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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1976
Page
18
A collection of reader letters covers home advice and craft ideas. Topics include carpet cleaning and dye risks, snails controlled with table salt, seed quantities and packaging, sewing buttons into decorative pictures, and a note on a white teardrop button art piece.
Cooking Is Fun presents a cheddar cheese fondue ham and bread bake. Layer bread ham and cheese in a buttered dish, mix flour mustard milk and eggs with Tabasco, pour over, bake at 350 F until set and browned. Serves six.
Daily cryptogram puzzle note with a long coded quote and hints. Readers learn how to solve by substituting letters and decoding the given sample. The page also includes a Sunday cryptoquote example attributed to Longfellow and an old Glasgow quote from 1976.
A promotional piece details Candid makeup colors for foundation lip and cheek, plus eye tones and mascara. It emphasizes a natural, healthy look for the contemporary woman and invites readers to request a copy of BEAUTY KNOWS NO AGE from Mary Sue Miller in Elgin Illinois with a stamped self addressed envelope and 25 cents.
Stamford police nabbed two burglary suspects at gunpoint after a suspicious car was reported near a university campus. Webser Schmid, 33, of 127 Grove Street, and Anthony Azar, 41, of 120 Grove Street, were arrested on Scofieldtown Road near the University of Connecticut branch campus. They allegedly entered the home of Mr and Mrs Henry Sharpe, stealing jewelry, cameras, silverware and liquor. They offered no resistance. Officers Robert Whitehead, Paul Potolicchio and Joseph Boor made the arrest. Both suspects face first degree larceny and third degree burglary charges with $5,000 bonds.
Learn to clear slow drains in bathrooms using a stiff wire to fish out foreign objects. Identify trap locations and remove the clean-out plug at the base to let water drain while catching debris with a pail, then clear obstructions from the trap through the plug opening.
The Bridgeport branch of the National League of American Penwomen will hold a fall luncheon on Wednesday at noon at the Carriage House restaurant Westport 1195 Post Road. Madam Madeline Elder of New Britain state president will speak after lunch. Elder is Yale Fine Arts graduate and has shown at New Britain Museum of American Art Wadsworth Atheneum and Yale Art Gallery. She has led the Connecticut Society of Women Artists AAUW of New Britain and the Hartford Penwomen branch.
Victoria A D Amico daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas S D Amico of Milford is engaged to Perry A Rich son of Mr and Mrs Pat Rich of Trumbull A D Amico a Southern Connecticut State College student majoring in special education and Jonathan Law High School graduate Mr Rich an alumnus of Trumbull High School is an assistant manager with Medi Mart
Kathleen Ann Parrello daughter of Mrs Anna May Parrello 50 Holroyd Street and the late Andrew J Parrello is engaged to Robert Michael Harbul son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Harbul 27 Benson Terrace A Central High School graduate and legal secretary Miss Parrello attended Butler Business School and Southern Connecticut State College Harbul a marketing major at Sacred Heart University is a Central High School graduate and attended the University of Bridgeport.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Melita announce the engagement of daughter Judith Ann to Anthony Joseph Gallo son of Mrs Elisa Gallo. The couple plan to wed Jan 21. Miss Melita, a Georgetown German BS and Fribourg program alumna, works for Showbus Travel Tours and All state Insurance. Gallo, Fairfield College Prep and Eckerd College BA in economics, studied a semester in London.
Rebecca Lynn Johnson and Benjamin A. Jones are engaged and plan a fall wedding. The bride is the daughter of Warren and Mrs. Johnson of Sarasota Florida, formerly of this city. The groom is the son of Benjamin F. Jones of 46 Marion Street. The bride is a Trumbull High School graduate and Sikor Sky Aircraft secretary. the groom, a Housatonic Community College graduate, studies welding at the Technical Careers Institute in Milford.
Brenda Elizabeth Holmes of Stratford, daughter of Mrs. Jack Holmes, is engaged to William Kent Elwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Elwood Jr. of Stratford. The future bride graduated from Stratford High School and works as a ward secretary at St Vincent's Medical Center. Elwood is a truck driver for Preston Trucking. The wedding is planned for July 1978.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Ryan announce the engagement of their daughter Sharon Elizabeth to Richard Giardini son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Giardini of Trumbull New Canaan area scheduled for an August 1977 wedding Both graduates of Trumbull High School the bride elect attends Sacred Heart University and the groom is employed by the U S Postal Service
Mr and Mrs Joseph C Iuli ana announce the birth of their first child Christopher William on August 40 at Bridgeport Hospital. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs William Peck of Fairfield and Mr and Mrs A A Juliana of Scotia NY.
Fairfield announces a Fifth Wheel club membership tea on Wednesday at 12 30 pm at Our Savior Lutheran Church Duck Farm and Hill Farm roads. New president Mrs Donald Knuth lists 1976 77 officers and activity chairmen. tea follows sign up with babysitting available for a small fee.
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