Sheep Shearing Demo At Sellew Farm Draws Local Farmers
Farmers from Middlefield Iddictown Portland Haddam Old Saybrook Clinton and nearby areas attended a sheep husbandry event at Sellew Farm Mpt on featuring a shearing contest won by C D Man y of Clinton and a second prize to J Wright of Cornfield Poim at Saybrook The program led by G Skinner and hosted by Mrs Sellew included handling housing and castration demonstrations medicine administration and parasite control emphasizing growth value and carcass quality readers were invited to join the Connecticut Sheep Breed Association event at Westes Island Guilford on May 3rd
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Clinton
J Wright
Cornfeld
Poim
Saybrook
G. Skinner
Cultural College
Storrs
Boelew
Skinner
Middlefield
Iddietown
Portland
Higganum
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Old Saybrook
Haddam
Est
Hampton
Weste’s Island
Guil“a
Connecticut Sheep Breeders Hold Shearing Contest in Guilford
Sheep breeders convene at Leete farm on May 3 for a Guilford contest offering prizes in six classes. The Connecticut Sheep Breeders Association sponsors the event with a basket lunch of clam chowder and hot coffee. Experts are expected to attend, aiming to showcase improved fleece quality.
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Torrs
Conn
Connecticut
Guilford
As- Hon
Leetes
Willian S. Leete
Sid
Mn Ae
Bershing Band To Hartford For Victory Loan Drive
Hartford on April 28 hosts the Bershing Band during the Victory Loan drive week. The unit, led by Captain Fisher, includes a core of ten musicians with forty in the drum and corps. The famed ensemble has boosted army morale during overseas service and will perform at the Home Headquarters with concerts scheduled into the evening.
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Hartford
Fisher
Read-Hunter a Hero of a Fractured Page
Fragmentary OCR text describes a character called Amok the hunter of Igorrote with skulls, a crowd scene, and a note that he is returning to teach at a Philippine school. the source is garbled and unclear.
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W York
Philipteach School
Sick Room Hints From a Fragmented Note
A fragmentary bedside admonition cautions care in sickroom conduct. It urges kindness and patience, keeps sheets neat, avoids leaning on the patient, and notes the importance of a steady temperature around 65 degrees. The piece mentions stale flowers and rattling papers as distractions to avoid.
Runaway Son Haunts Newark Family of Seventeen
Mrs Charte Casale of Newark NJ seeks her fourteen year old son Frank who ran away weeks ago. The Casales include Charles B Casale a New Jersey Assembly member and their seventeen children eight boys and nine girls all but two daughters are at home. Family photo shows Frank with siblings in the back and front rows.
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Charte
Marie Casale
Newark
N. J
Frank
Nteen
Charles B. Casale
New Jersey Assembly
Casale
Mrs. Casale
War Risk Insurance Explained for Middletown Readers
Local readers learn the War Risk Insurance Act details as Carter Glass clarifies that insurance payouts are payable to listed beneficiaries without dependency proof. Compensation, separate from insurance, requires proven dependency for eligible spouses children parents or dependents, and can accompany insurance payments.
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Middletown
Congress
War Bureau
Carter Glass
The
United States Treasury
Palmer to Enforce War Time Day Law
Washington April 28 the attorney general announced enforcement of national war time prohibition starting July 1 by the department of justice He said there is no power to grant amnesty for beer production pending interpretation and clarified the agency to enforce the act The move relieves President Wilson from delegating authority under the Overman act while notes from the First M E Church outline weekly services and Victory Sunday planned attendance efforts
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Washington
Department of Justice
Palmer
Internal Revenue
Roper
Wilson
Overman
Publicity Draws Disabled Vets to Vocational Training
Washington April 28 News reports that county newspapers publicized the Federal Board of Vocational Education retraining program for disabled soldiers sailors and marines. Many men already in civilian life learned they can neutralize disabilities through special training and gain steady employment upon course completion.
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Washington
Federal Board of Vocational Education
Dr May Dead. Yale graduate and hospital official dies
Dr Calvin Sloane May a Yale Medical School graduate of 1873 and longtime New England hospital administrator died at his New York home after a long illness. He served as house surgeon at New Haven Hospital and led the Connecticut and Danvers State Hospitals before practicing in New York since 1883.
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New Haven
Calvin Sloane May
New England
New York
Yale Medical School
May
New Haven Hospital
Connecticut Hospital For
State Hospital For the
Danvers
Mass
Eyed Wisdom on Silence and Beauty
A fragment cites Addiron on how eyes convey meaning. A kind eye invites agreement, while an enraged eye distorts beauty, turning eloquence into silence and contradiction into assent.
Parish Masses and church notices in Forest City
The article lists daily parish Mass times including 7 am weekday Masses and special First Friday schedules, Blessing Benediction at 7:30 pm, and confessions for children. It notes banns of marriage for John Schultze and Miss Mary McAllister, a cemetery collection next Sunday, and Bishop Nilan letters urging Humane Sunday and thrift via War and Thrift Stamps. Reverend James Dargan delivered a sermon on peace from John XXIII.
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Mary Wiese
Forest City Council No. 3
K. of C
Scapular
Rosary
John Schultze
Mary McAllister
St. John’s
United States
James Dargan
Dargan
It Is Not By His Faults But By His Excellences Quote
A compact quotation notes that a great man should be measured by his excellences rather than his faults, attributed to Lewes.
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Lewes
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Catherine
Bcosale
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James H. Bunce Co
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Viel Hease
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Po Mana
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Connecticut Power Co
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