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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1920
Page
12
Tod Glass reports on Peoples Gas bids in Chicago with Barnum 6100 exchange notes. The Bridgeport paper, published daily except Sunday by The Post Publishing Co, carries Associated Press dispatches and local news.
A fragmented verse by John Kendrick Bangs touches on human virtue versus flaw. The speaker, referencing a miner, suggests each man seeks hidden good beyond sight and acknowledges inner imperfection. The piece reads as a playful reflection on virtue and aspiration.
Fragmented editorials touch on Carpentier refusing a 45 unds fight and peace conference calls, war repeal debates, Wilhelm’s sons seeking divorces, Reds as nuisances, new anesthetic, a Bergolt slacker arrest, guaranteed earnings for railroads, society women shifting charity focus, Dempsey rising, crime wave chatter, and Trinity College mockery.
A U.S. town notes Walt Mason's daily jingle rising to fame after years of obscurity. The piece satirizes local life from the pesthouse to the jail, the banker to the courthouse, and the social ladder, showing Mason's ascent into public mind amid broad town chatter.
The Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce promotes the Home Building and Loan association as a pivotal civic project. It offers six percent interest, secured by real estate, with monthly shares allowing even small savers to build homes. The plan targets 50 000 shares initially, with potential for 100 000 and multiple similar associations, shifting the city toward ownership and away from rent.
The old schoolhouse, once small and red with a bell tower and a woodhouse, has vanished. It is replaced by a large heated building serving as a community center with improved roads and plumbing. The teacher no longer boards around and the old joys fade as history gives way to modern efficiency.
In this corner Isomer Cummings faces the famed pacifist Bryan who opposes prohibition. Bryan argues against Homer and Edwards, who favors forceful repeal or defeat of the amendment. The column notes Bryan’s inside success in the party and warns Homer to watch the liquor issue.
A Senate subcommittee led by Senator Albert B. Fall of New Mexico questions intervention in Mexico while noting Fall's own mining, lumber, lands, and railroad investments there. Critics urge an investigator without conflicting ties to Mexican mines and railways.
Bridgeport notes chronicle a night of Mary Anderson at the Opera House and a heavy storm driving ships into the harbor. Local events include Pequomomnock Lodge entertainments, ice-house activity by the Housatonic railroad, and arrests, while politics and public notices surface from Hartford and Danbury reports.
The piece contrasts Northern and Southern fortunes during the revolutionary era, recalling Massachusetts troops facing Tarleton and Cornwallis and the famous call to liberty from Faneuil Hall. It invokes Henry and the emblematic Liberty or Death, praising Massachusetts labor and resolve against tyranny. January 27, 1848.
Letter to the Springfield Union lauds Connecticut Company's one man trolley cars in Bridgeport as safe fast and popular. It argues pay as you enter for inbound trips and pay on exit for outbound trips could ease Main Street congestion and urges Springfield to adopt similar operation while noting the system's potential for continued service and public benefit.
The Telegram Information Bureau in Washington D C under Director Frederic J Haskin offers free prompt factual answers upon request. Readers are instructed to state questions briefly and include a 2-cent stamp for return postage. Inquiries are confidential and replies go to individuals with no charge beyond the stamp.
A compilation of questions and concise answers on topics from wool usage in suits to Red Cross bravery decorations, world Negro population, Suez and Panama canals, Dragom doctrine, army salutes, United States land totals, Atlantic rain signs, and Navy retirements. Includes figures such as 4½ to 5 ounces per suit, 222 decorated Red Cross nurses, 100,000,000 Negroes, Suez 90 miles vs Panama 603, costs around 160 million, and 64-year retirement rule.
Jersey City January 22 Governor Edwards ignored a Bryan assault on his presidential ambitions tied to anti prohibition work. He said no comment on Bryan’s remarks and asked Attorney General McCrea to pursue litigation to test the eighteenth amendment’s constitutionality as a possible invasion of New Jersey’s sovereign rights.
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