Bridgeport Telegram Subscription Rates and Publishing Info
Bridgeport Telegram details subscription options by mail and by carrier, rates by year, month, and week, and notes publishing office hours at 80 Middle Street Bridgeport. Included are references to The Post Publishing Co, Barnum area, and standard Associated Press credit terms.
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Editorial Notes On A Morning News Tone And Trends
A scrambled column notes shifting political language and social attitudes. It mocks reform rhetoric and tariffs while observing small town dynamics and odd laws. It remarks on public behavior, media phrasing, and the peculiarities of national policy discourse.
Sentences on worldly gain and the cost to home life
A reflective verse warns that pursuing world wealth damages family, marriage, friendship, home life, and self-respect. It questions the worth of profits if they destroy conscience and hope, urging readers to consider the true value of integrity over gain.
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Weather Notes for Eastern New York and Surrounding Areas
Weather bulletin reports mostly cloudy conditions in eastern New York with chances of thunderstorms Thursday. Showers are probable in the southern portions Wednesday with little overall temperature change. Winds will be generally gentle to moderate, variable, and overcast skies persist east of the Mississippi with scattered showers in Atlantic states and the lower basin.
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Telegram Almanac Calculation Note
Eastern Standard Times presents a calculation note from the Middlebrook Almanac with reference to sunrise sunset and tides. The brief card notes times for Sun rise and sets and the terms high water and low water with a copyright notice.
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Russia to Send Coal to Italy Under Three Year Pact
A contract was concluded by the State Coal Trust of the Donbas with the Tatlan firm Tehiche Thafret for supply of 60 NH00 tons of Russian coal and anthracite over the next three years. Export is set at ten percent and shipments begin not before November 1st of the year.
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Coal Annual Reflects On Looming Wage Strike
The coal strike looms as President John L. Lewis attends a wages conference with an ultimatum for higher pay or a strike. President Coolidge says he will not intervene before a strike. Operators resist terms while fears grow of price hikes and public impact if a walkout occurs.
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Canada
Planting Trees in Westport: A Call to Civic Action
Minute Man of the Westport Standard laments the loss of shade trees along the Post Road and urges townspeople to replant. He notes the trees were planted by a prior generation and highlights popular spring dogwoods in Greenfield Hill and Jennings Road, Fairfield, as admired but unimitated handiwork.
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Income Tax Facts Highlights Surtax Debate
Senator Oscar Underwood cites 1916 and 1921 surtax contrasts to show theory versus practice in federal taxation. He notes the 2 percent normal tax and 13 percent surtax in 1916 yielded nearly 30 percent of revenue from incomes above 100000 dollars, while 1921 proposals raised the surtax to 50 percent to tax higher earners.
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Tax surtax and investor behavior shift in 1920s
The text explains that the 1920 surtax yielded only 40 percent of the total, far less than 1916, as investors favored tax exempt securities and retained returns instead of funding business. Secretary Mellon has highlighted this, and leaders from both parties are starting to listen as the returns reflect these choices.
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Seville bans skyscrapers and questions high rise heat effects
A Seville city proclamation cancels a proposed twenty story building citing heat risk to upper floors. The piece argues upper levels receive fresher air and cooler conditions, likening the fear to early railroad speed objections.
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Spain
The Morals of Gladstone
The article discusses a new biography accusing William Ewart Gladstone of pursuing many mistresses. Gladstone’s grandsons call the author a liar and a coward and want libel action to defend their grandfather’s name. The piece notes his public morality and suggests he had little private life due to constant public exposure.
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William Ewart Gladstone
Political Pointers and Stratford City Hall Watch
Politicians debate the Stratford town manager race with locals split on whether the successor will be a local or outsider. In New Haven split Democratic factions hint Mayor Fitzgerald may retire, as Bergin and Lane vie for mayoral nomination, while pay disputes and charter fights roil city boards and police.
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Hunter
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Cahill
John J Lane
Frank §. Bergin
Denounced Jasper Jinx in village gossip and verse
Poet Walt Mason portrays Jasper Jinx as a lonely figure amid locals who condemn him for alleged misdeeds. The narrator reflects on public scorn and Jasper's unexpected act of bringing a chicken as a peace offering, ending with a humorous bite about his meal.
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King of Beggars Protests Honesty
Vienna reports Rudolf Hruby known as the king of beggars has learned to ask for alms in ten languages. At his court appearance for a fight with a fellow beggar he declared he would rather earn bread honestly by begging than become a burglar.
