Bridgeport Telegram Advertises City News and Telephones
Bridgeport Telegram announces daily publication with broad city coverage and toll free direct telephone access for customers. It notes post rates abroad, cross-state listings, and connections to all departments for news and advertising. The paper is a member of Audit Bureau of Circulation and Associated Press.
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Barnum
Mitrond and
K’nir
Mitford
Milford
Fairfield
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Pit
Associated Press
Mayor Behrens Maintains Steady City Appointments In 1938
In 1938 the mayor reshuffles two members of the Ripper Board, replacing Willis F. Hobbs and John J. Phelan with DeVer OC. Werner and Paul Miller both loyal Republicans. T. J. Pardy takes Samuel Dawe’s police seat, raising Richard Oppel to lead the Republican contingent on the commission. The overall city leadership is expected to remain cooperative. The piece also notes a Cincinnati theatrical offer to the Remus jurors.
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Behrens
Ripper Board
Willis F. Hobbs
John J. Phelan
Trumbull
DeVer OC. Werner
Paul Miller
Tax Board
Police Commission
T. J. Pardy
Samuel Dawe
Pardy
Richard Oppel
Postal deficits and calls for tax funded mail reform
The piece argues postal deficits per year are unacceptable in a civilized nation and urges cost based rates, ending subsidies for magazines and second class mail. It recommends keeping first class rates, trimming special services, and reducing franking to curb public expense. It also critiques political drives to boost turnout, favoring informed, thoughtful voting over mere participation.
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Postal Service of
Senegambia
America
American Postal Service
Congress
Propositions to Punish Nonvoters Spark Backlash
The piece argues against polling pressure and penalties for not casting a vote, labeling proponents as goose-steppers who seek universal conformity. It critiques compulsory voting ideas as impractical and ethically odd.
Population gains in Connecticut cities outlined
The Hartford Courant compares New Haven Hartford and Bridgeport aging and growth since 1900. New Haven rises from 108000 to about 198000, Hartford from 79000 to 189000, Bridgeport from 70900 to 166000. Over a quarter century all three more than doubled, with Bridgeport showing the largest absolute increase.
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Hartford Courant
Connecticut
New Haven
Hartford
Bridgeport
Hertford
Scoop O'Brien Supreme in Bridgeport History
Hartford Times questions if Mr. Simpson would be called the greatest crusader in Bridgeport history by those who recall Scoop O'Brien also known as Matthew E. O'Brien. The former sheriff raided dives and speakeasies, making arrests over years and striking terror into violators. A former newspaper man.
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Hartford Timees
Simpson
Bridgeport
Modern Meter Reader Pranks With Liquor Test
In Hartford Courant verse, Bam the Snooper lists junk from a kitchen and storage including coal, a broken pole, wood, a bird cage, baby carriage wheels, worn rubbers, a rug roll, bug dope, dye bottles, rye, a rusted furnace pipe, and jars. He jokes he will draw corks for a Volstead test to prove a self described thirst while reading the meter.
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Hartford Courant
Bam the
Snooper
Lindbergh Morrow Interview Shaped Flight Funding Tale
The piece recounts Lindbergh’s White House meeting with Dwight Morrow, their friendship, and career choices. It notes Guggenheim funds and the plan to pay Lindbergh $40,000 for three months of lectures to promote aviation, with Morrow advising on stock and books and influencing his book writing.
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Washington
Charles A. Lindbergh
Dwight W. Morrow
Mexico
Colonel Lindbergh
White House
Paris
Mr. Morrow
Atlantic
Lindbergh
Colonel Lingbergh
Lindbergh Shuld
Guggenheim Fund For the Promotion of Aviations
Akn
Morrow
Manhattan Days and Nights in New York Vintage Echoes
A reflective column by Herbert Core chronicles New York life with quirky scenes. It mixes Prohibition humor, social scenes, and a caravan of city idiosyncrasies including cabby chats, speak-easy bars, antique furniture, and lavish Park Avenue apartments, weaving nostalgia with sharp city observations.
