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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1920
Page
6
A scanned page shows subscription rates and advertising contacts for a Bridgeport daily, crediting The Associated Press and featuring John Kendrick Bangs poetry. The passage hints at a feature column that satirizes wealth and fashion, noting gallery culture and cash as a recurring contrast.
A fragmented column discusses organized labor entering politics, wartime intrigue, and political figures. It mentions secret gold, critique of taxation, the Wilson cabinet, and debates over scoring systems and beverage rules. Also notes potential jail for Dodger Bergdoll and shifts in shoe prices and taxes.
A fragmentary satire by Walt Mason mocks rich excess, wasteful living, and social pretense. It lampoons people chasing status through luxury goods, imported cigars, and showy fashion while decrying thrift as out of fashion and wealth as a current craze. The piece ends with a jab at future reckonings.
The Buffalo Evening News asks why prohibition requires an army of sleuths and why dogs must be licensed and income taxes collected. The piece recalls Bridgeport's era with dedicated liquor-law prosecutors, special police units, and state and federal efforts, noting the vast manpower once devoted to enforcing liquor laws and hinting at similar needs for any broad prohibition, with mention of risks in Kentucky and other states.
The article warns that the pound sterling decline to 83.18 signals broader drop in world currencies, risking reduced exports, a goods surplus, tight money, and rising unemployment. It notes potential impact on Americans, with banks seeking ways to avert a global financial smash after five years of war.
A critical column laments Senate absences delaying business as members chase presidential nomination. It argues many lawmakers neglect treaties and bills, prioritizing campaigns over governance while predicting the next president may come from outside lawmaking circles.
A World War era report notes a German list withheld from Berlin names nearly a thousand Germans charged with crimes, omitting top commanders. It questions why the Kaiser and his high officers avoid punishment as Allied forces seek accountability. The piece hints at a decisive act to seize them.
Bridgeport notes report a mix of local happenings. Fines in city court, church events, telegraph wiring progress, temperance rally, and plans for dock and business changes populate the page alongside social notices and memorial services.
A New York Sun excerpt muses on life beyond Earth and whether intelligent beings exists on other planets. It notes doubts about inhabited worlds and cautions that future contact could both flatter and humble Earthly pride while speculating on how alien gardeners might view our world. The text playfully questions humanity's readiness for interstellar dialogue.
A Boston shoe profiteering ring is convicted for 800 percent profits with retailers ordering sales staff to push high prices. The piece notes ongoing national DOJ probes into prices of food and essentials, calling the public’s hopes for restraint modest but present.
A fragmented poem sequence invokes God of our fathers and Lord God of Hosts urging protection for a nation. It laments boastful power, cautions against idolatry, and ends with Kipling's admonition to seek mercy for the people.
The Telegram Information Bureau in Washington under Frederic J. Haskin invites readers to submit brief questions with a 2-cent return stamp for confidential, prompt fact answers. No charge beyond the stamp. inquiries addressed to the Director, Washington, D C.
A compilation of Q and A from the United States Public Health Service notes that first cousin marriages carry exaggerated risks unless a shared defect exists. Other items cover teacher salaries rising modestly, the Largest Protestant denomination, presidents assassinated, metals and ivory origins, death rate highs, sugar cane origins, Lincoln Beachey’s death, and profiteering penalties.
Bridgeport branch members endorsed Samuel B. Merritt for president of the State association at the upcoming Bristol convention on February 23. About 75 delegates will attend, led by Samuel Lefkowitz’s jazz band, with entertainments by Joseph Trooper John Riley Join Kane and Eugene Kelly. Bridgeport delegates include R Patterson chairing along with Ervin O'Shea O'Brien MecElroy Howard O'Brien Emery W Locke L Jackson Trageerty Al Bendedick Kane and Callahan.
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