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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1925
Page
8
Bridgeport Telegram announces subscription rates and daily operation details. The notice lists Milford and Fairfield patrons, with direct telephone access for free advertising or news items. Contact numbers and office connections are provided for circulation and classifieds.
Sheldon R. Coombs of Gimbel Dros argues at Springfield district convention that newspapers deliver the quickest and most economical merchandising news. He notes his store uses one medium, newspapers, and rejects radio advertising as propaganda, citing past experiments with billboards and direct mail.
The Bridgeport police board tests automatic signals at Fairfield Avenue and Main Street to ease congestion. Observers expect fewer officers needed and smoother traffic as drivers adjust, with the Kirk and Fairfield and John and Washington avenues junctions cited as problematic precedents.
Railroad viaduct project extends from Fairfield Avenue to Railroad Avenue using full length protective signaling. A chain of automatic signals will guard the blind camera route, improving safety along the new alignment.
In a few days it will be possible to talk from New York to London at five dollars for three minutes opening a new era of communication. Tests prove success and the service promises to connect Europe and America with direct long distance calls.
Paris women embrace eye glasses as chic fashion, while critics warn of harm from ill fitting frames. The piece notes past optician over sale of unsuitable lenses and urges vision correction by experts to prevent permanent damage.
A stream of quotations and aphorisms on education literacy and society from a historical newspaper snippet. The text includes references to Red Cross, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the American Legion, plus observations on cooperation, law, courtship, and class. The tone is satirical, weaving social commentary with casual witticisms.
In New Haven the upcoming Democratic city and town campaign centers on John Z. Lane versus Mayor David E. Fitzgerald amid rival Republican factions. Bossism accusations fly as wards split on allegiance. independent observers note ward loyalties and a volatile caucus outlook. Rabbi Meyerowitz denounces Jewish bloc voting while GOP women prepare for a county meeting in Danbury to select officers.
The General Federation of Women's Clubs will lead a nationwide census to reduce illiteracy with help from the Bureau of Education. By November 1926 state commissions will foster evening schools, encourage attendance, and align public sentiment through allied groups including the American Federation of Labor and the American Chamber of Commerce.
An analogy compares soft metal sprinklers to human resilience. It argues the soul endures heat while the body may fail. Ambition and material desires vary in permanence, yet enduring cheer and courage stem from the spirit. The piece asks which part yields first, body or soul, citing Christ’s question on profit and soul.
The piece narrates a defiant figure wearing a straw hat against fashion and law saying comfort outruns style. The warden condemns the hat as outdated while praising the wearer’s resolve to march through adversity. It lauds historical rebels and hints at public support and enduring votes for fearless acts.
Fragmentary lines lament moral decay and sickness of the will. It notes arteriosclerosis of emotions, degeneration of the soul, tuberculosis of the backbone, paralysis of the will, and city government moral dissolution as signs of decline.
A new bureau of international research has opened at Harvard University and Radcliffe College, funded by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial. Over five years it will pursue advanced studies of international issues, led by Professor George Grafton Wilson. Early topics include judicial decisions on international questions, coastal waters jurisdiction, and debt allocations in territory transfers, with later focus on plebiscites, African governance, and colonial mandates.
Commander Francesco de Tinedo, an Italian aviator, landed in Shanghai today during a journey from Kagoshima to Shanghai while returning to Italy after a Rome to Tokyo leg. He completes a record flight span across Asia.
Fragmentary verse about unknown beloved, expressing loneliness and uncertainty. Poem hints at someone falling in love and longing to be with the reader, with misspelled lines and casual dialect. Limited readable lines suggest a nostalgic lyric tone.
New York, Ort. 18 AP Captain Ronald Amundsen heads the advisory committee for the 1926 Amundsen Ellsworth field flight by dirigible to the frozen North. Flight planned to begin in April with Prentice as chairman and members including Marshal Field Ronald Harriman Charles Tay den Grayson M P Murphy James H Pervis Robert K Cassatt and Bayard Dominick.
A busy Atlantic weather system east of Newfoundland plus a disturbance over northern Lake Michigan move east. Expect mostly cloudy conditions with showers in the south and snow flurries in the north, then colder by Monday night. Tuesday looks fair and colder across the region.
A quirky collage of jokes and poems from a 1920s humor page. It includes the tobacco cure anecdote, light exchanges about fashion and dialect, schoolyard sketches, a mothership of humorous verses, and notices inviting reader submissions to Fun Stop Headquarters with payment offers for original humor and poetry.
Preparations for the Community Chest Drive set for November 16 to 43 proceed with appointed division heads. Mayor F William Behrens will chair the Public Employes division with a staff of two. Colonel Richard Oppel heads the Commercial division, elevating its role to a larger scale. Oppel names lieutenant colonels Johannes Scholtz Louis J Retlx Robert Fitzgerald James Coleman T J Pardy and Roderick Cleve land. Robert Crosby and C A Willard named secretary and assistant secretary of the Commercial division. George Woods will chair the Individual Subscribers division with majors W T Shacks Mrs Roy E Clark Frank I Coville and Gresham G Griggs.
Dr. George W. Hinman, San Francisco expert on Japanese American affairs, spoke at United Church on rising race consciousness and three key peace conferences in Honolulu Swarthmore and Baltimore. He urged a radio wave of goodwill across the Pacific and training to spread American ideals to China and Japan. He will join Rev. Dr. William Horace Day and others to attend the Congregational National Council in Washington today.
Governor Pinchot traveled to Washington to urge President Coolidge to grant Brig. Gen. Smedley Butler a further leave from the Marine Corps to stay as director of public safety in Philadelphia. Butler’s leave expires January 1, with Pinhas calling the matter vital for Pennsylvanians and the city’s police and fire leadership.
In Athens a suit against local agents of American fire insurers seeks 300000 pounds for the July blaze that destroyed the American Near East Relief warehouse in Piraeus. The relief group says nonpayment delays aid to orphans and hospitals in Greece and Macedonia, worsening conditions for thousands.
A short, puzzling exchange cites a bakery sign reading no one was at the bakery and references a phrase about a sign on the dogs Rome Cooking. The remark is attributed to Glen Verrine with minimal context.
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