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Rudolf Hruby
Beggarag
Alma
Sweet Clover Perfume Heir Threatens Loveliest Flowers
A fragment speaks of a perfume bought in a bottle and a chemist’s refined wisdom. It hints at a sinister fate as the heir of the chemist throttled the loveliest flowers at will.
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Vacation's Over Fun Shop Nostalgic Page
A nostalgic miscellany page opens with light verse and comic sketches from memories of travel and home life. It features humorous exchanges about Madison Square Garden, social scenes, and a Wally advice column addressing faith, relationships, and domestic trials. The piece blends social commentary with playful poems and lighthearted poetry.
Inventions Wanted and Words of Wisdom The Daily Banter
A fragmented column features humorous bits and reader quips about modern faults and Bible teachings. Items include spoof inventions for movie subtitles, odd product ideas, light banter on housekeeping and gifts, and a note about a typographical error in a neighbor newspaper reporting a guild meeting at the rectory.
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St John's Guild
Shrinking Violet Sparks City Population Quarrel
The piece likens New Haven to a shrinking violet and argues the city remains the state's largest without tax incentives or tricks used in other towns. It addresses Hartford and Edgeport, noting their growth but defending New Haven's civic virtue and educational superiority amid population comparisons.
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Readers Invited to Submit Original Humorous Pieces
Readers may contribute humorous mottoes jokes anecdotes and poems original and unpublished. Accepted material paid at ten dollars per contribution varying by quality and judged by editor. Unaccented manuscripts not returned all on one side of paper and must be mailed to Shop Headquarters Bridgeport Tslogram.
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Moses Urged to Follow Pepper for World Court Support
Former Governor Robert P. Bass of Peterboro urges United States Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire to back Senator Pepper’s stance on the Hughes Harding Coolidge plan for American participation in the world court. Bass says Pepper’s shift highlights Moses’s attitude as both sit on the foreign relations committee. Moses has been a critic of the world court and once favored isolationist policy.
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Bandits Hold Up Payroll at Hef Packing Company
Five men robbed a payroll delivery for Hei packing Co on the outskirts of the city in Missouri August 4 seizing $5,200 in cash. It marked the third payroll holdup of the year in the area, with investigators pursuing leads.
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Treat 397 More Patients in July
The monthly report of the Department of Public Welfare shows 397 more patients treated in July than in June. Total aid was 1910, vs 1518 the prior month. New patients 1464 were nonwhite, with 331 Americans and 45 foreigners. returns were made.
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Department of Public Welfare
Deserts Harvest to Win Golf Cup Deserts Harvest to Win Golf Cup Seattle
Descriptions of Medford fruit ranch harvest yield join a report that rancher H Chandler Egan won his tenth major amateur golf title in 23 years, marking a notable achievement in amateur golf history.
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Killing a Boy by Dr Fra
A sixteen year old boy in Pennsylvania is sentenced to death for murdering his grandmother on September 8. The piece argues capital punishment is retaliation, not justice, and questions its deterrent value while urging society to focus on protecting civilization and addressing crime's root causes.
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Pennsylvania
William Caxdller
NE Crane
Westport Autoists Summoned After Near River Plunge
Westport police summon Joseph Friedman and two others after a car skidded on the Saugatuck river bank near the Shore road edge. The vehicle narrowly avoided a fatal fall. Friedman faces charges for operating without license and registration. Wesley Ackerly was arrested after a collision with another vehicle. he is held on a $200 bond for Thursday’s court appearance.
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Byames Valiente
Rolls Royce Shop Announces Closing in Springfield Mass
Rolls Royce of America plant in Springfield Massachusetts closed for two weeks to give 300 employees a vacation. The coach and maintenance departments remained operating. An official said the shutdown reflected good business and that some workers might take a bread country trip and be recalled before the holiday.
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Ansonia Soldier Held as Deserter
Charles Clark of Texas was arrested in Ansonia on a desertion charge dating to June. He was taken to New York upon request of Army authorities after being identified while working as a woodchopper in Beacon Falls. Local court compensations granted this week totaled several amounts for injuries tied to workers at the American Brass plant.
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Keen Nose Causes Ansonians Arrest In Ansonia
Ansonia August 4 Special Samuel Olderman of this city was observed at a Springfield wedding where alcohol was reportedly freely flowing. Police arrested two men, one driving a car found with liquor bottles, after a car search led to further confiscations. They were tried in Springfield and fined $50 each after pleading not guilty for transporting liquor.
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