Bridgeport Telegram Publication Details and Access
Bridgeport Telegram established 1891 publishes daily except Sunday from 140 Middle St Bridgeport Conn. Subscription rates in advance. Open every day and night with an exchange connecting all departments. Associated Press news is credited to AP dispatches and local news.
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Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Press
Editorial notes from a March paper a collage of quips
A rambling editorial collage mocks Henry Ford cross country plans and railroads. It teases congressmen, radio sermons, taxes, NIagara broadcasts, a Wisconsin asylum escape, a Seattle divorce case, a moonshiner family adoption, German artists, a St. Petersburg horse shoe event, a Washington auto with four legs, pickle beauty claims, a San Bernardino meteor joke, and highbrow books in homes.
Weather forecast for South New England and East New York
Cloudy Wednesday and Thursday with possible snow or rain Thursday. East New York expects unsettled weather with rain on the coast and snow or rain inland, little temperature change. An Atlantic disturbance remains and winds shift north to northeast.
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Mississippi River
Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic
Ohio Valley
Lower Lake Region
North Atlantic
Sandy Hook
Hatteras
Expensive schooling critiques modern education costs
The Carnegie foundation warns education costs threaten public schooling. It argues overlong curricula and too many vocational courses burden minds with overload, pushing toward trade schools. It cites Boston’s bookkeeping graduates as evidence of wasted effort and urges focused fundamentals over superficial breadth.
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Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Aite
Boston High School
Main Street Folks Stir Debate on Rural Talent
The piece argues against Dr. Percy Grant’s view that rural residents offer little to America. It recalls 1809 talk of Madison and Napoleon, notes a baby born in Tom Lincoln’s, and praises rural origins as essential to leadership. Main Street nurtures cities and keeps them vibrant.
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Percy Stickney Grant
New York City
America
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Henry Bailey
Washington
Madison
Napoleon
Europe
Sinclair ‘Lewis
Dr. Grant
Fifth Avenue
Letters to the Editor from Bridgeport on finances and youth newspaper selling
A Bridgeport reader laments misused funds and calls for prudent fiscal reform amid a recovering job market. Another letter criticizes a Connecticut Child Welfare bill to ban children from selling papers after 6 pm, recalling past work experiences and defense of youthful enterprise.
Bragging Waldo Mason and the Tale of Bad Cars
Waldo Mason boasts of a splendid drag that splits the wind yet admits his car is on the rim with misfiring cylinders and a broken back. Friends listen, and instead recount their own tale of better machines and first class scores, exposing the boast as fiction.
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Ecstacy
Rest for Railroads and a Net of Loose Thots
A column weighs in on President Harding’s stance for a pause in railroad regulation and investigations. It contrasts calls for rest with the need for regulatory clarity while musing on early memories and a Stanford incident about electricity.
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Congress
Washington
New York World
Answers to Questions From The People
A reader’s Q and A session covers pronunciation of Tutankhamen and Gypsy origins, daily air intake, presidential pensions, a Spanish queen vow, draft horse hind legs, the third degree, unusual foods in foreign lands, and size comparisons of alligators and crocodiles.
The Test Ise ther He's awfully good to his mo
The verse questions how a man who is kind to his own family measures up to being good to others. It asks if a man who is caring at home extends that care to somebody else's mother and child and warns against seeing a wolf in a cave as a safe guardian. The piece contrasts domestic kindness with broader responsibility and humanity.
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Fighting a picky eater Bunnie learns breakfast discipline
A sunny healthy child named Bunnie resists cereal one morning prompting his mother to seek medical advice. The doctor urges routine, patience, and proper meals. After two days of painstaking feeding, Bunnie starts eating, marking a turning point in his future appetite and habits.
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Connecticut Child Welfare Association
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Sunnie
Latvia Not Lithuania On U S Money Exchange
Post Office warns against issuing money orders to residents of Lithuania due to name confusion with Latvia. Since January 2, a Latvia United States money order exchange exists, with Latvia also called Lettonia and Latvija while Lithuania bears Lietava Litava Lieutava and Litvia.
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Latvija
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Proper Use of Sickness and Health Myths in Public Health
Dr Copeland argues against Pascal on health and morality. He warns superficial health hides disease, urges seeking normal organ function, and stresses the need for real health before moral restraint. He cites tuberculosis awareness and urges health first, then other goods, plus practical tips.
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Blaise Pascal
Goa
North America
Pascal
Question and Answer on Neglected Tonsils and Growth
A reader asks about outcomes of untreated diseased tonsils and potential heart lung effects. Answer notes systemic impact, including indigestion neuritis rheumatism and heart trouble. A 13 year old girl asks ideal weight 116 pounds and advice to exercise outdoors eat nourishing food and bathe frequently.
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M. KK
Court asked to tell contributors rights at Norwalk hospital
Louige A. Lehmaier of Norwalk seeks a declaratory judgment via writ of mandamus to force hospital directors to recognize him as a director by virtue of a large donation. He claims the hospital constitution grants automatic director status to major donors, while defendants led by BT. Bedford argue such membership is honorary and carries no active directing rights.
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Louige A. Lehmaier
Norwalk Hospital
BT. Bedford
Former Derby Woman Dies in New York
Word has been received here of the death of Miss Tillig McCord a former resident who died in New York Saturday after a brief illness with influenza Her parents a sister Mrs James Lawler of New York and another sister in Georgia survive The funeral was held yesterday from her home in New York with burial in Woodlawn Cemetery New York Metford spent most of her life in Derby.
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Tillig McCord
New York
James Lawler
Georgia
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