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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1918
Page
4
A fragmented notice states changes to advertising addresses for prompt attention. It mentions Middletown Connecticut as the second class matter location and instructs readers to send changes for ads to insure timely processing. The readable text references a Sunday building and editorial rooms along with a postal matter.
Mount Higby weather report for the last twenty four hours notes maximum, minimum, mean temperatures, noon reading, and barometric data alongside wind from the northeast. The column then shifts to wartime observations, predicting continued German line strain, labor and tax themes, and debates on prohibition and fuel usage, with mentions of Maine politics, border tensions with Mexico, and the push for conservation and economic measures during the war era.
The Fuel Administration asks Americans to curb Sunday car and boat travel to save gasoline for the war effort. The rule aims for quick, substantial reductions. public hardship may hit taxi firms and transport providers, but voluntary compliance is urged as essential for Allied victory.
Washington on August 30 the Interstate Commerce Commission ruled private wires are not common carriers and must be supplied to applicants up to spare capacity without discrimination. It refused a minimum lease price and required compensation on public wires during private-wire interruptions. The decision notes post office control of wires limits binding effect and suggests a later review. New York to Chicago air mail service will begin September 5 from Belmont Park to Grant Park with stops at Cleveland and Bryan using two planes, one with Liberty engine, cutting 250 miles from rail route.
Centerbrook presents The Thelma feature Saturday night headlining William S. Hart in Blue Blazes Rawden a western thriller with Pathe News also shown for adyV.
Edward Scoville concludes factory work and will resume high school studies next week. Raymond Buckingham visits New Haven relatives. Charles Best to move to Centerbrook. Leon Hunter returns home to New Britain after two week with grandparents. Ira T. Hayden from New Haven was a town caller yesterday. Edward Ferry of Hartford visiting. Harry E. Spencer of New York visiting his mother on South Main. Joseph Johnson of Grove Street visited Hartford. Louis Carlson the mason is building a chimney on South Main Street. Rawden western thriller and Pathe News.
Big show and dance Friday evening at the East Haddam opera house for Co. H State Guard benefit. Also Wallace Reid in Nan of Magic Mountain and Gaumont weekly Stingaree. Coming Labor Day Mary Pickford in Rebecca of Sunnkbrook Farm.
A report from East Haddam describes a man who cannot trust his own sight, prompting questions about perception and realization in a curious local incident.
Milwaukee reader Mrs H Dooley describes relief from pains and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says the remedy let her work from morning to night and urges other working girls to try it, citing the company with 40 years of experience.
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