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Manhattan
Herbert Core
The Weary Parson by Walt Mason
A village parishioner notes the weary pastor's dull delivery and modest means while revealing the strain of supporting a family on a limited stipend. He laments repairs to an aging organ and a pewful of tired listeners as critics demand better sermons and pay.
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Walt Mason
Beecher
Sabath
Bread An' Butter An' Applesass! By Anne Campbell
A nostalgic verse collects childhood scenes of bread with yellow butter and apples simmered by the creek. The speaker recalls helping bake bread, picking apples, and dreaming beyond the farm while a aunt's memory and a humorous moment with a burned applesass mix with a stray line about a mayor and distant Balkans.
Political Appointments and Local Government Tangles
Bray and Hawley seek mayoral list spots on Fire and City Plan commissions with other appointees including a two year Police term. Warner served on Ripport Board and Planning, while Judge Miller has been alderman and probate judge. The piece covers local party influence, zoning, public notices, and a Stamford trolley station dispute, plus Darien town meeting items and Waterbury bond bids.
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Bray
Fire Board
Hawley
City Plan Commission
Warner
Ripper Board
Planning Commission
Miller
Fred Harridton
Osborne
Zoning Commission
William Hogan
Fred Harrison
Pardy
Police
Samuel Dawe
New Year's Day Courage and Indomitable Spirit
A New Year's meditation on courage and resilience. The text cites Salvation Army slogans and ancient heroes like David Hercules and Perseus to urge perseverance in misfortune. It closes with a tribute to the immortal lines of Invictus and a 1927 copyright note.
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Pra
Salvation Army
Mwurany
David
Hercules
Perseue
William Ernest Healey
Sentence Sermons on Living Within Means and Self Worth
A reflective piece lists tenets for frugal living and personal integrity. It urges living within earnings, keeping faith with friends and conscience, cultivating appetite for work, avoiding envy, and telling oneself the truth. It contrasts courage in men and women and satirizes a self defeating politician.
Questions on vocation, friendship, and preexistence in Faith
A reader to Rev. Dr Hin from Louisville seeks guidance on sending a son to a vocational school and values its role in national education. A Boston letter discusses friendship as mutual support and independence, while Holbrook Mass comments on soul preexistence, life after death, and memory before paradise with reflections on eternity and healing.
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Holbrook
Mass
Beliaf
Milford Sailor recounts fatal Los Angeles crash tale
Milford native Frank Gumbart now a naval sailor visited Milford and described a Los Angeles crash five months earlier in which two girls and a young man died. He was allegedly jailed seven weeks for manslaughter but was released and is currently at an aviation school in Philadelphia. He plans to leave the Navy next year and will stay in the area for five days on leave.
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City Council of
Bristol
John F. Wade
Frank W. Dutton
John &. Downey
Wallingford
Rotary Duo
Wellingford
Stonington
Windham
State Armory
Ure
Gaylord Farm
Milford
Frank Gumbart
Navy
Maher
Gumburt
Los Angeles
Gumbart
Philadelphia
New Haven
Wopowage Lodge
O. F
Alfred E. Crowthers
Noble Grand
James Banks
George
George Wilson
Reymond Parmelee
John H. Burns
Church-Party Thief Hunted by Detectives
New Haven police pursue a new crime type the church party thief. A fur coat was stolen from Dwight Place church last night, with descriptions matching a woman seen at Plymouth church weeks earlier when a coat vanished. Investigators theorize the suspect targets church gatherings inviting strangers.
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New Haven
Associated Press
Dwight Place
Plymout
Weather Outlook for Southern New England and Nearby Areas
Wet Saturday across Southern New England and Eastern New York with rain and colder conditions. Snow flurries hinted from Western Pennsylvania to the Atlantic coast as a disturbance tracks northeast. High pressure brings much colder weather by Sunday night across the region and east of the Mississippi.
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New England
New York
Lake Superior
Quebec
Tennessee
Washington
Atlantic Star
Pennsylvania
Atlantic
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