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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1920
Page
12
Fragmentary verse showing lines about patience in adversity. Mentions “Three Regis” and faith to endure, with a resolve to persevere until victory. Names and phrasing appear garbled, but the overall sentiment is steadfast effort.
Editorial notes discuss Ebert’s workers striking, a Friday vote on a resolution, and ongoing railway delays. It laments pressures in Berlin and Ruhr regions, mocks pacifist sentiment, and jokes about fashion, theater, and Prohibition era miscues. It notes Sicily’s wine output, sugar shortages, and a New York theft arrest.
Bridgeport Telegram announces subscription rates and advertising info. The paper is published daily except Sunday by Post Publishing Co at 140 Middle Street Bridgeport Connecticut. It notes Associated Press and Audit Bureau of Circulation affiliation and access to national news dispatches.
A nostalgic verse urges thrift amid rising costs, noting how young people imitate spendthrift habits. The speaker questions parental influence and calls for a return to prudent financial lessons to avoid future hardship.
A Connecticut editorial urges the legislature to assemble without the governor’s summons, arguing the charter and fundamental orders allow a majority to convene. It contends impeachment power and historic rights require session. a permissive governor clause cannot bar assembly when the people demand action.
A column reflects on Ayer's Newspaper Directory of 1869, noting editors who shaped public thought in era past. It recalls Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Cullen Bryant, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B Anthony, and laments editors faced praise or condemnation as public sentiment shifted.
Aged Oakland workman A F Emery lathed day and night to speed housing, disturbing neighbors and triggering a peace disturbance charge. A higher authority freed him, praising industry and suggesting more Emery-like workers across all ranks.
The piece explains that most flavor comes from smell, not taste, with true tastes being sweet sour salt and bitter. It describes how aromas travel from the mouth to the nasal passage, how nasal blockage dulls flavor, and how odors shape the perception of foods. It notes how peppermint vanilla and other flavors differ while others blur.
Carl, the eminent humorist, recalls his youth when skipping school was his sport and now his greatest hobby is work. He tells readers to tell their sons to clip and save this bit and pass it back in the evening. He warns that unless they study hard, they will fail at school and life.
Fragmentary OCR renders an antiquated meditation on evening and nature. Lines evoke a fading day, the plowman returning home, and the solitary reign of the moon over elm and yew. The speaker notes to rest in the old hamlet as forefathers sleep.
A brief aphorism attributed to Ben Jonson on prayer and prosperity. The fragment reflects a moral observation that suffering can drive a wicked person to seek prosperity through prayer.
Across multiple papers a heated response to Lloyd George Home Rule proposals is logged. The Times Union outlines a United Ireland parliament with northern and southern divisions, while other papers warn of Crown limits and the danger of a two-parliament arrangement. Critics warn Irish consent hinges on Westminster, and some papers fear complete autonomy may threaten unity with Britain and international ties.
Bridgeport notices recount a busy week with a Danbury bank loaned funds, a divorce in Scranton, and a church meeting at 445 Main Street. The city also notes weddings, a licensure milestone for a local lawyer, and obituaries for residents including a Corinthian Lodge member.
Reports claim Sinn Fein planned armed uprising in Ireland with German war material. Dublin businessman Thomas J. Loushin arrested under the defense of the realm act amid links to a arms treaty with Germany. Baron Lewis neh Horst named in the inquiry.
The Telegram Information Bureau in Washington D C answers readers questions with prompt factual replies. Write briefly with questions and enclose a 2 cent stamp for return postage. All inquiries are confidential and no charge applies beyond the return postage.
A jumble of questions and answers covers wages per hour, February birthdays, average height and weight for a boy, the first torpedo use, income tax installments, sleeping cars, seed planting for tar, U S horse numbers, Korea as the morning calm, citizenship by marriage, leading Pennsylvanian golfers, and Theodore Roosevelt’s Nobel Peace Prize.
In Mew Yoris on April 7 miners and operators reported that bank deposits rose from 1916 to 1929, claiming the figures prove workers are now earning a living wage and can save. The data, presented to a subcommittee, marks the first step in the operators’ case against worker demands, with more figures to be shown tomorrow on individual accounts of coal disperse d in the past four years.
New York April 1 reports the army transport Nansemont carrying American soldiers killed in England will arrive tomorrow. The steamer was delayed by head winds and wireless reports caused a later arrival. The ship departed with flag and ceremonies planned for the return of the fallen.
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