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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1927
Page
10
Bridgeport Telegram published daily with Holiday and service details. An establishing notice lists subscription rates and mailing options while staff contact and exchange lines show office operations and Milford and Fairfield connections. The piece highlights Red Cross fundraising and November roll call appeals with governing voice from Associated Press.
A critical reflection questions balloon racing value and risk, noting pilot reliance on luck and drift. It also surveys Yale figure Seth Hadley and Buckland of the New Haven railroad predicting dividends, then cites President Coolidge arguing colleges should broaden rather than merely raise earnings, stressing a fuller life through education.
The essay reflects on how trees along city streets become magical at night. Dense foliage, dark silhouettes, and moonlit shapes evoke animals and myths, inviting imagination to transform arboreal forms into fantastical creatures.
Tele xtam readers are invited to send signed letters but names may be kept confidential if requested. Letters longer than a set word limit may be reduced at editors discretion and anonymous inquiries are noted.
Letter to the editor defends ocean as innocent in aviation crashes. Christopher J. Lake argues oceans water life and safety views, saying ocean disasters are not to blame for daredevil flying and unseaworthy craft. He urges fairness to the sea.
A fragmented meditation on liberty and virtue contrasts personal surrender with real prosperity and progress. The piece links faith effort happiness and strength to ongoing struggle and humor, notes the clash of reform and tradition, and cites England byelections and bootleg breath as images of cultural tension.
New York commentary on blackmail from high and low society. A reporter recalls encounters with a hostess, private detectives, and a frightened man pressured by threats of scandal. The piece warns that blackmail flourishes among the affluent and urges decisive action against threats.
Poet Walt Mason sketches Gene Tunney as torn between boxing and verse. He imagines Tunney preferring writing forget me nots and bardic wisdom, yet notes the need to earn a living through fights before retirement to play a lute among lilies.
A lyrical piece titled Golden Moments celebrates lasting love and sunny days in a wartime memory, intermixing romantic imagery with wartime irony. The text references a paradox about wartime economic values and ends noting the aging of a president in the coming year.
The column reports M. Leon Smith in Grace Hospital with critical injuries from an auto accident. It covers Norwalk and West Haven politics, independent Republican candidates, endorsements in Waterbury, Norwalk mayoral hopes, and Madison caucus activity. Governor Trumbull discusses New England protection through better machinery and re equipment.
A 1927 lecture excerpt urges independence through saving and prudent finance. It argues poverty stems from lack of money and pride, urging nine tenths living on ten tenths saved, buying stock or bonds, and investing in a home. It also recommends life insurance and delaying purchases until funds exist.
The article reviews how convention outcomes have varied since 1806, noting that Presidents seeking renomination were usually successful, while runaways or deadlocks often produced leading candidates or dark horses like Bryan, with cases including Wilson 1912 Cox 1920 and Harding 1920. It analyzes factors that shape nominating outcomes and the dynamics of long conventions.
Reader questions from telegram and Post readers addressed by Calman and Morley. The replies discuss whether absolute happiness exists without love, how love can bring suffering, and the value of choosing whom to love. Imagination peaks in youth, with memory guiding old age, and humility as a cornerstone of true greatness.
Richard Marchand, held by Montreal police for New Haven authorities, escaped custody after attending his uncle's funeral in West Haven. He eluded Deputy Sheriff John W. Hutt on the cemetery return trip, prompting a pursuit. A later Montreal police arrest ended his brief escape. he was jailed for a Waterbury burglary.
Raymond Papineau twenty six of Newark awaiting transfer to Waterbury Conn on charges tied to a hold up of a motor man and theft of forty dollars in Waterbury street car robberies. He had earlier been convicted of murdering Wong Gat in this city eight years ago during a hold up.
Joseph Oliver of Acushnet drowned in the lower harbor when an outboard motor skiff caught fire and overturned. He could not swim. He leaves a widow and three small children. Four other Acushnet men were rescued after clinging to the skiff.
Mazatlan correspondent reports the mayor of Huajico Muspicor and several municipal officials were arrested in connection with the death of Florence M. Anderson the Los Angeles schoolteacher who was fatally shot when bandits attacked the train from Mexico City to Nogales about three weeks ago.
Fair conditions expected for Monday and Tuesday with a slight warmup on Tuesday. Tropical disturbance northwest of Bermuda recurving northeast, while a weakened system over Western Quebec moves southeastward. Eastport Me reports 29.62 inches of barometric pressure with a trough extending to Northern Georgia. Winds: northwest to Sandy Hook and Hatteras, generally fair.
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