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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1919
Page
8
Bridgeport Telegram presents its daily edition with subscription rates and publication details. The paper notes advertising and circulation information, addresses The Post Publishing Co. in Bridgeport Connecticut, and cites association affiliations and reprint policies.
A fragmented poem fragment discusses care and light amid darkness. The speaker contrasts good and fair aspects, noting a brighter stead emerges as care arrives, and expresses a preference for choosing care over hardship when reading the lines.
Breakfast table column surveys weather, luck, and public affairs with humorous remarks on holidays, sports, and culture. It notes unseasonal warmth, forecasts unlucky days, mentions Ty Cobb and Casey, and touches on coal mediation, British peace, and readers’ distractions from classic authors.
Wilford B. Smith uses The Pitchfork to recount an incident in which John R. Shillady and NAACP agitators arrive in Austin. The Texas officials, Constable Hamby and Judge Pickle, confront them, and Shillady is forced to depart by train after a spontaneous assault, with the affair ending at St. Louis.
The attic of an old down-country house is proposed as a rest cure, rich with memory and romance. It houses dried peppers beans and seed corn, heirlooms, war memorabilia, and handmade comforts, offering calm away from sanitariums.
John I Kramer leads a federal push to enforce prohibition under constitutional backing. Describes his background, resources of about four million iron men from the treasury, and access to federal courts for aggressive enforcement as communities stay dry.
A satirical note compares wooden silk dresses to a new viscose silk made from spruce pulp. It explains the process of turning wood into yarn that imitates real silk, claims durability, and jokes about future clothing from backyard weeds.
Bridgeport notes from The Standard dated November 24 1870 cover Local schooling with twenty pupils at High Street evening school and a bustling shire economy. Reports include skating on Pembroke Lake assaults and injuries on city streets, a poultry show, a wrestling match, and a patent for a railway circle heater. Also noted are telegraph construction, a townhouse sale for about 20000 dollars, church and civic events, a dangerous railroad collision near Prary Cutlery, and obituaries for local residents with funeral details.
A government report notes over 3.5 million acres of federal land freed from prairie dogs by poisoning. One man reportedly killed about 2,000 dogs in a single day on a 20-acre field in Northern Arizona as operation spread across the open range. Meanwhile in Washington, private advices from Mexico suggest General Felipe Angeles, the Villa chieftain, was not executed as rumored and efforts intensify to salvage him.
A London police surgeon tested a drunk prisoner by walking a straight line heel to toe and picking up paper on one foot while reciting words including tonsillitis artilery British constitution and pussyfoot. The surgeon said actions were not satisfactory and the judge dismissed the case as the man doubted he could pass his own exam.
Washington Nov 23 The Fuel Administration and Garfield prepare to intervene in protracted talks between bituminous operators and miners in central fields. Operators hint at 20 percent wage rise while miners accept 31 percent proposed by Secretary Wilson. A compromise blending public price hikes with company costs may be presented tomorrow to both sides.
In Clevisland Ohio on November 23 about 590 general chair men from the four railroad brotherhoods engineers firemen trainmen and conductors gather to decide on Walkey J. Hines offer of time and one half overtime in slow freight service and a rule for crews away from home terminals beyond a set period. No strike vote or politics are on the agenda and any action will not affect the broader wage increase request. Lee Sold is noted in the report.
Montreal Nov 23 Two trainmen were killed and six people injured in a head on collision near Terrebonne Que between a special train carrying passengers from the Tampress of France to Toronto and the Montreal Quebec Express. The crash occurred on the Canadian Pacific line.
The standard telegram information bureau offers prompt answers to reader questions conducted in Washington D C under Frederic J Haskin. Write your questions briefly and enclose a 2 cent stamp for return postage. Inquiries are confidential and there may be charges beyond the postage.
A compilation of Q and A items covers Pershing’s height and weight, claims paid by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, per capita circulation in 1918, US patent lists, and various trivia. It notes 184,912 compensation claims then paid, with many to disabled soldiers and others as death claims, plus details on federal bonus bills and naval enlistment progress.
A satirical verse warns that flawless credit grants easy purchases from merchants who hold a debtor’s record in black. It contrasts generous offers on goods and loans with dire warnings of debt, starvation for children, and a wife in fashionable ruin if one delays payment or neglects bills.
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