FOUNDED 1491 THE BRIDGEPORT TELEGRAM
The Bridgeport Telegram announces its founding in 1491 and notes advertising and subscription details. It lists an advertising rate and payment terms, with office locations in Bridgeport Connecticut, Chicago Illinois, and New York. The paper credits the Associated Press for news and contains publishing and circulation notes.
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Middle Street
Bridseport
Conz
Sociated Press
Associated Press
Wl News
Specal News
Savings real and imaginary in budget tricks
The Bridgeport Telegram critiques national budgeting as a farce where Congress inflates allocations then proclaims savings. It argues departments request double amounts to be trimmed and urges setting fixed spending limits to reduce debt and tax oppression. The piece likens budgeting to a hoax and urges real restraint rather than cosmetic reductions.
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Bridgeport Telegram
Rube Goldberg
Congress of the United States
Congress
Congressional
Congressional Committee
United States
A Line and Cheer Achievement in Creativeness
Fragmentary verse hints at personal creative work and small labor among flowers. Ambiguous lines mention singing and pride in silent craft, with archaic phrasing suggesting a reflective, intimate poem about dedication and nature.
Editorial Notes on Planes and Poetry in Japan
Fragmented editorial notes discuss planes smoothing a naval dispute and a budget examination. Mentions Dawes and a commission or survey, plus a cryptic remark about poets in Japan. Tone resembles a daily column with partial, unclear lines and dated phrasing.
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Dawes
New England Climate and Character in a Candid View
A reflective essay argues New England’s seasonal balance shapes a thrifty, forward looking people. It contrasts monotony elsewhere with the region’s spring and autumn, praising scenery, industry, and the mixed appeal of city access and rural living.
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Bridgeport
Bridageport
Connecticut
Ander
Cummer
Florida
Maine
New Hampshire
Canada
New England
Buckle
New
New York
Whittier
The Rail Pay Cut Extends to Major Railroads
The United States Railroad Labor Board extends wage reductions to all large railroads, a decision seen as fair in upholding equal rights. The measure saves about 840 million annually in railroad labor costs, likely prompting lower freight and passenger rates and aiding a return to normal travel and shipping as a factor in easing living costs.
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United States Railroad Labor Board
Forecast of weather changes and notable forecasts
A 1924 forecast from England notes possible rain and thunder in eastern states, with cloudiness across Wednesday and Thursday over the Mississippi area. Temperature fluctuations expected over ten days with variable winds from the Atlantic. Regional observations list temperatures and cloud cover for cities such as New York, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, and Atlantic City, including daylight and sunset times.
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Atlantic Coast
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Sandy Hook
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Atlanta
Atlantic City
Brock Island
Easton
Buffalo
Cincinnati
Chicago
Denver
Detroit
Hartford
Hetteray
Siowdy
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Nantucket
Lew Haven
New Orleana
New York
Clowdy
Mifalebrook Almenac
Drawing the Line Against the Surgeon’s Knife Charm
A historical lament mocks medical hubris as patients recount illnesses from lumbago to neuralgia and shingles. The speaker ridicules surgeons offering “the knife” to cure all, condemning cavalier promises while vowing to endure illness and death with stubborn grit.
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King Death
Debate on Air Power and Naval Tactics Across The Submarine Debate
A controversial set of editorials questions explosive aviation hype, naval discipline by ballot, and the threat to dreadnought supremacy. The pieces argue that sensational aviation advertising harms progress, criticize the navy's democracy experiments under Daniels, and compare planes to battleships noting air power can outmatch a dreadnought in modern combat.
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Washington Times
Daniels
Danials
Navy
Department of the Navy
Philadel- Anta Puolie Seager Ind
United States Senate
Former Clerk in Day Office Held on Bribery Charge
Washington June 23 William F P Egan formerly a clerk in the legal department of the prohibition bureau was arrested today on charge of bribery. Agents of the internal revenue service intelligence division conducted the arrest and indicated the case has ties to past suspected fraud in permit alliances, with several employees suspended months earlier.
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Typical Theatre Pests Disrupt Audience During Film
A reader reports a noisy patron familiar with zeans distracts the orchestra and audience. The child in the crowd grows restless, repeatedly shouting that he wants to go home, prompting general unease and disruption throughout the theater.
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Wan
Language and grammar Q&A from Tuesday’s Queries
A set of corrected English usage questions and explanations. Topics include pronoun preference for diocesan, word order changes to imply exclusivity, accent on impious, sentence amissness with double negatives, and subject verb agreement in complex sentences.
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Amisa
Questions and answers from the Washington bureau
A compilation of inquiries on topics from nutrition to history. Questions cover peanut consumption, Rockefeller wealth origins, Central Park opening, army chaplains, stone porosity, hand versus machine piano rolls, lumber grub destruction, weather observations, and milk sterilization versus pasteurization.
Sullivan to Head New England Typo Union
Wren A Sullivan of Wepoganer was elected president as Bangor printers weigh trade school training for apprentices and a resolution favoring freedom for any nation aspiring to it. The New England Typ graphical union translated today in Bangor.
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New England T Graphical Union
Wren A. Sullivan
Wepoganer
Bridgeport News Snapshots From Historical Evening
Bridgeport items report Washington visitor Major Middlestock and Charles Brothwell as humane society agents for the city. Henry A. House departs for England aboard the Adriatic with a fur-picking machine, expected gone five to six weeks. Public rail and boat plans tie into Yale Harvard race, with a New Haven to New London run. Flood of notes covers a ship, theatre entertainments, a trot event, sewer safety warnings, ladies missionary meeting, a drowned boy burial, and local lodge officers election.
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Washington, D. C
L MW. Middiestock
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Brothwell
Connecticut Humane Society
Henry A. House
England
Adriatic
Water With Meals Affects Digestion In Early Studies
A historical report discusses experiments on water intake with meals, noting water rapidly stimulates gastric acidity and peptic enzyme activity. It suggests drinking water during meals may influence digestion and argues against washing food down with water, referencing researchers and early methods.
Monomaniac by Berton Braley
Jim Judson toiled on a motor boat engine through spring to fall with grimy zeal. A wealthy friend gifted a boat that hummed with joy yet never served duty, and Jim sickened with idleness until he died within a year from lack of occupation.
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Robert Dunn
Connecticut Western Crossing
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