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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1921
Page
2
The article argues that big business offers cautious optimism amid high cotton prices and a weak crop report. It credits the War Finance Corporation with aiding distressed producers by stabilizing markets and preventing liquidation, while noting it has not generated new purchasing power or boosted exports to Europe.
A historical speech argues that the worst in unemployment, credit contraction, and price drops are over. It asserts merchants, securities, and commodities markets are correcting and that prosperity awaits, barring Europe’s buying power stagnation.
The fragment notes the empire of Aforocco lacking a clear newspaper and mentions Laplanders skating a distance of Tff miles daily, suggesting a quirky or garbled historical snippet with unsettled details and no clear events or dates.
Manchester New Hampshire reports a postwar industrial revival with cotton mills operating at full time. Business leaders predict universal employment through fall and winter as the cotton market surge and shoe factories add workers. Mills expect full operation within two months.
The sixth summer meeting of the Mathematical Association was held at Wellesley in conjunction with the American Mathematical Society. Professor James Pierpont of Yale delivered a technical lecture on aspects of the theory of relativity. The event drew attendees from many universities across the United States and Canada.
Washington reports of a Lafayette Marne Day dinner show General Pershing and Samuel Gompers in a heated exchange over who won the war. Gompers insisted labor aided Allied victory while Pershing suggested labor did not dictate policy. Gompers later issued a clarifying statement praising American labor's war record.
The Frontier of the Stars opens a three day engagement at Pall's featuring Thomas Maelghan in a drama about regeneration beside a tenement girl. The bill includes William B. Priedlander's Cove Mar Love and the usual amateur night Friday. Saturday brings Lying Lips, a powerful photo drama, with the week rounded by winter preparations and bear hibernation notes.
The coroner found no criminal negligence after a probe into seven year old Norman Lee’s death. He darted across the road and was struck by a car driven by Chester M. Smith of Danbury. The inquest deemed the driver acted to the best of his ability and ruled the boy’s death accidental.
Washington September 7 President Harding met today with P J McNamara vice president and executive agent of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. Subjects discussed were not disclosed and no railroad labor board matters were considered.
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