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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1922
Page
8
Bridgeport notices show publication details for the Telegram Newsroom with address 40 Middle St and contact lines for circulation and ads. The fragment references Associated Press credits and newsroom departments, indicating standard publishing practices and subsidiary distribution notes.
A jumble of clipped notes and quips touching on Chicago musicians potential strikes, odd sayings, and casual observations. References shift between politics, fashion, and everyday humor, with stray names and fragmented phrases suggesting a page of editorial musings and gags.
A Waterbury traveler on the Homeric laments second class neglect and crowded promenade space while New York passengers aboard the Rotterdam decry slow immigration checks and a boiling pier. The piece notes luxury of ocean travel tempers sympathy for such woes and adds assorted brief items from Alabama to Los Angeles headlines.
Union miners return to most Central Competitive District jobs as the strike ends. Open shop mines can meet five eighths of national needs if supplies and cars are available. Fuel oil usage rises as plants switch to oil burners. The core issue is potential overproduction with continued idle costs and extended idle periods during strikes.
The forecast calls for fair and cooler conditions in South New England to start Monday with continued cool air. Tuesday should bring fair skies and warmer temperatures as a disturbance moves away from Cape Hatteras and the Atlantic coast. Winds will be light to moderate with northerly to westerly directions.
Here and There With the Editor notes statistics on American hotels serving banquet guests. Figures cite 45,206,000 guests served yearly, with 824,000 registered guests and 81,600 guests noted in the census context. A shortage of liquor is predicted to alter these totals in the next census.
A Philadelphia mall advertises genuine German Ortalis automates as small, easily concealed revolvers offered secretly by mail for seven dollars. The scheme imagines crime reduction by disarming the underworld and restricting private sales to police, amid calls to end parcel post revolver shipments.
Religious investigator Fred B Smith after a wartime tour warns that war has delayed Christian progress in China and India. He says missionaries must now explain the upheaval to heathen publics and reaffirm Christianity as the religion of peace despite failures to meet its teachings.
A scrambled OCR fragment hints at a proposed crossbreeding project between an unnamed chief scientist and caribou in Alaska to create a larger animal for meat supply. It references reindeer, previous tinkering results, and cautions against interference amid questionable terminology.
The Post Office Department notes Americans are writing shorter letters with an average length of four pages? It argues brevity shows in stationery use being lighter than 16 years ago though overall letter writing remains.
A garbled report suggests Boston police eye deterring criminals with a pewter stick device. It mentions Mr Colts invention and turzes practice as defensive measures. The text references bean shooters and rat duty in a vague fashion.
A fragmented verse narrative portrays a weary traveler’s bleak trek through stumps and boulders. The speaker endures cold nights, rain, and fatigue while confronting mockery and danger from a knave offering false relief. The piece blends dark humor with grim imagery of life’s suffering and mortality.
New Orleans prepares for the American Legion national convention October 16 to 20 with 28 000 electric lights and banners. Main streets will be renamed to suit the Legion era with a Court of Honor of the Nations in ten blocks. American Legion avenue will host banners and division insignia as visiting doughboys seek buddies among the streets of the divisions.
Washington reports first mildew infestation on red clover east of the Mississippi, from Wisconsin to Georgia. The Agricultural Department notes white appearance on plants and ongoing questions about harm to hay yields and horse health. European and American clover seeds show differing mildew spread, with American seed linked to stronger mildew. Mills in cotton states consume 55 percent of U.S. cotton.
A quirky lyric expresses devotion and readiness to fulfill any wish or request. The speaker promises to be everywhere, always available, likening themselves to a driver, bell ringer, and loyal servant who will fetch objects and fulfill desires with unwavering service. References to playful, informal tone emphasize affection.
Prissy, a serious minded girl, travels with her aunt and encounters a bird cage scene. She questions cruelty, frees canaries, and learns that every lesson hides an unseen truth about experience and duty.
Paris Aug 20 Worth reintroduces draped garments as a rage during the Second Empire. Gowns are wound at the bust and fall in the shear, with accessories in gold and silver bracelets, tailoring the silhouette to accentuate the hip line.
A girl fell from the roof of a building on a street yesterday, dropping about thirty feet onto St. Vincent's hospital where Dr. Crigus reports a fractured skull and serious condition.
In an era of shifting markets, historic vice networks in Russia maintain enduring design patterns. Despite global reforms, authorities identify continued prominence of illicit branding, routes, and production methods that persist across regions and link to established organizational structures.
Dr Copeland explains epilepsy as a functional disorder with sudden unconsciousness, convulsions, and postictal recovery, discusses possible causes such as strain, eye problems, infections, and underdevelopment, and advocates thorough examination for underlying focal infections and systemic factors to locate the cause and guide treatment. He notes the role of eye strain, dental issues, and overall health, emphasizing careful, exhaustive study of each case and urging readers to seek personalized advice via the column.
In Baltimore Maryland on August 20 a centenarian named Hodran, age 101, still performs chores for neighbors and maintains a small income. A native of Onia he lives with relatives, insists he has no serious health issues, and says tobacco has not harmed him. He jokes about possibly living another 60 years, reflecting a stubborn independence.
Reader asks about tooth pain and bone loss secretion and whether pyorrhea requires a dentist. The reply advises heart and kidney checks, urine analysis, and submitting reports to a doctor for initial therapy. It notes pyorrhea needs a dentist and early treatment can cure.
The Washington Information Bureau invites readers to ask questions of fact and receive answers by mail. The note, signed by Frederick J. Haskin, Director, explains a two cent return postage charge and encourages engaging Bridgeport Telegram readers with educational inquiries.
A brake failure on a motorcycle driven by Ernest Miniel of MT Jones Avenue caused a crash on Noble Avenue yesterday. Miniel was thrown over the handlebars and treated for minor contusions and facial abrasions at Emergency Hospital.
The Telegram Information Bureau asks readers to send 74 questions for publication. It states no advice on legal or financial matters and no home settlement help. Include full name and address with two cents for return postage. replies go directly to the Inquirer.
A jumble of gossip and trivia covering topics from moth protection and hay fever ages to sugar from beets, with notes on registered mail procedures, crystal composition, goldfish origins, the message to Garcia, and beef suet as a fat substitute.
The USDA estimates 524200 acres of sugar cane not including sorghum cane in eight producing states. Louisiana leads with 293500 acres, Alabama 79000, Georgia 53000, Mississippi 37200, Florida 29000, Texas 17500, Arkansas 2560. Floods damaged 9760 acres in Louisiana and much of the cane in the Flo Grande valley, Texas.
Paris reports Harry Pilcer returning to Marseilles, birthplace of Gaby Déslys, where her former lover once met her in Paris. He planned French translations of American plays and brought a troupe to a hall in the Colonial Exposition. Gaby Déslys is buried in Marseilles.
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