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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1925
Page
12
Bridgeport Telegram announces subscription rates for daily publication by The Fost Publishing Co. Rates shown include 1 year for 7.80 dollars and 1 month for 2.90 dollars with weekly options. Located at 140 Middle St Bridgeport Conn and open daily.
A collection of clipped musings on forests, travel, farming, youth, Americanism, and society. Snippets mock bravado and idle chatter while invoking rural virtue, self interest, and national temperament with tongue in cheek humor.
A compact meditation on jealousy and deception across life scenes. It frames suspicion in home, neighborhood, business, friendship, joke, and team, highlighting the cost of self interest and the sting of envy. The voice warns that seeking glory at others' expense corrodes trust.
Eastern New York will have fair conditions on Tuesday with slightly warmer temperatures and unsettled showers possible in the north on Wednesday. Northern New England stays fair and warmer Tuesday with an unsettled Wednesday, while Southern New England remains fair Tuesday and unsettled Wednesday, with little temperature change overall. A Gulf of St Lawrence disturbance moves northeast of Newfoundland, another disturbance appears over Saskatchewan, and pressure remains low in the south Atlantic states bringing showery trends Tuesday and Wednesday.
The May issue of American Forests and Forest Life lauds Connecticut for merging state parks and forests under a single commission with separate executives. It notes a coordinated policy across parks, forests, and wildlife preserves, allowing hunting and recreation without compromising timber goals.
A discussion on broadcasting sermons highlights both risks and gains for religion. Critics warn that mass radio preaching may deplete local worship while proponents note it can revive religious life in small towns. A single church replacing a weak pastor with powerful equipment doubled its attendance. Time will tell radio preaching's effect on public worship.
The piece notes that radio broadcasts by churches attract larger visible congregations and reach the ill and disheartened, including agnostics. It argues radio offers potential for good and evil to the church, but overall the church cannot ignore broadcasting's potential.
The article notes Columbia University's coming year budget surpasses ten million dollars and that twelve states have smaller budgets. It argues the figure signals public support for education and highlights education's vital role in preparing youth for future tasks through accumulated knowledge and guided progress.
The National Industrial Conference Board weighs how government policy toward business affects public interests. Questions focus on whether regulation is too rigid, lags behind economic change, or risks strangling growth as business evolves. Analysis aims to guide intelligent action in future cases.
A special meeting of the Twelfth District Republican Men's and Women's Clubs is called to discuss a date for an upcoming circus event with a vote on the preferred date. Mayor F William Behrens reports trout and cold weather from a Maine woods trip and learns the ripper bill fate. Don Seitz of the New York World is set to speak at the Twelfth District Democratic Club roast dinner about reorganizing party structures. In New Haven, former Republicans discuss ending division with the state machine, while Miss Margery Cheney of Manchester in Hartford triggers a adjournment with no quorum, delighting in the move to halt legislative business.
A visitor named James arrives in Punktown seeking a cyclone free refuge. Locals boast of eternal calm. a devastating windstorm later shreds his shack and hat, exposing booster exaggeration and the town's gullibility. James tells the tale, spreading the truth beyond the town.
The verse celebrates happiness as sunshine and south breezes arrive with spring. It notes trouble but says leaves turning green and fresh air lift the heart. It hints lovin someone and blue skies as reasons for renewed spirits and daily joy.
Lordship Country Club is being reorganized after a Saturday night gathering. Edward Berg was named temporary chair, Miss Chris Line Bunting secretary, and a reorganization committee of five members appointed. A nomination panel was named and Tuesday evening meetings set in the club rooms. A combined social and business meeting is planned for the next Saturday. Music by Middleton, Van Vorcelist, and Ottaway accompanied dancing. a luncheon followed.
A collection of humorous sketches and verse featuring Angus MacJigger, a blunt golf pro, sharp wit in a bridge misadventure, and quips on fashion and manners. Includes playful exchanges about golf, domestic life, and social foibles with period tone and cheeky humor.
Readers are invited to contribute original humor epigrams anecdotes and poetry. Accepted material will be paid from 25 cents to 1 dollar per line for poetry and 1 to 10 dollars per contribution. Unaccepted manuscripts cannot be returned. Address to Fun Shop Headquarters Bridgeport Telegram.
The piece argues Americans should engage in international cooperation for peace, evaluating the League of Nations and Geneva League with a call to inform the public and avoid partisan frames. It urges practical participation over doctrinal triumphalism and notes a 1925 copyright remark about Berlin children.
The piece warns sentiment can act as a drug when unchecked by reason. It likens feelings to horses needing restraint and argues balance is vital. Too little or too much sentiment harms, while wise governance by intelligence with sentiment subservient to reason yields best moral action.
Syracuse May 18 Owners of the Bartela Brewery were ordered to dealcoholize all brew in the vats in preparation for revocation of their government permit. Evidence leading to the order was taken at secret hearings held by Judge J A Proper of New York City.
A League of Nations communique from Geneva on May 18 highlights the International conference in London starting tomorrow to study sleeping sickness. Delegates from nations affected by sleeping sickness will attend, with plans for an expedition to Africa to investigate maladies transmitted by the Taetze fly to cattle and humans.
Bids for the Broad and Gibert streets central library have been extended to May 29. Architer Frederick Dixon must receive bids that previously were due Thursday due to insufficient time for contractors. Six Bridgeport firms and the H Wales Tinea company of Meriden are understood to be bidding on the United church project.
The second sleeping sickness case in the city was reported today. The victim is Mrs Lorin Carter. Her condition is not believed to be critical.
In Springfield Massachusetts May 18 Charles Dryd an alleged accomplice of Gerald Chapman was arrested on a charge of obtaining 4800 dollars from the Corn Exchange Bank with a forged check. Chapman had been sentenced to death for the policeman shooting in the New Britain Connecticut robbery.
Waterbury crowds urged support for Immaculate Conception church fund in a formal call signed by former Governor Charles A. Templeton John A Giles and John A Coe. The trio recently raised 260000 for a Waterbury YMCA project and seek funds to beautify Waterbury with a new church on the Merriman Tome site west of the Green.
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge's dismissal of the wired wireless infringement suit brought by Major General George Owen Squire against the American and Telegraph Company.
Providence May 18 The city council in special session appropriated funds to retain J A Wray of Chicago as a telephone expert in the prosecution sought by the New England Telephone and Telegraph company.
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