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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
Excellent Laxative
For Elderly People

AS we pass the prime of life the
various organs of the body have
a tendency to weaken, especially
the bowels. Regularity in this
important function is so essential
to good health that old folks
should be very careful to avoid
constipation. A congestion of
stomach waste in the bowels occa-
sions dizziness, headache, drowsi-
ness after eating. biliousness,
belching, bloat, piles, etc, and
should be corrected Immediately;
it is the direct cause of much Sc
rious disease. o.
The most effective remedy for
constipation is a combination of
simple laxative herbs with pepsin
sold in drug stores under the name
of DR.. Caldwell's Syrup .Pepsin. It
costs only fifty cents a bottle, is
mild in its action, does not grippe
or strain, and brings relief quickly
in an easy natural manner. Get a
bottle of it from your druggist and
keep it in the house; it is the ideal
family remedy. A trial bottle can
be obtained free of charge by
writing to DR.. w. B. Caldwell, 456
Washington ST., Monticello, Il
linois..
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
PLAZA

If you haven't heard Miroslava and
the Serbians at the Plaza, you've
missed something that you'll be sorry
for. Miroslava sings three songs and
so beautifully that you'll be angry
because she won't sing dozen more
and the way those Serbians handle
their native instruments in accom-
panying the charming little star is
a rare delight.
other vaudeville attractions on the
bill today and tonight are Prelle's
Circus featuring THE Robbery of the
Overland MALI; Tom and Dolly Ward
in songs, foolishness and pianologue,
and Mccarthy and Lowering, a pair
of pretty young women in a singing
oddly that pleases.
Clara Kimball Young's latest tri-
umph, Shirley Kaye" completes a
most worthy bill.
Tomorrow night will bring our old
friend and drawing card, Dougles
Fairbanks in Reggie Mixes In" a
reissue of one of his best Triangle
productions.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
POLT'S

Today's three performances at
Polls theatre will be monumental.
Not only in the size of audiences
which will flock to the theatre i'm
PEELED by a desire to see one or more
of their favorites but from the mag
nificence and number of selections
that are offered to divert and to
amuse.
Miss Theda Bara, who returns to
Bridgeport after a lapse of several
months, has drawn widely among the
feminine element. Her fascinating
power over the weaker six is not to
be denied and in this masterful Of
fering of "Du Barry" she has excelled
as in none of her vampire" sub
jeCts. Theda Bara on the screen to-
day is what Nine. Bernhard is to the
stage. She is a wonderfully romantic
as we'll as tragic actress. She has
scored far above the Burne-Jones
conception of womanhood. She is the
full artist in this great French cpl
sode of the life of king and an ad-
ventures.
In vaudeville the Six Kirksmith
Sisters appeal by their charm of
manner, natural beauty and excep-
tional vocal and instrumental talent.
| The act is so well staged from q scenic
viewpoint that unusual and most ia
vorable comment has been heard
! throughout theatrical circles on its
merit.
Bob Hall, eloquent, elegant and
| impromptu comedian and songmaker
is in the zenith of popularity. The
| trajectory of his humor sends the
| heavy punch far into the gloom
| enemys line. The explosions Of mirth
that follow tell that his shots find
range.
| Bowers, Walters and rocker "Those
| Three Rubes," present a whtrlwind
! of dancing and acrobatic specialties in
| a deXterous and dangerous delirium
| of representations. Nothing like this
! act has ever been seen in Bridgeport
1t is the epitome of comic and artistic
excellence.
The Romans present a superb of
| fering upon the revolving ladder anC
! Baird and Inman at the piano ;
| dazzling diversion of song talk anc
| startling costume.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
HIPPODROME

One of the most beautiful as we'll
as talented screen stars of the day is
none other than charming Virginia
Pearson, who portrays in her inimita-
BILE manner the leading role in the
five part Fox super-feature cinema
production, Thou Shalt Not Steal"
which tops the al select program
which the management of the Hippo
drome theatre, Stratford avenue, be.
tween Carroll and Wilmot avenues
offers for this evening.
Thou Shalt Not Steal" is a later
day drama replete with thrilling situa-
tions and Astounding in big dramatic
moments. The play is one that was
written especially for this charming
star who will be well remembered
by both screen goers and theatre
goers.
Other select feature plays of single
and multiple part lengths will round
out the program.
Sunday evening, the exponent of the
smile, Douglas Fairbanks and an al
star cast of players in the Triangle
Reissue. 1.-THE Habit of Happiness"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
WHATS GOING ON In The WORLD
OF THEATRES and AMUSEMENT
LYRIC

