Bridgeport Telegram Publisher Notice and Rates
The Bridgeport Telegram published daily except Sunday by the Post Publishing Co at SMO Biddle Street Bridgeport Conn. Audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulation and Associated Press members. The paper credits AP and local news dispatches to the paper and prints a line of cheer.
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En By John Kendrick Bangs. PHEYPFUL IDLENESS.
Fragmentary OCR verse passage attributed to John Kendrick Bangs, titled En and titled PHEYPFUL IDLENESS, with archaic spelling and broken lines. The readable parts describe idle labor and burdens versus pleasure, mentioning waiting on the road and helping others.
Editorial Notes From A Fragmented Front Page
A garbled editorial note complains of a long journey from the Russian steppes to the Danish corridor. It cites a misquoted Maxim alencers remark and a judge’s statement by a woman labeled ga summers who claims ten years at Windivostok. It references an absurd Polish Cavalry Riddle red inday gag and a Russian prince losing a gold bathtub. A Wisconsin mother recalls long sleep deprivation as her baby wakes.
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Ake Wes “Ga Summers
Windivostok
Police Officer Robert J. Egan Appointed April 1 1913
Robert J. Egan, a longtime bricklayer turned patrolman, was assigned to the traffic department’s dummy copy duties and took charge of several silent policemen and a department motorized unit. He lives at 255 Wood Avenue.
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Robert 3. Egan
Robert J. Wea
Egan Wan
Wood Avenue
Mayor Confident of Nomination for Governor
Mayor Wilson expresses strong confidence in securing the Republican nomination at the state convention in Hartford on September 8. He claims broad support across the state with eastern regions solid for him and expects Fairfield County delegates to back his bid despite some upstate leaders favoring James Walsh of Greenwich.
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Hurtford
Iendora
Feirfeld County
Upstate
James O F Walsh
Groenwich
Jim Fisk
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Poli to Open New Hartford Theater
Poli plans a new Capitol theater opening in Hartford with a $1 million house. The event features a gala benefit night for Ray Lock on Post and a vaudeville show in Hartford led by George Calta, Law Toeckstader, and Eddie Foy. A banquet and reception for Poll and Cohan follow.
Jitneys on Side Streets Urged by Mayor in City Crisis
Mayor Wilson calls Common Council meeting for next Monday to pass ordinances regulating jitneys off trolley streets while allowing limited parallel routes. Proposes use of one Pequannock Bridge, trolleys on rails, jitneys not bound by trolley streets, and a public test of rider demand to resolve the dispute between jitneys and trolleys. The Board of Aldermen previously outlined the compromised plan after aldermen caucus discussions.
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Wilson
Common Council
Om Ordingnes
Pequannock
Board of Aldermen
Florence vision on art and industry cited by Parker
Professor Carleton Parker warned that modern industry and education are too cut and dried, stifling individual impulse. He contrasted Florence’s artful communal celebration with contemporary industrial life, arguing true worth comes from doing and free action rather than machines and conformity.
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Giotto
St. Marks
Wall Street
Young Morgan
J. P. Morgan & Co
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Andrea del Sarto
Leonardo da Visei
Carleton Parker
Register platinum to curb thefts and sales
Government may require registration of every platinum sale as thieves ply a lucrative market. With platinum valued at 405 dollars per ounce and bulk thefts from a government plant, experts urge tracking and certificates for buyers and sellers to foil thieves and prevent untraceable transfers.
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United States
South
New York
Food prices rise and fall across wholesale and retail
The piece discusses how wholesale price increases pass to retail with no guarantee of retail price drops when wholesale prices fall. It cites the U S Bureau of Labor Statistics noting a 4 percent drop in wholesale food prices between June 15 and July 15 while the 22‑item retail food index remained unchanged. It questions sugar as a potential exception.
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U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Clouds Scatter Banking Fears Over Credit Markets
The Wall Street Journal says money for moving crops is plentiful this fall and winter. Precautionary Federal Reserve measures and improved rail traffic have cleared credit blockages. Bankers warn against a repeat of congested arteries of trade and unmoving cars that once caused pessimism.
