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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1921
Page
6
Excerpt shows Bridgeport Telegram founded 1391, post office entry, advertising reps, publishing at 11 Migeon Street Bridgeport Conn, open every meeting, members audit, Associated Press rights stated.
A line of cheer by John Kendrick Bangs invites readers to stay home and sing, offering a rustic traveling metaphor. Despite faded text the poem expresses steadfast cheer and the idea of helping a traveler along less bright paths.
Morning notes mention a schoolboy with a smiling face and squirrels stealing golf balls in Ontario. West Virginia politics shift to a sideshow as regular troops arrive. A prop platform for 1900s political stunts, a heat wave styled as fareback, bellhops as generous tips skeptics, and a “Taxicad auffenr” crime headline reflect era curiosities. Marconi predicts wireless progress and Martian operators test saving pleasants to Central. A migrant ship race problem and a live wire pastor ad in New Hampshire are noted.
The state report on 1920 receipts and expenditures ranks Bridgeport as the most lavish spender in Connecticut. Bridgeport carries the highest tax rate, the greatest bonded debt, and the largest interest bill, nearly half a million dollars annually. The piece questions continued municipal extravagance and urges voters to consider change.
An open letter urges the Bridgeport and Danbury Chambers to preserve the scenic New England highway between the cities. It lauds the route for its beauty and recreation value, condemns intrusive billboards, and calls for coordinated action to resist commercial encroachment along the countryside.
An April 15 1835 reader submission presents an ad offering American Steel Shirt Collars, patented and self adjusting with enamel finish. Samples mailed for 50 cents from 73 Nassau Street New York. The note adds a historical jab about men teasing women for hoop skirts.
A charity outdoor program will present two one act plays for children at the Queers School grounds on Strand Road. Cast mostly of local children, the event features Isabel Pillows to Dance and a polo dance by Bridgeport’s Miss Testel Pillows, with cake sales and raffles for added attractions. The event is organized by Mrs. M. A. Olson and others to benefit the Vassar Endowment Fund.
A corrected set of Tuesday’s Queries on English usage covers why England is called John Sull, the origin of pin mons, and meanings of Saavian in a sentence. It explains cipher ovsht TM and the proper spellings of ought, nought, and Dreadnought with notes on archaic forms and modern battleship usage.
Stenographers gain speed as electric typewriters emerge in Berlin. The device requires no key hammering, just touch to energize. Experts note early machines will transform work, while detectives like William J Burns caution against overreliance on fiction for real cases and reference Poe’s Marie Roger inspiration.
A report from the First Pan Pacific Educational Congress in Honolulu urges governments, scientists, and educators to study war’s causes and prevention. It calls war a mental and spiritual disease and promotes research first, then education to remove the war germ from the human brain, linking peacetime health to peace.
Judge Henry Neil urges pensions for mothers with more than eight children in a letter to President Harding. Forty states already grant pensions for dependent children when the father is dead or incapacitated. The piece notes Illinois pioneered such laws and claims Neil influenced their spread internationally, including a South Africa adoption. It questions if pensions could curb race death and promote larger families, suggesting Neil would extend pensions to rich mothers as well.
At a Walnut Beach Republican club meeting a resolution was adopted to request the Republican Town Committee to renew the appointment of F. K. Warner as police commissioner and to appoint Alfred Meals. Meanwhile treasury reports three additional counterfeit Federal Reserve notes detected and described by city and bank, including a $59 note from Kansas City, a $20 note from Richmond Virginia, and a $10 note.
A Washington bureau offers Q and A on journalism goals, World Congress origin, lighting three cigarettes, flour milling percentages, card games, Parthian shots, dairy food value, Biblical land terms, Lenin alias, tobacco flavoring, social settlements, tweed naming, New York clubs, and fruit sugars and acids. The quiz covers historical and linguistic queries with concise explanations and sources.
Violet Ingrid in a tangle of romance and deception seeks to keep Ronnie the baby while fending off suitors. She fumbles through love and money with Ronald Hastings and Alfred Sutore as her rivalries unfold amid work at Violette’s millinery, a boardinghouse, and a tense social circle.
A mysterious woman, claiming the name Miss Clive Tale, seeks Begging Your Pardon in a tense scene. Tastings questions her identity as a message arrives from Miss Ingieby. The exchange hints at a deeper plot to be continued.
The board of governors of the New England Daily Newspapers Association adopted a resolution in Worcester on September 6 opposing a 44 hour week in the printing industry. They also oppose wage increases or changes in hours amid current industrial conditions. The association includes representatives from nearly all daily New England newspapers.
Tobacco markets in Eastern North Carolina opened with demand for crops. Wilson sold 300,005 pounds at 16 to 20 cents per pound while Baxley at better than 15 cents. The week starts amid steady demand and rising prices for cured tobacco.
The story describes Timpson Jones, a disabled man, longing for a country ride while observing passing autos and boaters. Battered cars, tired limbs, and emptied back seats frame his lonely scene as he dreams of simple pleasure and fresh air on the road.
The speaker recalls the joy of reading as a child and the magical thrill of fairy tales read by mother. Distinct memories of princes, kings, queens, and wonder return in prose and verse, contrasting later reading with the lost delight of earlier tales from long ago.
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