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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1921
Page
3
Milford records show 44 new voters added at the board of registration session, bringing yearly total to 272. Among enrollees 193 Republicans with 103 women and 90 men. Democrats total 29 with 134 women and 1a men. New electors sworn in include 31 undeclared voters planning to vote as they wish.
Milford Sept 26 a notice from the Devon coal town school board states the kindergarten at Devon school is temporarily discontinued due to conditions in the lower grades In Australia a motorized life car has been adapted for ambulance service with notable success.
Sept. a Boston firm, Wilbur Dand Company, announced purchase of the Chaples Tibballs property on the Milford Paint road, 25 acres with house and barns. The new owners plan to develop the land into watered sites for home development, with building underway.
A squadron of Martin bombers attacked the Alabama off Tangier Bay near Norfolk, using parachute flares and four TNT bombs. The bridge was hit directly, forward sections ripped open, and the ship rendered out of action, according to army and navy observers led by Rear Admiral Fullam.
The article notes original U S forests contained 829 million acres reduced to 157 million by cutting cultivation and burning with sixty percent of timber gone. It laments high consumption five times production and urges increasing lumber production to sustain living standards.
Bridgeport police and the state motor vehicles department launched Safety First Week to instill personal safety in citizens and school children across Connecticut. The program began in Hartford with police chiefs and superintendents and includes posters on highways, business district outreach, and citywide campaigns led by Superintendent Patrick J. Flanagan with local and regional agency support.
Edward Cotter of 895 State Street is jailed by New Britain authorities in default of $5,000 bail as a material witness in the murder of Lois Winkle, a real estate dealer, in that city. Traffic safety drive notes and a Safety Week program report across bridges, schools, theatres, and a trolley car demonstration, detailing 32 accidents and two deaths while urging cautious driving.
Mrs A Keller of Afton Tennessee credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with ending eight months in bed during the Change of Life after two doctors failed. She reports improved strength, reduced hot flashes and faint spells, and urges women aged 45 to 50 to prepare for natural changes by using the product.
Henry Unger of 381 East Math Street fractured his right leg when he fell from a ladder while painting a house on Lafayette Street Saturday.
Dayton resident Mrs. William Kindey writes to Tyrrell Hygienic Institute praising J. B. L. Cascade internal baths for relief from insomnia caused by constipation and digestive issues. Ad promotes free book by Dr. Charles A. Norrell and offers Wycett's Drug Store contact for details and example operation.
An advertisement touts Bon-Opto tablets for eye soreness itching burning and dryness. It instructs dissolving one tablet in water to bathe the eyes two to four times daily and promises brighter world sight. The copy cites doctors claiming strength improvements though phrasing is unclear.
The article promotes refitting the home for autumn and winter with new rooms and decor. It highlights a blue room, red room, gray room, and white kitchen, plus a white bathroom, and lists rugs, linoleum, cork linoleum, tapestries, curtains, draperies, and various fabrics with prices. It emphasizes value, beauty, and service from Howland store, including Axminster and Wilton rugs, linoleum, cretonnes, draperies, and curtains in multiple colors and styles.
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