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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1918
Page
7
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Dorothy Grant appears with Vivian Martin in the Mount Paramount feature Her Country First at the Middlesex tonight. The program includes travel and Lyons Moran comedy with Miss Farrar as a cigarette girl famed for promiscuous wit and entrancing beauty. At the Middlesex Thursday Dec 12 vaudeville and other pictures shown.
Saybrook Point December reports Mrs. George Phelps away several days visiting Miss Elise Mey who is housebound with influenza. John T. Frenyear on the sick list. Mrs. M. C. Chapman visiting her ill son in Andover. Miss Elizabeth Fairbank returns from Hartford visit with sister Mrs Lewis Pratt. Mrs. Fred Chapman recently a town visitor.
A damaged advert claims California Syrup of Figs helps constipated children. The copy asserts a laxative now can prevent future illness by easing the child’s tummy and bowel waste, linking constipation to fussiness, poor appetite, and restlessness.
Mrs R E Foote Miss Helen Foote and Miss Barbara Kimball featured in a school event. The total thrift stamps sale reached 103.92 with Room 6 contributing 26.3. Attendance last week was 93.48 percent. Chester High Glee Club formed with Minnie Klein as president Howard Crook vice president Susie Wilcox secretary treasurer. Club meets Mondays after noon. Junior Four Minute Speech winners listed by grade. A December 12 get together supper at the Baptist vestry includes a miscellaneous sale and a bank envelope collection for attendees.
Essex notes a cottage prayer meeting at Charles and Mary Peck home on Little Baty Bagory St, a former Waterbury resident moving back to rooms on North Main. Mrs John Carlson and Annie Carlson visited New London. Professor Burdick recovers from illness. Insurance agent Joseph M Kelley called on Deep River. Private Paul Johns of the U.S. Army takes furlough at Main St. Home Workers Society meets at Congregational church Thursday afternoon. Mrs C C Davis returns from New Haven. Betsey Ross Tent meets at Odd Fellows hall. H D Robinson visits Hartford.
Ivoryton updates list residents with influenza cases and recoveries. Julian Potwin moves from Springfield to Main Street. Ernest Hoadley from Camp Devens visits. Henry Bump Jr and George Bump ill. William Hill joins Comstock Cheney Co. Local meetings noted. holiday ads promote shops in Ivoryton and Deep River.
Now is the time to select Christmas goods and footwear. Visit John M. Dudek's in Deep River for a full line of Ralston's shoes and a complete assortment of hosiery shirts gloves and caps.
A Deep River gathering of the local Blackbirds at Mrs C R Marvin's home celebrated Mrs F L Duncan visiting from Los Angeles. The group, famed singers, recalled past town improvements funded by their earlier Cantata productions including the Pinafore show that financed Main Street sidewalks. Prof Herbert O Clough attended, Baldwin Chapter OES to meet at Masonic Hall tonight.
Miss Jennie Mintz visited Norwich yesterday. Colchester State Guards faced the Y M C A of Willimantic in a Saturday night game at the Tip Top. Grange officers were elected for the ensuing year, with A H Foote as Master and E R Gillette on the executive committee. Influenza cases reported in town. Mr. Becker and family departed for Newark New Jersey.
Miss Weather Porter traveled to Bridgeport. Miss Ella Burr hosted a W C T U gathering. Alice Burr returns to Higganum School. The Red Cross met with limited attendance but progress made. William Burr Jr. returns to hospital service in the south after France duty with the 102nd Regiment. Mrs Farley of New York visits Beaver Landman. Capt Day introduces a sea ballad about a mariner and rough passage from Bermuda ending with a pensive sailor’s line.
Old Saybrook notes report the funeral for J P Newton will be Thursday at 11 AM at his home, with burial at Union Grove cemetery Mystic. A. L. Chapman and Gus E Hansen were injured in a car crash returning from butchering, near the town pump, both bruised and the car damaged. Edward OBrien writes from France of a seven day furlough and growing optimism as the war ends. Avery Edwin Gilman to assist father as railway mail clerk on Valley division during Christmas. Mrs B E Gilleeve of Fenwick visiting relatives in New London.
An advertising claim touts Mi-o-na stomach tablets as the best prescription for indigestion. It promises to rebuild stomach strength and enable hearty meals without artificial aid, asserting guaranteed relief or money back. The text targets readers with sour stomach and indigestion, urging purchase from druggists and Buell.
Old health column advises avoiding disease through calm action. Recommends gauze masks soaked in zinc sulfate solution and frequent hand and towel precautions. Promotes hot lemon drinks, restful bed, hot foot baths, mild laxatives, Anuric Tablets, and Dr Pierce remedies to relieve symptoms and fortify strength.
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