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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1927
Page
12
The Bridgeport Telegram, established 1891, notes telephones and postal concerns, mentions J M Wiles at a 20 cent rate, and discusses mail issues including return addresses. It contrasts no speed limit proposals in Michigan with Connecticut practice, warning against oversimplified driving rules and urging sensible limits.
Wayne B Wheeler is praised as a fearless and decisive leader who made prohibition a constitutional reality. The piece notes his courage, singles out his legal and political fights, and recounts personal tragedies including the deaths of his wife and father-in-law, framing his final years as marked by loss and perseverance.
The piece cites Will Rogers arguing that media overemphasizes ocean flight dangers while grade crossings and auto deaths draw less scrutiny. He notes thirteen aviators lost out of about fifteen starters last month, calls such rates death by own action, and contrasts with sea travel where accidents occur despite safety advances.
A Post Office statement from the Brooklyn executive division cites over 81 thousand mail parcels plus 12.6 million circulars and advertising matter going to the Dead Letter Office due to faulty addresses. It notes direct costs to users and advertisers, with third class mail losses, and the undelivered mail before final efforts to locate addressees remains a government burden rather than revenue.
An editorial rebutts a Boston piece claiming hats are useless. It argues hats protect against heat and cold in tropics, plains, the North, and arctic regions, noting hats worn by soldiers, sailors, and workers worldwide. It asserts hats are both essential and ceremonial, indispensable for weather, light, and safety.
An Ansonia Sentinel reader argues against segregating smoking by gender on Long Island trains. He says smoking cars exist for those who wish to smoke and that women should join men in the smoking areas, not require special treatment or spaces.
The Norwalk Sentinel joins The World in praising sauerkraut juice as a healthful tonic. It cites George L. Berg, a renowned marine and landscape artist, as a leading booster of the sour brine, arguing its merits as a civilization staple.
A compact reflection on accepting unpleasant truths about one’s child and resisting coercive demands from former bosses. It urges honest critique of friends, fairness toward the wronged, and restraint in judging others while highlighting the challenge of recognizing virtue in strangers.
The text notes no peculiar trait in Mr. Berg's makeup that makes sauer kraut useful as a panacea. It claims his recommendation works equally well for all others who have followed it and who have accepted his advice.
Herbert Corey argues in a New York column that East Coast film production is doomed to retreat to Hollywood due to walking delegates and union demands. He cites color print workers and lighting experts as examples, predicting a Hollywood return and dwindling Eastern jobs for unions.
A narrator and others await dental exams with nerves frayed yet faces masked by bravado. The scene shifts from boasts of courage to shared fear as the chair nears, only to find the dentist gentle and painless, dispelling the panic with calm care.
Political observers weigh a weekend meeting to quiet factional divides between two loyal GOP camps in the Ninth district. The Behrens endorsement and looming primaries tie local mayoral hopes to factional loyalty as tax reassessment tensions disrupt the Board of Relief. Delegates back Hitch-kiss ticket leader William B. Hotchkins and a Torrington bid for mayor by Howard J. Castle, with ongoing questions about city clerk nomination and potential candidacy by Councilman Frederick D. Deakin as August Rasplayer contemplates renomination.
Joseph Armstrong was unanimously chosen city sheriff of Ansonia to succeed the late Patrick O'Donnell. The appointment covers an unexpired term ending next January. Alderman Eugene Conaty was mentioned but declined the post. Additional notes mention Norwalk Democratic caucuses, former South Norwalk mayor Dr. Robert Wolfe, and Republican primaries in Waterbury with John P. Elton favored for mayor.
A compilation of oddity items from newspapers inclining toward unusual events: a trained flea with a gold cigar escapes in Santa Cruz, an eleven year old girl bears a six pound child, pole sitting for publicity, a Japanese doctoral thesis on loves and dice, an all saxophone band concert, fishing lines ringing a telephone, four generations visiting a Junction City barber, Hoover avoids the Coolidge fish debate, a boy falls into a well in Tucson for five days, a Salt Lake couple’s raft blown away, and a preacher who stands on his head for extra newspaper coverage.
The Boston Globe writer James Morgan suggests that after leaving the White House in 1929 Calvin Coolidge may enter public life beyond the presidency. Speculation covers Amherst College, New York law, U S Steel leadership, and a possible Massachusetts Senate race, with timing centered on 1929 and 1931 vacancies and the challenge of uniting Republican support against Senator Walsh.
The writer argues against expunging sexual and violent passages from the Old Testament. He contends the books reflect varied ages and moral development, note the era’s harshness helped moral ascent, and warn trimmed texts would distort human life and divine patience. He cites war outcomes and nations regaining status as evidence of complex moral history.
Hartford reports detail the day and night visits to possible contacts in New Haven and New York as detectives seek clues to the missing Brooklyn area beach incident. insurers hold off on death claims until recovery or legal presumption. assets disclosed include about 50 000 in real estate equity across several properties. Acker man says Baggish enjoyed good finances despite periodic pains. In Chicago J Ogden Armour's will leaves over 1 million, widow Lolita Armour receives 106000 outright plus annuities and remainder divided between widow and daughter. Mitchell named as a life income beneficiary.
Mrs Jessie Margaret Budlong of Newport loses a bid to dismiss her husband Milton J Budlong's divorce suit in Providence Rhode Island Superior Court Judge Blodgett rules the August decree entry formal Mrs Budlong plans to exception to ruling while Hartford reports note industrial bank charters sought by Norwalk and Bristol banks to be heard by the state bank commission Thursday at 3 and 3 o'clock daylight time
The forecast covers Southern New England West Virginia and Eastern New York with generally fair weather for Wednesday and Thursday and slightly warmer temperatures. Northern New England may see local thundershowers Wednesday then fair Thursday. The northeastern disturbance moves slowly east of Newfoundland while a Manitoba disturbance advances to Quebec. Temperatures remain well above normal in the eastern half of the United States. Winds vary from southwest to northeast and are moderate along the coast.
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