quota. Workers tally returns as industrial division misses its $29,000 target and overall drive total stands at about $171,210 by last night.
A Brattleboro reader describes prolonged illness after the grip, noting persistent weakness, headaches, and cough. Dr Williams Pink Pills are praised for rebuilding blood and restoring health, with a claim of no price increase and mail order availability.
A garbled ad style notice touts Musturina cream for pain relief claiming debatable new astringent properties. It references a wrist or toe application and promotes a yellow labeled package as the key to its claimed effectiveness.
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