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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1920
Page
10
Subscription rates payable in advance and foreign advertising reps listed. Bridgeport paper prints daily except Sunday from KO Middle Street. Audit Bureau of Circulation member. Associated Press dispatches credited. local news is published.
The city chose not to buy its water system from a private company in 1880, missing profits and potentially facing higher costs. Proponents argue private ownership drained coffers while delivering suboptimal service, while opponents say keeping the system public preserves efficiency and public control.
A fragmented dated verse by John Kendrick Bangs explores how cheer and effort drive life like a useful wheel. The text mentions a vast tea, a neat car, and a wheel, reflecting playful metaphor and literary whimsy.
A scrambled editorial page references Christmas shopping early amid street cleaners and new cleaning methods. It notes debates among candidates, weather gibes, changing trolley policies, and price shifts in footwear. It also touches on protests, domestic lawsuits, and peculiar wartime era observations with scattered lines about armistice talks and international figures.
A New York socialist critique argues rail rates rise to burden the public while owners claim high profits. It contends rail ownership is widespread among thousands of small investors, not a few capitalists, noting the New Haven line’s dividends falter and profits vary. The piece questions whether truth serves the downtrodden or agitates worker class consciousness.
The Interchurch World Movement report asserts the 1919 steel industry favored a 12 hour day for over half the workers and a 5 to 24 percent wage gap. It charges United States Steel Corp with acting without union input, firing labor organizers, employing blacklists and spies, and influencing press and authorities.
Five years ago George Wildman entered the employ of the American Swardware Stores. He is a mayraunt Seger of the agricultural department and previously worked for T Hawley and Scompeny for forty years.
The US Department of Commerce report shows a rebound in trade with Germany for the year ending June 30, 1920. Imports from Germany were 5,440,073 dollars, while exports to Germany rose to 203,176,079 dollars, signaling a rapid shift as business advances ahead of politics and diplomacy.
Congressman Volstead, author of a well known act, is declared the Republican candidate for Congress in Minnesota. His opponent Rev. O J Kyale was unseated after Kyale campaigned on the claim Volstead was an atheist. The ruling party suggests truthfulness matters to courts and voters in a churchgoing community.
Bridgeport merchants and residents discuss Republican conventions and local council meetings. A coroner’s inquest investigates the death of Peau Millen, with verdict natural causes. Obituaries note several August deaths and funeral arrangements in the city and nearby towns.
Fragmented report shows Elks lodge No.26 debating a home addition and related construction details amid unclear notes. References to local streets, figures, and a military item create a mosaic of loosely connected details.
A quirky reflective piece urges action over endless planning. It contrasts the dreamers who foresee future glory with workers who seize present moments and avoid aging regrets. It warns that postponing effort leads to a grim, unfulfilled old age.
A scanned feature recounts the Forty-Eighters convention in St. Louis 1838, detailing leaders like Pinchot and Hopkins, the committee’s female and male members, and a shift toward reform. It notes lean, hungry delegates and aims to spur governmental change through a new political alignment.
Question and answer style text appears in a fragmented 19th or early 20th century inquiry column. It discusses a wide range of topics and posed questions on currencies, geography, history, and statistics, with brief partial answers about piracy, population, and economics, noting the need for readers to submit names and stamps for replies. The passage preserves a conversational, quizlike tone with several named entities and references to figures and places.
An OCR fragmented verse by Lord Byron explores remorse and inner torment. The speaker uses dark imagery of a scorpion and flames to depict guilty passion and doomed fate.
Kiwanis delegates described a farewell at the Susie Lay meeting before departures to Detroit for Goodwin to take over Detroit's municipal street railway system. Abney Mitchell will speak at the next meeting on the Kiwanis club's trip experiences and future plans.
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