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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1921
Page
12
The Bridgeport Telegram, founded in 1691, is advertised with details on subscription rates, postal status, and offices at 140 Middle Street Bridgeport Conn. The notice notes daily publication, circulars, and association memberships, including The Associated Press rights for news dispatches and local reporting.
A light verse notes that today may be brilliant dull or gray and that tonight will usher in March with blossoms, bowers, sweet air, and cheerful bird song inspiring optimism about the season.
An editorial collage jokes about indictments and Ponzi schemes while riffing on an American coal strike, a moonshiner teacher, a Bathtub humor, and a German marks gibe. It notes Husk Week observances, a Putnam woman’s 203rd birthday, fashion ideas for bathing suits, and a riff on paydays with Jackie Coogan’s earnings.
Sam Weissman, dealer in feather seeds trunks and umbrellas, runs a store at 111 Main Street. In 23 years in Parkeit he built a large business and many acquaintances after leaving New York City. He is a Knights of Pythias member for 15 years and booster of Bridgeport. The Weissman family, with three children Helene Melville and Aaron, resides at 68 Maplewood Avenue. Bishing and hunting are listed as his favorite pastimes.
Postmaster General Hays outlined a bold push to expand the aerial mail service at the ANPA meeting. He argued the program advances aviation, pilots, and aircraft testing, urging every U S city to have a landing field and daily aerial deliveries as America uses aviation to drive national progress.
A London newspaper campaigns against pigeon shooting at Monte Carlo praising fox hunting as more sporting while condemning the pigeon cruelty. Editors argue foxes have a fighting chance and entertain readers with giddy praise of the Masters and the chase, contrasting it with the Riviera shooting.
The Senate approved Senator McCormick's budget bill creating a national budget system and a budget bureau to estimate departmental expenditures plus a controller to audit all spending. President Harding is expected to sign, with administration support and some Democratic criticism viewed as partisan. The measure marks a step toward more efficient use of taxpayer funds and contrasts with earlier proposals, aiming for incremental reform.
An editorial echoes Hartford's move to adopt daylight saving while the state legislature refuses. It argues daylight saving is common sense and condemns external attempts to jail Hartford officials. The piece cites New York's criticisms and predicts a Supreme Court showdown over the clocks.
Gertrude Davenport argues twins blessed some families due to heredity not chance. Evolution station studies show twinning runs in lineages, with four teated milk sheep as a metaphor for inherited traits. Human twin predestination spans generations, with heredity influencing both paternal and maternal germ plasmy.
Baggage master Mathew Lyons of the dovpey Central railroad was seriously wounded today by one of four men who held up a post office train crew and escaped in an automobile with three bags of mail including a registered bag. The incident occurred amid a broader note on religious and regional tensions.
A reflective verse sequence contrasts an aging man by the sea with bold schemes and ambitions. It laments waning vitality, mocks the notion of fixed fate, and warns against clinging to past plans while aging. An abrupt, fragmentary ending invokes a sound cue amid memory.
Bridgeport news item highlights include the Howe band appointing George S. Arnold as solicitor for Park concert subscriptions, a lawsuit in New Haven court for $390 on goods sold and delivered, and details of a Connecticut signal service corps organization with the National Guard. Also noted are a city health board, a charitable benefit at the Opera House with readings and music, World’s Fair reports from Melbourne, shooting scores of the Nise club, local ads, marriages, and obituaries with residents and events from Bridgeport and nearby towns.
A condensed Q and A exchange from The Telegram Information Bureau covers Chinese currency, the Theodore Thomas Orchestra history, the origin of the word Jingo ism, the meaning of the phrase copper that hee s, oleomargarine production in 1920, chrysanthemum tail length, whether pineapples grow on trees, and a description of how the electric chair operates including voltage and duration.
A compact verse fragment presents a dialogue about wartime duty and rebellion. One speaker urges drastic action against money kings and Russia style violence, while the other resists, asserting personal workload and reluctance to join upheaval. The piece captures tension between action and stasis.
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