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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1918
Page
4
Fragmented notice describes subscription changes and address updates for readers. It mentions payment, deadlines, and discontinuation rules, with street listings in Middletown Conn. The legible elements reference subscription timing and post office classification.
A collage of weather figures at Mt Higby with noon readings, wind from the southwest, and barometer 29.84. The piece then pivots to wartime notes on American resolve, U boats, German losses, secret service, and political commentary. It touches on Prohibition on railcars, Massachusetts convention, socialist hopes, farmers, Borland’s eight-hour bill, India’s troop commitments, Detroit transit woes, Henry Ford’s wage reforms, and wartime press skepticism of German strategy.
The map depicts ground recovered by Allied forces before the push east of Amiens, with darker shading for Day 1 gains and heavy black for Day 2. It notes danger to Germans in the Montdidier salient and highlights French and British advances in Picardy north of Montdidier increasing pressure on the south salient.
The Detroit News recalls Czar Nicholas II as the 1898 Hague Peace Conference proponent, noting his plea for universal peace and reduced armaments. It highlights his forecast that nations would pursue arbitration and law as a path to security, even as Europe doubted him. The piece frames his dream of peaceful arbitration as a remarkable, now retrospective, moment in history.
The piece denounces German actions aboard the Worilda after a torpedoing in the early hours of Saturday. It condemns the killing of wounded soldiers and nurses, praises German brutality, and calls for global condemnation of Germany. It questions future business and friendship with a nation marked by murder and deceit.
The Evening Post contrasts with yesterday’s Tribune piece on Irish anti war sentiment. It mocks Sinn Fein, mentions O Rourke Pat Dowling and McGovern, and laments the Sixty-ninth lads being misbred while noting Wilhelmstrasse scorn. The writer warns of quarreling and decrying reckless violence in war.
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