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Newspaper

Bridgeport Times

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Jul 20, 1920

Page

5

Darde Crowned Paris Prize Artist From Humble Beginnings

Paris July 20 Paul Adolphe Darde wins the Paris Ba ron national prize for his marbles Faun and Eternal Suffering. A shepherd son who fought in the war, he rose to fame through direct marble work. Critics hail him as a genuine genius and compare him to Rodin and Goujon in a sweeping career tale.

Paris Paul Adolphe Darde Faun Darde Lodeve France Montpelier Rodin Jean Goujon Barye and

Russian Wary Turks Seek Soviet Trade Amid War Strife

Djemal Pasha, former Turkish minister, declares the Young Turkish party has turned to Soviet Russia as the only nation accepting in fact the principles of the late war. He cites Entente actions, San Remo, and Wilson as driving Turkey toward Moscow for reciprocal trade and economic hope amid dismemberment fears. Times Want Ads.

Moscow Turkey Russia Djemal Pasha Young Turkish Party Djemal Isser Pasha Arabia Wilson Mustapha Kemal Angola San Remo Dardanelles Soviet Russia

Voronoff Proposes Free Gland Transplants For Youth

New York July 20: Paris surgeon Dr Serge Voronoff promoted monkey gland transplantation as a path to renewed vitality. He urged large scale US monkey farms and predicted life extension beyond a century. He has performed operations on French patients and plans to transplant interstitial glands from a deathbed donor to a man seeking youth.

New York Serge Voronoff Paris United States French Congo France Voronoff

Store Closes Early Weekdays and Sells Fashionable Attire

A local shop advertises daily hours closing at 5 except Saturdays at 6. It promotes value and variety with new styles and colors, featuring jersey outfits, tuxedos, Norfolk coats, regulation coats, skirts with pockets, and voile dresses in lavender blue peach pink and white embroidery. Prices noted include suits at 25 and voile dresses at 15.

Quartette White Skirts at Two NinetyFive

Four styles of white skirts priced at 2.95 each describe firm seasonable gabardine with good weight. Features include strapping a wide belt and pearl buttons, emphasizing durability and lasting freshness.

Rich plaids and sweaters on third floor sale items

Rich plaids of fine wool for sport skirts and business wear offer durability and vivid contrasts. 54 inches wide in dark and medium tones, with regular prices from 4.50 to 6.00, and a display on the third floor. Also a large assortment of sweaters featuring slipovers and coats in turquoise, copenhagen, dark green, black, and American Beauty with eye catching touches.

Copenhagen

Smart hats for women at the second floor shop

Fresh untrimmed straw hats for women in seasonable shapes and colors. Summery white and attractive hues. hats are effective with little trimming required. A large selection to enhance summer attire. Second floor.

Wash goods trio offers middy fabrics at sale price

Trio of wash goods highlights middy suit rompers linen with firm hand and smooth surface. Yard wide white fabric laundered easily regular 59c now 50c. Ninaook underclothes fabric soft finish yard wide 50c. Striped madras in color combos yard wide 42c, sale noted at left aisle rear.

Girls middies on sale at $1.45 for sizes 8 to 18

Comfy and pretty middy blouses for girls, suitable for summer and all seasons. Made in white staunch fabric, easy to launder and long wearing. Laced or closed front options, regular prices $1.75 to $2.25, now $1.45 on the second floor.

Fine little dresses for children at two ninety five

Dainty organdy and voile dresses in white pink rose and yellow for children sizes 2 to 6. Features tucked skirts ribbon sashes smocked fronts white collars and cuffs. Regular prices range from four fifty to six dollars, now offered at two ninety five on the floor.

Two silks of many striped taffeta rich with luster

A catalog note highlights striped taffeta silks with novelty and beauty. It lists colors navy copenhagen taupe brown green wis seria orchid coral navy and black. The fabrics are yard wide and priced at 2.75 per yard, located on the third floor.

Copenhagen

Silk waists and cotton styles in varied fabrics

Silk waists and cotton items described in filmy Georgette crepe with light and dark tones. Some long sleeves, most with short sleeves, embroidered patterns or lace trim. Prices from $1.95 to $10, with special waists for full figures. Second floor display.

Sheets and Towels at Main Floor Rear Deal

Bleached sheets 81 by 90 inches price 2.60 to 2.35. Unbleached muslin yard wide 42c to 35c. Sheeting 94 width unbleached 1.10 to 90c. Turkish towels heavy weight bleached 65c to 50c. Light absorbent bleached Turkish towels 39c to 30c. Main floor rear.

Highland Linen Stationery Offer in Boxed Sets

Highland Linen presents 24 sheets and 24 envelopes in a box with five envelope styles. Regular price 60e scaled to 4Sc, French Linette option features fine fabric finish. Larger 48 sheet and 48 envelope set offered at 75e reduced to 69c.

Prices from Fourth Floor Sale List Read as Catalog

The listing shows a variety of household items with marked prices from vacuum cleaners and lamps to bread mixers and stoves. Items include electric vacuums at 45 dollars, lamps at 14 dollars, piano lamps at 27 dollars, willow dampers, bath sprays, towels bars, tea kettles, clothing lines, brooms, saucepans, canister sets, soap, toilet paper, gas plates, whisk brooms, gas burners, pulleys, floor brushes, toilet brushes, bristle brushes, wall dryers, oil stoves, and scrub brushes, with numerous cents options and a note “Fourth floor.”

Landers Fray & Clark

Mill End sale discounts on boys and girls stories and shoes

A newspaper notice advertises popular fiction editions for men and women at 95c with some edges soiled 79c. It lists children's virtue tales from 35c to 1.50. The sale offers a wide range of dress and play shoes for girls and children with marked reductions on tan highcut laced shoes 4.25 to 5.75 and other styles and tops. Main floor rear.

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