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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1918
Page
7
The report lists three severely wounded Connecticut youths as casualties. Names include M. Tacued of Fairfield and B. Raddatz of Meriden, with addresses in Hartford and Waterbury among others in the casualty roster.
Discussion outlines rates for war profits taxes from 0 to 40 percent across income bands and luxury taxes on items from jewelry to carriages. Also notes potential state tax coordination and registration, with examples of taxed luxuries and a humorous poem about the Kaiser and hell.
An old advertisement touts a non narcotic cordial claimed to ease coughs without habit forming drugs. It states ten years of successful use and a price of $1.50 per bottle from Eckman Laboratory, Philadelphia, available at all druggists or by mail order.
Thunder shower damage in Higganum as the Thomas Clark house, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beaver, was struck by lightning. Mrs. Beaver suffered a shock but had no lasting injury. Also noted: birth of a baby to Mr. and Mrs. Myron Spencer. gladiolias gifted for Methodist service. several locals mentioned visiting, teaching, or aiding, including Miss Lyons, Miss Ida Dodd, Miss Louise Brainard, and others.
Chester notes a large Grange lawn social at Mr and Mrs George Epright with games and ice cream. Miss Louise Fargo visits East Hartford relatives. H L Wilder from New York visits town. Mrs Salome Wilcox entertains daughter Mrs Geylord of New Haven. Movie ads include Charles Ray in His Father's Son and Stingaree and a teaser for Over the Top with Guy Empey on Aug 21.
In Haddam on August 16 Mrs Clara J Tyler enjoys a vacation in the village. Mrs Gresham of Philadelphia visits with William Knapp of Wethersfield at L Ton early this week. Louise Mosher spends Wednesday and Thursday with friends in East Haddam. Mr and Mrs W G Young visit Haddam while Chasseard spends a few days in New York. 8 H Baer and others have been
Miss Ruth Granniss returns to New York City library duties after a Saybrook visit. Obituary for Mrs. John F. Coulter Jr. Aged 37. Exemption board contact with Rollin P. Tyler. Church services listed for St John’s Grace First Congregational and Christian Endeavor. Saybrook Town Hall shows Mary Pickford film The Pride of the Clan at 8:15 pm Saturday. State Guard drill announced August 19. Road work updates after the big storm.
Essex August updates note visitors in Chester Hadlyme Petersboro and Guilford. Uncalled letters for George Nicholson and Elizabeth Cogswell. Fred BrownShip overseas return announced. Mary Jones moved to New Street home. Pratt injured cutting wood at Middlesex Hospital. Thelma Mae Marsh Mae Marsh in The Beloved Traitor with Pathe news.
Mrs. Charles W. Pierson recently visited Saybrook. New York guests stay with Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Miller. N. E. Wright of New Haven was in town yesterday. Mrs. Anna Carter has returned to Groton. Orrin Champlin of Boston visits Mr. and Mrs. Wayland L. Champlin this week.
Hadlyme Congregational church announces Sunday School at noon and Christian Endeavor at 7 p m There will be no morning service next Sunday observed at the Hadlyme church amid local church schedule changes
A man who once suffered a nervous breakdown reveals rapid, visible recovery after taking Phosphated Iron. He notes immediate improvement, restored color, renewed energy, sharper nerves, and better judgment, praising the product as a life changer for professionals and workers alike.
Lovers of thrills are urged to visit the Grand tonight or tomorrow to see the Bellong troupe of acrobats including Lady Bellong's death spin on a bicycle twenty feet high. Also on stage are the Bush Brothers Bert and Belle and Brainer and Ott. Feature films include All Because of a Woman and tomorrow Lion Claw with Marie Walcamp plus an Allied War Review news reel.
United States Official War Films Pershing's Crusaders shown at the Middlesex Theatre on Monday and Tuesday August 26 and 27. The production traces U S war effort from industrial plants to front lines in France, with Cantonment scenes and training, ships, planes, guns, equipment, and American troops in trenches. It features Secretary Baker and General Pershing at the front.
Tonight the Middle Sex theatre presents Wilbur and Luke comedy trampoline Walsh and Ellis singing and dancing and the Peronees novelty dancing and musical offering. The weekend feature is Believe Me Xantippe starring Wallace Reid with Mack Sennett’s His Smothered Love. Monday and Tuesday Cecil B DeMille's Old Wives for New from David Grantham Phillips with an all star cast plus Current Events and Eagle's Eye. Seventy five thousand dollars worth of gowns appear in Old Wives for New chosen by Alpharetta Hoffman costume director.
At the Lasky studios she departed for the East on her annual journey. The group represents advance sartorial examples from Paris and New York modistes as they model upcoming styles.
About 1200 children aged four to nine star in the Gnome Village scene of William Fox's film A Daughter of the Gods with Annette Kellerman. The Grand shows it Monday and Tuesday alongside the final chapter of House of Hate, featuring a city inhabited by whimsical dwarfs.
An Illinois man quips about wheat prices remarking they may go to the chicks. The remark triggers fear of misinterpretation in wartime households as a widowed mother shares her limited ration to feed children, highlighting rationing anxieties.
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