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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1926
Page
14
Edgeport Telegram announces subscription rates payable in advance with monthly extra for 130 mile zones. The ad notes daily open office in Milford and Fairfield regions, with telephone connections and circulation details. Associated Press content is credited and reusable.
Senator James Couzens of Michigan criticizes the installment system for purchases that depreciate or wear out. He argues long credit on such goods harms industry and economy and urges cash payments, noting Uncle Sam's tax-exempt securities as an example of better investments. He warns against ephemeral purchases and urges limiting installments to value-growth goods.
Governor Trumbull argues for teaching the U S Constitution in public schools as a substitute for broader history, presenting it in its historical role in the struggle for liberty. The piece urges framing the document through Magna Carta origins and the long fight against tyranny to spark student interest in liberty, speech, press, religion, and rights against unreasonable search.
A compact description hints at a dramatic constitutional clash culminating in a people’s triumph. The text contrasts respect for the constitution with defiance of injunctions and amendments that strain its core spirit. It stresses readable person names and dates amid a historical drama.
A frustrated governor and mayor describe Herrin Illinois as a city in open gang warfare. They blame persistent lawlessness, indifference, and inadequate prosecution. The piece laments complacency and predicts federal intervention only after a major local catastrophe.
The year ends with many champions toppled across tennis golf boxing football and politics yet one title remains. The old political champion still fights in the arena, with referee far from counting ten and the curtain far from falling.
A chaotic string of remarks on politics money and culture spans jokes about McAdoo ism Mussolini and Mussolini laws. It lampoons shipping boards aging iron age to brass transitions and aging optimism while noting varied global quips and dubious headlines from Chicago to London with quips about marriage heaven and society.
The piece traces U S Speakers who pursued the presidency, noting Polk as the only who became president after wielding the gavel. It covers Clay Blaine Bell Randall Reed Cannon Clark and others, highlighting that no ex Speaker has been elected president in eighty two years.
A humorous poem portrays a borrower named Henry or Jenry who eludes lenders, dodging repayment as the crowd views the debtor with pity. The speaker offers help if repayment occurs, lamenting the debtor’s growing woes. The piece ends with a dated copyright note from 1226.
A fragmented verse recalls summer in the hills and peaks with mentions of God, truth, and a longing heart. Meanwhile in London a plan to preserve Waterloo Bridge and erect five more Thames structures is under discussion.
The piece notes factions within the GOP led by John T. King and a cast of allied groups returning to party influence. Tax collectors report steady arrears collection, while town finances show mixed progress with Torrington debt cuts and Bristol charter debates. A Hartford judge’s visit to Omaha prompts contrast with Connecticut standards.
The piece urges cultivating a habit of flattering and pleasant talk about others. It argues that genuine kindness comes from recognizing agreeable traits in everyone, avoiding constant criticism, and using tact to protect relationships and friendships, noting that many marriages survive through positive speech.
A compact reflection on personal virtue and prudent finance. It argues that steady regular savings beat erratic frugality, that honesty and judgment are commonly overestimated, and that people resist high interest requests while overvaluing their own prudence.
Sentries searched the countryside for two negroes who earlier this morning shot and killed George Stata, 50, night policeman, when he and patrolman John Rauthan attempted to arrest them for robbing Special Agent James Steiner of the C and A railroad.
Registration at Boston University reached 11,744 for the current academic year, surpassing last year’s record by 102 students.
A letter prompts Cadman to discuss prayers for the dead and the fate of the soul, affirming a view of conscious continuation after death and urging reliance on St Paul’s teaching in Corinthians. He also advises on marriage motives, urging realism, mutual respect, and love beyond mere affection.
Berlin reports a Hungarian case in a near Budapest town where Josefa Szanyi allegedly bewitched seven men with death by own action pact plots. Police trace her past love affair as trigger, while a husband’s farewell letter spurs decisive inquiry into multiple linked deaths.
Hartford, Conn resident Mrs. R. J. Goodman and Chicago’s J. R. Thompson won first prizes in the winter fair’s afternoon exhibition. Goodman took top honors in the combination saddle and harness event while Thompson earned first for a span of three harness ponies.
Sophie Rozum age sixteen of 43 Laurel court was arrested at 6 40 last night on a breach of the peace charge by Detective Sergeant Edward Dailey. She is under bonds of 500 dollars. The girl recently came here from Bedford Maine.
The Race Brook Country Club held its annual meeting in New Haven on February 17. Officers were re-elected, new members voted in, and the club decided to add an extension to the clubhouse next year.
Increasing cloudiness and warmer conditions give way to rain Thursday afternoon or night across Northern and Southern New England and Eastern New York. A stronger disturbance tracks northeast bringing rain or snow flurries Friday, followed by colder conditions east of the Mississippi and a fall in temperatures in the Atlantic states. Winds shift from southwest to southeast with rain late Thursday into Thursday night.
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