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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1920
Page
8
Build up for the Spring Attack and combat Spring Fever through an herbal extract called Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Claims include blood purification, clearer eyes, better skin, and relief from neuralgia, with patient testimonials from Buffalo New York praising the tonic and related pills.
Time has come by when a man can win the presidential race simply by proving that he's sound and kind. Nine tenths of kicking comes from those who never pay the piper and refuse to buy cheap articles. Politicians favor publicity but seldom sign their name. Wearing gingham dresses won’t make girls prettier but may flatter a bachelor. Safety razor makers aren’t raising kicks. barbers protest price hikes.
Senator Penrose enjoys his first car ride since returning from Florida where he recuperated from illness. John T. King of Connecticut sits beside him in a large red car. The piece compares Bridgeport and Hartford voter and child counts from 1913 and 1918, noting Bridgeport's larger child population and questioning which city is larger today.
In Rome on May 10 postal and telegraph employees decided to extend their strike. They announced that work would not resume until the strikers are victorious. The meeting praised the socialist group in the Chamber of Deputies for backing the strike.
Granite cutters, after a strike for 38 a day, returned to work agreeing to 7 with the promise of parity if Barre Vermont workers gain 8. The note hints at rising hair cut costs and recalls mothers using shears and a bread and milk bowl. Damaged cars along motor roads reflect drivers conserving Duch Day.
Henry Clews surveys Washington’s political drift and the international scene as Mexican frontier tensions rise. He notes banking tightness, rising stock and bond issuance, and a likely 28 percent freight rate increase, with markets hoping for rate relief and cautious lending ahead of readjustment in prices and credit.
Nikola Stan cowich a 14 year old Serbian war hero who earned two bravery medals from Prince Alexander settled in New York to pursue schooling after leaving Chicago two years earlier to join the Serbian army He served at a training camp and in combat against Rutgers where he was wounded and his father was killed He recently received the medals again while recovering in a hospital and has now resumed education in New York
Cumberland Maryland May 9 reports say actor Frank Carter was instantly killed in a motor accident near Cumberland. An unidentified actor was seriously injured and taken to a hospital. Carter, found with letters and cards in his pocket, was en route to join his wife Marilynn Miller in Philadelphia as part of the Ziegfeld Follies cast.
A fragmentary note satirizes the Academy of Political Science conference claiming it lacks a ball team. It comments on public advice, price doubles, and political credit for avoiding tripling costs, ending with a quip about truth and unity.
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