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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1920
Page
7
Hostesses for the Bridgeport Art League 26th annual exhibition are listed led by Mrs. Frank D. Hikers as chairman. The vestry includes Mrs. W. J. Taft Mrs. Ferguson Mrs. Lavey Miss Wheeler and many others assisting at the Toots this afternoon and evening.
A May party at St Vincents community house on Barnum avenue drew about 50 members from the dressmaking classes led by Mrs Anna M Sullivan. Music and games, including competition singing, added cheer while Miss Mary Dougherty, new secretary, was guest of honor. Elizabeth Daley presented a fitted bag to Mrs Sullivan as thanks. pink and green decor and a plentiful supper concluded the pleasant evening. The girl graduate is reminded that she cannot prove she has required Graiis merely by wearing a $75 dress.
An excerpt from The Book of Wonders describes how dreams originate in the brain. It explains that different brain parts may sleep or wake, and dreams protect sleep by absorbing disturbances that would otherwise wake us. The text notes dreams have purpose and memory varies, and it critiques passive citizens who demand changes but never act.
Mrs. W. C. Kuemmel of the American Dressmarking School led a well attended demonstration at the Food Hut on State Street, showing how to cut six styles from one pattern. She emphasized saving money by reusing patterns and explained waist, skirt, and collar patterns with examples, promising another session on Wednesday.
In Chicago on May 6, representatives from 27 lay bodies organized the National Catholic Laymen's Council to elect 12 of 53 delegates as the administrative board. The group aims to raise 20 million dollars to support church work and combat Bolshevism and other agitants, with each diocese receiving one delegate and an extra for every 500,000 Catholics.
One hundred delegates from every state opened a week long meeting in Atlantic City to review findings of the rural survey department of the Inter church World movement. The study covers over 3,000 U.S. counties and plans programizing conferences this summer in county seats to address rural church underservice.
Willemstad Curacao May 6 The steamer Carisco owned by the Caribbean Steamship Co has been seized for towage compensation by the Dutch tug Ajax. The vessel, found disabled in the Maracaibo Gulf late in March, arrived in Willemstad and made port on March 27.
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