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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1918
Page
8
An illustrated article explains making laundry and toilet soap at home using fats, tallow, and resins. It details steps for copper kettles, molding, scenting with rose or orange water, and formulas blending lard, coconut oil, and soda ash. It notes careful boiling, skimming, and curing for best results.
Opinion from Connecticut and Vermont suffragists predicts New York women will influence liquor licensing in 38 cities on April 16. Observers cite Vermont results where women’s ballots helped no-license outcomes, while men still voted for licenses in some towns.
Seeding gangs launch a vast spring drive in the United States and Canada to seed millions of acres with tractors. Farmers, women, and boys enlist in agricultural work as measure to support the war effort, with plans to seed 1,500 square miles and feed the nation. Notable figures include J E Hauskins and C S Noble, while Frederick S Oliver leads a Saskatchewan operation.
C T Williams, a Baltimore Liberty loan booster and former Red Cross secretary in Romania, recalls a Moscow to Petrograd trip where a Liberty loan letterhead passport saved him. He shows the red ink line Do your patriotic duty buy a Liberty bond impressing a Russian soldier. Chaplains in France write to families of the fallen, a labor of love providing consolation.
The New York Evening Post notes the food administration pledges no housewife will pay more than 1.45 dollars per delivered bushel for potatoes. It urges farmers to plant more to curb sprouting losses and to ease wheat demand, while criticizing rail transport gaps affecting farmers seeking affordable spuds.
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin notes that Whitman, once a treasury clerk, had his early poems retrieved by bigots but now his literary remains are placed in the congressional library as depository. The decision, praised as swift poetic justice, marks a major archival honor by literary executors and officials.
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