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Wall Street Journal
Federal Reserve
Idle life compared to death in worldly change
A brief paraphrase of Jeremy Taylor’s warning that idleness leaves a person detached from worldly happenings and natural duties, likening inactivity to death and urging engagement with life’s concerns.
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Jeremy Taylor
Q and A from Washington bureau asks about states with one representative
A scanned column presents a quiz of questions and answers on politics geography and history. It lists Arizona Delaware New Mexico and Wyoming as states with one representative and covers topics from the origin of terms to tax payments and notable figures.
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Wyoming
Union
House of Representatives
Hoyle
Ehige
Bridgeport News Briefs Highlight Local Events
Bridgeport notes celebrate Wheeler Wilson band events, Milford beach camp time, and a militia parade. The Emmet club enjoyed a picnic after a St Augustine’s parade heading to Pembroke Grove. An elderly resident couple ejected from Willard street apartments seeks town aid. The Milford Orange Agricultural Society announces a September exhibition at Meadow Lane Park. Fire alarms faced strain from an electrical storm while work continues on railroad and winter quarters prep. Notables include Californians Hawley and Tawley visiting Bridgeport and the city’s growing show industry. A bizarre basement creature incident at Bishop’s home ends with a cautionary note. A pistol incident near Berkshire Bridge leaves a man wounded. a local estate auction sells Lewis property for 31050, with furniture to be sold Saturday. Obituaries note Deacon Nichols and Mrs. Sturdevant.
New Haven City Employes Insurance Plan Considered
A proposed blanket or multi policy workers compensation scheme for New Haven city workers is under review by Controller Arthur Mullen and a Majestic Insurance rep, aiming to lower costs. The plan would cover police, teachers, and all city staff, with a board of finance decision due in September.
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Arthur Mullen
Mavranco
Board of Finance
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Old and New Walt Says Reflect On Wealth And Speed
A nostalgic reminiscence contrasts historic horse teams and phaetons with modern automobiles. The narrator recalls Jim Fisk and luxury carriages, imagining the late magnate reacting to the powerful auto, pondering class differences and changing fashions from a bygone era.
Ancient cliff city of the Rito Canyon in New Mexico
Special correspondence recalls a pre-Columbian settlement carved into the Rito canyon. stone rooms and a great circular communal house reveal Puebloan life with pottery, cotton mantles, and temple caves. modern visitors and archaeologists explore reconstructions amid canyon walls, deer, and distant legends.
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The Broken Pinion Poem Fragment by Hezerian Butterworth
To day s Worth While Verse. The broken pinion describes a bird with a broken wing and a broken life. A narrator counsels pity and mercy, but fate and sin hinder recovery. The poem reflects remorse, redemption, and iron despair as compensation for pain.
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Butterworth
Free Drying Fruit and Vegetable Book Offered
The Bridgeport Telegram Information Bureau offers a free booklet explaining home drying of fruit and vegetables. The guide notes dried foods weigh less occupy less space and stay nutritious. Send self addressed stamped envelope to Frederic J. Maskin director Washington DC for return in the postal request.
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Tursan Frederick Jasin
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Frederic J. Maskin
Bridgeport Telegram Information Bureau
Washington, D.C
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Inventor claims snow clearing machine for city streets
Edward Burne of 69 Stratford Avenue announces a snow clearing machine that removes snow within 24 hours after a storm, depth irrelevant. A Navy veteran and engineer, Burne says the device harvests snow, compresses it into blocks, and dumps at the curb or to a hauling truck for removal.
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Edward Burne
Stratford, Avenue
Burns
Avants Seeks Brooks From Dearborn Address
Edna Louise Shaat writing from Dearborn Massachusetts is anxious to locate John H. Brooks Jr believed living in the city. She asks the City Clerk to help find Mr Brooks and to establish communication with him.
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Edna Louise Shaat
Dearborn
Brodford
Mass
C. A. Walsh
John H. Brooks, Jr
Brooks
Fragmentary Social Scene Description From Saturday Evening Post
A fragment mentions a woman named Lea who declines a request to remove bar shoes and stockings to pose for a photographer at a social event, stating the stand is too formal for such a photo. The text references phonographs and looking at pictures in the Saturday Evening Post.
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