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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1921
Page
12
The Bridgeport Telegram shows a public notice for advertising services with offices in New York Chicago and Bridgeport. It notes daily operation for all departments and mentions the Associated Press copyright and republication rights.
A collage of stray phrases mentions Bolshevism among Sultan's troops taxicabs Harvard Detour New Jersey stadium battles and Paris Brieftay spending. Vague items hint at editorial notes on the Turkey trotskies and home-brewing campaigns plus a plan for a vice presidential ticket and a six bandit robbery headline.
Weather report fragments describe unsettled conditions with local thunder showers and temperature near normal in parts of the Midwest and Northeast. An almanac section lists daily data, sun times, and tides, with scattered vintage meteorological lines and stray OCR garbles.
Mayor Jeremiah Donovan suggests an innovation in tax bills that adds the rate in mills and the assessment, with back-page itemized expenditures to show how funds are spent. He argues this would calm taxpayers by revealing spending by department and the value received for each dollar. He recommends Bridgeport adopt the system.
The article argues high prices curb demand, illustrating with barbers who earned less per day as customers dwindled. It explains diminishing returns hit both workers and owners, reducing volume and profits across trades from candies to railways, and advocates pricing goods near cost to revive prosperity.
Miss Anna E. Partree has been elected assistant treasurer of Bridgeport Savings Bank, marking a milestone for women in business. The announcement lauds the rising role of women in finance and urges men to accelerate adaptation in the changing job landscape.
The final step in establishing a court of international justice will be taken at the League of Nations assembly in Geneva in September. This is the key item on the assembly's program as most League members have drafted the plan and ratification by the assembly is expected as a formality. Within months the long dream of settling disputes between nations as individuals are settled will begin.
Joseph Hergesheimer says American literature is strangled with a petticoat and blames novels written to please women readers. The remark links the claim to the fate of unused petticoats, implying broader cultural shift in tastes.
A reflective verse laments unlucky days and a string of misfortunes from waking steps to wrecked routines. The speaker wonders if resolve or grace can endure the run of smashed plans, bruises, and rain that spoils spring marching orders.
A fragmented 19th century editorial contrasts church funding with a lumber market boom. It links falling Protestant pulpits and liberalism to wage pressures on ministers, rising building costs, and shifts in social norms, noting domestic relations strain amid changing economies and values. Names and places reflect a period voice and scattered public concerns.
A damaged query page asks Frederic J. Flaskin for 2 cent stamps to reply about American Boy Scouts counts and wartime aid. It notes 109,274 boys and 119,585 lives and discusses war relief clothing drives, flag burial questions, and donation of knitted garments for Europe.
Verlin June 27 report from Verliner Tageblatt analyzes a moral crisis in Germany as Catholics and Jews leave churches, Protestants shrink, and religious doubt grows. The piece notes a rise in synagogue resignations and questions the broader social impact amid postwar secular trends and wartime leadership.
Bridgeport notes from June 28 1884 report a Ladies Foreign Missionary Society meeting at Paw Street church, local burglaries at Richard Smith’s shoe shop, a resignation from Rev J G Devenport at Park Street Congregational church, Yale prize winners from Bridgeport, flagstone obstructions on State and Main, Pinafore rehearsals and home talent support, pharmacy licenses issued, Bartram health board clash, Opera House graduation exercises at Bridgeport High School with named graduates, and weather-related postponements plus a traveling accident ending in a rescue.
Edith E. Tatssig discusses the blood as a carrier system with glands sending chemical messages into the bloodstream. Adrenal glands, central to emergency feats, release hormones that boost heart and lung action, powering sudden physical acts under extreme emotion.
The passage argues that Georges Carpentier has speed and science but favors Dempsey’s power and endurance. It claims Dempsey’s bone and brawn would outmatch Carpentier, who is praised for speed and cleverness yet may still fall to the champion’s tougher stamina and punch.
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