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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1921
Page
10
The Bridgeport Telegram details subscription rates and office contact data. It notes publication daily except Sunday, address at 140 Middle Street Bridgeport Conn, and mentions affiliations with The Associated Press and Audit Bureau of Circulation.
The poem presents a brisk, earnest call to cheerful striving. It speaks of time space and fate, urging a hopeful path toward a goal with an upbeat, almost boastful cadence and a focus on personal agency and perseverance.
Reports float in from shore points about rising mosquitoes and rents for the year. Gardeners praise natural help and neighbor dogs lifting vegetables. Chariey Chanlin is said to be well again soon. A playful line about Capt Kidd and Grover Bergdolt hints at legends and bravado. Prohibition era chatter touches agents in New York and a math note hints at Einstein visiting Hartford. A jail sentence follows a jail wanderer, and a sheriff comments on Rome. A new pedestrian traffic law is hinted at, with questions about sidewalk behavior Saturday afternoons.
Harry V Abbott of 0 Haddon Street Black Rock is physical director of the Y M C A. He has served seven years in this role and taught city playground athletics in 1937. Abbott, a graduate of Harvard Summer School of Physical Education, came from Chester Pennsylvania and is a member of the Junior Chamber.
President Harding nominates Richard Washburn Child journalist and novelist as ambassador to Italy. The selection emphasizes ability over wealth or politics, praising his diplomatic aptitude and potential to strengthen US Italy ties and provide informed reporting to Washington.
An early 20th century survey notes 40 000 students enrolled in mail order instruction across thirteen universities led by the University of Chicago University of Wisconsin and Columbia. The piece discusses lifelong learning and the shift from the notion of a finished education to ongoing personal development facilitated by mass education in America.
Frederick W. Sefton rises from stenographer to Salina city manager in three decades of shifts. He moved from $100 monthly pay to Wichita assistant city manager at $4,000, then $5,000 in Salina, proving that ability and opportunities trump tenure. He credits practical talent over loyalty as the path to success.
Avocados fetch 2500 dollars an acre with limited supply and rising demand. Imports from Central America boost varieties while California development continues. Quarantine restricts new trees and the crop remains experimental, yet successful growers grow rich. one farmer sold ten of 26 acres for 25000. Restaurants in rare cases sell the salad at high prices as the market slowly expands.
Chairman Cummins tells the State Interstate Commerce committee and railroad magnates that railroads are permanently unprofitable. Government policies, high rates, and wage cuts fuel a crisis. proposals edge toward public ownership as a remedy. The rhetoric links escalating costs to a broader strike era and industry upheaval across wartime era railroads.
The passage depicts a tense hostel night as guests endure a howling wind and broken sleep. Aboarder mutters about Jones and Mason sheep while others lament their own worn shoes and muted cries. Fear and sympathy mingle as everyone endures the dark hours together.
The Telegram Information Bureau reports on curfew origins in medieval France as a signaling method for nightly fires. It notes curfew ordinances persist and discusses effects on juvenile delinquency and travel documents amid evolving government rules.
Fragmented text presents a quiz about pronunciation and spelling. It includes references to words like authoritative and diphtheria, with garbled phrases and stray names. The piece seems to test syllable stress and historic spelling, but the OCR yields mostly incoherent lines and a few clear targets for pronunciation.
Bridgeport notes reflect community life with temperance lectures, school meetings, and public notices. Reports include a temperance lecture at Gospel Temperance union rooms, Fairfield County Teachers meeting in South Park, and various city incidents from knife attacks to fires, plus municipal updates on road bed inspections and a new licensing rule for building moves.
A fragmented discussion on hydrogen as the lightest substance, its specific gravity, and its roles. It notes helium as heavier by comparison, mentions hydrogen in meteorites and volcanoes, and cites uses in industry, welding, balloons, and early lamp technology. It describes methods of hydrogen production including steam-reaction with iron ore and byproduct from sulfite pulp.
A playful yet flawed exposition pretends to simplify Einstein Relativity using odd geometric tricks. The author suggests bending light and extending rays to infinity to illustrate concepts, then pivots to a self promotional notice about sharing the theory with friends.
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