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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1920
Page
6
The article surveys rising automatic machines for packing and labeling boxes, wrapping foods, assembling and counting small parts, and bottling. It notes farms and factories gain efficiency as single operators or families run extensive operations with mechanical aids, lowering costs only if production stays balanced.
The riot inquiry in India included a witness recalling a prisoner forced to write a poem praising the judge as a punishment. A laborer, Patrick Knight, was ordered to walk the floor at home for two hours each night with his baby. A stipendiary magistrate once punished a frowsy tramp for vagrancy.
An old Times Want Page vignette recalls extreme sentences such as a juvenile offender forced to spend six Saturdays in bed and a bigamist sentenced to six months living with two mothers-in-law. The text critiques harsh punitive norms in historical courts and the questionable justice served in those times.
The article describes lingering airways inflammation after flu, with persistent cough and chest soreness risking pneumonia. It advises rest, moderate outdoor activity, good nutrition, and avoiding chills, plus nightly Vicks VapoRub application to draw out inflammation and deliver vapors.
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