Bridgeport Telegram Advertising and Post Office Note
The Bridgeport Telegram lists post and publishing details including opening hours and exchange connections. It notes advertising reserves and metropolitan tower addresses in New York and Chicago, with Barnum 6100 telephone and daily publication except Sunday.
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A Line o Cheer Poem Excerpt
A fragment from John Kendrick Bangs titled The Passing presents a narrator awaiting a fair girl. The speaker vows steadfast vigil and continues daily duties while hoping for her return, blending reflective longing with steadfast resolve.
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John Kendrick
Fine
Editorial Notes On Wide Ranging Public Mood
A jumble of observations touching alcohols, road safety, employment, freight rates, maritime curiosities, local entertainments, debt interest, soda prices, and disarmament debates. Noting the era’s stray musings, it references the first hot air balloon in 1782 and hints at a lively civic discourse.
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American Congress
Weather Note From 1921 Forecast Page
Weather forecast for New England describes cloudy unsettled Thursday with likely showers Friday and little temperature change. Observations list multiple coastal stations and state readings, noting unsettled conditions and minimal temperature shifts across the region.
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New England
New Haven
Atanas
Atlantic City
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Hartford
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Nantuckat
New Orleanas
New Yorks
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Portland
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Washington
Bridgeport
Middlebrook
Protecting New England Industries and Farm Bloc Demands
The piece argues for a congressional industrial bloc to shield New England from European and Asian competition, linking farm interests with eastern industry and warning that free trade harms workers and regional economies. It stresses shared stake of farmers and eastern workers and calls for protective measures.
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Europe
West
Asia
Congress
New England
Farmers’ Bloc
Akewi
Stratford’s Charter Endorsement for Council Manager Form
Stratford voters will decide on adopting a council manager form of government on July 1. The charter, as drafted by the legislature, is presented as democratic, efficient, and aligned with successful city practice, with stockholders rating directors and a hired town manager handling operations. The piece urges objective study and criticizes misrepresentation of the proposed framework.
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Stratford
Jersey City boxing injunction sparks tax debate
A Jersey City bid to halt the Dempsey and Carpentier bout was rejected amid claims the event follows state law. The piece argues rising taxes and public curiosity drive regulation and revenue, noting potential profits from spectators and federal levies.
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Dempsey and Carpentier
Jersey City
New Jersey
America
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United States
Budget cuts threaten New York city schools and teachers
A critique of Mayor Hylan and the Board of Estimate cuts of 27 million dollars from the New York education budget. The piece warns that larger classes of thirty eight to fifty students, longer workdays, and strained salaries will harm teaching quality and future citizens, urging communities to prioritize teachers for pupil welfare.
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New York
Department of Education
Hylan
Board of Estimate
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Tomorrouy
Times Improve The Hammer Ringe Through Land
The piece laments social unrest and slow recovery as work returns and construction improves. It notes people buying lumber and supplies, planting crops, and resuming routine labor while addressing lingering discord and a revival of industrious life.
Three Per Cent Immigration Law Under Fire Across Papers
Newspapers critique the three per cent immigration law as enforcement struggles with excess arrivals this month. Critics call for better at port controls and foreign-port measures to curb oversupply, while others warn against ineffective tactics and unintended consequences for Italian and other immigrant groups.
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Congress
Washington Post
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Newark News
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Philladelphia Bulletin
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United States
Liston Herald
Atlantic
Europe
Philadelphia
New Yorke
Padelphia
Abe
Ex-Soldier Sings in Three Voices at Once
Washington reports a disabled veteran, Josep Kaufman, claimed by a federal vocational education board to sing in three voices simultaneously, a phenomenon likened to three men singing in unison. Described as accomplished, he studied at Minneapolis music school and has vaudeville experience. an attempted burglary in Sligo, Ireland and a prison break are noted in the same item.
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Federal Board ‘Or Vocational Education
Josep Kaufman
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Eye Pare
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Vaudevil
W. J. Swift
Captain Corcoran
Sherlock Himestl
Dick Deadeye
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Joseph Hammond
Cc. K. Averill
Paul Sterling
G. Hy Bright
Marines
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Lotta
Mitchell
New Haver
Coprano
Mas Addie Pond
B. Hall
G. P. Read
Lulu V. Sherlock
Charles Near
New Haven
Sherlock
Question and Answer Column on Politics and Inventions
A Washington bureau item presents Q A exchanges on topics from motor cars with more than twelve cylinders to presidential Senate service, and inquiries about naval battleship types, oil fields, the sewing needle origin, the Chicago Moop district, and postal air routes. It includes historical notes on presidents’ prior offices and early American trades, plus notes on the New York to San Francisco mail route experiment.
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Thomas L. Watson
Airs Hanford Lyon
A. Drew
C. G Lyon
New York
California
Chicago
Omaha
Salt Lake
San Francisco
Oreson
General Edwards Inspects Defenses and Plans
Major-General Slavence Ba ware recently appointed head of the Northeast department studies New Plymouth coast defenses. General Edwards will attend a Yankee reunion in Boston on July 2 8 and 4 before resuming command Friday.
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Slavence BR. Baware
Yankes
Slon
United States
Nere Vodas
Pyymad
Ruwards
Boston
Sag Harbor
Awit
Department of the Northeast
Bridgeport Forty Years Ago in The Standard
Bridgeport items recount injuries at a gun works accident, a suit in New Haven, church resignations, library and temperance society notes, a California trip by local guests, and a debut of Sherlocks operatic troupe with praise for performers and a promise of further performances.
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American Hapid Telegraph Company
Hew Haven Court
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Prohibition foes attack Ku Klux Klan and boxing fraud
Washington reports Dr. Wilbur Crafts denounces the Ku Klux Klan as hypocritical and labels Jersey City conference as a fraud. He decries prohibition violations and the Dempsey Carpentier fight as criminal fraud, urging stricter enforcement of laws and criticizes prize fighting under Ohio law.
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Dempsey-Carpentier
Wilbur &, Crafts
America
Crafts
Kus Klux Klan
Jersey City
Army
Senate
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Panama Canal Patriotism Lesson Map Offer
The Washington Information bureau offers readers a four color Panama Canal map created under the National Geographic Society. Fill out the coupon and send two stamps for return postage. The piece urges Americans to recognize the canal as a monumental achievement and a symbol of victory in peacetime.
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Washington Information Bureau
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Panama Map Offer From Washington Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin offers a free copy of The Panama Map from The Bridgeport Telegram Information Bureau in Washington D C for two cents in stamps to cover return postage. The notice provides a street and city placeholder and incomplete address details.
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Frederic J. Haskin
Bridgeport Telegram Information Bureau
Washington, D. C
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We Won at Polo Anyway Despite a Crushing Frost
The text recalls a rough, frostbound match where the English dominated early and many felt defeat was certain. Yet Stoddard Hitchcock and teammates rallied to claim a polo victory, with vivid, old-time sports rhetoric and bravado about overcoming jinx and doubt.
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Hitchcock
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Free Library
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Wiliam D. Bishop
Wm.b. Hincks
David B. Lockwood
W. J. Hills
Bernard Winghofter
Frederick Hurd
John D. Cendee
Stephen S&s. Blake
Charles Sherwood
Bridgeport Temperance Society
Joan J. Conroy
James Moonan
Joseph T. Carney
Daniel Hagger
J. J. O'Neill
John BfeCullough
M. G. Burns
John Sturray
HK. Rooney
Park Street
Clarence Swan
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Addie Haight
Joseph Porter
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Blue Law
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