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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1920
Page
10
Fragmentary OCR text shows a Bridgeport Telegram publication notice from The Post Publishing Co with standard newspaper masthead elements and references to Associated Press dispatches. The readable portions mention daily publication except Sundays, publication city Bridgeport Connecticut, and circulation affiliation.
The readable fragment hints at a veiled message about gloom and hidden figures. It mentions Ms Son and references cloudy conditions and turning day to night, though the text is garbled and incomplete.
A fragmented column references voting days and political figures in a draft historical voice. It mentions Symmes on September and Chrisvains chopping early, with notes on weather, the Demigcratic party, and the League of Bitlons averting a conflict between Poland and Lithuania. It also notes Alcott starting a few measures among US Senate members.
A city Republican group warns it risks turning into a Honduran army as more official and unofficial chairmen are named. Critics say the structure is becoming all generals and no privates, threatening internal balance and governance.
Abs in the barber trade. A familiar round haircut is described amid bustling Colberty buildings. In Worcester Massachusetts Lawrence A. Shays, 23, shot his wife in front of a high school and then killed himself, ending a pattern of domestic violence that preceded the fatal act.
Mayer Wilson accuses local Republicans of organized factionalism while forming a counter group. Commissioner Ballard defends himself, noting independent candidates and Democratic adoption, as party machinery shifts. The mayor’s unofficial slate challenges the established organization, signaling a quick political turnaround since last November.
The piece discusses pressures to keep James G. Scripps from conscription, noting Governor Cox’s involvement via a July 1917 letter to editor Karl E. Mattin. It argues the letter had no draft board bearing and the newspaper business was not an essential industry. The essay questions the true aim of the presidential campaign amid attacks on Cox and Scripps.
A fragment argues that thoughts and psychic premonitions cannot travel like waves. It compares water sound and light waves to thought, stating thoughts are acts requiring an agent. The piece questions the validity of psychic advance knowledge to prevent crimes.
Librarian notes that a typical child resists first person narration in classics like Robinson Crusoe and David Copperfield, preferring romance and danger. The piece contrasts I books with gory third person adventures where heroes may not survive, revealing child readers’ tastes.
Jumbled lines suggest a civic mood shifting toward politics as football and baseball wind down, with the nation preparing for election season just before the Christmas rush and holiday shopping begins.
A census update for Key West records a population decline while the town asserts a strong alibi about why residents stay home. The note hints at conditions near Cuba influencing household patterns and local timing for reporting.
A fragmented text evokes mortality with archaic diction and symbolic imagery. It suggests inner guilt and external peril, referencing worms, serpents, and a figure named Scott amid a somber mood. The source reads as a stray OCR piece lacking full context.
Bridgeport items recount September events, meetings, and notices. Included are civic parades, military rosters, church and charity events, school and union updates, and marriages and deaths. Names such as Olivet church, Colonel Wooster, and Captain Foley appear with local dates and venues.
The fragmentary verse centers on Felix Antonius, a pilgrim figure, tracking light and shadow across years. It evokes fate, memory, and loss, with mentions of the whispering tide and a lifelong arc of pain. An unnamed narrator, Redoubling Wis, and ABN Newbolt anchor the piece in a haunted, reflective mood.
WASELINGTON Sept 20 Special Correspondence The national campaign is treated as a business as well as politics. Prominent managers like Hanna CorteIygu Harrity show success from prior commercial work. Campaigns rely on mass meetings literature and press articles to influence voters. News operations supply data from state chairmen and local groups to national leaders.
The piece questions prosperity with sharp satire about wages, demand, and easy money. It muses on riches growing like evergreens and asks how many have saved, planted, or stored in vaults while others spend. It ends noting a time when booms may fade and a need to plan prudently.
Questions and answers cover preferential voting at primaries, choosing posts from farm wood types, a preservative recipe for fishing jigs, use of ball bearings on locomotives, the canonization of Joan of Arc, Frank James prison timing, and why Venice has water streets. The item lists inquiries and Bureau responses with dates and locations in a compiled question column.
Citizens urged to study fundamentals as election nears. The Washington Information buffet will publish educational bulletins, starting with The Democratic Doctrine featuring the keynote speech and the acceptance speech. Fill out the coupon with name and address.
The text describes how country weeklies and dailies dictated by circulation sizes receive and edit campaign materials. It notes the role of campaign textbooks, party literature, and posters in 1898 to 1900s campaigns, including figures like Hanna, Halstead, Abbott, and artists Nast and Ravenport.
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