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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1920
Page
10
Fragmented text from Bridgeport newswire shows an advertisement note on rates and publication details. Mentions metropolitan news, circulation audit, and open daily except Sunday. Contains partial addresses and department references with unclear dates and figures.
Bridgeport struggles to resolve public transport as debate over trolley or jitney service continues. Officials face a choice between expanding rail or allowing buses, with guarantees and licensing costs fueling delays. The city risks prolonged uncertainty as providers push for self interests and a stable plan remains elusive.
A garbled verse describes birds and a dog on a questing journey to gather food. The speaker notes a nesting brood and questions the bird’s life choices and duties. The fragment hints at lessons learned from nature and work, with unclear authorial intent and messy OCR errors.
A garbled op-ed page fragment references editorials on veal, politics, weather, and unrest. It mentions Brest-Litovsk, coal shortages, teachers' pay, janitors, and a rash of thematic notes about government, propaganda, and public mood, with scattered names and places rendered incoherently.
Sidewalk Snapshots notes on May 14 1911 Harry and Greer being appointed two patrolmen. The item recalls he served sixteen years before joining the force as a toolmaker at Biscrades, a factory associated with Cinders J.
A housewife led financial panel urges careful budgeting and cash handling. It stresses tracking income and expenses, watching store ads, buying essentials, paying by checks, saving weekly, and avoiding wasteful purchases to keep money in the household.
An economist for railroad workers argues that higher freight costs cannot justify higher retail prices for most goods. He cites meat shoes and clothing as examples and says only coal prices could rise meaningfully. He urges DOJ action against profiteering and advises absorbing costs to avoid consumer impact. He also discusses the League of Nations debate over Poland Russia.
Opinion piece laments kidnapping crime as brutal and urges harsher penalties. Calls for mothers to influence lawmaking, suggesting capital punishment for kidnappers and denouncing the alleged blackmailer connected to the Coughlin baby case.
A compact quotation card reflecting John Locke's assertion that people may choose how to entrust government. The line emphasizes consent and sovereignty in political theory.
A fragmentary quatrain discusses perception and memory as waves over reeds, the relnid grrest seized by minds, leaving the soul in a momentary but Heavenward stillness as rain soaks and quiets.
Chicago reports a push by the Art Institute to bring culture to rural areas. Director Roex Grant plans annual outreach with lectures and live demonstrations by Crane to beautify homes and stimulate local trade. He emphasizes art for the people and hopes farmers towns embrace country wide artistic taste.
A reflective monologue on labor and debt as the speaker vows to publish a verse on costly paper. The narrator imagines the road, a tin car, and neighbors moving about while contemplating the lure of joy rides and the burden of unearned money. The poem hints at social tension and personal resolve before debt consumes or liberates.
The text presents a 20th century telegraph inquiry to a Washington information office asking for meanings of the word Detroit and related linguistic and historical curios. It includes Q and A snippets on topics from horse feeding to soot cleaning, copyright postage, and galatin, with a fragmented archaic style and references to geologic terms and regional tracts.
A montage of local items from Bridgeport era notes social events and public concerns. Highlights include election fervor with the Fourth Ward Garfield and Arthur Club, a large Republican meeting at Molly Pitcher, reminiscences of veterans encampment dates, a school appointment, and editor letters on trolley service and city transportation.
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