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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1919
Page
4
The dispatch blends Mt Higby weather aboard noon readings with a sprawling political and social commentary. It notes temperatures from 38 to 62 with a cloudy to partly cloudy sky, then shifts to wartime and policy topics including wage talks, peace basis, postal rhetoric, naval bravery, rent pressures, tax concerns, and telecommunication rate debates. The drift suggests unrest, economic strains, and anticipated shifts in national strategy.
The report describes the Wilson administration and envoy teams grappling with conflicting demands at the Peace Conference. Western Hemisphere nations watch in alarm as France seeks the left bank Rhine and Italy presses for Fiume. Poles, Czecho-Slovaks push for Dalmatia. Bilateral ambitions threaten global stability.
Representative Frank W Mondell, poised to lead the next House, urges careful, nonpartisan policy making in the Sixty sixth Congress. He stresses deeds during wartime were done under stress and without full consideration, hoping for the best, and calls for bipartisan cooperation to craft durable peaceera policies.
The New York Sunday baseball bill, backed by Governor Smith and led by Francis X. McQuade Charley Ebbets John McGraw and later Ruppert and Huston, is poised to become law ending a long campaign. Major league clubs expect increased attendance and prosperity with an earlier April start for the Yankees and Red Sox.
Final tilt between Springfield and Middletown YMCA quintets decides the New England champions. The game at West Middle School gym in Hartford starts at 8 30 with Mr Palen of Poughkeepsie as referee. New Britain is out after refusing to play without Dick Dillon.
At Boston on April 9 the national amateur championships finals crowned class winners Kamins New 116 pound Ashton Donze 145 pound Rosen New York 168 pound Sam Lagonia New York 175 pound Al Roche Somerville Mass and heavyweight E P Eaglin Yale for Denver A C Greb outpoints Davis in Buffalo on April 9 in a ten round bout. A Shubert of New Bedford lost a popular decision to Pete Hermann Baltimore. Benny Volger New York defeated Ralph Brady Syracuse in a 12 round bout. A flowering plant reportedly extracts two hundred times its weight in water over its life.
An old-time hair remedy promises darkening of faded or gray hair using Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound. A downtown druggist notes its popularity and ease, claiming one combing session leaves gray hair less visible by morning with further applications restoring natural color and gloss.
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