Middletown Postoffice Ad Notices Prompt Attention
Fragmentary text from a newspaper notice concerns advertising and publication timing rules at the Middletown Conn Post Office. It references second class matter status, sale locations at Main Street addresses, and a requirement that certain notices be published or discontinued at specified times. The readable fragments imply administrative guidance on advertisement receipts and publication deadlines.
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Postoffice
Middletown Conn
Main St
Weather Report for New Haven December 7
Forecast for New Haven and vicinity cloudy and warmer tonight and Sunday. Connecticut generally cloudy with warmer tonight and Sunday, variable coastal winds shifting south and southwest and fresh. A disturbance moved from Rhode Island to sea causing light snow in eastern lake region and New England in last 24 hours. Another disturbance centers over North Dakota causing cloudy weather in western and central districts. Temperature rising in central districts with above freezing readings. Observations from several cities listed.
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New Haven
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Lake
New England
North Dakota
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Detroit
New York
Norfolk
Northfield
Mt Higby Weather and World News Gleanings
The Mt. Higby station reports for the 24 hours to noon show a max 28, min 39, mean 18.5 with 12 noon barometer 29.98, water 22 feet 8 inches, wind south and cloudy. The rest carries political observations on governance, war aftermath, postwar finance, and social trends including strikes, elections, and censorship, ending with notes on Russian upheaval and miscellaneous local concerns.
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Mt. Higby
Political musings mix with wartime reflections and omens
The piece weaves observations on President Wilson and December 18 as a fateful date, railing at postmaster general charges, novice appointees, and imperial concerns. It argues for natural order, laments fuel shortages, and warns that American labor forming a political party will fail, while affirming long term triumph of right.
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Wilson
Brest
Meuse Argonne Battle: Pershing Narrative Honors U S Forces
The New York World presents Pershing’s War Department narrative on the Meuse Argonne offensive, calling it the greatest battle by American troops. It notes 600,000 Americans in action, 21 divisions, and German collapse leading to the armistice signaled by Marshal Foch.
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New York World
Pershing
Meuse-Argonne
Germany
Gettysburg
Sedan
Grmany
Germa
Marshal Foch
France
Cost of Food Crisis Calls For Honest Cost Data
A Detroit News editorial urges the U S Department of Agriculture to provide firm production cost figures for farm crops. It notes the failure to supply costs as evidence that agriculture is run on a business basis, and it argues for scientific cost accounting to aid farmers and the nation. The piece cites partial efforts by bean and milk producers but says serious, unbiased costing remains lacking.
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Detroit News
Senate
United States Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Moralizers Spar Over Aggressive People and Black Eyes
In a clipped witticism from the Indianapolis Star a moralizer and a de moralizer debate how aggression leads to black eyes. The exchange attributes eye color to temperament, humorously implying scars of behavior.
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Indianapolis Star
Sunday notes on church services across city
Numerous churches list Sunday schedules including readings, sermons, and services. Highlights include First Church of Christ Scientist at College and Broad streets with 10 45 am service and 3 45 reading room hours, Church of the Holy Trinity Advent services, St Andrews Chapel with evening address on The League of Nations by Henry M. Wriston, and Baptist and Methodist congregations detailing sermons, Sunday schools, and community services.
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First Church of Christ, Scientist
College and Broad Streets
Church of the Holy Trinity
The
Baptist Church
Lewis Hodous
Hartford Theological School
China
St. Andrews Chapel
Warwick Street
Church School
St. Andrew’s Men’s Club
Henry M. Wriseton
Wesleyan University
League of Nations
All Saints’ Chapel
Staddle Hill
John G. Spencer
E. R. Hyde
France
Raymond Maplesden
Suffield
B. Y
C. E. Leader
Marion Brainerd
Christchurch
South Farms
Associated Bible Students
Bible Student’s Hall
Cromwell
Alsop Avenue
City
God
South M. E. Church
Louis Hodous
Hartford Theological Seminary
South Church
North Church
Hall
Young People’s Intermediate Society of Christian Endeavor
Frances Culver
Hartford Seminary
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Peter
Ettore di Stefano
Funeral for Alonzo Willard Private at East Main Street
Clinton December 7 funeral services were held at the late home for Alonzo Willard who died after a brief pneumonia illness. He leaves a widow a sister Mrs Andrew Updike Madison and a brother William Willard of Clinton. Other notes mention John M Meigs return from a New York hospital after a serious operation Howard Hillard wounded in France Mrs Emily Meigs visits Ralph Meigs and son in New Haven and Mrs Albert Phelps hospitalized in New Haven Dr P R Bolton visiting Mr and Mrs George Green will winter in Alabama.
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Clinton
Alonzo Willard
East Main Street
Willard
Andrew Updike
Madison
William Willard
John M. Meigs
New York
Frances Hillard
Waterside
Howard Hillard
France
Ralph Meigs
New Haven
Emily Meigs
Albert Phelps
P. R. Bolton
George Green
Alabama
Death of Essex Resident William McCulloch at 93
William McCulloch, longtime Essex resident and oldest member of the Congregational church, died at his daughter Mrs. Curtis S. Pratt’s home after a short illness at age 93 years 5 months and 10 days. He leaves two daughters, a son, five grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. Funeral services will be at Mrs. Pratt’s home Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Other local items note Lenore Holt leaving Prann's store, Charles Potter’s new job in Centerbrook, a lodge meeting, family travels, Red Cross hours, and church activities at St. John’s Essex.
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Essex
William MacCulloch
Curtiss S. Pratt
Congregational Church
Curtis S. Pratt
Frank Gunn
James McCulloch
John P. Saunders
New London
Herbert MacCulloch
Brooklyn
Eliot Pratt
Smith Rogers
Sarah Rogers
Pratt
Lenore Holt
Prann’s
Centerbrook
Charles Potter
Maple Avenue
Connecticut Valley
M’s’g. Co
Fenwick Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Charles Pendelow
Madison
Red Cross
Riverview Hall
Carl Royce
Camp Devens
Young People’s Guild
Charles Bradeen
Dorothy Coulter
Fred Bradeen
Higganum Notices Prompt Help for War Roll Call
Mrs Tracy Neff of Hartford taught room five in Higganum school yesterday while a painter will soon finish the staff of the honor roll with the remaining names of local boys in service. The Red Cross reports a large refugee garment allotment and urges all local ladies to attend the meeting at Higganum school assembly room next Tuesday to aid the work. John Knowles of Ponsett traveled by runner to Higganum yesterday, the first sleigh of the season. Miss Ella Burr attended the Sunday school convention in Middletown on Thursday.
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Higganum
Tracy Neff
Hartford
Higganum School
Staddam
Daniel Brainerd
Haddam War Bureau
The
Red Cross
John Knowles
Ponsett
Ella Burr
Middletown
Danger Lurks in Constipation Health Ad Told
An old advertisement warns that neglect of the bowels poisons the body and causes kidney bladder stomach and skin troubles. It promotes Fruit-a-tives quick relief for constipation with prices 50c per box six for 2.50 and a 25c trial size, from Fruit-a-tives Limited Ogdensburg NY.
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Fruit-A-Tives Limited
Ogdensburg
N. Y
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