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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1919
Page
14
The text presents a fragmented poetic fragment with phrases about woes pain friendship rain land and life, lacking a coherent news event, person, place, or organization to summarize into a factual card. No identifiable entities or dates are present to anchor a summary.
A collage of fragmented notes and reflections from a small town paper. Mentions garden growth, clothing costs, and the ironies of daily life. References to Mary, Mary’s clothes, sheep and mutton, six hour workday talk, and a line about home towns papers blending cadence of local events.
A discussion argues that suppressing crime news harms public oversight and education. It cites Mayor Hylan's stance, notes crime has risen under his leadership, and defends newspapers as essential purveyors of news, despite political pressures and police shifts.
A district superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal church leads a boxing contest crowd into a Victory Loan drive, starting with a $3,000 personal subscription and fueling total subscriptions of $56,000. The piece praises the preacher’s human gospel and envisions religion merging with common life, altering priestly image and church appeal.
A jumble of Bridgeport items from the era covers a stove fire, jail population, a city court case, rail and road news, church concerts, school picnics, land purchases, and local incidents. It notes weather frost, a catamaran rescue, a Plymouth Rock egg record, and social events at the Opera House and Seaside park with admissions and schedules.
The War Department overseas runs a vast education system for about 200000 men, with over a million dollars spent on textbooks and the largest English speaking university world. It includes post schools, divisional centers, Beaune University, and officers in French and British universities, expanding through YMCAs and civilian aid.
Cleveland, Ohio leads in testing pupils mental aptitudes to classify students by ability. Proponents say tests reveal naturally slow learners and bright pupils, enabling targeted advancement. Critics argue the plan may slow the rest of the class and burden teachers with keeping pace for slower students.
A lion and a mouse tale shows kindness to the vulnerable. The mouse later frees the lion by gnawing ropes after the hunter traps the king of beasts. The piece argues that power can be eclipsed by generosity and that democracy rewards niceness to all, including the weak.
A cablegram to Costa Rican representative Carlos Lara reports that invading forces have been driven from Costa Rica and fled to Nicaragua. It says Nicaragua would likely avoid further bloodshed and that no American marines have landed in Costa Rican ports.
In Wiesbaden on Sunday Berlin reportedly moved to remove the over president in the Treves district while Americans and German officials discuss the move as a political maneuver. Publicans protest separation of the Rhineland as Germany contends with the republican movement and local factions urge unity against disunion.
Munich reports say Herr Le vine editor of the Red Flag was executed at midnight as part of the Bavarian communist uprising. Another leader, Herr Nissen, is also reported executed. Bayern authorities and Abendzeitung provide the sequence of events from Munich.
London June 6 dispatch reports Bolshevik forces recaptured Saraphi near the Kama River southwest of Perm in the Mama River region. The wireless despatch claims Bolshevik advances continue in this region as Admiral Kashar’s forces lose control of the important town.
The verse laments life as a loss and pain, yet hints at defiant buoyancy. A speaker contrasts gloom with fleeting joys, questioning whether life is a tyrant or merely a stage. He declares himself buoyant and rejecting the world's carnal pursuits.
A reader argues for women's suffrage, praising women's wartime roles and questioning why women cannot vote in the United States. The letter notes Ruth E. Baumann, studying at Sorbonne and other European universities, and highlights American soldiers studying abroad as improving morale, education, and Franco-American friendship while wartime service funds educational opportunities for soldiers.
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