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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1920
Page
10
A fragmentary report notes a speaker lamenting ten years without water or drink, mentioning an owner with nothing in the house to drink and referencing UAR context. The passage conveys hardship and deprivation.
The Bridgeport Telegram founded in 1891 is described with publication details, postal designation, subscription and advertising notes, and a short poem by John Kendrick Bangs. The text lists offices in Bridgeport, advertising agencies, and features a brief verse about Lincoln and resilience.
A jumble of editorial observations notes ext Friday being the 13th Leap Year satire on Barleycorn and sugar shortages in Japan. It recalls old fashions, divorce suit rumors, political missteps, and reflections on Prohibition, seats in the General Assembly, and a lingering sense of changing times.
A fragmentary verse about Cuban shores and fresh warnings against drink, describing travelers seeking brandy and whiskey. It references pilgrims, free lunches, and moral concerns, noting frisky behavior and societal critique while urging restraint and departure from the isle.
An optimistic review highlights grand projects reshaping global wealth and living standards. Plans include a Mediterranean to Dead Sea canal, Yangtze hydro power, irrigation of desert lands, a Pekin to provincial railroad, Mt Blanc tunnel surveys, seven hundred million dollars for roads, and a Rowe of Iguaza Falls surpassing Niagara, signaling progress despite hard times.
A piece argues that despite the peace treaty granting the Allies the right to try German war criminals, Britain and France hesitate to press cases against Kaiser Wilhelm II and others. Public demand is strong at home, but governments fear driving German nationalism and uniting the German people behind a strong bid for revenge.
The piece argues that a weakened European currencies should not paralyze the United States. It notes the Argentine gold peso at a high premium and large gold exports to Argentina amid European rate dips. It urges boosting U S sales to Argentina, a non manufacturing buyer, to improve trade balances and leverage current favorable conditions.
Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer declines to appeal the government versus Southern Pacific Railroad Co. over 160000 acres of oil lands including 18000 navy reserves valued at 500 million dollars. The result would surrender government rights, prompting questions about cabinet decisions and Navy protection.
Bridgeport notes describe icy conditions at the Uitch field station cutting ice fourteen inches thick, local churches starting Lenten services, a bank job near the divide is robbed by masked men using explosives and forcing entry to the vault, with about four thousand dollars missing and the culprits likely New York professionals.
A poem by Edmund Vance Cook argues the true reward is joy put into daily work. It contrasts worldly fortune with honest effort and insists Shakespeare and Rafael are meaningful only if the worker infuses joy into the task. The piece celebrates artful labor and personal dignity in ordinary toil.
The Detroit Free Press notes Chicago devised a thirteen member business committee to settle disputes. Members avoid juries and legal quibbles, using common sense to decide. If successful, it could reduce court dockets and end hostilities by allowing parties to accept a third party’s opinion and shake hands.
Readers are advised to send brief questions with a 2 cent stamp to the Telegram Information Bureau in Washington, D C for confidential, free factual replies. Topics include the President, science facts, history, weather, and tax questions.
A Daily Journal column argues marriage to an alien should not strip a woman of American status. The piece notes how a wife may lose citizenship by marriage, while an alien gains none. In Westport, a crowd gathered as a theft and fire were reported at the depot, and obituaries note Henry Curtis in Stratford, Henry Donnaux in West Haven, with funerals planned in East Bridgeport.
Ithaca N Y Feb 10 Public health in cities is better than in rural districts says John Smith secretary of New York State Department of Health at Cornell University Farmers Week. He notes a serious rural physician shortage.
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