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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1923
Page
10
Bridgeport Telegram lists subscription prices in advance and per period with weekly, monthly, and longer terms. The paper operates daily except Sunday from 140 Middle St Bridgeport Conn and notes contact and audit bureau affiliations.
A jumble of puns and trivia reflecting early 20th century wit. The piece blends patriotism, social quips, and fleeting anecdotes about industry, entertainment, sports, and daily life, including remarks on taxes, ice cream, Paris shows, Hays, unlucky Fridays, and golf versus baseball.
A weather summary notes a Wednesday snow in South New England and East New York with Thursday fair conditions. Northeasterly and easterly gales shift to northwest, bringing overcast skies and rain or snow. Disturbances from Texas and the upper Ohio valley push eastward with heavy rainfall in the eastern half and snow in the Middle Atlantic and North Atlantic states. General fair conditions expected Wednesday and Thursday in the Washington district with cooler temperatures spreading across West Virginia and the South Atlantic and east Gulf states.
Datly Almanac compiled for Telegram includes sun rise and set times, tides, water levels, and a weather report by Willam J. Mella. It lists barometer, temperature highs and lows, wind direction northeast, humidity, precipitation, and a rough note on humidity and sea conditions.
E Kent Hubbard of Middletown argues Connecticut must expand agriculture to reduce food imports and strengthen land use. He presses for coordination of agriculture commerce and industry and supports funding for the Storrs agricultural college as key to advancing Connecticut agriculture.
Five boys died in New York on Monday while playing in the street, a grim record of automobile fatalities. The piece contrasts past games with Indians to today’s deadly street dodging, urging caution as children engage with traffic.
Records describe provisioning play spaces where boys imitate native roles to dramatize death avoidance amid street hazards. The piece argues such dramas steer youth from real danger by channeling energy into performance rather than risky street conduct.
The piece argues that disarming civilians is preferable to universal arming. It notes frontier towns once carried pistols, then removed them, warning that widespread guns create hair trigger justice. It cites Ireland's Free State seeking disarmament amid ongoing violence and the shift from fists to rifles and bombs escalating anarchy.
A nostalgic musing proposes a yearly Day for Sincerity to allow people to speak their minds wear what they want and release restrained desires. The piece imagines a festival of natural honesty with flowers praise compliments and blunt truths, rivaling Christmas in scale.
Berlin March 6 hotel proprietors' association of Germany and luxury goods retailers protest government interference with foreigners traveling to Germany. Foreign visitors face passport visa restrictions, flight from high costs and an eighty percent tax on hotel rates, amid sharp declines in tourist traffic.
Dr Charles Ju Goodell New York pastor and Secretary of the Council on Evangelism opens an evangelical lecture series at the First Methodist church starting March 1 and running nightly except Sundays through March 21 With Justin Lawrie Scotch tenor the campaign is under the Pastor's Association banner and follows a recent three year effort in Houston backed by nineteen Methodist churches Two mass meetings for men at the Majestic theatre will feature the services
Nikolai Smouroff, 14, long a veteran of the Wrangel Campaign against Bolsheviks in Russia, will be adopted by Rear Admiral Newton A. McCurly of Anderson South Carolina. He is the eldest of seven Russian children brought to the United States, and while the admiral has already adopted six, Nikolai was placed on probation due to his age and war experience.
Funeral services for Judge Mors J Beardsley, a city figure, will be held this afternoon at 9 30 o clock at the United Congregational church with Rev William H Day officiating. Burial will be in Mountain Grove cemetery. United Church quartet to sing. delegates from legal and local clubs expected. honorary bearers named. 25000 Hawaiians Drug Addicts report notes a Honolulu narcotics estimate listing opium users amid a large island population and high daily opium consumption.
The poem by Walt Mason riffs on winter’s cold and the coming of spring. It notes time’s decay and fading mortal things, while anticipating Gentile Annie’s arrival to herald renewal despite the chill.
Readers are invited to send signed letters expressing opinions to the Telegram. Names and addresses must be provided if requested. Anonymous letters receive no consideration and letters over 300 words may be shortened by editors.
A letter argues against indiscriminate police expansion, urging efficiency over sheer numbers to protect the city treasury. The writer cautions that more officers could erode individual responsibility and suggests focusing on smarter policing rather than staffing up.
A jumble of Q and A covers topics from bead restringing to baking powder history and wireless telegraphy. It lists ages for veiling an Arabian girl, whether St Gaudens' Adams Memorial is correct, the meaning of a quote from Hamlet, origin of the phrase something rotten in Denmark, and information on Cagliari including its university and industries.
The narrator travels the South praising kind treatment yet laments coffee quality. He finds the drink muddy and harsh, sometimes with lye and ink, barely drinkable, and wishes Southerners would learn how coffee should be made while appreciating overall courtesy and warmth.
A pamphlet style reflection contrasts sugar coated versus harsh tones in addressing a child. It stresses sincerity over authority and contrasts a friendly, understanding approach with a domineering one, noting how a child senses and resists insincerity and harsh judgments.
Joseph Stavola of Honeyspot Road Stratford was fined $25 in county court for using abusive language toward a police officer who stopped him for speeding on crowded Main Street last Saturday. He faced charges of reckless driving and license issues but was not tried on those counts.
Walter Goodwin of Garden Terrace and Benjamin Jakobovsky of Gilman Street were arraigned in City Court yesterday on a loitering charge with a noisy group on Fairfield Avenue at Brewster Street. They were fined $4 plus costs. The rest of the note mentions June weddings and dishwashing.
In early times things were big and heavy from clothing to furniture and books. Modern medicine follows a similar trend toward compact, precise methods, aided by germ theory and scientific appliances.
A reader asks if a blood pressure reading of 160 is too high and requests guidance for an enlarged heart. The reply confirms concern about high blood pressure and advises seeking medical evaluation and management.
Learn when and where to shoot or trap for rabbits birds or mountain lions and how big a bag you may have. Every state covers license season possession sale and export of game. A free government booklet from the department of Agriculture explains all points. Washington Information bureau will send a copy for readers who mail the coupon with two two-cent stamps.
Frederic J. Haskin of the Information Bureau in Washington requests two cent stamps to cover return postage for a free copy of the Game Laws Booklet sent to Kame Street city State.
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