Bridgeport Telegram Advertising Rates and Contact
Bridgeport Telegram advertises 1993 rates in advance and charges for pages with additional penny per mile for distribution. Publishing office at 140 Middie Street Bridgeport lists contact in Milford and Fairfield numbers for advertising and news item submissions.
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Migdie St. Bridgepst
Cana
Taiepunns Bernam
Smford
Carl Milford
Warren Call Fairfield
Annocister
Early Adjournment Debate Reflects on Connecticut Legislature
A fragment of an historic discussion criticizes delaying May adjournment and laments wasted time in committees. The speaker argues legislatures meet infrequently, work hidden in boredom, and warns against tinkering with laws. Calls oppose extended sessions and extra appropriations, urging tighter budgeting and clearer priorities.
Baptist Church Leaders City Officials in Victor Headline
City officials faced a vanity task as leaders from the First Baptist Church in Bridgeport, twenty years after a prior headline, took on church and civic roles in a period reflecting evolving governance and church influence.
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Bridgepar
Baptist Church
Namie
Ate
Ghostian Union
Cavalry and the War Weath and View in Boston Chronicle
A fragmented excerpt argues cavalry’s importance despite global motorization from Spanish American War to World War I era. It critiques misinformation about cavalry and notes evolution of armored, mechanized warfare and naval advances influencing strategy and supply lines.
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Boston
United States
Gano
America
Fragmentary wartime rhetoric from General Summorally comments
The distorted text shows General Summorally lamenting backward progress and predicting a future war fought on horseback. It criticizes West Point graduates as shaping a military mindset that produces soporists and veterans, implying a failing training regime and misguided leadership.
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Surtruerali
West Point
Lim in Traffic Case Sparks Call for Stricter Sentences
Readers applaud Alisa T. Brown for a case involving a drunken driver who struck an elderly woman in New Waren. The judge imposed a sentence seen as a model for similar cases, arguing courts must uphold public safety and set firm limits on dangerous driving.
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Alisa T. Brown
New Waren
Jidge Brown
Raidériy
Vicks
Wien
Nuirder
Manhattan Days and Nights in New York Satire by Werbert Corey
A fragmentary first person sketch through a scorching New York day. The narrator notes heat and crowds, a bearded man in leather on 42nd Street, and contrasts American urban life with London sport culture. He observes passersby, clerks, and a gunsmiths district while pondering travel and sport directions.
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London
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Tia
Hippavotumi
Moochin Along Poem and Observations by Anne Campbell
A fragmented 1920s style prose poem recounts idle mooching time and lost romance, drifting through a city scene on Madison Avenue. It shifts to a crowd observation of strangers, fashion displays, and urban tensions, blending reflections on love, faith, politics, and public life with vivid, if coarse, street-level detail.
Progress in Science Expands Knowledge and World
An article reviews rapid scientific advances linking knowledge to business prosperity. It notes exploration of waste lands, Arctic flights, deep sea and air travel, and breakthroughs in artificial gasoline, electricity, and large telescopes. It highlights biology, anthropology, and entomology advancing humanity with practical applications and broader understanding.
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Byrd
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New Guinea
Atlantic
South America
Cobham
Australia
Sindle
Vireuin
Siserlen
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Los Angele
Milian
Wdison Company
Commonwealth Edison Company
Chicago
United
Gasheen Ierovang Hasell
Invitations at the White House and a president’s slap
A Washington tale recalls a senator declining a breakfast invitation during a Democratic push for a cabinet post. The incident led to politics and personal bravado, including a famed moment when President Grant was slapped by a judge’s wife at a White House function. Grant treated the episode as a light jest, noting she had slapped the president.
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Washington
Boutha TN
Aml
Hully
Teuke Tum
White House
Rudolph Wester
Grant
Storvin
Lincolns
Tomorrow by Walt Mason Strong but flawed self help verse
A poem mocks the “tomorrow” habit through Jinx who plans repairs and chores for the next day. He meets delays as a battered truck and weather ruin his world. The gods frown on postponeing and urge doing today. The piece contrasts procrastination with daily labor and steady effort.
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Walt Mason
Jinx
Morrel
Questioning Restitution and Child Labor in the Churches
The piece discusses restitution in repentance with biblical references, noting Jesus calling for reconciliation before worship. It then explains why churches observe Child Labor Day, citing 1920 census figures, rising employment certificates among 14 and 15 year olds, and state laws. It highlights incomplete protections, calls for stronger work-hour limits, safety rules, and schooling requirements, and urges church support for improved standards.
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Zaccheus
Jesus
Boston
Mass
United States
Okd
Federal Children’s Bureau Pub
Dymnessic Service
Fall River
Meas
New Britain
Conn
District of Columbia
al Besr
Political Pointers on adjournment prospects in Hartford
The piece discusses the slim chances of adjournment by May 4 in Hartford state politics. The House may finish quickly, but the Senate resists rushing due to several absences. It notes past adjournment dates, mentions figures like late State Senator George W. Wietz, Governor Smith, and political maneuvers in Waterbury and Bridgeport, and references William Geveridge’s direct action views and related primaries.
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Martford
Senate
George W. Wietz
New Britain
Albert J Geveridge
Indiana
Tal
Sentence Sermons on Liberty and Style in a Free City
A fragmentary meditation on personal liberty and social norms, questioning laws that curb individual whim and the price of fashion. It references intellectual freedom, the role of merchants and religious moderates, and hints at political debate about public morality and censorship.
Legislature May Meet Nights And Adjourn On Time
Legislative action and debate fill the week as lawmakers consider a measure to restore a ten mill tax and discuss state police appointments. A quorum shortage leads to postponement while Westerly plans a May town meeting to fund firehouse repairs after a Saturday blaze. The session also covers highway measures, insurance stocks, and ongoing reorganizations in New Haven politics.
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Alexander T. Pattison
Limebury
Gange
Averill
Fesqon
Efcure
Finance Commines
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Ulay
Senate
Contra
Stanley Dunn
New Haven
Jurge Whitaker
New
New Havens Republican Organization
Li Lea
Isaac Winn
Lewing
Hus
Weather Forecast for New England and Nearby Regions
Fair skies dominate Southern New England with rising temperatures and increasing cloudiness in the Lower Lake region and Ohio valley. Eastern New York and Northern New England expect warmer trends with Monday cloudiness and Tuesday warmer, while New Hampshire and Vermont stay warmer Tuesday. A distur bance moves northeast between Bermuda and Nova Scotia, bringing high pressure over parts of the west and midwest. Winds from the north and west. Overall, a mainly fair pattern east of the Mississippi by Monday with Tuesday’s showers and thunderstorm risk spreading from Tennessee to Mississippi and the Ohio Valley.
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New England
New York
New Hampshire
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Carolinas
Hermuda
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Mexico
Sandy Hooit Ts. Hatteras
Viscount Cowdray Dies at Scottish Residence
Viscount Cowdray, a British industrial magnate and wartime chairman of the British Act, died at Sinnecht House in Aberdeen Scotland on May 7 aged 70. Known in business as Weetmat Tukinson Pearson, he was a pioneer in opening Mexican oil fields alongside Edward L. Doheny, key figures in early oil development.
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Viscount Cowdray
Sinnecht House
Viscount Cowddray
Weetmat Tukinson Pearson
Edward L. Doheny
Mexico
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