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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1918
Page
6
New York Advertising Club members were urged at a luncheon to aid a campaign educating the public against selling Liberty bonds. Speaker warned reckless spending could erase the war saving lesson, noting bondholders rose from 300,000 to 30 million as war financing grew.
Estimates from the public health service indicate between 200000 and 350000 civilian deaths in the United States since September 12 due to influenza and pneumonia. Calculations rely on reports from cities and states with accurate records.
Public health officials say the epidemic remains but deaths are fewer. A recrudescence is occurring nationwide yet considered sporadic and not signaling a renewal of severe epidemic conditions. Insurance companies have been hard hit, with government records noting over 170 thousand dollars in life insurance tied to soldiers in camps, not including Europe, and about 20 thousand deaths in U.S. army camps.
New York officials plan to compile individual records of men from the state who served in the war with Germany. An appropriation of 2500 dollars will be requested to start the project, which will cover men who joined federally and through volunteers.
Elizabeth Baska nineteen, youngest woman arraigned for murder in the county, was acquitted in General Sessions of killing Mrs. Hamel at a boarding house on West Twenty third Street. Prosecution pressed circumstantial evidence for nineteen days. defense witness Burns testified for the defense. Judge Resalsky directed an acquittal, noting the evidence as dangerous and inconclusive.
A Boston Transcript note recalls Conan Doyle misdescribing baseball with a curious blunder about catching. The writer mocks his own country’s game by noting Doyle praised long catches by the bleachers, while referencing a prior remark about Evo-love by an English reporter.
An eminent electrician named Lightning Calculation estimates that two lightning flashes can illuminate a two mile square area at about one candle. He calculates that achieving such illumination would require 13,000 horsepower for one second.
Key West resident Mrs J M Camus says five years of irregularities and back pain ended after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits relief to the remedy and urges others with similar symptoms to seek guidance from the Pinkham company in Lynn Massachusetts.
James A. Conkling writes from Somewhere in France to his brother Albert Conkling at 100 Beacon Street. He notes war weariness not severe but believes the Kaiser will yield under pressure. He recounts living in a German dugout, a near-miss shrapnel hit, and describes chaotic Flanders history and shifting control among European powers.
Fragmented OCR notes describe ferocious wrens and a rambling scene about a ruinoceroe beast, buffalo figures, and senses of smell. The text references weekly eyes, a cafe place, and African natives in fear, interwoven with stray phrases about the Times and ads.
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