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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1922
Page
8
Fragmentary lines reflect hopeful resilience amid hardship. The speaker contemplates burying sorrow while continuing along a road toward flowers, offering a cheery garland despite neighbors' trials and the pain of life.
A fragment of advice and commentary covers manners money and marriage with snippets about spirtual hauntings and social reform. It references an old preacher a proposal about a wife for money and notes on dance movements and public concerns. The text ends with a prompt answering questions.
The forecast calls for cloudy, colder conditions across Bridgeport and vicinity. A high pressure area over Montana extended to the Great Central valleys, while a strong low over the Upper Rio Grande valley moves toward Southern Texas causing unsettled weather from the Plains to the Northwest. Monday saw temperatures around the mid 30s with Havre Montana reporting 34 degrees. general rains occurred in the Middle Atlantic and New England with rains and snow in New York. The pattern suggests continued clouds and cold into Tuesday and Wednesday with a gradual warming trend later.
A mass meeting at The Stratfield gathered about 250 Bridgeport business leaders who pledged personal service and voluntary funding to attract new industries. They cited Bridgeport's industrial assets including location, skilled labor, housing provisions, and attractions, and urged strong publicity and coordinated effort to overcome site selection pressures and unemployment.
Chief Justice Taft and Elihu Root urge raising academic standards for bar admission to curb incompetence. The piece argues lawyers now span many fields, from real estate to contracts, and suggests classifying lawyers by specialty if broad admission remains unchanged. It notes Connecticut maintains high standards and calls for careful solutions.
A fragmented wartime era column notes rising U S exports to China and Australia as war reshapes trade. It cites values around 235 million dollars in 1913 versus wartime growth, and mentions buyers in the Orient as future major customers. The piece warns of mail fraud and the postman as penny palmist amid shifting commerce.
A fragmented lament on chronic pain and pseudomedical cures. The speaker recalls doctors and remedies from green and yellow pills to hog fat and waxy tonics, mocking the ineffectiveness while lamenting ongoing rheumatism. Mentions Selene, science tales, and restless endurance.
Washington reports the prosecution of employment agencies seen as exploiting job seekers near the Muscle Shoals power and nitrate projects. General Beach notes the need to inform the public of facts, while unemployment services say no trials exist for such advertisements and that government work status remains uncertain.
A rugged reflection on boxing luck and grit. The speaker argues success comes from nerve, grit, and perseverance more than fortune. It notes Old Lady Luck is fickle, and a champ earns his share of punishment through hard work and resolve.
A chaotic classroom scene shows conflict over a play committee led by Amelia. Isabel and others argue, motherly guidance appears, and a lesson emerges on handling criticism and pride during rehearsal and village church events.
Wilant G McAdoo former secretary of the treasury declares that all representations regarding the Virginia up building corporation were made in good faith and that he had examined the draft with the shipping board based on earlier statements and furnished by his firm McAdoo Gatien and Franklin as attorneys for the corporation
A partial quotation questions the accuracy of prior claims, noting no time or date corroborates the assertion and suggesting doubt about truthfulness. The fragment hints at skepticism toward reported statements without providing names, places, or concrete details.
City Hall will remain open from 9 in the morning until 9 at night to assist residents in paying personal taxes. Tax Collector Edward I. Krew urges prompt action as the final deadline approaches today.
Royal Copeland, M D, New York City health commissioner, urges universal school-based physiology and hygiene education to prevent disease. He links proper food, exercise, and breathable living to longer life, and outlines reader questions on eye health, ankle pain, pyorrhea, hoarseness, and general medical hygiene.
The Bridport Gas and Light Co announces a new rate schedule effective March 1, reducing household gas costs by about 2 percent based on average annual usage. With 38,000 customers, 18,000 use up to 3,000 cubic feet monthly, 17,410 use 3,000 to 5,000, and the rest over 6,000. The cut applies to all consumer brackets, shown against current rates for comparable usage.
Readers sent questions to The Telegram information bureau seeking quick factual answers. The replies address topics from Black Thursday in Victoria to mint locations, rowing on river life and rosette names. Questions cover pronunciation of Roosevelt, hippo temperament, maple sugar origins, and legal matters like jacitation suits.
The article discusses frost risks to crops and flowers from late winter fronts and explains that protecting against frost depends on understanding soil cooling at night and the factors affecting it. It notes readers can obtain the Government publication on frost protection from the Washington Information Bureau via a coupon to mail back.
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