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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1920
Page
12
Bridgeport Telegram details subscription prices and advertising network while noting post office registration and daily publication. Mentions 40 Middle Street offices, circulation audit, and Associated Press membership.
A poetic fragment by John Kendrick Bangs about perseverance through hardship. The speaker vows to keep course toward a chosen path despite snow and cloudy skies and mounting obstacles. The verse emphasizes resolve and unyielding purpose.
A column of editorial notes surveys global and national issues from earthquakes in Mexico to military and political topics. It mentions Admiral Grayson, DAnnunzio plebiscites, U S. troops in Siberia, the Atlantic fleet, profiteering, and a New Orleans grocer arrest. It questions legal processes and political platforms, and notes Hiram Johnson’s candidacy.
A poetic plea foresees calmer times as the poem envisions diminished factional strife and a return to sanity. It contrasts past fevered doubts with a dawning maturity and a nation waking from wild dreams toward freer yet tempered liberty.
The piece contrasts legal authority with scientific laws. It argues that law implies penalty and command while natural laws describe consistent order without implying obedience. It notes evolution and supply and demand as examples. Citizens respond differently to man made rules than to natural regularities.
American victory claims by General Pershing provoke British rebuttals. British War Office releases show prisoners and guns captured by British, French, American, and Belgian armies between July 18 and November 11, 1918. The stats underline evolving American strength and the shifting balance in France as the war neared its end.
Dr. J A Watts of San Antonio reports from Mexico that democracy is advancing, peons gain better wages, and workers can choose whom to work for. He notes reduced taxes, free schools, better highways, and public works, with Mexicans emulating the United States as self rule grows. He argues intervention is less favorable than supporting Mexico’s push to self-government.
Senator Fall, chair of the Senate subcommittee on Mexican conditions, disclosed he owns 75,000 dollars in Mexican mining stock. He had long spoken against Mexico’s condition while concealing his financial interest and gave no details on past holdings or transfers.
A grocer recalls a canny housekeeper who picks eggs by hen color. She insists on eggs from black hens, claiming they lay the largest eggs, challenging shell color as a premium cue. The text notes flavor comes from feed and breed, not shell hue.
Bridgeport notes from January 24 1880 report weather with mud and thawing, rising ice prospects, and a mild winter then. It lists church concerts, water trough complaints, inventor Hiram Maxim’s new electric light idea, sleighing in Pittsfield and violet finds, a pistol recovered, and a Burns lecture. Also covers a court decision on a license charge, Fairfield County Agricultural Society officers and plans, a census by Amo Muller, Milton panorama paintings, a Bridgeport Widows Society donation, and a fall injuring Frank Parsons.
A fragmentary read of Felicia Hemans lines celebrating exiled bands arriving on a harsh coast. The poem contrasts marching drums with hymns that tremble through storms, praising freedom of worship and steadfast hearts. References include exiles, pine forests, sea sounds, and the phrase holy ground.
A groaning week in the city as Frank P. Parsons son of Elizabeth A. and the late Frank P. Parsons dies at 16 years and 5 months. Funeral from Christ Church on Monday at 2 p.m. Another death is Mary Steric, wife of Selick Steric, aged 64, in Southport. The text notes a funeral in the same era and place, with details of community reactions and services.
A fragmentary note discusses how The World shows flexibility by backing candidates from the Democratic or Republican parties or any party, including Herbert Hoover, reflecting shifting editorial stance in the press.
The Telegram Information Bureau in Washington, under Frederic J. Haskin, offers free factual answers to readers. Send brief questions with a 2 cent return postage stamp and receive confidential replies tailored to the individual inquiry.
The exchange notes President Lincoln was shot in his box at Ford's Theatre. the building remains standing though no longer used as a theatre. The article shifts through trivia Q&As on distilled liquors, merchant marine tonnage, poet laureates, military branch identification, hottest places, wise men, dividends, UK population, and the first U.S. postmaster general Benjamin Franklin.
The Providence Tribune argues British democracy favors Ulster veto power in a home rule plan. It blames Ulster leaders led by Carson and Premier Lloyd George for obstructing Irish self rule, warning the plan preserves Ulster ascendancy and sectional tenure. The piece contrasts US majority rule with Ireland’s disputed governance.
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