Birds of Prey" a play Of moro
than average dramatic interoc--, GENES
to the Lyric next week. The story
follows: She was only a little hat
model in a Fifth avenue establish.
ment. She was pretty, shapely, vi
vaciOus, a prey for the human Vul'
lures that ought to be in church but
are really in Churchills, and 1t was
inevitable that she should be singled
out victim.
And Edward Wildwood, son of
wealthy parents estranged by di-
vorce, selected her as his. He was
known among his boon companions
as The Shrimp, and by that name he
was called by girls from the Circle
down to Herald Square. And strangely
enough, he liked it.
When the girl first started on the
Job she was a picture. and she was a
good kid, too, but he got her on a bet.
Think of that, folks, the honor of
girl the subject of a bet AS Mabel,
the only friend she had in her trou-
BILE, tcld it: "ShrimD was a favorite
in the betting. He COPIED Florrie
for the poor kid didn't know the
ropes. 1t was two Whiffs of cham
payne and they went housekeeping
together, and then tine old story-he
deserted her."
And when, urged by'her girl chum
she came to the young mans home
and demanded her rights, the boys
sister came into the room, quite by
accident.
The boy told his victim she should
not speak to his sister because they
were of different worlds.
Different worlds she cried will
her heart broken, why should we BIZ
of different worlds. We were borI
about the same time" And turning
to the sister, she said:
you've always had it easy. L
well, never mind. Do you think Goo
made you to get everything every
luxury, without effort; and love
honor, devotion, without being put tc
the test. Do you think He made me
to struggle against starvation from the
time my mother died-and to wind w
an outcast. If God intended it that
way He isn't any more just than mar
is"
And what was the outcome of this
triangular debate between the boy
his sister and the deceived girl?
shot rings out and the girl is killed
The police come and then
Watch how ingeniously the play
wright has worked out this dilema il
Birds of Prey"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
COLORED LIGHTS
new DISCOVERY
FOR DIAGNOSIS

If there were developed means. of
diagnosis so definite as to be prac
tically infallible, as accurate as math-
ematics, as uniform as a chemical re-
action and so simple that any doctor
of even ordinary good training could
apply it, the significance of the dis
covery could hardly be computed in
terms of lives and money. We could
practically stamp out tuberculosis
and cancer in two generations.
This has been a medical vision, q
vague Utopian dream. And now the
vision has become a reality, the
dream has become an actually. For
an American scientist, DIR. George
Starr White, of Los Angeles, Calf,
has discovered a natural principle so
simple as almost to be absurd, and
| yet so fraught with meaning that it
spells life itself for millions.
He merely found out why a sick
carrier pigeon could not find its way
home Then he applied the principle
there discovered to determine why
humans and animals that suffered
from disease could not find their way
back to health. The answer was the
|
of their inability to respond to the
magnetism that flows along the
earth's magnetic meridians. And this
inability to respond to the magnetic
attraction of the meridians is because
some disease in the system prevents
the response to this magnetic flow.
You will remember that the last
time the family physician examined
L. 1,1,, =
thoroughly. He moved his left hand
over your chest and tapped smartly
with his right hand finger tips on the
firmly pressed second finger of his
left hand. DIR. White improved this
antique method. Instead of vibrat-
ling bone over tissue he vibrates a col
umn of air over the surface. Thus:
Instead of pressing the second finger
of the left hand solidly owed the re-
gion to be percussed he touches
gently the widespread first and third
fingers to the body, raises the second
finger free, and taps it smartly with
the index finger of his right hand, of
which he has made little hammer
composed of a celluloid thimble into
which mixture of beeswax and tbs
finest bird shot have been nodded
To the trained ear of one accustomed
to this work abnormal conditions
J clear in the back part of the body
can be detected by percussing the
front.
All this led to the crucial discovery
, that there is a definite VACATION ir
tone in the same individual, wher
percussing him-especially over the
5 abdomen-by the air-column method
5 when he has been facing east or west
: and is then turned to face north o.
south.
However, only healthy Individual
t have this clearly defined change I.
vagal tone-this 'sympathet.c-yaga
lreflex," as DR.. Whit calls it. Blu
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16

