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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1918
Page
10
The piece urges every available land to yield food this summer despite waning public spirit from last season’s failures. It calls for expert verbal guidance over written advice, open school evenings with garden experts, and affordable community tools like wheel hoes and seed drills to aid plowing and cultivation. Public plowing and tool rental are proposed to ease costs and prevent repeat of last year’s discouraged gardeners.
The passage extols intangible wealth beyond fiscal grasp. It speaks of enduring riches of the soul and the mind, inherited from sages past, safeguarded from robber and tax assessor, and scalable by use, increasing the seeker’s store.
A French Territorial Hussars unit fights through a brutal bombardment to rescue its horses and the sheltering men. Amid shellfire and rubble, the detachment evacuates cuirassier units to Munguet wood, recovering Chocolate the horse after a collapsed sawmill.
A mosaic of quotations and quips from a breakfast table column urging readers to support thrift stamps and Liberty bonds. The notes mock profiteers, praise the rescue league, and reflect on wartime morale, leadership, and social attitudes with sharp, period tone. It references Haig, Nat Goodwin, and McAdoo, plus a mock Berlin threat and a foundlings’ home bombardment in a neutral but pointed style.
A verse humorously laments rising costs from five to twelve cents and asks why taxes could target Father Time. It cites a New York Evening Post item about postage and rates, framing taxation as a civic necessity while critiquing inflation.
A Bocie prisoner’s stark remark on the German advance frames the tragedy of Picardy as thousands die for minimal gains. The piece argues Germany cannot win the war, despite victories, and will face America’s involvement as its price. The patient German people send soldiers to claim ground for the dead.
The article laments the fate of residents and businesses slated for demolition to create a plaza. It warns that no suitable store space exists, forcing a summer camp-like displacement and uncertain future reoccupancy. It questions the plan’s hardship versus benefits and suggests six months for relocations.
The article notes a lull in Liberty loan subscriptions after a strong start. President Wilson has designated Liberty Day for immediate attention to reach the loan quota, urging procrastinators to subscribe now as every delay costs money and time is money in this national effort.
The Connecticut Dry Alliance is formed in Stamford to unite twenty organizations behind the prohibition amendment and elect a General Assembly favorable to it. The group, including diverse creeds and business and social groups, pledges energetic campaigning for the moral issue.
The Human Fly Watty Gardiner will perform daring stunts in Bridgeport Tuesday and Thursday to promote the third Liberty Loan. The Bridgeport Telegram urges readers to buy bonds, noting experts in government support and Gardiner’s risky feats as part of the campaign.
Chairman Pardy calls every citizen to stockpile coal for the winter and meet home needs as demand grows. An accompanying political note discusses a possible third term for President Wilson, arguing continuity if the war extends into 1920 and cautioning change during reconstruction.
Washington April 21 In response to Pershing call several young American artists have been sent to the front in France as our first official war artists Charles Dana Gibson heads the division of Pictorial Publicity of the committee on Public Information The article notes American artists must play a growing wartime role and discusses delays in obtaining works and debates over war propaganda versus artistic inspiration It cites American artists like McBey and Pennell and discusses conservation failures and postwar expectations for American art
The piece satirically warns against giving unsolicited medical advice to a sick friend. It mocks armchair experts who push patent medicines, promote biased doctors, or share frightening anecdotes to steer choices. It ends with a jab at the reader’s own meddling nature and a wish for being drafted.
Count Von Hertling telegrams Baron Burian welcoming Austro Hungarian artillery participation on the western front. He stresses alliance firmness and resolves to sustain the struggle with confidence in strength and readiness for peace, urging continued national effort.
Lorenzo Denit, of 1872 Main Street, reported two boarders at a hoarding house attacked him after an argument over weekly rent. They were arrested last night and held for forenoon court at the fourth precinct station on charges of assault.
The report notes Democrats in the Uncle Joe district avoid contesting re election for loyalty to Wilson while Senator Weeks of Massachusetts faces opposition from drys and Republicans over prohibition stance and wage policy with Governor McCall seen as main foe.
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