For Sale Multiple Household Goods and Vehicles
A flood of for sale notices lists furniture, a Jersey brindle cow, a Ford touring car, a Paige Detroit car, several two family houses, a Maxwell touring car, a piano, a shotgun, bicycles, and work horses. Includes real estate, vehicles, farm animals, and miscellaneous odds and ends with contact references in Portland and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evergreen
Essex
Frank Urban
RF. D
S. D. Good- Yich
Ellsworth Corners
Portland
Jersey Brindle, Family
Johner
High St
To Rent Listings From Local Real Estate Office
Multiple rental ads offer six room tenement units with bath gas electric lights hot water and recent painting. Other flats include two and three room options on area streets with prices around seven to eight dollars and single rooms near Main Street. Walter C Jones 263 Main St handles real estate and mortgage loans as a general estate agent with twenty years experience at 174 Main St.
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Viiker
Washington St. City
R Paition. L
Maina . M. Schablein
Portland
Church St
Joseph S. Anreal Estate and Insurance
North St
Johnson Bros
Johson Lane
New Haven
Newton
Geres
Long Sound
Newark
Boston
New York
N. B. Pratt
Deeper
Conn
Catherine Bt
Staddle Hill
Walter Jones
Main St
Richard Haggerty
Court St
Fisk Garage Co
Washington St
Evening Press
Farm Hill
Babcock
South Main St
Emily
North High St
Spring St
South Farms
Walter C. Jones
M. Salamandra
Middlefield
C. A. Bailey
Cromwell
Nn Anderson
Crommell
Acs
Bath
Portland St
North Main St
Tgage
Broad St
Wanted classified notices from city listings and trades
Classified ads seek rent for six room city unit Aug 15 and paid queries for second hand furniture, musical instruments, and general items. Also requests for stock and livestock purchases, dairy cattle, calves, fowl, hides, and bones with contact addresses and phone numbers.
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Ie Ee
B. Citron
Main St
Rooms for Rent at 277 Main Street Portland
Moderate prices offered to right people for 68 Serer wardens and roomers at Main Street Portland upstairs and near South Main. Readable details note furnished rooms and census of tenants.
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Main St
Portland
South Main
Civil Service Applicants Advertised to Washington
Wording invites Mrs Sichinson and other women to apply for civil service positions in Connecticut and Washington D C, with emphasis on free listings and experienced or not required. Names Leonard and U S school of Civil men appear amid calls for women to seek government positions via the Evening Press and official notices.
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Civil Service
Connecti
Ashington
U. S. School of Civil Men
Washington
D. C
Burns Lace Co
South Farms
Evening Press
Help Wanted Classified Listings Across Various Trades
A compilation of help wanted advertisements from multiple firms offering positions such as night watchman, first class printer, farm laborers, kitchen help, a China salesman, electrical trainee, livery stable worker, general labor for government war jobs, and a horseshoer. Includes ages, locations, and employment terms in brief, regional postings from factories, sanitariums, farms, and service businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gildersleeve Ship Construction Co
Gildersleeve
Omo Manufacturing Co
Royal Farms
H. Rhode
Mer
Amston
Conn
Cromwell Hall Sanitarium
Cromwell
Daxiadetad
Fletcher’s
Court St
U. S
Franklin Institute
Rochester
N. Y
Maurice Tynan
Main Se South Farms
Lost items reported including pin and beads near city streets
A series of lost notices lists a gold pin between Green and Washington Streets returned to 17 Green Court, Rosary beads with initials at Middlesex theatre with pocketbook unclaimed, a J P H initials stick pin and tie clasp returned to J P Holigan, a blue feathered hat lost near Highland club and Gildersleeve with reward offered for each finder reporting to Bride's store, Portland Bottling Works, East Berlin, or Mrs Oliver Gildersleeve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green St
Washington St. Leward
Green Court
Middlesex Theatre
Bride’s Store
Portland
Gildersleeve
Oliver Gildersleeve
Piano and voice lessons offered by Baldwin and Peckham
Dr. Minor C. Baldwin offers piano or harmony instruction at 34 Burr Ave Middletown with a special summer price of 1 dollar per lesson. Delina Miller Peckham Educates singers with summer rates in August and September, sessions Wednesdays 2 to 9 and Thursdays 9 am to 5 pm at 210 West 103 Street New York and St Middle Town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minor C. Baldwin
Burr Ave
Middletown
Delina Miller Peckham
West
New York
Miscellaneous Classified Ads Highlight Scrap Prices and Services
Various Connecticut ads note high prices paid for scrap metals papers magazines rags and rubber. Listings include window cleaning services in Middletown repairs upholstery awnings and canvas goods crafts, artesian wells drilling and refinishing fixtures, and a notice offering cash or exchange for rags bottles rubbers magazines newspapers and metal with contact tel numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Manevitz
Hotchkiss
Middletown
Alsop Ave
Real estate listings in Middletown county area
Real estate ads note houses farms and lots for sale across the county. Rents collected and estimates provided by Joseph S. Annino representing best fire and life insurance companies. Office is 9 North Main Street Middletown. Phone 235.
