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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1920
Page
16
A Salem Virginia woman recounts fifteen years of stomach and bowel distress improved after starting Milka Emulsion. The ad touts Milka as a nutritive food and medicine that restores digestion and appetite, with a money back guarantee and pricing of one sixty per bottle.
An advertisement warns that neglecting a cold risks pneumonia and promotes Father John’s Medicine as a safe, alcohol free remedy. It claims sixty years of use and describes the product as energizing, germ fighting, and soothing to breathing passages.
An ad touts Jad Salts as a simple remedy for kidney and bladder irritation caused by uric acid. The notice then shifts to several brief items: a Fifth Avenue bus crash kills one and injures twenty, Frank Hodson of the American embassy dies, a robber attempts a payoff in Steubenville, and Jeffersontown seeks charter revocation for county governance.
Fifty Connecticut representatives from commercial and charitable groups met in New Haven to plan a statewide combine of charitable institutions. They aim to raise funds for starving children in Europe. D. Fairchild Wheeler of Bridgeport chaired the meeting for Herbert Hoover. Prof. Henry Farnam of Yale spoke on Siberia conditions, followed by Major Todd, Hoover’s personal representative.
Elwood Ash Grisinger Jr of Buffalo is charged under the Dyer Act for moving a Hartford stolen car to Buffalo. Elisha Herrington of Hartford is also indicted. Herrington is jailed in Hartford and Grisinger is released on $1,000 bond.
The drive to assist a nationwide relief plan will begin December 19 with Connecticut joining 24 states, led by a committee selecting a state chairman. Delegates from Hartford New Haven New Britain Danbury Waterbury Bridgeport represented by Red Cross M C A Y W C A Knights of Columbus Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Federal Council of Churches and American Relief Administration. Local youths LeRoy Arthur Cox and Edwin Remond Chase enlist in the Marine Corps to pursue electrical engineering, with Sgt. James S. Pillsworth inviting interested men to learn more.
Marion Ohio December 9 President elect Harding returns to his desk after a month away and clears a large backlog of letters and routine business before League of Nations conferences next week. He weighs Governor Cox's offer to name a Republican successor if he resigns early and seeks word from Senator-elect Frank B Willis on preferred appointment.
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