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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1926
Page
12
The Bridgeport Telegram advertises subscription rates payable in advance including two year and monthly terms. It notes daily publication with Milford and Fairfield telephonic connections for ads and news, and mentions the Audit Bureau of Circulation and Associated Press credit.
The Department of Motor Vehicles reports a 1925 rise in fatal accidents and property damage from 1924, yet notes some reductions in high danger classed areas due to educational drives. Commissioner Stoeckel warns results depend on vehicle miles and calls for stricter speed enforcement and better state highway policing. Elsie Regan funeral reveals a chaotic underworld following a brutal murder. investigators seek motive amid public fascination and unclear associates.
The Connecticut State Board of Education lowers Waterbury’s population estimate from 91,715 in 1920 to 73,966, suggesting a faulty measuring yardstick. The piece questions why Waterbury’s figures drop while Bridgeport and Stratford’s appear larger, calling for a better estimator and highlighting concerns about census-based rankings.
A charged rant denounces government as controlled by meddling roll maids who harm women and enforce sectarian morality. The author derides prohibitionists and Sunday-school reformers, calling for greater honesty and liberty while lamenting the loss of Washington’s wisdom and Lincoln’s humanity.
A garbled critique railing that liberty is restricted to a select group aligned with political mentors, implying censorship and restricted thought. The text laments the influence of those in power who determine who may speak or act, suggesting liberty is a privilege for the few.
The director of public works plans to raise labor pay to 80 cents an hour as the tax board approves preliminary appropriations with needed funds. Garbage and ash removal plans, combined with snow tasks, unfold over a three week period, with calls flooding city hall. New collectors Finn and Neary seek a $200 salary increase as old regime survivors dwindle. The First district shoemaker’s entertainment at the new GOP club location on Cannon Street concludes the night.
A nostalgic poem recalls shopping from a single catalog. The speaker remembers rarefied fashions and home goods, waiting for mail and packages, and the joy of porch visits and postman calls. The attic keeps the faded dreams of earlier shopping days.
A rugged monologue by Walt Slason speaks of resilience despite sickness and poverty. He mocks hardship yet asserts strong self reliance, urging sufferers to face misfortune with grit while lamenting inflation and daily toil. The piece contrasts fragile health with stubborn spirit.
The third conference between miners and operators ends without a solution, leaving a long, costly strike pattern. The piece urges Congress to authorize commissions and presidential action to curb recurring coal conflicts, stressing public cost and need for factual data on costs, profits, and production.
A reader letter argues against anti-science attitudes and defends the scientific method as the route to truth. It cites Chester L. Rowell, criticizes denial of evidence, promotes proof and experiment, and condemns efforts to ban evolution and modern history texts. It laments reliance on tradition and myth over reason.
Dynamite discovered in a tree near Brooklawn Riding Academy remains unclaimed amid police uncertainty about ownership. Possible suspects surfaced but no solid leads. separate cases involve a grocery-store burglary at 493rd Avenue and a bicycle theft from Mrs. Mark Holmes at 345 Noblet Avenue.
A monthly Bureau of Vital Statistics report shows 273 births last month, up from January. Among the 273, 265 were white and eight colored, with 158 American, 44 Australian, and Hungarian parentage. Twelfth district led with 37 births, followed by Eighth with 32 and Ninth with 28, a 1% rise from December 1925.
A young couple, James McWew and Betty Loughlin, entered the Bureau of Vital Statistics in the Welfare building around 2:10 PM and left at 2:55 PM married. The ceremony, conducted by Justice of Peace TD Whitney, was witnessed by Weighta Dennis Kelly and August Jooory.
Last night throngs filled Catholic churches for Lenten services amid stormy weather. St Charles church hosted a series of sermons by Pantist fathers from New York city. Rev T Miley rector of Church of St Apostle spoke on Know Thyself. Sermons will be held every Friday.
In a lighthearted fragment from The Fun Shop edited by Maxson Foxhall Judeil Cheer Up Folks It Cant Last Forever the radio station MFJ presents quirky exchanges and jokes about furnaces tuning cars and a rolling pin My Red Float Manmas Cold Feet and other skits showcase playful banter and character sketches with a mock announcer and animated misadventures.
Readers are invited to contribute original humor epigrams anecdotes poetry and burlesques. Accepted material receives pay from five to sixteen dollars per contribution and twenty five cents to one dollar per line for poetry. Unaccepted manuscripts are not returned and all work should be addressed to Fun Shop Headquarters Briggtort Telegram.
A fragmented verse asserts companionship and aid in burdens urging mutual trust. It promises protection by surrounding your home with friends and avoiding complaints in your presence while signaling a future reason to trade goodwill.
An independent women’s Republican club is forming in the First district. Leavitt Robinson said he discussed use of the Lincoln building clubhouse on Cannon Street. Members favored meetings twice a month. no action yet. The setup adds a fourth GOP group in the district alongside the First District Republican club and two independent clubs.
Thirty Bridgeport hospital nurses discharged from temporary isolation wards after antitoxin treatment will resume duties Monday. Fourteen other nurses remain hospitalized at Engelwood Isolation Hospital with scarlet fever and are improving, to be discharged in about two weeks.
Eastern New York: fair skies and cool Saturday, with increasing cloudiness and warmer Sunday, possible snow in northern and central portions. Northern New England: fair, cooler Saturday, rising temps Sunday with more cloudiness. Southern New England cooler in the east, Sunday clouding up and warming. A central storm moving from southern Illinois has intensified into a severe storm near Eastport Maine with low pressures. forecasts call for fair weather Saturday and Sunday east of the Mississippi with lower temperatures in New England and warmer readings inland in the mid-Atlantic region. Storm warnings extend from Jacksonville Florida to Eastport Maine. Winds north of Sandy Hook and Cape Hatteras. Northwest gale diminishing. generally fair weather Saturday.
Observations at 6 p.m. along the 75th meridian in New Haven record temperature details. Elevation notes and almanac reference appear, with truncated copyright line and garbled end.
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