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County
Josephs
Annino
North Main St
Middletown
Registrars Session for East Hampton Voters in August
The Registrars of Electors of East Hampton will meet at the Town Clerk's office on Friday August 2 and Friday August 9 1918 from noon to 9 p m to enroll voters eligible to vote in either party caucus whose names are not yet on the list Henry Royce Kirby Carpenter Regis bak Voters registered at East Hampton July 27 ne
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East Hampton
Henry Royce
Kirby Carpenter
Regisbak
Ted
War era exhortation on workers and war burdens
The Providence Journal editorial urges workers in war industries to stay at work and not strike, framing labor action as aiding the enemy. It argues every strike endangers fellow workers, prolongs conflict, and risks German aggression by halting munitions and supplies. It warns profiteers and strikers alike after the war’s toll and the soldiers’ sacrifice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence Journal
Kaiser summons Falkenhausen to meet the Kaiser
Dispatches from Amsterdam report General von Falkenhausen, Germany’s Belgian governor, called by the Kaiser for an audience. He is seen as a likely successor to Field Marshal von Eichhorn, recently assassinated at Kiev, and praised in Germany for administrative skill and use of occupied territory.
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Kaiser
Falkenhausen
Lev
von Falkenhausen
Belgium
Amsterdam
Germany
von Eichhorn
Kiev
Baseball scores from the day across leagues
National League had no games scheduled. American League results show Boston 2 Cleveland 1 at Boston, Chicago 7 Philadelphia 6, Washington 7 Detroit 0, St. Louis 7 New York 6. International League Rochester 3 Newark 0, Binghamton 4 Baltimore 1. Only two games scheduled.
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Bostons
Cleveland
Chicago
Philadelphia
Washington
Detroit
St. Louis
New York
Rochester
Newark
Binghamton
Baltimore
Baseball schedule snippets show intercity matchups
The listing records multiple 1900s era baseball games across cities including Cincinnati Brooklyn Chicago New York Pittsburgh Boston St Louis Philadelphia New York St Louis Detroit Washington Philadelphia Chicago Newark Rochester Jersey City Syracuse Buffalo Toronto Baltimore Binghamton.
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P.C. Chicago
New York
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Seers Aeee
Brooklyn
Arene
Cincinnati
Boston
St. Louis
Sesseneie
Cleveland
Cleveland Eeeeee Seer
Washington
New York Eee Eee
Chicago Ee
Detroit
Lialets
Philadelphia International League
Binghamton
Toronto
Baltimore
Eens
Rochester
Newark Eetneeee
Buffalo
Syracuse
Ate
Jersey City
Chicago
International League
Newark
A Soldier Pastor and Home Gardeners Unite for War Seed
The text blends a preacher's wartime sermon with a note on home seed saving. Daniel M. Henderson reflects on faithful soldiers and disillusioned youths while urging resilience. Government reports warn of seed shortages due to war, urging Americans to produce seeds at home for vegetables, sugar beets, and related crops as European supplies dwindle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Praise From Our Neighbor Halifax Chronicle Tribute to American troops
A Halifax Chronicle notice praises America’s young soldiers for their bravery in battle. It lauds their merit as worthy comrades and the finest in the allied forces, asserting they have proven their mettle in combat. Also includes a newspaper promo for a Press Want Ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halifax Chronicle
America
State Divided for Labor Recruiting in Connecticut
Hartford reports the Connecticut division of the new government labor program creates 14 recruiting districts led by community labor boards. Middlesex County includes Middletown and nearby towns with districts tasked to enroll unskilled labor to move to war essential work. boards settle employment questions, with state and federal oversight and an initial unskilled labor quota of 8,460.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Connecticut
Middlesex County
Middletown
Chester
Clinton
Cromwell
Durham
East Haddam
East Hampton
Essex
Haddam
Killingworth
Middlefield
Old Saybrook
Portland
Saybrook
Westbrook
Federal Employment Service
Wealth From Waste Converts Tin to War Needs in England
England salvages tin from waste for munitions as civilians curb tin use. Britain reports large cuts in tin consumption across industries, with biscuit makers, boot polish, and ink reduced or cut off. Scrap tins from front lines and domestic tinware supply 750 tons per quarter to the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
British Foreign Office
Washington
France
We Shall Get Them by Frank H Simonds
The article argues that Germany has lost key battles at the Marne and Gettysburg serves as a benchmark. It predicts future German strategy will seek local gains for a peace campaign and asserts the peril has passed, with Allied resolve shifting from independence by defense to optimism in victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Marne
Jena
Gettysburg
Verdun
Yale Mention Sparks Busy Social Evening
Gus Peterson, a Yale attendee, appears indifferent to society duties while his wife hosts a dinner at a Washington hotel. He struggles to respond to the women who press him, mentioning a son in Yale and a brother there. The chat ends with a quip about a wooden leg as a constitutional amendment.
