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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1919
Page
7
A protestage era photoplay presents a lighthearted take on marriage roles. The plot centers on a humorous series of situations where husbands are reduced to precise, doughnut‑box style management, exploring domestic dynamics with playful irony.
Friday and Saturday showings feature Ince's Happy Though Married with Sessue Hayakawa in Bonds of Honor at the Grand theatre. Dororthy Ips stars The Talk of the Town while Pudd'nhead Wilson is enacted with Theodore Roberts. Four acts of vaudeville close the program and Lenox Banjo Orchestra provides a dance finale.
The Haddam Methodist church ladies rehearse a dialogue titled A Vision of the Past for the Foreign society’s Queen wedding. Town notes report Mrs. Thomas Reardon of Hartford disposing of Mrs. Josephine Auger’s furnishings, a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Arthur Miller of Middletown, and various moves and events around Haddam including local residents relocating, employment changes, and a town hall schools meeting next Monday at 2. Heck's orchestra will provide music for a Brainard's hall dance Saturday evening and the Haddam Library reading room will be open Friday afternoon for book returns.
Old Saybrook reports continued cold nights harming fruit trees. Field Captain Norman B. Clark writes from France he is advancing but cannot return soon. Mrs. Frederick Trask hosts at New London. Roads are in good shape due to Dibble and crew. Men scarce for spring work on ties and roadbed. City has workers but they won’t come out. Company G Sixth Infantry to present a Town Hall play soon. Entertainment committee plans event and will notify actors. Justin B. Holman at state charity board meeting in the capitol.
In Ivoryton on Wednesday Thomas Sweeney of Bristol visited. The Sunbeam Chapter meets Saturday at 730 PM and 230 PM in Laurel hall. Beacon Light Circle meets Monday April 7 in Laurel hall and will move to the first Monday monthly. Resolute Circle meets Friday evening with Mrs. Franklin M Rose. Mrs. Sidney Wright and child of Groton were in town Wednesday. Henry Mickleman of Killingworth was here yesterday. Eric Johnson is able to go out after several days illness. Mr and Mrs William Booma were in New Haven Thursday.
April 3 residents report visitors returning from Hartford. Miss Anne Hyde and Mrs. G S Dickinson spend time at the area. Arthur Jewett and Arthur Hallberg visit town while Colson receives a shower at the Hallberg home. Red Cross to meet with Mrs Lawson Thursday afternoon. Arthur Hallberg returns home after receiving release papers.
Chatham and Middle Haddam residents report J. H. Selden and family back home after a winter in Richmond Hill with granddaughter Mrs. Arthur Calef. Lenten services planned at Miss Johnsons. Esther Taylor attended a mothers and teachers conference in East Hampton. Miss S. C. Selden and Howard also return for the summer as Major Murray Taylor visits St Clements.
Fragmented report from Saybrook Point mentions April 3 activities and a Mrs. Williams returning Ham R. Bushnell from a week in New Jersey. Includes references to J B Holman attending a monthly charity meeting and Rev. William F. White visiting, with garbled lines about heirs and wills.
Westbrook millinery opened April 1 for Easter hat buyers. Obituary notes Elizabeth Clute, 89, who died suddenly at her Manhattan Place bungalow after a long healthy life, formerly of Sheepshead Bay and Essex, with burial planned in Schenectady. Other items mention Mrs. Eben Caldwell visiting, John Rodovitz returning to Pondmeadow farm, and Corporal Norman Lutefield of the 102nd Regiment returning from France to Camp Upton awaiting discharge.
Colchester notes a series of social visits and travel from April. Mrs D W Bigelow visits Essex and Canterbury friends while Mrs Arthur Chapman returns from Canterbury. Miss Grace Beebe resigns from Shore Line Trolley and joins Travelers Insurance Co. in New London. E R Gillette buys a new tractor for farming and road work upcoming. The band orchestra plans a gathering at Dr Pendleton's home tonight.
East Berlin reports that Thomas Hazlewood learned Wednesday his brother Lieutenant Marvin Hazlewood has landed in New York and will be home soon. A regular weekly prayer meeting is planned at Omens Episcopal church with services at St Gabriel's Friday evening led by Mr Spencer of Middletown. Miss Jackson organized a Girls Friendly Society branch in town after meeting the local delegation at the Guild room last night. Mr and Mrs Arthur Sergeant visited relatives in town and Miss Florence Carnes returned to New London College after vacation.
In Cromwell on April 3 the young son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Ahlquist is ill with the measles. Clarence Fillmore and Harry Swan joined the state guard on Tuesday. Paul Schafran has returned to New York after visiting Mrs W Ranney. Henry Genstein of Yale is visiting the Kabatznicks. Grace Pierson of New York visits her parents. Mrs Floyd Lester and daughter visit at Mrs John A Jaderlund. Contributions of partly worn clothing for European refugees to the Baptist church Friday afternoon. Notify Mrs Hallock for bundles.
Major Percy Haughton, famed Harvard coach, declares he will leave Harvard football and join the banking firm White, Weld & Co. in Cambridge. He has coached nine years, expressing best wishes for Harvard football while Leo Leary reportedly cannot assume coaching duties due to business pressures.
An ad declares kidneys are essential and warns of danger from dysfunction. It promotes Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a proven remedy, claiming global use and physician acceptance, with a money back guarantee and insistence on authentic imported product in sealed packages.
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