Draft Board No 5 Sends One Colored Man to Camp Dix
Draft Board No 5 will send one colored man from the state's quota of 43 as physically qualified for general military service on November 19 to Camp Dix.
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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1918
Page
10
Draft Board No 5 will send one colored man from the state's quota of 43 as physically qualified for general military service on November 19 to Camp Dix.
Advertisement extols Father John’s Medicine as a tonic and body builder to aid recovery after grip. It claims forced nutrition supports strength, prevents further attacks, and builds the body without opium morphine or other poisons, noting sixty years of success for colds and throat troubles.
A testimonial advert claims two years ago a stomach and bowel breakdown left the writer in hospital with mucous colitis and auto intoxication. After using Mayr's Wonderful Remedy, health improved dramatically. The ad asserts the product clears catarrhal mucous and inflammation causing many digestive ailments and offers a money back guarantee.
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Bridgeport patrons face a packed bill at the popular theater with Wil S Hart starring in The Border Wilegs, a gripping photodrama. Vaudeville features include Vauclan, Claire and Atwood, Moore and White, Dunber and Turner, and the Mystic Joanson Trio, plus Chaplin Shoulder Arms and Bert Lyte Unexpected Places in Sunday program. Charlie Chaplin enlists, while the Lyric hosts The Cabin in the Hills, a tale of the eternal triangle remarking on married life.
Advertisement for a dancing school run by Professor Quilty at the Colonial ballroom Meirfield avenue. Classes include step dancing and circles with careful instruction. Call Colonial any afternoon or evening to enroll.
The Plaza Theatre presents the Tan iy Stevens company with Kildare of the Storm, a drama filmed in the south with plantation scenes and a tale of a wife tempted by her husband. The Rin Gardid s musical act features five performers, Austin and Calvin song and dance, Nila Johnson, and Griffith and Don with surprises. At the West ind theatre, The Man Within in six acts stars Dorothy Gish and Douglas MacLean with a wireless station race and a German spy, driving at 60 miles per hour.
An advertisement questions if mothers neglect or fail to give Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to daughters with female ailments. It claims the old fashioned medicine has alleviated more suffering of womankind than any other remedy known to medicine.
Cadum Ointment advertised as a quick relief for tetter rash eczema chafing pimples and related skin troubles suitable for infants and children also noted is a Quilty School of Dancing offering nightly assemblies at the Colonial ballroom Warfield avenue from 9 to 12 with music by Murray and a single admission.
Syrian leaves estate of about 1278.96 to his cousin after debts. Abilinc leaves wife and six minor children in Syria. remaining assets go to her. Mig Yittel tower valuable, about to recover from paint at 40,000 pounds. McEneily's Singing Orchestra heads to Colonial Ballroom Monday night. Bridgeport youth invited to Dance.
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