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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1920
Page
10
A collage of editorial snippets discusses reforms, campaign finance, fraud probes, education and Stay-in-School efforts. It trends toward public mood shifts, anecdotes on leadership and policy, fashion changes, and European events, with playful asides and dated political chatter.
A verse by Walt Mason laments rural hardship as farms struggle, workers flee to towns, and the village economy sagSA with two hired hands scarce, wages high, and the misshapen harvest looming. Mirth and concern mingle as the speaker bids for help to sow and reap.
An aged Bridgeport paper page shows a faded ad for a 1991 founded service with rates by mail and advance payment options, plus references to New York and Chicago, and a daily publication note. The fragment includes a poem by John Kenfrick Bangs and unrelated verse about a wrecker, with scattered names and disrupted text.
A historical editorial argues against funding ex service members with a cash bonus. It questions who claimed war service could be paid for with money and condemns the idea as contrary to citizenship. It notes public sentiment favors recognition of sacrifice and warns taxes may hinder national solvency. It cites businessmen and lawmakers, urges restraint, and stresses feasibility of repayment.
An essay-style reflection notes that wealth spent or saved ends with moral value. It contrasts dying poor with philanthropic acts, claiming fortune grows through social worth. It cites epitaphs of a generous donor and a schoolmaster rich in work well done.
A new Mexican administration should locate and punish Carranza's slayers to prove Obregon's innocence and resolve lingering doubts. The piece declares Carranza's murder a brutal act, notes his faults yet stresses his honesty and aims for public welfare, and warns the world will remember the shooting for years.
The three top contestants in the 210000 Walker Blaine Beale platform contest are political science and economics students. Joslyn was a munitions worker, Wilson an accountant, and Smith private secretary to Congressman W. M. C. Smith of Michigan. The trio, all college graduates from Harvard Michigan and Pennsylvania, pursued intellectual challenges over enlistment attempts.
A garbled text fragment presents a boastful chant about giving up a game forever and marching into a locker room shower. It mixes exaggerated exclamations with scattered words such as grand, glorious, hill, Joe, and something waiting, but lacks coherent narrative or clear facts.
Bridgeport items from Tha Standard describe May 26 1884 as Corpus Christi holiday among Roman Catholics, local park traffic, and a bustling seaside season. Reports include club events, moonlight excursions, gun company plans, the Odd Fellows revival drive, and a bridgeport ball player Joan O Rourke recovery update amid city social notices and funerals.
Eighteen couples obtained marriage licenses yesterday from the bureau of vital statistics. Clerks reported the day as the largest demand in years, with licenses selling at an unprecedented rate over two days. No reason for the rush was provided.
Poem fragment cites SOUTHEY line posing a question about a gentle woman’s daring when passion moves her spirit, reflecting romantic era tone and literary reference.
Fragmented OCR of an old poem page presents William Blake inspired lines about the tiger. It asks who frames thy fearful symmetry and who forged thy fire and strength. The verse reflects on creation, sight and power.
A veteran printer Pete Molver, long a Bridgeport Post staffer, is praised for his skill in setting type on local papers. The piece notes his 35 years in the trade and his craft as a master compositor. In Washington on May 25, Prof John C. Merriam of California University is elected president of the Carnegie Institution, succeeding Dr. S. Woodward.
A collage of brief dispatches reports robberies in New Jersey and New York, a discharged embassy arrival in Vancouver, Soviet system advocacy in Norway, a murder charge in Abussalo, peace union Basel gathering, Cambridge campus growth plans, Hartford commencement notes, Des Moines aviation arrest, and a Rome flight incident. Read as a snapshot of scattered international items from the era.
Readers can submit questions to the Telegram Information Bureau in Washington under Frederic J. Hagkin with a 2 cent return postage stamp. Brief questions are answered directly to each inquirer, free of charge beyond postage.
A collage of quiz prompts and historical notes including statements about Hoover's citizenship, origins of the Laterchurch World Movement in 1918, references to a Corner House building housing J P Morgan & Co, and various short Q and A items on copper hardening, ship use in war, and Vedantic texts.
The system of accounting used by the board of education offices was examined by an out of town auditor at the request of the board of apportionment. It was approved at a national convention of school board officials in Minneapolis last week after Secretary Wykoop returned. The auditor noted the system is nearly identical to that used in New York City as advocated by R. M. Cook.
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