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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1925
Page
12
Bridgeport Telegram announces new subscription rates by mail payable to The Post Publishing Co. The notice lists telephone contacts in Milford and Fairfield for direct office connections and mentions Associated Press copyright and circulation membership.
A lurid look at the Rhinelander trial with emphasis on wealth, race, and publicity. Legal minds debate outcome, jury sympathy, and the ethics of dragging Mrs Jones’s past into court. Davis and Mills seek verdicts while public sentiment tires of the Rhinelander slime.
A controversial account condemns a 16 year old murder linked to a booze fueled teen party. District Attorney Geeham decries parental neglect and lax discipline fueling a culture where teens mingle with adults, steal, drink, and indulge risky conduct until a deadly crime ends a weekend orgy.
A humorous column riffs on bread, alcohol, Omar, and home brews, spoofing early 20th century trends. It muses on speakers and buns packed with gin, the Omar reference, and a suburban vision of modern kitchens, laundries, and Americanized Chinese service.
The so called superbandit of Connecticut has begun his last clash with the U S government. Once seen as debonair and misunderstood, public sentiment now follows a wary study of a condemned man in the grip of the death sentence. In prison garb the once bold Chapman shuffles into the Board of Pardons at Wethersfield, revealing fear and a changed resolve as gallows loom. He admits a preference for Atlanta, yet fate drives him toward execution.
A retrospective note lauds the Locarno Pact as a hopeful advance where Germany and erstwhile WWI adversaries agreed to guarantees and frontiers talks. It contrasts grand Versailles pomp with the simple Gosarme Pact signing and cautions that peace cannot be guaranteed, like human emotion.
The passage presents aphorisms on money education and self knowledge urging risk in borrowing without security seeking work you know little about asking a child for truth recognizing friendship in adversity attempting the impossible seeking inner peace through conscience and examining fatherhood through a son's eyes.
A fragmented satire on wastefulness in domestic life features a narrator lamenting costly goods tossed by a wife and dog, with social critique of civility, charity, and public policy sprinkled through disjointed observations and clipped interjections from various voices. The text blends humor and irony about consumption, class, and virtue.
Bridgeport Librarian Henry N Sanborn addressed the Bridgeport Ad Club noting the library purchases about 5 000 of the 8 000 annual books published in the country. He shared how libraries aid advertising workers by providing up to date periodicals and trade catalogs and described local library strength including 15 000 volumes in technology and business, 46 602 borrowers, and access to rare industry information. The talk highlighted corporate use of libraries for technical data and the library staff readiness to assist professionals and the public.
The piece discusses Congressional reapportionment and its impact on party strength, noting how Western state gains could shift electoral power away from New York. It references Mayor Fitzgerald, Spellacy, and party committee dynamics in Connecticut, with implications for state leadership moves and national committees.
Authorities announce improvements and a new dormitory on York Street near the Memorial Quadrangle will be ready January 16. The building will house 187 students and will ease overflow as Yale College students move into the dorms.
A playful page features poems and cartoons with winking verses on romance and mischief, snippets from Wallace M. Bayliss, H. H. Monsen, and George D. Matler, plus a humorous court-room exchange about butter and coffee. The tone mimics a light column of a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper.
A fragmented reminiscence shows Gertrude leading a humorous spelling exercise with words like immaculate ratify and domineer. A teacher, Mrs. Boye, requests sentences while children and adults imitate mispronounced terms, creating a playful, chaotic classroom vignette from a bygone era.
Readers are invited to submit original humorous epigrams jokes anecdotes and poetry for Punch Headquarters Boageport Telegraph. Accepted pieces may be paid 2 to 10 per contribution and poetry 26 cents to per piece depending on value. Unaccepted manuscripts are not returned and should be written on one side of the paper addressed to Punch Headquarters Boageport Telegraph.
Reports from Shanghai indicate deserters who fled Chang Tso Lin’s grip near the Great Wall are reevaluating allegiance. General Li Chang Lin, former ally and governor of Chihli, has begun talks with Mukden, despite backing the anti Chang revolt.
The Phyllis Wheatley Y W C A basketry class shifts to Friday at 7 80 in place of Monday. Girls’ dancing led by Mrs Ruth Topping Beers resumes Saturday at 2 PM. Dressmaking lessons run through Christmas. Literary Study club plans Miss Jessie Redman Faunet of The Criss to speak February 15, with the regular meeting moved to avoid Christmas Day.
A fragmented poem recalls Grandma baking cookies filling the house with spice and sweetness. It wistfully describes sugar cookies, the pantry near the stove, and the dream of home meadows and woods as the narrator remembers her.
Eastern New York and New England report cloudiness with rain or snow, Wed through Thu. The tropical storm moves northeast with hurricane force winds, centered east of the South Carolina coast, with gales along the Atlantic coast from Florida to Virginia. Warnings extend north to Maine. temperatures rise Thursday east of the Mississippi while Wednesday remains steady.
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