Bridgeport Telegram Subscription Rates and Contact
Bridgeport Telegram announces subscription rates payable in advance, with one year and monthly options. It lists daily publication details, carrier coverage, and contact via 140 Middle Street Bridgeport Connecticut, Barnum 6100, noting Associated Press affiliation and audit bureau membership.
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Editorial Notes On Beauty Taxes And Manners In Daily Life
A collection of humorous and aphoristic lines on reformers fashion, beauty, and social conduct. Vignettes touch on pickles King Tut clothes taxes manners and dating, with quips about bachelors onions jokes and rude language.
New England Weather Outlook Fair and Mild
TRE WEATHER New England reports fair conditions for Tuesday and Wednesday with moderate temperatures. Winds shift from north to northeast along the coast from Sandy Hook to Virginia with partly cloudy skies. high atmosphere pressure rises from the Gulf to the Atlantic. showers and thunderstorms have diminished since Sunday night and temperatures dip after rainfall.
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Observing Wind Speeds From Natural Indicators
A historic excerpt explains wind speed by observing how objects move. It lists signs from a calm zero to a violent gale, noting smoke rising, vanes, leaves, and branches bending at various ranges from light breeze to hurricane. It frames wind as measurable through visible effects on surroundings.
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Connecticut Bar Admits 50 Practitioners and Warns Youth
The Connecticut bar welcomes 50 new practitioners after exams and oaths before Judge Webb. The judge’s remarks warned against notoriety over reputation and urged restraint in pursuing public attention, noting improvements in court reporting though concerns remain about prompt case handling and public perception of lawyers as mercenaries.
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Paying Attention to the Right Phone Pay Station
A Harrisburg electrical dealer observed the pay station on the right in his store collected four times as many coins as the left one. He tested a theory that customers unconsciously favor the right side, a finding with potential value for merchants and small shops.
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LEAPER ESCAPES RETURNS TO WASHINGTON
John Mr. a once famed detainee linked to a country-wide sensation escaped from confinement for the fourth time. He visited his old haunts around Washington before reporting to DC health authorities who ordered his return to the National Leprosarium in Louisiana. He claimed to have lived at a town hotel and said he had also visited Chattanooga, Asheville, and Milwaukee.
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Miawau
New Court Granted in Mixed Marriage Case
Court awards divorce to Eleanor Frese amid a mood dispute with Mbs and Vrs. Oldest Mrs Amos Buck Wisejosed faced the judge today as the Supreme Court gave the decree.
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Orce
Mood French
Amos ‘Uuck
One Hundred Years Ago From the New York Eveling Front
A garbled 19th century political note from Mountville dated April 30, 16, discusses Republican candidates for president and Jefferson’s name cited to influence supporters. The piece mentions concerns about responsibility and the impact of opinions on citizens, with echoed warnings about public trust and political pressure.
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Muntivilo
Rightward display speeds turnover in stores study
A shopman tested counter sales and found slow sellers belong on the right and fast sellers on the left with new goods on the right and staples on the left. The rule aligns with rightward-hand bias as customers enter and move through a store, suggesting displays guide quicker purchases.
Post road opened as concrete paving reaches near Westport
Macdonald opens the long-blockaded stretch on the Post road west of Westport center with a reinforced concrete pavement from Compo Inn to Nash's corner. Detours persist at Black smith shop hill and Burr's bridge due to shore road reconstruction, making travel tense. Connecticut roads gain attention as New Jersey officials tour the state, while calls for permanent pavement to curb the Post road’s growing wear grow louder.
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County Engineers Association
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Nangatuck
Waterbury
Watertown
Thomaston
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New Hartford
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Avon
Hartford
New London
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Guilford
Durham
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Fairfield County
Jersey
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Letters to the Editor Mixed opinions on policy and youth training
Readers react to international and domestic issues. Aimed at clarifying stance on war, neutrality, youth discipline, and parental guidance. The letters urge sensible training for children, caution against roamers, and emphasize responsible citizen involvement amid political tension.
