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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1921
Page
3
Washington dispatch outlines Democrats contemplating political leverage over Senator Lodge and the Lodge’s stance on the League of Nations. The piece notes Democratic sympathy for Wilson yet urges restraint to avoid harming the treaty, while contrasting Republican harshness toward Wilson with Democratic aims to challenge Lodge without wrecking ratification.
United States Bureau of Mines station in Pittsburgh conducts tests to weigh sweat of a worker using exquisitely sensitive scales accurate to about 0.0001 pound. An Italian superintendent explains the study simulates heat humidity and air flow in enclosed chambers to assess safe working temperatures in copper and steel mills with moving air.
The Democrats plan to weaponize Lodge against Harding over the treaty. They accuse Lodge of dislike for Wilson and vow to exploit the GOP rift. Os car Underwood leads the charge as Democrats warn of political maneuvering and demand blunt scrutiny of secret treaties and submarine policy.
Spiridonova, famed peasant leader and former Bolshevik critic, lies in a Cheka hospital after a 15 day hunger strike ended by forced feeding. Once banished to Siberia, she returned during the revolution and helped unite peasants with workers for the Bolshevik coup before denouncing Brest-Litovsk. She is about 60 and afflicted by long tuberculosis.
Beragln Dec 28 Amimrjour silver foxes and skunks will be cultivated on a large scale by a German stock company on a farm to the Austrian grol under Prof Ne Mele of Munich University Natural History. In Germany where prices of the highest de of the Save riven enormously in the past few months a perfect specimen of silver fox costs 100000 marks. Reports from the foxt farm say American arrivals were terrified when first enclosed but have grown accustomed to arnessings. They are r meat, the animals for this pose costing Arty marks each.
Ten days of heavy rain lash Southern California causing washouts and road closures. San Diego isolated except for ships. Los Angeles records nearly nine inches and two feet of street water in Antelope Valley. San Francisco reports 1.6 inches in 24 hours with continued rain. No reported deaths, but property damage rising. Weather bureau offers no forecast for relief.
Moscow dispatch reports the Soviet government widening finance measures to fund expenses. A state bank opens to handle foreign trade and deposits, with a 3,000,000 ruble capital. money supply remains unstable as price rises and famine loom. Foreign business faces strict limits, while Crimea and Odessa trade shifts hint at broader national economic shifts.
Dec 28 report that a telegram addressed to the humanitarian leader reached ex President Woodrow Wilson in Washington D C. The message came from Bernard F Galtra Missouri Democrat party official. Mrs Wilson thanked the sender and the reply pledged Democratic greeting and support for the party in the new year.
At Broad Street post office a new Treasury savings stamp window is open for a few days. Clerks report rapid sales with certificates priced at 20, 100, and 5000 dollars, bearing interest. Small depositors may purchase stamps in one dollar denominations to exchange for certificates as interest accrues.
John Naggy of Norwalk, awaiting murder trial for his wife’s death three weeks ago, has speech restored following an operation at St Vincent's Hospital in Norwalk. A bullet previously struck him after he shot his wife, who died instantly, and the bullet lodged near the brain before medical discharge.
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