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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1927
Page
10
Yale University has completed a 20 million endowment to raise teaching and research salaries. The fund aims to protect top professors from industry poaching and to support pure science research as a foundation for modern industry.
A garbled OCR block discusses crime, philosophy of punishment, and reform, mentioning Darrow, Hickman, and a trial culture. It weaves references to lawmakers, juries, and parole, with rants about law as joke and the idea of prison reform mixed with distorted quotes and scattered names.
Herbert Core discusses Broadway tastemakers and a Napoleonic skit, then shifts to subway panhandlers and urban poverty in Manhattan. The piece blends theater satire with vivid street-life scenes, contrasting high culture pretensions with the grit of daily commerce and beggars.
A fragmented excerpt reflects on gratitude and perception through religious tones. It blends musings on meals sunsets birds and water with moral prompts about giving back what is received and finding meaning in daily acts.
The article analyzes Kansas Senator Charles Curtis as a potential Republican standard bearer in the upcoming convention. It argues Curtis fits the Coolidge mold, would please business interests, attract farmers, and carry Kansas, while noting other candidates like Dawes and Lowden loom as rivals. It compares past favorites who never secured the nomination and suggests one of the top two favorites typically wins.
A speaker describes watching neighbors in hardship and cold, contrasting stoic endurance with visible suffering. He notes a cheerful man despite limb loss, the poor awaiting winter’s bite, and martyred souls who endure without complaint while a two cent pin on his collar hints at personal grievance and resolve.
The piece surveys delays in filing requisitions with Comptroller Garrity due to new forms, notes a February Board of Apportionment deadline, and reports on Hartford finances including high school cafeteria payroll irregularities led by Miss Kelly. It also covers Republican moves in New Haven, potential tax on sports in New Britain, and local election dynamics amid a tight ward race.
London December 27 Customs barred twelve dozen Quaam chocolates sent from Savoy hotel for an unidentified American woman who left for New York with the chocolates. The event followed a failed attempt at the gates, authorities stating the chocolates were not permitted, with details unclear and under investigation.
The letter discusses sex instruction, arguing for frank, science-based education led by physicians within a Christian framework. It traces the English Reformation from its pre Henry VIII roots through Henry VIII, Parliament, and the Protestant establishment to Queen Elizabeth, asserting an unbroken Anglican lineage and urging careful study of the evidence.
John S Berger, key figure in a bootlegging case, is jailed for contempt of court after a stay on his perjury indictment. Remus family subject to lengthy proceedings as jurors who found in Remus’s favor face committee investigation while Berger begins a term in jail.
Emil Kunz 41 of Botsford and his wife Ann received suspended jail terms of 60 days and probation after arraignment before Junga HC Harford for breach of the peace. Robert Hiccie 21 Bridgeport was sentenced to 30 days in jail on a related charge.
The Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite of Free Masonry announced a $100 million gift to George Washington University for organizing and endowing a school of government. The gift was presented as a memorial to George Washington the Mason, noting Washington's will directed part of a Virginia bequest to establish a political science school, which never materialized.
Partly cloudy and warmer Wednesday across Southern New England with increasing cloudiness and rain expected Thursday. Northern New England mainly cloudy with rain, Maine specifically, and rain forecast Thursday for the Atlantic states. Temperatures rise Wednesday in the Washington forecast district, while winds shift from northwest to west.
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