Poison Phone Calls Trigger Woman's Death in Pittsburgh
Desperate after anonymous calls accusing her husband of infidelity, Mrs. Anna Nolte, wife of the borough engineer of McKees Rocks, killed herself. Deputy coroner El Spitser reported that calls from both genders prompted the tragedy, which the family could not trace. Her health declined after the harassment and she took poison.
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Anna Noli
Egineer
McKees Rogks
Laenk EL Spitser
The Guide Post by Henry Van Dyke
Henry Van Dyke writes of retreating to a desert place for rest from life’s hardships. He envisions rest spots like Bethany, with shelter, spring waters, and campfires, offering refreshment through nature, music, friendship, and quiet contemplation.
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Bethany
Sniek
Answers to Questions from a Citizen Reader
A citizen asks about naturalization rules for a son of an agent and U S residency. Other items cover long equatorial days, origin of day script, a million dollar stack height, gas lighting safety, and the Washington tourist camp. The tour camp costs five cents per day and is managed by Col Sherrill with modern municipal amenities.
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The Faultfinders by Walt Mason
A humorous poem about neighbors criticizing Jasper Jinks as he plans a house paint job. The mockers mock the design and warn of doom as Jasper endures the barbs that sap his spirit. The piece ends with a satirical call for a long prison term for the nagging critics.
Children Sleep Outdoors As An Adventurous Comfort
The piece extols children sleeping outside as a thrilling, primeval experience rooted in ancestral habits. It contrasts city life with rustic yards, urging shelters under trees and simple screens to protect against insects, and notes outdoor sleeping builds resilience and fresh air benefits.
A R A Spending Its Last Week in Russia
Moscow July 16 The American Relief Administration is spending the last week in Russia Every pound of foodstuffs has been distributed and every account closed The American personnel Unwinching at all but Colonel Haskell and his department chiefs will leave for home tomorrow Only ten of the staff will be left to attend the official farewell banquet to be given by the Russian Soviet Council of Commissars Wer nestey evening Colonel Haskell and the first of his men will leave Thursday or Friday A half soaked man always thinks he is hard boiled
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American Relief Administration
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Soviet Council of Commissars
Wernestey
Haskell
Absurd Dreams Of A Honeymoon In Retrospection
The speaker recalls a honeymoon that now appears misted with tears. The couple’s meals, breakfast room, and two for two table are described as absurdly ideal and fragile. Time has altered those hopeful days into distant, bittersweet memories.
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Germ theories and wound care in daily life
A health column discusses why some people resist infections, noting that natural resistance varies and infections depend on wound cleanliness. It advises iodine and sterile gauze for any injury, outlines proper self care, and answers reader questions on vitiligo treatment with walnut juice. Dr Copeland signs off, offering medical hygiene guidance.
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Be. Copeland
B.S. Copsiand
Medical Q A Answers on Tubercular Meningitis and Skin Scars
A medical column explains tubercular meningitis as brain irritation from tuberculosis and notes it commonly affects TB patients. It also advises consulting a skin specialist about acne scar treatment and suggests rest and outdoor activity to improve sleep for overworked individuals.
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The Ten Books I Have Enjoyed Most by Rex Beach
Rex Beach lists ten favorite books to illustrate the arc of a writer’s life while noting he cannot recall exact order or his condition at reading time. He names Mark Twain, Dumas, Conrad, De Gourmont, Booth, and others, and includes Mother Goose and the Bible among least enjoyed or most essential reads.
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Irk Munroe
Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Monte Cristo
Iexandre Dumas
Zenda
Anthony Hawkins
Booth
An Dyke
Conrad
the Luxemburg
de Gourmont
Tay
Izzy and Moe Sail Against Prohibition Tide
In New York on July 16, Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith, famed disguised Prohibition agents, were tied to a sea venture after arresting hotel proprietors in Freeport Long Island and a bartender on Volstead Act charges. The duo reportedly appeared at the Silver Wave and Sea Breeze hotels and hired boats, with the requisites triggering the arrests.
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Sea Breeze
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