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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1923
Page
8
Bridgeport Telegram from 1831 lists subscription by mail and by carrier with various terms. Publication details note daily except Sunday, Bridgeport Connecticut, Barnum 6190, and newsroom open days and nights. The Associated Press is credited for local and foreign dispatches.
A collection of brief humorous and observational items including a Seattle milkman arrest for underfilling milk, a Tennessee hunter claiming strangling a wild cat, a quip on footwork in fighting, ideas on slow motion wedding scenes, and social commentary on phones, Congress, and everyday life.
Snow possible Wednesday in the lower lake region and north of Virginia with flurries Thursday in the lower lakes. Rain likely Thursday in the south Atlantic and east gulf states. High pressure from Alaska brings much colder weather across the eastern half of the U.S. except Florida. Temperatures mostly above normal in the south and east Tuesday. Northeast winds, overcast skies, and a windy pattern from Sandy Hook to Hatteras.
An essay notes how iron filings and magnets reveal unseen forces, likens compass deflection to hidden power, and compares wireless signals to miracles. It argues science and faith share a common source, with Psalm 19 praising God’s handiwork as the heavens declare.
The text quotes James J. Hill and Ben Franklin on saving money as the path to success. It argues thrift as timeless, linking private property to prosperity and warning that utopian theories fail without savings. It contrasts provident versus prodigal behavior and predicts working bees will dominate edrones.
A clipped political editorial argues thrift drives ownership of world goods and predicts Bolshevism will end. It claims private property holds thrift and success as universal constants, dismissing extremist delusions and urging acceptance of private ownership as a timeless principle.
Jack Hammond of the New London Chamber of Commerce urged the Roads Rivers and Bridges committee to abolish tolls on key state bridges. He argued the Connecticut river and Thames River crossings are integral to a unified highway system and not separate ventures. Hammond claimed tolls profiteer the state and set a dangerous precedent, urging action in the name of common sense for all Connecticut.
A published joke about a waién man who fell overboard and drowned is contradicted by a real accident in Monticello New York. B Brown lies in hospital with a fractured spine after being struck by a plank dropped by workers crossing a scaffold. He’s expected to recover.
Telegram readers are invited to submit letters up to 800 words with signed names and addresses. The page hosts varied items including a street incident report, immigration views on race and economy, calls to curb street violence, a plea to spare Arbuckle, a note on coal burning, and a Chinese census method comparison.
The verse recounts James Dingbat who faced many failures with three failed stores and sheriff closures yet persevered. He then bought a lyre and his fame grew as his poems and sales spread worldwide. Fortune smiled as he became a celebrated figure, proving critics wrong.
Rome February 13 The Grand fascist council presided by Premier Mussolini ordered Fascisti who are also Free Masons to resign either their Fascist or Free Mason rank. The move targets Masons beyond the Scottish rite and follows the regime's view that certain Masonic supporters harmed Italy's interests.
Lent begins Ash Wednesday and lasts 40 days with services in all churches. Catholic churches hold morning and evening rites with ashes blessing. Evening devotions include rosary sermons and Eucharistic blessing. Episcopal churches also schedule morning and evening services at Cavalry Episcopal St. John's Trinity St. George's and St. Paul's.
Hartford Feb 13 Senator Frank L Wilder of Bridgeport will act as majority leader in the Senate tomorrow as anticipated from the Capitol tonight. Senate Leader Arthur F Ells of Waterbury is expected confined to his home by illness. Senator Iss presid ed at Judiciary committee and brief morning session but may be detained at home with illness. Wilder would steer Senate rejection of several measures unfavorably reported by the judiciary committee. Brushes for rotary street sweepers are made of palm fiber.
Answers discuss Wind Cave in South Dakota as the world's largest explored cavity, grapefruit naming from clusters like grapes, Walla Walla meaning rushing water, freezing points of hot versus cold water, January as the coldest month in the U S, and the do re mi scale tracing back to a medieval hymn used in plainchant.
Poem contemplates human mortality and fate with lines on life briefness and burial. It reflects on fate and cemetery endings, noting past generations worked and had fun, yet we share the same human journey. The piece ends urging to make the best of life despite the grave inevitability.
Angelo Patri sketches a family welcoming visiting relatives, contrasting the joy of a bustling home with the strain of adjusting to a new child. Mothers, aunts, and children share greetings, chatter, and expectations, while the line about blessing those who bring good tidings frames the scene and foreshadows the next piece, The Two Year Old.
Rev Walter Malvern, superintendent of the New Hampshire Orphans' Home, credited nurses, older children, and well behaved youths for guiding all 175 inmates to safety when two buildings burned. One life was lost, fireman Peter Savoie, crushed by a falling wall. three other firemen were injured.
A fragment notes that those injured would survive their hurts, a cautious statement from officials or witnesses. The exact details and identities are not provided, leaving the outcome described as hopeful but unconfirmed.
The St. Ann Dramatic Club will hold a meeting tonight in Black Rock to select characters for a play planned for after Easter. Attendees may join the cast and help write the script, with the membership roster open to all.
Dr Copeland explains that liver tumors commonly occur in middle to older age, most are malignant secondary to disease elsewhere, and true primary liver cancer is rare. Symptoms include digestive upset, loss of appetite, weight loss, jaundice, and liver enlargement, but many cases arise from other illnesses. the liver is a vital organ, flexible in overstimulation by sugar and starch if exercise is lacking.
Georgianna Hewitt, ingenue of the Hyperion stock company, is listed in serious condition at New Haven hospital from ribi chloride or mercury poisoning. Doctors report she has shown courage and strength, with hospital physicians hopeful for recovery.
A fragment describes a stone shrine near Zuni New Mexico regarded in Zuni belief as the world’s center. It mentions a guardian water strider figure guiding the people and a double barred cross motif seen on Zuni pottery. The text invokes a divine guide associated with these symbols.
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