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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1919
Page
4
A clipped weather summary notes rain tonight and cloudy skies across New York and coastal regions. The storm track moves toward the Mississippi Valley with frost reports in Texas noted, followed by warmer, clearer conditions. Temperatures range from the upper 40s to mid 60s across Atlantic City and nearby locales.
Mt Higby area weather today noon shows 48 high, 34 low, 41 mean with 30.01 barometer and 4 inches water. Southeast wind. The page threads through war talk on Germany, soldier housing, wheat outlook, and wartime industry. It notes Company C city boys welcome home and various societal concerns, including drug arrests in New York and Bolshevik fears, ending with weather and storms across the Southwest.
The text argues that Prussia and Russia would use trade and infiltration to restore German influence, crush bolshevism, and threaten global peace. It questions postwar policies and warns against any German-Russian trade links while urging support for Poland and Croatia as buffers. It also criticizes police suppression of a Toledo Debs meeting as dangerous to free speech and democratic rights.
The text argues there is no legal slavery in Christian countries and notes slavery's mild survival in many Mohar Medan nations. It compares Latin American peonage to slavery, explaining the peon is not owned but works to pay a debt to the master.
A young man rises to the forefront with untiring energy and rapid results after a period of apparent decline. He explains his former poor condition was known to him and he sought change, noting a decisive personal recovery and renewed drive.
Heroism on Argonne battlefields and along the Wesle river is honored as Colonel Asher Miner of the One Hundred and Ninth Field Artillery, Pennsylvania, receives the Distinguished Service Cross in a ceremony at Governors Island. Major General Barry delegates the honor to Mrs Miner for the pinning of the medal on his uniform.
Connecticut's street railway commission finds its work prudent but not sufficient. With carriers near bankruptcy, deferred taxes and jitney operation may delay crisis until 1921. A minority proposes state loans up to 2 million dollars to keep lines running and contemplates eventual state ownership if needed.
The excerpt notes repeated attempts to curb tax evasion by property mortgage notes and equity, including unprecedented methods like inquisitions and splitting the tax between mortgage notes and equity. It argues that none have succeeded and hints at ongoing failures in tax correction efforts.
Three men are reported killed in a freight wreck near Shamokin Pennsylvania on April 16. The details of the crash and the identities of the victims are not fully disclosed. Local authorities and railway officials launched a joint investigation into the cause of the derailment.
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