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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1922
Page
10
A chaotic assemblage of editorial fragments, jokes, headlines, and distorted phrases. It includes stray lines about daylight saving, a Chicago shooting described as a natural death, names like Gradasor and Griliah, and scattered remarks on movies, fishing, and politics.
The Bridgeport Telegram announces subscription rates payable in advance with a 4 year term and offers advertising representatives in major cities. The paper notes its association with The Associated Press and outlines circulation and publishing details for readers.
The forecast indicates mostly fair weather with a Tuesday and Wednesday chance of light showers in parts of the middle Atlantic and northern Atlantic states. Temperature shows little change over the next two days as cloudiness and scattered light showers move across the region.
In Springfield Massachusetts the maternity hospital funded by Daniel Baire Wesson marks Florence Nightingale's anniversary with admittance of its ten thousandth maternity case and graduation of the one thousandth pupil muse. Since 1903 the hospital has cared for ten thousand mothers and born 2209 living babies with 126 Caesarean saves and 428 premature infants. The piece lauds hospital care reducing maternal and infant deaths and cites Springfield’s maternal death rate as under one half of one percent, praising science and hospital advancement.
Radcliffe College in Cambridge will require all graduates to swim ice and float starting with the class of 1924. The move elevates swimming from a sport to a curricular requirement, aiming to foster self reliance and safety for students and future help to others.
A Hartford man charged with breach of the peace asks for a fair trial before six Democrats and six Republicans. Judge Creedon orders mental examination after the defendant claims doctors are pestering him. The court is convinced of his mental deficiency when he says six partisans could agree on a verdict. Bridgeport’s bi partisan board of education is mentioned as a contrast.
Lake Geneva Wisconsin reports interference with a historical pageant next month as bobbed hair snags hundreds of girls and prompts criticism of modernAmerican standards. The native press notes few candidates meet historic hair requirements while sponsors persevere despite disruptions.
The text describes extreme ruble devaluation with a plan to print 140,000,060 ruble banknotes worth about $25 each, noting such notes would fetch $63,300,000 if exchange parity held. It contrasts this with Brazil where 1009 reis equal about 85 cents, and mentions reis retaining value against rubles.
Air Flivver Bert Acosta piloted a Curtiss ship the Wildeac at Mineola Long Island during a flying meet and county fair. The speed claimed a world record by five miles per hour but was not official. The crowd focused on the Mumimert, the world's smallest airplane with a 12 foot wing span, representing the era's dream of a practical flying flivver.
Diplomats sketch a fragile pact as France and a southern power vow unity, pledging to act together no matter what. The draft hints at enforcing payment from Germany while glimpsing a possible German-Russian realignment. Negotiations suggest words before battles, and fronts shift more by diplomacy than by force.
The report describes Georkes Peederigne, grandson of Brandaon Clemenceau, in Saxon Vale Massachusetts. It notes a large financial expenditure, European education influence, and later work on ore freighters and in American textile mills, implying a provocative career path change.
Fragmentary verses describe Fink McGill as a troubled neighbor who talks of aches and imagined pains. The narrator mocks his pretensions, mentions Dr Puslod’s pills and a bag of fanciful seafaring legends, ending with a lament about the strange mood.
The General Assembly of Presbyterians opens in Des Moines with a May 15 to 17 program featuring an expansion and pageant, nine conferences by church committees and agencies, and a New Era Pre Assembly Conference with the illustrated feature The Task and the Triumph of the Church by Guy I Morris.
May 6 New York two runaway youths from Brooklyn followed a circus when it left town. Tom Jensen eleven and John Hickey thirteen allegedly stole four Liberty bonds valued at 60 each from Jensen's father and gave them to Andrew Larsen who kept 121. The pair were caught in Everson Pennsylvania and returned home. They were arraigned in Brooklyn Children's Court on juvenile delinquency charges. Larsen was held in Fifth Avenue Court in 1008 bail.
Milford May 15 Special Bids for street paving in Milford were opened as officials move forward with the highway improvement program. About 110,000 will fund paving on Thompson Street Sacvande Fort rum bully fl Gast Broadway to Cedar Myrtle Beach West Shore boulevard West River Street from West Main to the concrete bridge Burwells Beach from Morningside entrance to end of new pavement on South Street. Bids are due to the selectmen by 10 o clock Wednesday morning May 24.
Paving from Seasids Avenue to Broderick's Corner will extend only to Cedar Street as several property owners between Broderick Corner and Cedar Street refuse to sign releases waiving any claims for damages from expected changes in grade.
About 20 Bridgeport Lions Club members depart at 3 p m for Springfield to attend the Springfield Lions Club organization meeting at the Kimball Hotel. Hartford and New Haven Lions will also attend as part of a campaign to boost Lions activity in the city. Attendees from Bridgeport include President Charles Bitzer and peers such as A J Warde, Frederick Hil, Ralph Sprague, Ernest Butler, Harvey Gish, and others.
A discussion on schooling reveals demand for church-state blended policy. Participants argue for daily religious instruction, yet disagreement remains over which beliefs to teach. A classroom scene contrasts American secular ideals with a foreign example of mandated faith education.
Reader questions cover eye redness from light exposure, allergies, and fatigue. Advice includes avoiding rubbing, seeking diagnosis for granulated eyelids, using glasses or tinted lenses as appropriate, keeping the face clean, reducing exposure to dust and smoke, ensuring good sleep and digestion, and consulting a specialist for persistent or unclear eye issues.
Washington May 75 Uncle Sam oversees more than 100000 veteran accounts for each government fund. Warranted funds require mercy in the fund and careful disbursement. Frank He Bogardus heads the keeper division of the comptroller general’s office and tracks thousands of legally authorized United States accounts and expenditures. He also served as secretary to Clint Cole and is an Ohio Republican central committeeman.
A reader asks about sunlight on the north side of buildings in summer within the temperate zone and the Naval Observatory's role in sun declination. The exchange covers snuff taking prevalence, Rachmaninoff’s G sharp minor Prelude, calculating tides in US Navy years, heat conductors, Lafcadio Hearn, value of a bob, steamer ducks, softening glue, Cypress durability, and cremation in the United States.
In a New York wireless report Captain William Rind says Boyd O Neal an engineer aboard the steamship New England suffered severe injuries from an engine room blast. Crew sewed seventeen wounds in his abdomen with sail twine and three needles then wrapped his body with adhesive tape. He is reported recovering in a Bremen hospital after transfer at dawn. O Neal a Navy veteran, lost bone in his right ankle and sustained multiple cuts in the abdomen.
Free government publication from the Washington Information Bureau features 105 recipes showing how to prepare vegetables palatably and economically. It urges housewives to include more vegetables for child health and growth and asks readers to mail a coupon with two cents for return postage.
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