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Editorial Notes Taébertarian and Mockery of Public Life
A collection of satirical editorial blips on politics, memory, Russia, tax policy, and social behavior. Snippets lampoon forgive and forget ethics, high society winter antics, a breathless boast about Australia’s air-breathing fish, and jabs at wealth, bureaucracy, and governance. The tone skewers public figures and policy with wry, sardonic vignettes.
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Australia
Douttlean
Sentence Sermons On Friendship And Fortune
A concise, pointed collection of maxims about friendship, lending, luck, cleverness, and customer tactics. The verses mock reliance on new debtors, warn of instability in relationships, and critique plans without solid foundations.
Weather Outlook for Easter City and Regions
Easter New York reports warm and fair weather on Tuesday with unsettled, cooler conditions and a potential overnight drop. High pressure builds over the Middle Atlantic as a trough shifts moisture from Ontario to the region with potential showers by Wednesday. Temperatures vary across the Onlo valley and lower Lake region with a general decline into midweek. Moderate north winds bring fair conditions across Sandy Wool and nearby areas with similar patterns through Tuesday into Wednesday.
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Lower Lake Region
Counterfeiters of U.S. Bills Jailed
A garbled 1930s style report records three men sentenced to terms in a digs bench court in Cay Woo to serve two, three, and respective years for counterfeiting U.S. currency.
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Yellow Mill Bridge inspection favors new span for city
Former Highway Commissioner Charles A. Bennett toured Bridgeport with the legislatures Finance committee and said repairing the Yellow Mill bridge on Stratford avenue is unwise. He noted sunk piers cause trouble, the swinging draw is slow and narrow, and a faster rolling lift bridge would better serve the city and Boston Post Road traffic. The steel superstructure remains sound and could be used on a Black Rock to Seaside Park link.
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Bridgeport
Yellow Mill
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Boston Post Road
Connecticut
Helen Keller on the Flapper and the modern girl
Miss Helen Keller contrasts two young women tribes the frivolous flappers and the useful working girl. She praises the latter as modern and purposeful while deeming the former misguided and aimless. Keller notes her life lessons come from Anne Sullivan Macy and urges readers toward usefulness as a compass for life.
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Ship of Life
President and Senate need cooperation for good government
The piece urges voters to pressure both parties for calmer, productive relations as Congress reconvenes. It argues cabinet fights Sour relations harm governance and that Americans want functioning departments delivering the country’s best interests with effective administration and shared purpose.
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Airplanes in War and Commerce Highlighted by Naval Report
The West Virginia's January target practice off San Pedro showcased two attached planes directing fire by wireless with two way communication and range updates. Captain Ridley McLean notes the growing importance of aviation in war and the potential for rapid expansion into commercial aviation, warning that future fleets could be quickly repurposed for war.
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California
West Virginia
Ridley McLean
Naval Communications
Connecticut Politics and Clocks Stir Local Debates
Reports in rail circles claim city clerk Burdick and others compiled district job figures to quiet district chairs. Mayor Behrens to speak at Strthgistriat club roast beef dinner Thursday. Connecticut watchers weigh clock changes in New England, Danbury progressives’ vote and state election impacts.
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Atred W. Burdick
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Danbury
Grief and Gratuities in a Shoreline Verse
Walt Mason humorously laments poverty and toil while walking with his aunt by the sea. He twists spending and saving into rhymed reflections on bills, grocers, and aging, and his aunt counsels enjoying life before old age and debt erase pleasure. The piece blends comic wordplay with rueful cash woes.
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Walt Mason
Income tax questions posed by Laife weekly humor
The Waterbury Republican reports Laife humor weekly offering prizes for readers answers to income tax questions. Last week's prompt asks why we pay an income tax amid tax season. The piece notes readers’ belief they tax real incomes and hints at common misapprehensions.
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Laife
Misunderstanding of Wealth and Income Tax Logic
The text argues money is only a medium of exchange and value measure not wealth. It contends taxing earnings taxes value society assigns to services, penalizes worth, and promotes mediocrity. It asserts true tax should target consumption income, or wealth destruction, not wealth production, linking income tax to society's debt and interest.
Shang Wheeler Fights for Boys Right to Fish in House Debate
Fisk notes Stratford representative Shang Wheeler defends broad fishing rights for youths under nine without permits. Wheeler argues every child has a right to fish, with support from Mr. Bell of Salisbury. bill 965 is recommitted to the fish and game committee. A witty courtroom line about hogs closes the item.
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The Fun Shop and its Humorous Pages of Light Verse
A collage of comic vignettes, verse, and editor notes from The Fun Shop column. It includes jokes about family photos, an Easter bonnet, a Hebridean finnan haddie tale, humorous exchanges, and a plea for original contributions with payment details.
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Bridgeport Telegram
Heading Off and War by a Line
A 1926 editorial urges continued disarmament talks, praising Harding and Hughes for a mutual armament limitation precedent. It warns that naval, submarine, and later air weaponry threaten world security and urges ongoing international agreements, warning Europe to share responsibility or risk nationalism and conflict.
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Growin Pains by Anne Campbell
A verse strip narrates Sonny Boy’s growin pains during playful nights and errands, recalling a mother’s past about fibbing and childhood growth. The poem uses dialect and vivid scenes of family life at Lane’s and in shows, ending with a chorus about Sonny Boy’s pains.
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War and the duty to speak between wars
The author argues that once war starts there is no time for debate or pacifism and urges addressing differences only between wars. He cites Shaw and a 1920s context to claim war forces conformity, harms minds and property, and that democracy loses rational debate under mobilized patriotism.
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Italian Secretary for Attorney General Assumes Post
Washington March 23. Ugo Caruso born in Carrara Italy 1902 today assumed the post of secretary to Attorney General Sargent. Caruso a resident of Barre Vermont previously served as secretary to Governor Billings when speaker of the Vermont House and in similar capacities to other Vermont officials.
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Rich bootlegging gang ordered produced by sheriff
Athens March 23 Sheriff W E Jackson of Clarke County has been served with habeas corpus to produce Willie Haar. Savannah Mannie Kesser New York C C Tutten Savannah and Georges Remus. Cincinnati wealth bootleg prisoners before the Federal grand jury in Atlanta. The grand jury resumes its investigation into conditions at the Atlanta Federal penitentiary. The four prisoners were brought from the Atlanta prison to Clarke county jail shortly after the government began its probe.
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First Soviet Ship Arrives at Mobile
The Russian steamer Vatslay Vorovaky, the first Soviet ship to enter a U S port since P7717, arrives in Mobile from Savannah. About 29 members of the crew will be confined to the vessel due to immigration regulations, says the immigration office.
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Vatslay Vorovaky
United States
Savannah
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Pact to replace Geneva protocol seen by London officials
London March 24 British and French foreign offices pursue a common basis to build a new security pact replacing the abandoned Geneva Protocol. Authorities disclosed the effort after weeks of newspaper hints that new disagreements among powers had arisen.
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Great Britain
France
Geneva
Plans for tax cuts discussed at White House talk
President Coolidge and Senator Smoot of Utah discussed tax relief measures in a White House meeting. The plan includes elimination of federal inheritance taxes and nuisance taxes along with a 25 percent cap on certain taxes, aiming for action in the next congressional session.
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White House
Dent Coolidge
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Smoot
Bridgeport Woman Sues City Over Sidewalk Fall
Jewel Dalley sues the City of Bridgeport for five thousand dollars after injuring her ankle on a faulty sidewalk along LOM Washington terrace on March 24, 1904. The accident occurred when she stepped on a broken section near the curb, severing two ligaments and causing significant pain.
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