Bridgeport Telegram News Briefs From 1891
Bridgeport Telegram details subscription rates by mail and by carrier, indicates daily publication except Sundays, and lists address 440 Middle St with contact Barnum 6100. Mentions Associated Press use policy and local news from the paper.
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Editorial Notes on Foremost World Laughs and Local Quips
A collage of humorous and pointed vignettes from mid-century life. It lampoons politics, manners, and occasional misstatements by public figures. Anecdotes span Buckeye and New England to Russia and Alabama, offering wry social commentary through pithy lines and curious anecdotes.
Weather outlook for South New England fair Tuesday
A weather summary notes fair conditions across South New England with Tuesday and Wednesday expected to be generally fair and cooler. Pressure patterns show a low over the North Atlantic states and Canadian maritimes, with a disturbance over New England last night. Winds shift from north of Sandy Hook to fresh westerly, and tides and sunrise in the almanac are listed.
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Sandy Hook
Eberts Daughter Trains for Library Career in Berlin
Berlin January 15 Amalie Ebert daughter of the German president is training for the library field and now on the Berlin City Library staff. She completed two years of practical courses at Geidelberge University Library and Charlottenburg Free Library. A Wildle nn brother is pursuing optical studies.
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Amalie Ebert
German Republic
Hraulein Ebert
Geidelberge
Charlottenburg
Waterbury Republican Critiques Five-Man Highway Commission
The Waterbury Republican voices concern over a proposed five member highway commission for Connecticut, arguing it would complicate management and invite political meddling. It questions funding for commissioner salaries and warns of potential dysfunction versus the current single headed highway department.
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Republican
State Highway Department
Templeton
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Charles A. Templeton
Connecticut
Bennett
Coal Commission Report Offers Cautious Hope For Industry Reform
The United States Coal Commission's preliminary statement to the President and Congress outlines no radical changes. It identifies high prices and shortages stemming from labor issues, transport bottlenecks, and overexpanded mining capacity. The report emphasizes addressing these core problems to align production with public demand.
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Commission
Coal Commission Ready for Its Task
The commission admits long standing difficulties in the coal industry and calls for a detailed, comprehensive inquiry. It must decide whether free competition government or private ownership regulation or control serves the people best, with a final report to follow. The author urges the commission to proceed and let outcomes emerge.
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Bridgeport Snow Fight Shows Plow Shortage and Urgent Plan
In Bridgeport after a Sunday snowstorm the city finally demonstrates active snow clearing by adopting Connecticut state methods. The piece argues for more plows and motorized removal, noting each street closure costs citizens heavily and praising steam shovels and motor trucks to keep main thoroughfares open despite winter storms.
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
Public Works
Daylight Saving sparks vivid reader defense and debate
A Telegram reader letters section defends daylight saving arguing it is a major discovery with daily savings in summer, calls for national legislation in time, and notes travel confusion as a drawback. The page also contains criticism of Arbuckle's film controversy, condemning selective pinning on one figure while others escape scrutiny.
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Arbuckle
Arburkle Pictures
Fariet
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Grand Buncombe Hurlers
Square
The Vanishing 4 Governor Walton Inauguration Report
The piece recalls Governor Walton inviting Lee state to his inauguration and the arrival of Western pageantry. Indians wore native dress, cowboys acted bold, fiddlers performed, and cooks roasted meat in trenches, highlighting a waning nineteenth century West in Oklahoma City with Indians in high powered cars and prosperous croppers and farmers arriving in greater numbers.
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Walton
Oklahoma
Lee State
Oklahoma City
Masterless Men Ww ALL MASON SAYS Poem on Hobos
A verse condemns Southland hobos as degraded and criminal beings. It depicts authorities rounding up and punishing beggars who refuse work, claiming moral failing and urging harsher treatment to deter bootlegging and vagrancy. The piece portrays social unrest and the disdain for the itinerant poor.
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Southland
Barbecues in Oklahoma Seen as Unusual Stunt
The New York Times notes that staphophones and Victrolas outpace fiddles and wagons, with more motor cars than covered wagons in Oklahoma today. Barbecues are described as demanding an unusual stunt from organizers, not simple hospitality.
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Fight on Malaria Drives New Plough Technology
A novel plough blade used in experiments without tractors creates furrows ten inches deep, reclaiming swamp lands previously unproductive and infested with malaria. Tests occurred on a marshy bank with soft mud and decomposed plant material, where the ground yielded under wheel weight.
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Analaria
German prodigy masters mind over muscle at twenty one
A young German girl, aged twenty one, is described by Scientific American as a memory prodigy who controls muscles with extraordinary skill. She sings in German, writes in English with her right hand and French with her left, and performs multilingual writing tasks and mental calculations with ease. The report also mentions feats like writing backward and completing sentences with both hands.
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Germany
Answers to Questions What kind of a Tur is Kolineky
A compiled Q and A from a 1920s knowledge column covering diverse topics. It explains mink naming in Russia, immigration figures for 1921, Mormon migration to Utah, Vallandigham's death, Africander cattle, sea cock definition, winter golf rules, and why tuberculosis was called the white plague.
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Day by Day With Cone System Echoes in Mind
A humorous diary-like verse mocks the Dr. Coue Cone system claiming daily self improvement cures for scarlet fever measles and whooping cough while the catchy refrain rings in the brain causing mental strain as the speaker notes becoming better is both joke and fevered obsession.
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E& Faithful Tong
Pip
Sam Doctor Coue
Coco
My Child Bob And The New Shoes
Aunt Kate beams at Bob as he learns to express delight over a Maine purchase. Bob dictates a letter and sketches the desired shoes, then wears them proudly at home. Family comments on his pride and the new footwear, while Bob muses on his happy growth.
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Bob
Maine
Jeter
Buckley
Aunt Ixate
Liean
Uncle Jack
Rosa
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Mob
Cee
Dell
Kate
Shell shocked nurse admits picking pockets
San Francisco January 16. Shell shock from Argonne service allegedly drove Mrs. Jennin Pick of Oakland to theft. Pick arrested by private detectives after being identified by store staff Charles Gailing and Edward Shewbridge. A search of her home with Ada Tug’s residence reportedly found stolen silks and valuables valued at about 300. A professor notes increasing baldness due to modern times.
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Shielshock
Argonne
Jennin Pick
Oakland
Oak'land
Edward Shewbridge
Piel
Shell Shack
Red Cross
Mrey Plek
Ada Tug
Haly
HEALTH BANK INSOMNIA A New York City doctor's insomnia guidance
Dr Royal S Copeland outlines causes of sleeplessness from late coffee use to constipation and stress. He advises practical habits for better sleep including light dinners, proper bedtime routines, open windows, minimal light, and single minded focus on sleep. He also suggests medical evaluation for persistent cases and answers reader questions about glasses and scalp massage.
Medical Q and A: teen weight guidance and bath rash causes
A 15 year old girl asks ideal weight. answer suggests about 120 pounds. A reader asks about severe itching after bathing and the response cites a possible allergy or irritant reaction.
Electric currents rise from ocean surface study hints at earth magnetism
Popular Mechanics discusses investigations by the Carnegie Institute ship Carnegie proving upward electrical currents across the earth surface. Measurements around the North Atlantic show about one twentieth of an ampere per square kilometer. U.S. land path reports about one thirtieth. The ship was built without magnetic material to chart magnetic declination globally.
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Popular Mechanics
Carnegie
Carnegie Institute of Washington
North Atlantic Ocean
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