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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1920
Page
14
Fragmentary poem in old finance themed verse. Mentions investments duties and interest. lines speak of cheer amid fear and dividends. Entities include John Kendride Bangs and a voice courting financial solace.
The column muses on Palmer profiteering rumors and Republican rhetoric. It mentions December politics, War Department plans, and a rush of faxes totaling ten billion. It notes a Jersey birth named Herz and Babe Ruth’s nomination chatter. Discusses primaries and the Boston league, with faint references to New York and headlines.
Local boyhood rumor says H E Pedkinn of 34 Wing Street works with Wadham Ice Cream Company. He has spent 16 years in ice cream production and faces the summer rush with steady effort. The town eyes the busy factory as thousands of quarts are churned for thirsty passersby.
The piece argues that labor shortages in essential industries stem from railroads failing to pay, while workers leave for higher paid jobs. It urges guaranteeing railway income to fund equipment and repairs, predicting a 30 percent freight rate rise to sustain movement, and warns that without robust rail service the economy stagnates.
The piece contrasts Mr Gary's broad definition of the American with Isidore Goldenbaum's precise portrayal of the ideal American. It praises Isidore's neighbor William Edwards as a practical, fair, law-abiding, and independent citizen who votes by reason. It notes President Wilson and Senator Lodge's 1918-1920 stance on peace and warns against a separate peace. A separate item reports a government laundry operation showing a substantial profit, then a personal quip about valuing poetry and music.
Fragmentary OCR reads as a busy business man pondering a meeting at a club. The voice hints at a conference and a beat back route, with repeated greetings and unclear names. The note hints at scheduling a round and a tense atmosphere.
Fortunes and commissions are recorded as officials, officers, and clergy announce appointments and duties. The list covers police promotions, church lectures, temperance meetings, a Grand Lodge session, university gatherings, and various civic notices alongside brief obituaries and social events.
A fragmented civic poem argues for Grimes as next president, claiming work leads to booming times while critics fear idleness. It envisions money, clothing, and stable homes, and notes the speaker will continue rugged labor and frugal living regardless of outcome.
A fragment from Samuel Taylor Coleridge presents the mariner watching sea life as shadows move around the ship. He marvels at aquatic creatures while feeling a longing for mercy and praying for relief from the burden of the voyage.
A Midwestern visitor meets a bohemian crowd in Greenwich Village. He encounters a wary artist who recites a monologue about village life and real people as the crowd debates authenticity and art scenes in New York. The observer notes the tension between gentrifying tastes and old residents.
The text contains fragmented questions about the US population center moving east after 1910, mapping aerial routes between Seattle and Alaska, WWI soldier equipment choices, shell effects, and historical figures. It reads as a set of miscellaneous queries, with references to census data and early mapping efforts, but many lines are garbled.
A reader questions the value of rix-dollars and whether Mrs Deland’s Old Chester links to Massachusetts. Answers note rix-dollars’ varied values and near five cents typical, with DeLand linked to Boston, not Pennsylvania. Other items cover auto theft insurance coverage, limits, and prewar Belzinia population in Liesse.
A Mars snow event is reported as autumn settles there. Prof William Tickering at Harvard College observatory in Mandeville Jaraglea notes snowfall near the region known as Serliy Major. The announcement comes via a telescope message to astronomers observing the planet.
Jeme Hatuir Dixon, convicted of complicity in the murder of her adopted daughter Siar Merton, collapsed in The Bronx courtroom as Judge Louis D. Gibbs sentenced her to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing during the week of July 12.
Reuters dispatch from Rome states the Italian government denies any plan to obtain a 30 billion lire loan in the United States in exchange for a tobacco monopoly. The report says the idea was never entertained by the Tealian government and is rejected.
The Seiutitul snow leopard, highly sought by Diggom hunters in India, is rarely sighted below 11 000 feet. It is extremely rare, and locals fear its white coat and deep green eyes, viewing it with superstition.
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