when those suffering from disease
no matter how family defined, are
faced to the east and then are turned
to face the north the tension in their
blood vessels remains unaltered-
To determine what causes this DR..
White tried every conceivable method
of bringing back this refleX-even
temporarily. He finally found that if
the barred chest and abdomen of those
who did not show the magnetic re-
flex-in other words, who were ill
were exposed for minute or two to
colored lights, the reflex could DE
temporarily restored.
He first demonstrated that ruoeT-
cuIosis patients of either sex, and in
all stages of the disease, II exposed
+o the s.vihration' of the photograph
ic darkroom ruby would snow the
same variation in blood-Vessel tension
as all healthy INDIVIDUALS ShoWeu
without the light.
With similar eXactness malaria DIS
closes itself to certain shade OF blue
light, influenza or the grippe" to
red-green, kidney Intoxlcat1ons to
shade of violet, liver disease and
jaundice to green, typhoid to blue
green, and alcoholic conditions to
deep prune. And gradually more and
more of the toxemias are coming in
to exact classification as regards their
response to vari-colored lights 1t is
merely problem in vibration-each
disease apparently producing defin-
lite molecular rapport with rays of
light travelling at certain speed. And
it would seem that every condition
that so modifies the emanations from
the body as to nullify the effect of
the energy of the magnetic meridian
upon it has definite color vibration
for diagnosing from ''Colored
Lights-A Means of Diagonis and
Cure by Edwin F. Bowers, M. P, in
February Physical Culture.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
LITTLE BENNY'S
NOTE BOOK
Observation-Disclosures
By LEE PAPE
The Park Ave. News

LIE Idrk ave. News
Spoarts. Ed Wernick and Lew
Davis have each got a new pair of
End hand automobeel goggles and
last Satidday AFTERNOON they stood on
the corner of Broad street a half a
hour with them on, watching awto-
mobeels go past and yelling, Hay
mister, give US ride" in vain.
Militerry News. Vile Company B
was drilling last Toozday after suppir
the Beerks streeters quick ran err
round the corner ware they was in
ambush and attacked Compinny B
with snow balls and yells. Company
B retreeted rapidly on account OF
having bin took by serprize, but wen
saw after the retreet, Genrel Skinny
Martin stated that the Berks streeters
had better not try it agen.
Pleasant Dreems
Pome by Skinny Martin
I had a little kittin named Kitty
Who Good go to sleep in my fathers
hat,
And the ony thing that. interrupted
Was my father wen he saw ware he
was at.
Sissiety Miss Mary Watkins still
gets 2 eggs for brekfist every morn
ing at the present price of eggs.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Sam Cross was reading a tx
citing book in the publick Hbrerry
after suppir last Thersday and he
dident have his card with him to
take it out with, and he keep of
reeding it there till the librerry closed
at o'clock, and the man that puts
the books away told him 8 times the
librerry was going to close, and Sam
Cross sed, All rite, each time and
kepp rite on reeding, and the 4th
time the man took the book rite away
from him without even leeving him
get to the bottim of the page he
wunted to get to the bottim of, and
the next day wen Sam Cross went to
the librerry with his card he coodent
find the book, saying the man must
of hid it for spite.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
: A CLEAR COMPLEXION
Ruddy Cheeks-Sparkling Eyes
Most Women Can Have
Says DR.. Edwards, a Well-Known
Ohio Physician

Dr.. F. M Edwards for II years treated
scores of women for liver and bowel
ailments. During these years he gave to
his patients a prescription made of few
EeIi.known vegetable ingredients mixed
with olive oil, naming them DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets. You will know them by
their olive color.
These tablets are wonder-workers on the
liver and bowels, which cause normal
Gction, carrying off the waste and poison
BUS matter in ones system.
If YOU have pale face, sallow look, dull
yes, pimples, coated tongue, headaches, a
istless, no-good feeling, all out cS sorts.
Inactive bowels, you take one OF DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets nightly for time
Ind note the pleasing results.
Thousands OF women as well as men
AXE DR.. Edwards Olive Tahlets-the sue.
:essful substitute for calomel-now and
hen Just to keep in the pink of condition.
loc and 25c per box. AL druggists.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
STRATFORD
Especial to The Times.)

