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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1920
Page
7
The column details neighborhood social events including anniversaries and engagements at Barnsford avenue and Wentworth street, Hebrew Boys club meetings with new members, Easter travel plans, lectures by Beatrice Oteen, and a Red Cross program. It also notes dances, surprise parties, fashioning of outfits, sewing circles, and Holy Week church services across multiple local churches with scheduled bells, baptisms, and Easter services.
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes as easy to use for women to dye wool silk linen cotton and blends. It guarantees rich fadeless color on all fabrics and promises plain directions on each package to avoid mistakes. Consumers are urged to ask a druggist for the Diamond Dye Color Card to match any material.
A Chattanooga reader testifies to relief from back pain dizziness and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetarian Compound during menopause. She claims renewed strength and energy enabling daily chores and urges other women to try the remedy.
B H S will close Thursday for Easter vacation and reopen April 12. Teachers Matthias and others prepare for the Commercial Teachers' convention in Philadelphia. Miss Amy Andrews ex 21 visited. Outins club met. Wyland class presented Ye Olde Country Skule. Frances O Neil and Theresa Feinstein led. Debating teams posted wins with Mary McQueen and Horace Jones performing music during intermission.
At the New York East Conference in Brooklyn New York several pastors received new assignments. Fer A J Martin moves from Grace church Fairfield and Clinton avenues to Greenwich. Rev J H Guernsey will replace him at Grace. Rev A M Davidson from Naugatuck comes to Newfield church Stratford avenue to replace Rev D M Lewis who goes to Baldwin Long Island. Rev M A DeGraff of Amsterdam moves to Trinity church North Avenue and Remer street. Dr W H Kida becomes the new district superintendent. Lenten services at Park Street Congregational church continue this week with the topics The Denial The Betrayal Before Pilate with leaders Newton H Hoyt C Eames and Clarence R Hall. Dr Beard leads a class on The Church Movement each evening at 7. Collars price rising to 30 cents. Motorists speeding in court face unfamiliar law.
Edward Bliss Reed argues that Palestine, a Arab majority with Bedouin and Jewish colonists, faces a future under self-determination. He cites two Palestinian classes, their Turkish oppression history, and a March 1919 Zionist arrival spark that drew Moslem and Christian anti Zionist plans culminating in British suppression of potential unrest in Jerusalem.
An advertisement claims women suffer from insufficient nourishment indigestion worry or overwork. It cites wind as a remedy and attributes conditions to overwork and a rum-down blood. Vinol is promoted as a nerve toner that strengthens digestion enriches blood and steadies nerves for better sleep.
Trade reports from London note a trend of department stores combining through purchase or consolidation. Major stores in key cities are absorbing competitors and expanding abroad, including a Buenos Aires outlet. Advertising value grows as amalgamation spreads, though competition may narrow in scope.
Two new rest huts in the Chateau-Thierry district welcome relatives of American soldiers. One serves the Belleau Woods cemetery with 2,594 graves and the other at Fere-en-Tardenois with 3,792 graves. The huts provide light meals and tea and a comfortable rest room, not overnight lodging, as nearby hotels are set for spring visitors. Information shows locations were clearly opposed and even hostile to Zionism.
Cooperation between agencies staffing huts at Romagne Bony Thiancourt Montdidier and Soissons cemeteries provides graveside assistance transportation hotels and photo service for families in America. Rest houses unnecessary due to local hospitality. Smoking cars for women discussed. no reports of millinery opening dates to spouses yet.
An old style testimonial promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe tonic for women. It claims good health hinges on the feminine organism and links beauty to wellness, urging readers to send 10 cents for a trial package and medical advice from Dr. Pierce's hotel in Buffalo, New York.
Women's two tone drop stitch silk hose with lisle top and soles offered at 4.50. Drop stitch silk hose heavy quality lisle tops and soles in black priced at 3.95. Women's two clasp light weight item also listed.
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