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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1919
Page
7
The text notes that ritual suicide in Ja Hara Kiri reflects family honor as a dominant Nippon trait. It mentions the broader use of similar customs in medieval media and points to Dorothy Phillip in relation to The Talk of the Town as a superb production.
Enid Bennett stars in Hap though Married a drama where Millicent Lee questions her faith after a mysterious Spanish speaking stranger appears among her belongings. The program includes Mack Sennett acts and vaudeville features plus Fred Stone musical comedy Under the Top. Pearl White headlines The Lightning er with current events.
The Grand Theatre presents four act vaudeville and the six reel feature Bonds of Honor starring June tonight and Saturday. Eddie Polo will be seen in the Circus. Other shorter subjects are also shown.
A Berlin Poultry Club is to be organized under the auspices of a local organization. Mr Thompson of Berlin is appointed to lead and will begin organizing at once. The Rev E Lawrence Mertin of Le Raysville Pa will speak at the M E church Sunday morning. Weather remains springlike and local fishermen pursued trout. Lieut Hazlewood, recently retired from overseas, arrived home last night. The Modern Woodmen plan an entertainment Friday evening April 25. J M Morton, recently visiting friends, returned to Bridgeport today.
Ivoryton today sees visitors from New Haven and Bristol with John Brooks and Henry Lindgren in town. Local illnesses keep several confined at home while Gus Larson moves into the Ivoryton Trading Co. tenement. A Hartford birth honors Mr. and Mrs. John North with Margaret Platt noted. C. & C. hall hosts For Husbands featuring Mildred Harris tonight.
Centerbrook April notes report Mrs Alfred as guest of friends on Thursday. Charles Bliss of New York visits daughter Mrs Stewart Prann. Elizabeth Clute’s passing mourned by many friends. she lived in Centerbrook years ago before moving to West Haven. Mr Andrews of New Haven and Ww. H. Wright mentioned. Carter’s friends alerted for an upcoming event Saturday night.
Local ad lists ham and bacon from Fresh Meats at Publicket 80 St Middletown for turkey day.
A.N. Pierson returns from Florida to stay with Mr. and Mrs. Ewald Ludwig. Weekly cottage group at First Congregational Church hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Peter Anderson. Youth chorus rehearsal Friday night at the church. On April 13, Superintendent Edward B. Sellen and Prof. L. P. Rice speak on The Great War and Americanization. Cromwell War Bureau payments due March 6 at Belden library, 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. Adv. Special ham and bacon sale at Public Market, 480 Main St. Middletown.
Old Saybrook brief notices include Calf employed at the ferry power house and Thomas Lynch visiting town. Church services listed for St Johns Grace Episcopal First Congregational and others with Sunday school times. Mrs Mulcahy and others visited New London on business. Lieut Tooker home on two days’ furlough from transport service. Ralph Tainter visiting Middletown and Hartford. Saybrook Point Whist Club met. awards won by A H Barber and Mrs Frank B Steele. John Barrymore film and The Best Man shown Saturday at Saybrook town hall.
SAST HADDAM and nearby towns report residents sending greetings after receiving a card from Ogden who has returned from overseas and now rests at Camp Merritt New Jersey. Raymond Ventres and Stanley Plumstead are due to arrive with the Yankee division. Clarence Alexander hauls lumber from Chapman mill to Center Pepperdine peddlers circulate town asking one dollar per peck. H Z Clarke and family visit Hartford to tend to ill father William Dougherty at St Francis hospital. H A Smith of the steamer Middletown visits home for the day. The coal barge Frank Jones discharges coal at Pier 2 for W C Reynolds. The yacht Tieton of Hartford was moored off the village. Fred Ventres has returned to resume his work at the East Hadam garage.
Colchester April 4 Mrs Irwin Rogers of North Lyme visits with Mrs Clarence Beebe. J N Strong called in Exeter. Mrs Beebe Mrs Marian Champlain and Mrs Irwin Rogers called in Middletown yesterday. Frank Doane called in Hartford yesterday. John Marks visiting daughter in Willimantic. Old Guard Band Orchestra met last night. Harold Porter home from Middle A. E Lyman of Columbia was in town yesterday. day adv.
Haddam April 4 Miss Lucy Hazen who has wintered with her brother in Neosko Mo returned home yesterday G A Dickinson was in New Haven Wednesday Julian Crandell is selling his household and soon plans to leave town The recital of Miss Irene Hubbards pupils advertised for the 28th but deferred due to weather was held last evening in the library audience room The room was well filled and the program carried out nicely The little play The Legend of the Beautiful Cloth by the Home children was a pleasant feature
Market announces a special sale on hams and fresh meats with discounted prices for a limited time at the market location.
The county schedules a series of events including the second annual Middlesex county boys conference in East Hampton on April 19. A conference dinner will feature Harry C. White recounting wartime experiences as a Y M C A secretary in France. Other Sunday school institutes follow on April 6 and 7 with prominent speakers. The county Y M C A convention is set for April 12 at Saybrook, with Dr. Marshall of Connecticut College as chief speaker and Roy E. Keller becoming county secretary. Ivoryton hosts a social for local ladies, and Yale defeats Harvard Wesleyan and Brown in an indoor college meet with a student orchestra enhancing the evening.
A brief notice urges readers to use the WANTS section three times for selling items, likely a classified-style prompt from a period newspaper. The fragment emphasizes repeated action and a payment or listing cue for sellers.
An advertisement touts Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female troubles and mood swings. It claims personal improvement within days and invites readers to write for guidance from a Lowell Massachusetts firm, emphasizing secrecy and decades of experience.
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