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Washington Star Weekly
Gus Peterson
Gus
Missus Peterson
Washington Hotel
Yale
Bane
Waterbury firm ordered to close for five days
Hartford August 5 the wholesale firm Morris Spirt & Company Inc of Waterbury is ordered closed for at least five days by the food administration after a hearing found violations including charging excessive prices for sugar and flour. The firm’s license No 6-03653 is revoked permanently, though later consideration of a license reissuance is possible after five days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Morris Spirt & Company, Inc
Canal Street
Waterbury
Food Administration
The
T. F. Barry
Waterbury Chamber of Commerce
Spirts
Food Adinistration
Spirt
American Indian at the Front in Washington Star Account
The American Indian is praised for his excellent performance at the front. It notes his notable role in introducing corn and tobacco, now valued by military authority, highlighting historical contributions beyond combat prowess.
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Washington Star
Michigan Housewife Boosts Strength With Vinci
Mrs Albert Rose of Bronson Michigan says Vinci eased her run down condition and backache allowing her to keep up housework for her family of three. The ad claims Vinci is the most successful strength creator containing beef and cod liver peptones iron manganese peptonates and glycerophosphates and labels it the greatest fall tonic from Woodward Drug Co Hartman Drug Co and druggists everywhere.
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Bronson, Mich
Vinci
Albert Rose
Woodward Drug Co
Hartman Drug Co
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Rre SS A
Dixwell Ave
Newaven
Ares
Sonoraphon Phance Records
Bransfield, Jr
Middlesex Ave
Maxwell
Co. H. Brewster
Jersey
William Dickson
James F. O'Keefe
Farm Hill Road
Tel
Frank Wood
Marlborough St
William A. Pratt
Deep River
Joseph Milesi
Stone House
Carl A. Smith
West Rocky Hill
Hunting Hill
Leo B. Sanelo
Main Street
Augustohnson
King’s
Midletown
Center St
Thomas Walsh
Sprit St
Ter
Leo B. Santangelo
Te and Insurance
Porland Cément
Myihreeat Bros
Brionne
NASA St
Yale Gordon
Sumner St
Allison Inc
Coates Hotel
Ee Ee
8. N. Co
Clarendon Hotel
Fred F. Parmelee
Mfg
E. D. and
L. D. Mills Company
Ddietown
W. H. Chapman Co
Ce Geet
Sporting News
Joe
Christ
Daniel M. Henderson
Middletowns
Frank H. Simonds
Morris Spirt & CO
Michigan
Victrolas
Brunswick
Victor Records
H. S. Hall
Russell Mig. Co
Jackson Co
Bell Ans
A. E. Holmes
Hallmark
Clark & True
Vulcan
Middletown Gas Light CO
George F. Redford
Mahy St
Herbert Hoover
F. J. Bielefield & CO
Main
Kellogg’s
United Tea
Importers’ Co
Grainard & Logan
A. P. French
Central Bank
Bacon Bros
Y. M. C. A. Building
A. L. Southmayd
Arthur B. Jenkins
U. & and Foreign
Mutual Building
Hartford, Conn
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