Stratford, Feb. 16-The selectmen
of Stratford are very soicitous that
the members of the Stratford Volun-
teer Fire Department who give their
services gratis to the town shall at
least have the same comforts while
sleeping at the fire house as If they
were in their own home. At the
meeting of the town fathers held
last evening at the town hall it was
voted to purchase three rugs to be
placed on the floor of the sleeping
quarters of the fremen. Heretofore
there was no carpet or rugs on the
floor. 1t is the intention of the Sc
lectmen to make the sleeping quar-
ters of the men as home-like as pos.
Sibl
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
More Coal to Arrive.

Word was received here today tina.
two more carloads of anthracite coal
are on the way. They are expected
to arrive here by this evening. Dis
tribution in quarter ton lots will COM
mence Monday morning under the
direction of First Selectman James
Lally. Of the present carload of hard
coal but 10 tons remain. 1t is ex-
pected that this amount will be sold
before the day closes.
Very little suffering is being ex-
perienced by any of the people of
the town for want of fuel. Nearly
everyone who sought relief has been
temporarily furnished with the prom
Use that the allotment will be bigger
when the supply is replenished.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
81 Germans REGISTER.

The registration of all German sub
jects ordered by United States Attor-
ney Gregory closed Wednesday even
ing. The total number who regis
tered with Chief William B. Nichols
of the Stratford police department was
"a. There was not a single unpleaS-
ant feature to mar the registration
said Chief Nichols today. Everyone
came willingly and surrendered four
small photographs of himself. No
arrests were made.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
EMPIRE

Tho Hidden Pearls" the latest
Paramount master play of thrills and
romance will head the program Offer
ed at the Empire theatre this after
noon and evening. Sessue Hayakawa
the brilliant Japanese star of the
screen, will be seen in the leading
role. Other plays Of a most interest
ing and entertaining nature will also
be shown.
Sunday, Elsie Ferguson and an all
star cast in her latest Aircraft master
I. production, Rose of the World"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
FIVE CENT STAMP
Is SOLD FOR $3.50

philadelphia, Feb. ia five cent
postage stamp issued in 1915 by Rob
ert H. Norris, New York postmaster
was sold at auction here last NIGH
for $685.. 1t was purchased by West
ern stamp collector. The stamp i!
declared to be a fine specimen and i:
one of half dozen on original en-
velopes in existence.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
Many at Food Demonstration.

More than so persons attended the
food demonstration at the town hall
yesterday afternoon given by Miss
Elizabeth Angel. Her subject was
Menu Making" Samples of various
kinds of food made by Miss Angel
we're distributed to the audience.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
To Go to Boston Institute.

Ellsworth Brown, of Housatonic
avenue. who was recently transferred
from the Naval Reserves to the Avia-
ton Department, has received word
to report Sunday to Boston Institute
of Technology, where he will begin a
.course of training. His wide circle
hi friensd in town wishes him much
success.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
Specializing in Dressings.

Mrs Edward F. Leeds of Stratford
ie taking a course in the standard and
special dressings so much in demand
in this war. The course is being
given in Stamford in order that many
may make immediate application OF
the knowledge when received
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16
High School to Give Dance.

Members of the Stratford High
school will hold a dance this evening
at Red Mems hall, Church street. Irv-
ing Bennett is chairman. A local or
chestra will furnish the music.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16

Increase of 10 per cent passenger
fares between San Francisco and 9TH
er California points and Reno, New
on the Western Pacific Railroad
were granted by the Interstate Com
naeree Commission.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16

Clarence Forbes, featherweight
boxer .ef prominence decade ago,
died at the Illinois State Hospital
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16

CORTEz c. ROCKWELL. plumbing
and heating; jobbing a ~pecialty, 3051
Main and Hillside avenue. Phone
Stratford 1142 or 114-S. B1O*tf
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16

