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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1920
Page
12
The readable text shows a damaged OCR fragment with stray phrases about Americanization and a suggestion to act by deed rather than words. No clear event, person, or place is identifiable to form a proper news item or headline.
A cluttered editorial mix discusses blue laws, safety, weather, and winter events. It notes five deaths this month and questions safety precautions. Mentions President Wilson, a Connecticut deputy marshal, and betting on a white Christ man. References telegraph arranged rifle matches, saloon raids, and Prohibition. Maine votes show Republican edge at 77 304, with no anticipated recount. Contemplates Sunday newspaper bans and homemaker impact.
Miss Inda A Hall of 1665 North Avenue works as a clerk in the office of the Tax Collector Howard Smith at City Hall. She is noted as very popular around the city hall.
A Bridgeport opinion criticizes charity drives and the charity faker. It cites a letter to a New York newspaper signed by prominent names, urging funds for victims of a Thursday horror. The piece warns against charity vultures and argues for a centralized community chest to protect donors and ensure aid.
James W. Johnson, NAACP secretary, writes to the New York Tribune urging citizens to pressure Senators and Representatives to enact federal anti lynching laws. He notes proposed penalties and penalties for officials and participants, calling for action to stop lynchings nationwide.
The piece argues that reprisals by Black and Tans and Sinn Feiners create an endless chain of violence. It warns that a world ruled by such murder would depopulate the earth, and notes the need to avoid settling politics through murder. It stresses the global peril and calls for nonviolent resolution.
The Rotary Club of Shawnee offers a 62800 prize to Oklahoma towns with populations between 8000 and 30000 that show best family living conditions. Cities race to tax stock, tidy yards and streets, and audit municipal assets. The contest motivates action and praises civic improvement as overdue, crediting Rotary with nudging communities from their ruts.
The successful robbery of two bond messengers with 406000 in Liberty Bonds exposes lax security in a New York brokerage firm. The piece criticizes carelessness in despatching vast securities by messengers, suggesting insurers may later raise rates if protection remains weak. The commentary ends with a Shakespearean reference.
Forty years ago Bridgeport prints a prom night at the Town Hall with the Anorial Hop, a Dec 2 edition notes the Gold Spring band and local promenades. It also reports a St Pauls Guild supper, hunting trip reports, engine overhauls, new novel sales, political gossip, a murder charge against Leopold Grathwol, a June wedding at 233 Main Street, a G A R post visit, a wedding train to Mercury, a squirrel find with silverware, and a boating race dispute at Rosedale with safety notes.
A 1921 Bathing Indoors Prohibition Lays Out Sabbath Rules Limiting chores and personal care. It forbids bathing, shaving, cooking, and lighting fires on Sunday, with penalties for noncompliance. The text also restricts telephone use, piano playing, whistling, canary singing, and feeding or handling pets.
A fragmentary Ottawa style Q and A column appears with inquiries about timber scarcity, macaroni verse, presidential marriages, army regulations, Sephardic Jews, naval water use, the Carnegie Hero Fund, Kansas naming, jugular anatomy, and ancient taxes. The readable text shows scattered questions and brief answers attributed to various editors, with mis-spellings and garbled OCR. The piece reflects a wide range of trivia and policy curiosities from a historical newspaper page.
A garbled plea offers to reveal how to obtain gifted opportunities and grow wealth through a special offer. The text invites readers to fill a coupon and read more, claiming insightful guidance for winter evenings and upcoming events.
Nearly all the talk ends after voting as the speaker urges neighbors from Bangor to Seattle to quit bemoaning the past and focus on practical labor. The piece urges fixing homes, planting crops, and pursuing honest effort over political drama and falsehoods.
Predol J AskIn, director of Telerren Information Bureau in Washington reports ongoing efforts to secure street access and service for Peter 74, with focus on a proposed project label SU 1 and related street improvements.
Lilian Abrams Olschansky seeks divorce from Jack Olschansky in Superior Court Potton alleging cruel treatment. The couple married May 2 1813 and the petitioner seeks custody of their child, with contentious claims about entid and related matters.
Henry D Tudor, trustee of a 300000 estate once offered to accept a gift, says Garland rejected the bequest. He claims charities pressuring for income will press the trustees, who insist the estate remains with Garland’s heirs. Tudor notes Garland may change his mind, but trustees will not dispose of the property.
Disputed legal action against Gasco settled out of court. Text notes counsel activity in court and mentions parties including Nich elas Vanapdax and family. Settlement terms not announced. Damaged details reference monetary figures from $4000 to $3000.
High School Alumni announce a lecture by eBoy Jeffers this evening on a course titled National Wonders of the United States and Canada. Jeffers, a man of wide reputation, is expected to attract a large audience to open the season.
Jacob Nii as receiver for Elliott Cornwell manufacturing filed a suit in the superior court for $1 040 20 alleging labor and materials furnished for a pauper gelding and cutting bench. Theodore Krueger of The American Non Seal Company Bridgeport is named. contract allegedly to build a machine for $390 not completed. Trial commenced yesterday before Judge Maltbie.
United States Commissioner Hugh T. Lavers continued for two hearings the cases of James K. Burroughs and Eugene Seth, accused of a scheme extending to many parts of the country. Indictments reportedly returned in Hartford reference the contrivance to 24 officers.
A compact fragment of the poem My Love is Like a Red Red Rose by Robert Burns. It speaks of enduring love across distance with lines about rivers seas sands and a lasting vow to return. The text echoes traditional sentiment and affectionate refrain.
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