Personal notes and plans from Brooklawn and area residents
Local social items detail Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ham and daughter Clara preparing to visit Boston for Christmas. Invitations issued for Billy Naramore’s dance at the Seaside Club with Speidel's orchestra. Mrs. Hughes leads Christmas seal sales. Ensign George Be. K. Reilly to join wife at Seaview Avenue for Christmas. Several cordial visits, entertainments, and guest arrangements listed among Brooklawn and Fairfield area families.
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W. H. Ham
Clara
Brooklawn Park
Boston
Mass
Billy Naramore
W. W. Naramore
Brooklawn Place
Speidel
George BE. K. Reilly
New London Naval Base
Tia
Seaview Avenue
Dance Crazy Debate Rocks Grafton Churches
In Grafton Massachusetts Rev Joseph A Jacques rector of St Philip s Church and Rev Philip King pastor of West Evangelical Congregational Church join to urge limits on public dances. They say Worcester visitors bring thugs and drunks and advocate fewer dances and a higher tone for the town s social scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
Mass
Joseph A. Jacques
St. Philip's Church
Philip King
West Evangelical Congregational Church
Father Jacques
Worcester
King
Young lifer Samuel Blevins jailed in West Virginia
Samuel Blevins aged 16 from Little Rock Arkansas pleaded guilty in criminal court to the murder of F C Grandstar a railroad car inspector and received a life sentence becoming the youngest prisoner in West Virginia to receive such a sentence. A second item mentions Darien residents seeking an injunction against Charles A Snusseles over right of way payments and alleged illicit gains from a long running Post Road dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
H. Va
Samuel Blevins
Little Rock
Ark
F. C. Grandstar
West Virginia
Foster
Mark K. S. Ribbins
Citi
Zens
Darien
Charles A. Snsseles
Boston
Bridgeport Mayor Urges City Manager Plan For Efficiency
Bridgeport mayor urges adoption of a city manager form, arguing it ensures continuity, reduces partisanship, centralizes authority, and aligns with a business like government. He cites a drafted charter and calls for immediate steps toward adoption in the December 1920 submission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Council
City of
Bridgeport
Fey
Holiday Gift Catalog Items Include Shoes and Slippers
A wide assortment of gifts for girls features dolls furniture, baking sets, painting sets, embroidery kits, and a new line of shoes. Van Dyke brown oxfords priced at 12.20 with a 15.50 prior model, plus Comfy slippers in multiple colors and satin dress slippers from 2.00 to 10.00. The Bracelet boot in French gray suede is highlighted as a latest style on the main floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Skinner
Copenhagen
Gifts for Men and Nursery Goods on Fourth Floor
Smoking cabinets in oak mahogany and walnut with marked price cuts. Mahogany stands and bathing girl stands reduced from 3.75 to 2.90 and 7.25 to 5.25 respectively. Fumed oak smoking stand 8.25, earlier 44.00. Also cloth cats dogs and dolls washable with ribbon novelties and baby carriage ribbons on the second floor Children’s Shop.
Notion Stock Offers Mini Accessories At Bargain Prices
A list of small gift items and trinkets ranges from new thimbles and gold bracelets to garters and tiny nosegays. Prices start at 50 cents and go up to several dollars. Colored nylons and trims in French floral accents are highlighted, with a mention of a stocking dorner, wax ball and a tape measure in ivory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sally Emery
Notion
Napkin and Bib Clasps Offer at Main Jewelry Counter
Napkin and bib clasps priced at 15 cents each or 2 for 25 cents in pink or blue enamel with sterling silver chains. A practical gift advertised at the main jewelry counter.
Gloves Special Reductions in Parisian Style Accessories
A textile advertisement lists French Kid gloves with two clasps and Paris point backs in white black beaver brown and gray. Prices were $4.25 and $4.75, with embroidered cases and envelope styles also on sale at $2.95 to $5.90, now reduced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
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Brunswick
Ustoria
Brunswick Records
Special Brunswick Xmas Records
Orpheum
Gibson
Selmer
Gilman’s Music Store
Fairfield Ave
Broad ST
Savings Banks
Bude
Sion
Bridgeport Savings Bank
Main
State Streets
George Hughes
Chalmers Avenue
Howland’s
John Hughes
Ray Stillman
Winthrop Wright
Harry Sterling
Roy Young
Isaac Ferris
Hal Perkins
Stiles Middlebrook
Adam Hugo
Howard Upton
Harry Lewis
Fairseid Avenue
New York City
Mrs
Warren Lewis
Howard Challenger
Noble Avenue
Stanley Challenger
Huntington, L. 1
Fayette C. Clark
North Avenue
David Gordon and Son
Longmeadow
George Kirsten
Park Avenue
F. Victor Cole
Clinton’ Avenue
Anna Cotter
New Haven
Herman F. Brandes
Fairfield Avenue
Marion Henshaw
Louise Hudson
Coleman Street
Bridgeport Hebrew Orphan Asylum
Stratfield Sun
Fani
Pious
Mildred Kraus
John F Keane, JR
Sanford Place
Hhe
Harvard
Ama
Williams
John Anderson
Ft. Tierce
Florida
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
South
Anderson
Beeton Lauder
Cleveland
Samuel Gledhill
Sherwood Avenue
Gledhill
Lewis Cobb
Waterbury
Jack Saur
Middlebury College
Middlebury
Vermont
North Main Street
Miss May Hall
Varuna Hall
Maud Keleher
Alice Wheele
Shirley Romanceau
Santa Claus
Barnum Avenue
Cletis McNamara
Ina Leary
Mita Catherine Kane
Eihel Bennett
Esther O'Brien
Irene Coughlin
Bullard Organization
State Street
Alvin Breul
Sara Sherman Pryor
Helen Johnson
Colorado Avenue
Lynn
Frands
Sanbornville
Newshire
Pown
Darienites
Chicago
Inland Steel Company Today
Portland
Ore
Board of Directors
Loyal Legion of Loggers
Oeson
the Legion
Che
Briktor
Autokraft
Simplex
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