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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1927
Page
12
In early Bridgeport Telegram advertising copy, the piece extols radio’s practicality and improving performance. It notes better grounding and tuning, urges readers to buy from reputable dealers, and predicts radio will evolve but remain useful for a long time.
The Waterbury Republican challenges city hall to open houses on under construction structures and post price tags on them. Readers are invited to inspect frames, garages, and other work, compare costs with 26 900, and decide if public funds are being used wisely. The piece also mocks experts, noting a petrified lobster claw found by a professor as a misread fact.
The piece discusses the New York to Spokane aerial Derby as a key test for pilots and machines, aiming to advance aviation and improve safety for long distance flights. It also reviews radio broadcasting trends, noting a robust fall and winter outlook, station improvements, and the Dempsey Terrell fight coverage, with radio set to expand home entertainment and access to major events.
The Daily Mirror reports Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior, as Hoover's likely choice for Republican National Committee chair if Hoover secures the nomination. Work's ambition to head the committee grows from his history with Will Hays, while cabinet colleagues Jardine, New, and Sanders align with the Hoover campaign amid Indiana politics and opposition to Senator Jim Watson.
A satirical piece mocks doomsday forecasts and alarmists while praising resilience. It notes scientists and forecasters may err, observers cling to routine, and most people view apocalypse talk with humor as the world endures another long era.
Readers hear clashing sermons from two pastors over the upcoming boxing match. Billy Bunday predicts Dempsey will knock out Tunney and urges youth triumph. Rev John Snape counters that Tunney will prevail, asserting the fight will prove youth lacks.
Bridgeport pursues an airport project with a favorable location and hoped funding solution. The plan promises broad benefits to Bridgeport and the state, offering strategic protection in wartime and complementing Hartford Brainard Field within the region’s aviation network. The main hurdle remains securing adequate financing.
Letters to the editor invite expounded opinions from Tale Gram readers. They must be signed with a name and address if desired. Names may be kept confidential. Letters over eight hundred words may be refused at the editor’s discretion.
Bayard Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, urges international goodwill and Near East reconstruction. He notes aid from the Rockefeller foundations, student training, and a diverse faculty to foster scientific methods and cross faith cooperation across Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and Egypt.
City finance officials report a municipal security issue of 540000 with a premium over 12000, signaling strong credit for Bridgeport. Comptroller Garrity’s fall timing was validated, and the premium will cut borrowing costs under the new plan. Nearby civic notes mention district club events, tax drive controversy, and state finance reform remarks by Governor Trumbull.
The Fairfield Trust Company’s new bank building on the Post Road at Fairfield Center opened for banking yesterday, replacing its seven year old frame structure. The modern brick house featured floral tributes from numerous local and regional businesses and individuals. Public inspection followed the close of banking hours, from 3 to 8 p m. The bank’s officers include Oliver Jennings as chairman and Horace Merwin as president, with Dever Warner and B Ells Dillin as vice president and secretary treasurer respectively. Board members include Simon Bradley, Egbert Marsh, George Brett, and others from Fairfield and Bridgeport banking circles.
Lake Canandaigua’s blue is praised in verse by Anne Campbell as a deep, dreamlike hue. The poem reflects on May blossoms, glade memories, and the gleam of sunlight on the waters with bluebird imagery and a vivid pastoral mood.
An analysis warns that without a satisfactory Geneva accord among Japan Great Britain and the United States on armament limits the world faces ongoing arms races. Preparedness harms economies, unemployment rises, debts and depredations grow, and only global agreement can reduce costs and avert war.
A fragmented editorial argues that America has elected only one rich man’s son to the presidency. It contends that character and ability could not rise without opportunity and that many men failed to meet their public duty. The piece reflects on industry integrity and the balance of liberty among all citizens.
Readers ask how the Negro race should lift its social and economic status through Christian character and education. A reader imagines estate bequests to the American Missionary Association and a Brooklyn community church project. Letters discuss Protestant church interiors, aesthetics, and a biblical view of morality versus government overreach citing Lincoln’s biblical rhetorical style.
In Cleveland a hospital mix-up leaves a mother and father in legal dispute over parentage. Judges and physicians say blood tests cannot conclusively prove the child’s mother, though tests may rule out others. A year may pass before conclusive proof appears, as doctors rely on physical resemblance and further testing.
Redding Theatre guild resumes its fourth season with two one act comedies at Sanford School gym Saturday evening. A post show dance is sponsored by the Redding Baseball club. Cast includes Esther Osting, Frederick Shaw, Stephen Sanford and Florence Trecartin. The program features A Marriage Proposal and In 1999, offering light Russian satire and a domestic future scene.
Edwin Webber, 52, a fisherman on the schooner Laconia, was arrested on a charge of flanking and cutting nets worth 6900 owned by Charles Carlson on Commercial Wharf. Within a week more than 3000 in nets left to dry were cut beyond repair. Carlson says Webber threatened to “flash you up and put you out of business” last week per police.
Eastern New York to be fair on Tuesday and Wednesday with light local rain possible. Northern New England mostly cloudy with possible light precip. cooler conditions persist. Southern New England mainly cloudy Tuesday with generally fair, cool conditions by Wednesday. Forecaster notes include a stationary disturbance south of Hudson Bay and a secondary disturbance moving from the Middle Atlantic toward Cape Cod.
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