Ridgeport Telegram Established yest
The Ridgeport Telegram is a daily newspaper published by The Post Publishing Co. at Middle Street Bridgeport Conn with regular subscription rates in advance and mail options. It lists telephone and department exchanges and notes use of the Associated Press for news dispatches and republication rights.
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the Post Publishing CO
Middle St- Bridgeport
Conn
Bers Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Press
Associated
Presa
Agprisa
Focal News
Tal Rlein
Editorial notes on sayings and oddities of daily life
A collage of humorous aphorisms and snippets on manners, work, travel, and daily routines. It references breakfast habits, booze, plumbing woes, smokeless powder, dances of 1923, masculinity, honesty, streetcars, hunting, and schooling. The tone is light and speculative with miscellaneous pointed quips.
Weather forecast and storm advisories for Atlantic region
Forecasts show clearing from South New England and East New York with snow in interior sections, changes in temperature, and north gales near Sandy Hook. A central disturbance moved from Indiana toward the Great Lakes with offshore low near North Carolina. storm warnings issued from Delaware Breakwater to Atlantic off Cape Hatteras as intensifying systems affect later Thursday into Friday.
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South New England
East New York
Randy Hook
Hatteras
Indiana
Mississippi River
North Carolina
Atlantic
Delaware
Maryland
Great Lakes
North Dakota
Ontario
Quebec
New York
New England
Delaware Oakwater
Fastport
Cape Hatteras
Two Happy Letters Honor Wilson Coolidge Courtesy
The piece notes mutual courtesy between Vice President Calvin Coolidge and former President Woodrow Wilson over Wilson’s birthday and a Senate congratulatory resolution. It cites Coolidge’s gracious letter and Wilson’s warm reply as a contrast to political posturing, urging more genuine man to man conduct in governance.
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Calvin Coolidge
Woodrow Wilson
Senate
Wilson
Coolidge
Harding
Conlidge
Paris
New England
Boston
Connecticut
Holcomb
Massachusetts
New
Bad Parking Rules Criticized for Rigid Downtown Ordinances
A letter argues new downtown parking ordinances are poorly drafted and too rigid. It notes traffic ebbs and flows with work and shopping hours, urging rules that adapt to peak and lull periods to avoid hindering commerce and causing repeal.
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Down Town
Board of Aldermen
Navy Radio Hog Sparks Hoover Hearing Clash
Secretary Hoover’s bill to regulate radio broadcasting faces opposition from the navy as a House hearing considers unified civilian oversight. The navy resists civilian use while the bill aims to curb military excess and boost public radio, signaling a pivotal shift for the nation’s wireless development and civilian expertise.
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Hoover
House Committee On Merchant
Commerce Department
Army
Navy
United States Navy
U. S. Navy
America
Signal Corps
The Power of Example in Law Respect
An essay on how people imitate others to break laws and norms. It notes elevator etiquette and traffic speed as examples where one person’s behavior prompts others to imitate, especially among business and professional elites. The piece asks who will initiate a change to restore respect for all laws.
Letters to the Editor from Telegram condera readers
A readers letter discusses how Health department workers docked a day’s pay for Christmas and hopes they receive full wages. It uses a Christmas mercy theme and a tale of a dinner bill to critique tempering justice with mercy in city administration and mentions a surge of revelers under heavy drinking.
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Health Department
Hoyle
Sam
A Common Failing by Walt Mason
A humorous verse contrasts James Rickshaw’s polite manners as a Chesterfield smoker and neighborly host with his dangerous bus driving. It rails at his disregard for traffic rules and right of way, depicting him as courteous in public yet reckless on the road. The poem satirically weighs civility against unsafe behavior.
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James Rickshaw
Alf
Fle
Prohibition Racket Denounced as Last Legs, Forces Rally
A fragmentary editorial voice rails against prohibition as a dying, dangerous fad. It argues that bans sparked renewed drinkers and mocks critics while praising prohibition as a boon to health, wealth, and morals, claiming a rising movement against repeal is gathering strength.
Snohomish Indians Cut Tribal History on Pole
Chief Walter Shelton leads a remnant Snohomish tribe effort to carve a monumental totem at the Was Tukatin reservation school. The cedar tree totem, once over 160 feet tall and seven feet wide, has taken seven years of work to shape.
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Walter Shelton
Philadelphia
Shelton
Ciisis
Alaska
Puget Sound
Room for Children Demands Shifts in Life and Policy
A reflection on how the arrival of a child alters household budgets and routines, affecting money, leisure, housing, and schools. It notes landlords wary of families, crowded playgrounds and classrooms, and urges better support for children and more schools. The second part describes Shelton’s wood totem project and anticipated dedication by Alaska natives.
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Mist
Tre
Tony
Answers to a Wednesday Quiz on History and Inventions
The page compiles Q and A on canned fish production from 1914 to 1929, Civil War courts, the Boer War dates, first typewriter inventors, Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, chipboard watch division, the first tractor, highest Catholic official in America, and twilight duration with latitude effects.
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J. W. de
Census Bureau
Supreme Court of the
Q. Wren
Benjamin Wal
Stockton
Cal
San Joaquin Delta
America
The Humorists They Slay Dragons With Humour
A satirical poem praises humorists who mock solemn pretense and topple pompous idols. It extols their blithe irreverence as a weapon against fear and folly, urging them to persevere as they make society laugh and stay lively against creeping ills.
Health and habits in the modern body
A physician writer argues that health hinges on inner body conditions not outward appearances. He cites Sir Thomas Browne and urges daily discipline, proper sleep, diet, exercise, and dental care to strengthen the body's delicate machinery and avoid the many doors that lead to illness.
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Thos. Browne
England
Thomas
Medical Q and A column on neuritis and tuberculous treatment
Answers discuss neuritis from tired calves and fallen arches, artificial pneumothorax for selected TB cases, thyroid checks for poor appetite, and general health tips. Readers urged to seek examination, including physicals and urine tests, with Dr Copeland handling proper inquiries via mail.
Justice by Lot and Merit Across States
Florida uses a lottery to choose the chief justice in a private ceremony. Wisconsin promotes veterans to the post in sequence if they survive. Connecticut combines appointment with seniority. The New Haven Journal Courier argues for merit over chance, cautioning against lottery methods in filling the post.
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Florida
John Marshall
Wisconsin
Connecticut
Simeon Baldwin
F. B. Hall
Prentice
George W. Wheeler
New Haven Journal Courier
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Cloud
Tlantic City
Dear New Haven
Wn. Paul
Portland
Navy Asa
Walt Mason
By Angelo Patri
Pioneer Square
Stattte
Pind
British Patent Office
Henry Mill
W. A. Burt
E. Remington & Sonsors
United States
Macklenburg
N. M.F
Charlotte, N.C
Mecklenburg County
the Humorists
Berton Braley
Mats
J. By
Royal S. Copeland, M. D
N. Y. City
A. Q
Copeland
Copeiesé
Trimus Inter Pares
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