Bridgeport Telegram Subscription Rates Advertised
The Bridgeport Telegram lists subscription rates in advance, including options for months and weeks. Advertising representatives and publishing details are noted, with the paper published by The Post Publishing Co. at 140 Middle Street Bridgeport Conn. The paper is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Associated Press.
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A LINE OF CHEER THE ALIGIMENT
Poem fragment by John Kendrick Hangs notes hours for work eight for play while a loving keeps score. The lines reflect a restless cadence and a wish for balance, with a brief, elusive moral about time and affection.
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Editorial Notes On Weather Tax And Campaigns
Editorial notes discuss weather collaboration with vacationists and upcoming income tax installments, a thirty day congressional recess, and public frustration with long suffering. It mentions Chicago bandits, a betting question, drug traffic concerns, tourism, and campaign preparations with candidates in secret training. Slidgport gains metropolitan attention as big town aims focus.
Old Tom Farkins and the Lesson of Travel
A lyrical note warns against complacency as Old Tom Farkins thinks himself wise. The poem urges Lauren and Budiy to travel and study in youth, suggesting experience, places, and knowing people after seeing and learning. It champions exploration over posturing.
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Budiy
Pronunciation Quiz Sees Confusing Spelling Tips
A garbled quiz fragment lists mis-typed phrases about how to pronounce names and words. It mentions Waldboting and Roosevelt with Dutch style, Ibanez accented on the second syllable, and Ebaneeth like a merger of sounds, reflecting OCR errors in a quiz item.
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Watch the PHA Tax Debate and Public Debt Issue
The piece warns taxpayers about a House Voucher tax bill section that would amend the Second Liberty Bond Act boosting debt to finance current government expenditures. It argues that borrowing to cut taxes for this year increases the long term tax burden and contradicts pledges to reduce taxes. It urges taxpayers to scrutinize Congress and the administration.
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Swindle Trust Ponzi Finance Exposed by Secret Service
The article frames the Swindle Trust as a vast Ponzi scheme far surpassing Ponzi’s earlier fraud, aided by over 1,000 secret service agents. It traces historic bubbles like Cassie Chadwick, the South Seas Bubble, the Tulip Mania, and the Mississippi Bubble, noting that such frenzied finance always collapses and that one operator, Mime Humbert, evaded capture for two decades.
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Waterbury Clock Standstill Sparks City Pride
Waterbury renowned for clocks faces a stalled public clock at the railroad station. A Rotarian offers free repair and parts if purchased, while Bridgeport warns of time-zone confusion unless a single standard is adopted.
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Americans Join Foreign Legion For 90 Cents A Day
Ex service men, jobless and unpaid by Congress, enlist in the Spanish flag to fight Moors in the Foreign Legion. They say lack of patriotic motive. necessity of earnings and relatives’ support drive them. Questioning if the American Legion is becoming a French Legion in disguise.
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Violet Amid London Drama Chooses a New Life
Violet Ingliby a shop girl witnesses a theatre district accident where a dying mother entrusts her baby Ronnie to Violet. She hides Ronnie, meets Ronald Hastings the child’s likely father, and after a tense night Hastings gently consoles her. Hastings proposes marriage and Violet accepts, securing Ronnie’s future with Hastings.
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Tierrie Jones
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Milford Schools to Open on Sept 6
Milford announces fall term starts Tuesday Sept 6 with nearly all teacher contracts signed. Superintendent Mathewson details a 70 member faculty led by F Gorham high school principal and Irene Warren assistant principal, plus several department heads and new class assignments planned before opening.
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Irene Warren
Elmer Holbeck
Central Grammar School
J. W. Fischer
Mildred I. Chapman
Cora M. Crane
Me ‘Baldwin
Lewis IM. Stowe
Charles and
Frank Graham
Richard Hulburt
Woodmont
Long Island Sound
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New Haven Avenue
Moss Margaret Peterson
Richard Cowles Thompson
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New Haven
The Landlord Holds What You Pay For Rent
Walt Mason laments rent money vanished as landlords claim the hall and shed, leaving tenants with shrinking wealth. The poem rails at endless payments while the roof, cistern, and fence stay owned by the landlord, who escorts arrears to auctioneers and leaves the tenant facing the dump of misfortune.
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Steam heater patterned after ordinary percolator
Carl H Ang Earl Alexander of Newark New Jersey and his brother have designed steam heaters based on a coffee percolator. The device heats a gallon of water in four minutes, delivering steam through a center pipe to radiators. Experts praise the efficiency and note traditional boilers waste fuel while heating water past boiling before steam forms.
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Auto camps draw tourists westward
Westward the automobile tourist tide grows as campers head to western auto parks. Centra and Mid-West families spend about 10 per day, enjoying free camping spaces with water, firewood, kitchens, and dining shelters. Eastern travelers lag behind as western camps proliferate across state roads.
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Barbers Strike Over Wage Cut Sparks Walkout
More than 40 union journeymen barbers did not report for work yesterday as master barbers enforce a wage reduction from 25 to 29 dollars per week. Stratford voters meet to nominate councilmen tonight at Sedgwick School with district nominees.
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