Boys' Club Opens Season With Many Enrolled and Waiting
The Boys' club on Middle street opens the season with a busy game room full of checkers and other games. The upstairs gymnasium hosts monkey stunts and even horseback riding on a pole. Classes in basketry manual training wireless and more begin October 1st. The club runs daily afternoons and evenings with supervision by Herbert Hart Mrs Martha Morrigan W Van Wagner and Lenaurney leading staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middle Street
Hays
Herbert Hart
Plans to house ex soldiers discussed by federation trustees
Trustees of the Financial Federation board discussed winter housing for ex service men at noon in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. They proposed securing dormitories on Talisade avenue, requiring a sizable outlay for a proper kitchen and related arrangements. The need was noted as outside the 21 organizations funded by the federation.
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Mmen
Trustees of
Financial Federation Board
Restardas
Cham
Modern Laundering Service Promises Sanitary Cleanliness
An advertisement touts a new professional laundry offering sterilized washing with 210 to 280 degree air drying and aseptic paper wrapping. It claims superior cleanliness, sanitization, and inward cleansing, positioning the service as essential to keep households among the world’s cleanest. Also promotes rug, curtain, blanket, and comforter cleaning and urges customers to send items.
Hebrew New Year festival to begin Sunday
Preparations are under way in local synagogues and homes for Rash Hashanah, the Hebrew New Year, starting Sunday evening and continuing through Monday and Tuesday, October 4. Jews observe the holiday as one of the year’s most solemn, marked by worship and the exchange of greetings.
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Oscar
Senagoree Gil
Waterbury Blast Hits Rolling Mill Gas Plant
An explosion at a gas producing machine in the American Wrasse Core rolling mill in Waterbury caused glass damage but no injuries. The blast created considerable excitement this morning and shattered panes across several windows.
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Waterbury
Just Apply This Paste and the Hairs Will Vanish
An advertisement touts a delatone paste for hair removal claiming clear hairless skin. It explains mixing powdered delatone with water, applying to hairs for two to three minutes, then removing and washing to vanish hair with no pain or skin damage.
Dress pattern advertisement from Bridgeport Telegram
A vintage ad describes a lady dress pattern with a deep V neckline, binding, gathered waist, and long sleeves. It notes sizes for youths and misses, fabric yardage for 36 and 48 inch widths, price 15 cents, and pattern delivery by first class mail with 16 cents postage. Readers are urged to call if not received within five days.
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Mwisgles
Sizn
Gulione
Bridgeport Telegram
Barnum
Bridgeport Real Estate Board delegates to state meeting
B T F Cooney Adolph Sherman Alvin H Harcock and Percy Anderson will be delegates from Bridgeport to the Connecticut Association of Real Estate Boards annual meeting at the Tote Taft New Haven May 11. About 60 delegates from across the state and 10 boards will attend with two meetings of Connecticut realtors and two of out of state dealers planned.
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B. TF. Cooney
Adolph Sherman
Alvin H. Harcock
Percy Anderson
Connecticut Association of Real Estate Boards
Tote
Taft Wew Haven
Tor May
Connecticut Realtore
Fall Wash Fabrics Offer Wide Color and Pattern Variety
A new shipment of wash fabrics showcases Zephyr Gingham and larger checks in red green lavender and blue along with brok en blue pink combinations. Percales and small checks suit dresses and shirts while Mercerized Poplins and Shantung offer durability and a silk like drape in versatile colors.
New Cretonne Designs Draw The Eye With Color
An appealing display showcases cretonnes with bird and flower patterns and rich coloring. Highlights include mercerized Repps in verdure, Black Printed Cloths by artists, Geneva Cloths with trellis and large floral motifs, and chintzes in small posy designs. The exhibit emphasizes harmony with surroundings and includes a macaw motif.
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Laurette. Taylor
Geneva
Winter Coat Offer at $25 Appealing Colors and Sizes
An unusual early offer promotes a well made winter coat at 25 dollars in brown reindeer tan and Peking blue. Features include interlining silk lining straight lines 48 inch length and sizes from 16 to 44 for women. Personal inspection urged to gauge quality and style.
School Girl Dresses in Navy Serge and Wool Jersey Models
Catalog notes describe a navy blue serge school girl guimpe with knife plaited skirt and straight blouse in 8 to 14 years size, price 15.50, plus a navy storm serge one piece with broad plaits and wide belt priced 10. Middy dresses feature blue serge knife plaited skirts with white jersey middies and emblems in bright red or tan, sizes 8 to 14 at 16. The two piece Wool Jersey Dress comes in old blue navy henna and dark brown with plaited skirts and white cambric waists, sizes 4 to 18.
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Boys’ Club
W. van Wagoner
Lena Turney
Martha Morrison
Hobart Hart
Siam
Alextco
Europe
Hebrews
Mary J. Goldman
Mary T. Goldman
Goldman Goldman
St. For
Minn
Maondaseele
Colae Restones
Agen
Ngsley Bhurnham
Fairfield
SUN
Katland
Hindws Drug Storte
Che
New Fall Wash Goods
Cretonnes
Read Apparel Shop
Bolivia
Jersey
Ork
Mantler’s Baby Shop
Baby Wants
P.O
Elizabeth Penner
Enta
Bridgeport
Conn
Nat
Bsa
TEL. B. SL
Efrobeel Sormal
Windergarten
West Avenue
Mary c. Mills
Post-Telegram
America
Long Island Harbor
Haddock
Hayes Fish Co
Fairfield Ave
Mitchell Dairy CO
Grove ST
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