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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1919
Page
12
A stylized fragment echoes exuberant exclamations in a retro chorus. The text evokes cheers and playful vocal emphasis surrounding a parade or celebration mood. Names, places, or dates are not provided in readable form.
An OCR fragment lists advertising entities and addresses including Metropolitan Tower New York and Chicago, with notices of daily opening hours. Published by The Post Publishing in Bridgeport Connecticut, credit lines to the Associated Press and a feature column “A Line of Cheer” by John Hendrick Bangs.
A fragmented column of witty quips and musings touches on the President and Senate, wages, education, Mexican policy, longshoremen, taxes, and social mores. It lampoons politicians, labor, and fashionable life while noting curious facts like Michigan mint crops and moon claims by Harvard. The tone is breezy, satirical, and era-typical.
The Socialist press mocks royalty while King Albert of Belgium and the Prince of Wales drive a train for a time. The piece argues this human moment shows them enjoying democracy and shared fun, not deception, comparing royal restraint with Dickensian aristocracy and calling it a harmless, cheerful sight.
A strong editorial rails at anarchists and opponents of government while urging deportation for those who refuse to live by law. It cites Pussyfoot Johnson and mocks claims of legal or constitutional rights, urging tolerance for order and denouncing violence.
A mid fortnight view shows multiple labor strikes collapsing from New York longshoremen to pressmen and printers and steel workers. Workers return to work under terms rejected earlier while radical leaders are blamed for violations of written contracts and perceived public and union opposition. The piece argues contracts remain binding and morality is missing from the failed campaigns.
A reader questions the "American Anarchistic Federated Commune Soviets" and its supposed Washington headquarter. The text mocks long hyphenated phrases and hints at German influence, suggesting agents from Potsdam stirring anti American sentiment and disruption.
Analysis argues football is the sport favored by Anglo Saxons in the United States while baseball remains the national pastime. The piece notes a predominance of English Irish and Pilgrim blood among players and spectators in a New Haven game, contrasting college demographics and spectator makeup.
Bridgeport highlights include the Court of Common Pleas opening, weather at freezing, lectures at St Pauls, hotel deals, and entertainers at Union Armory. Railway news covers Derby Railroad meeting, New York stock moves, and local civic concerns with the city sinking fund.
Letter from Harry Hunt of Boston applauds Bridgeport merchants for closing at six on Saturdays. He notes shift from crowded Saturday nights to shorter workweeks, praising worker benefits and broader modern city progress as Bridgeport eyes further strides toward metropolitan status.
During the Citatton campaiand group No. 15, Boy Scouts of America named 158 local employers who rehired men who left to serve in World War I. Bridge Noth leads with the most citations, Waterbury follows with 150, while Wilkes-Barre, Pa. registers.
Copenhagen dispatch reports Lettish troops advancing along the entire Riga front west of the city against Colonel Bermondt and capturing Shioko on November 14. They reached the river at several points as fires and explosions were seen in Mitay. Berlin confirms Colonel Bermont has submitted to General von Eberhardt, with Bermondt’s troops said to be in great disorder.
Hartfort Nov 08 At a meeting of the council of the Connecticut Federation of Churches at the Hartford Y M C A the following officers were chosen today President Prof William North Rice Wesleyan University Middletown Vice President Dean William P Ladd Berkeley Divinity School Middletown Treasurer Prof C S Thayer Hartford Theological Seminary Rev Norris Tk Alling of Rocky Hill was chosen executive secretary two new positions
The supreme council informed Premier Venizelos of Greece that it could only confirm the peace conference view that the Greek occupation of Smyrna is provisional.
The Standard Telegram Information Bureau in Washington offers prompt, confidential factual replies by mail for 2 cent postage. Questions cover taxes on dividends, sugar substitutes, draft boards pay, Indian domestic animals, scorches on wool, cable repairs, long-distance walking feats, trolley invention, mint marks on coins, and Sergeant York’s honorary status.
The poem recalls farming’s shift from mulepowered toil to modern tractors. The speaker, once a tragic actor in husbandry, nostalgically contrasts old slow plowing with the speed and power of the green tractor, noting mules as dies, and the cartoonish vision of progress replaced by machinery.
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