An order was issued by Judge Bak-
er in the United States Circuit Court
of Appeals permitting Henry Veeder,
counsel for Swift & Co., to consult
certain papers in his vault, now I'M
der guard of Federal agents.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-16

SWEET PEAS. VIOLETs, TULIPS,
DAFFNODIIS.
JOHN RECK & SON.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-06-04

! New York, june 3-Scores
of United States watships were
ranging the ocean OFT the North
Atlantic coast tonight in search
of the German submarines
which made their long expected
attack on American shipping
III home waters late yesterday
AFTERNOON.
Out Of the flood Of reports
which swept through the mar
inc district after The Associat-
ed Press first flashed the news
that two cruiser submarines
were operating Is miles south
west of the Highlands of New
Jersey. these facts stood out: :.
The steamship Carolina of
the New York and Porto Rico
Steamship Co., has been sunk.
Nothing is known OF the fate Of
the 220 passengers and crew of
1870 who took to the boats when
the under water craft began
Smelling the liner.
The schooners Edward H.
Cole OF Boston, Jacob NJ. Has
kell of Boston, Isabel B. Wiley
of Bath, Me, Hattie Dun of
Thomaston. Me, and Samuel
w. Hathaway, have been sunk,
and the crews have been landed
at an Atlantic port,
The Savannah Line steam
ship City of Columbus is re-
ported to have been sunk. but
no definite news Of her fate has
been received.
y government hydro-airplane.
which ahghted near Beach Haven. \.
J., reported that IS miles off shore
it had sighted three lifeboats fillsd
with people pulling slowly toward tha
coast ana had seen other lifebouts
floating about empty.
The Atlantic Refining 60. tanker,
Herbert J.. rratr. was sunk four
miles off Cape Henlopen by 4 subnaa
rinc. The crew was landed at Lewes,
De,
Continued on Page A--CoIumn s.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-06-04
ENEMY NOW HOLD NORTHERN BANK OF
MARINE FOR DISTANCE OF IS MILES

Although it cannot be said that the
Germans in their now offensive have
been definitely stopped there is new
crlcss 2 marked diminution in the
speed with which they started out
and their gains since Saturday have
been relatively small when compared
with those Of previous days.
And, according to the accounts Of
unofficial observers, wherever they
have been able since the stiffening #
the allied lines to attain new posi-
tons, an cHorbitant price in lives
has been exacted from them SO grca:
have been the casualties suffered thai
tie Pruss!an Guards divison-the
pride OF the German Crown Prince
is declared to have been withdrawn
from the battle.
Particularly hard fighting again has
been in progress between scissors aud
Chateau Thicrry where the Germans
are endeavoring to push further for
ward toward Paris, but the French
troops almost everywhere have sue
cessfully withStood the onslaught ana
on several sectors themselves have
taken the initiative and gained
ground. AS a whole the situation
along this line is relatively unchanS-
cd.
The German war Office at last has adj
mitted that the Allied line on the ives,
has been reinforced by fresh units. bu;
it asserts that they have not been able
to hold the positions to which they were
assigned Nevertheless the fact is pa.
tent from an observation of the war
maps that almost every where in this
region the German line, for the moment
at least, is being held.
From Chateau Thierry eastward
along the Marine and thence TO Rheims.
the situati virtually is UNCHANGED
from that of Sunday. The enemy now
holds the northern bank of the Marine
for a distance Of about Is miles, but as
yet he has made no serious endeavor to
cross the stream
The news Of what it has cost the Ger
man armies in men killed wounded or
made prisoner in the present battle is
reaching Germany through a no less
authoritative source than the semi Off |
cial Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
This journal prints a letter from Ger |
man colonel at the front who urges the !
people to bear their losses with pa
tience and confidence.
Little fighting aside from the usual |
small affairs between raiding parties is
taking place on the Flanders front. The
British have carried out successful raids |
OF several sectors here and taken near
Is 800 prisoners
In the Italian theatre the opera tons |
continue Of a minor character.
American aviators are giving good sc- !
count of themselves over the battle line |
in France. Since April IA, when they |.
first took the air in offensive opera
tons. they have shot down at least IS |,
enemy planes and themselves lost only !
seven