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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1918
Page
4
Public notice announces subscription terms and address changes for The Penny Press. It requests subscribers and advertisers to send updates promptly, noting the deadline at 8 30 a m on publication day for changes or discontinuations.
New Haven forecast fair to partly cloudy with light winds and higher temperatures after tonight. The report surveys high and low pressure over the US, notes wintry conditions around the lake region, and mentions global events from Europe and Britain, including Prohibition prospects, submarine ideas, and the 14 points. Mt Higby records show temps around 20s, wind southwest, and clear weather.
A call to maintain self reliance through home gardens despite economic strain and price gouging. Moral suasion praised for past gains, advising planning for the coming year and promoting electric lighting over candles to prevent fires after Christmas.
The piece recalls Jefferson's views on avoiding entangling alliances with Europe and keeping the Americas independent in policy. It notes his shift toward alliances if circumstances strengthen American principles and asserts his enduring relevance to future relations and the Monroe Doctrine era.
The Springfield Republican reports a governor conference in Annapolis where state constabularies are seen as substitutes for the old militia. Governors favor abandoning state troops and relying on federal defense, with Governor Coolidge possibly taking a leadership role. The federal judge advocate general’s opinion, echoed by the National Guard secretary, would civilianize guardsmen after federal discharge under the 1916 act.
The piece argues for rethinking state militias in light of federal power, favoring a national military framework and state constabularies as substitutes. It critiques postwar hotel and restaurant controls, noting public acceptance of rationing, calls for voluntary restraint, and condemns profiteering and price hikes by hoteliers, urging customer protest.
Treasury issues strict orders banning whistles sirens and siren bands at home-coming troop dockings under penalties of fines or two years imprisonment. Captain Phelps of the Leviathan defends the tradition saying the noise honors wounded soldiers and shows American gratitude despite navigation concerns.
The coal comptroller in England offers to exchange two tons of large anthracite for every ton of bituminous coal on hand to urge burning anthracite. In the U S the fuel administration pushes bituminous coal while Welsh anthracite mines run part time and English Welsh bituminous mines work overtime. This could be a fine chance for ex-
The piece notes a trade imbalance where New York needs anthracite while England has surplus bituminous coal. Both sides mismanage their fuels, with New Yorkers unfamiliar with bituminous use and English ignorant of burning anthracite. It laments the global silliness and ends with a Turkish Empire note about Aleppo and bread.
Hortonville’s Mill Pond stands as a haven of spring calm, a beauty patch to the village, much like a robin’s song to a perfect day, and an apple pie and cheese to a hungry palate, embodying the town’s simple contentment.
The article argues that five and a half tons of goar are burned yearly per undeveloped horsepower from rivers and streams at two dollars per ton, claiming a waste worth thirty million tons of coal annually. It links this waste to rising coal prices driven by factory and home demand.
An advertisement extols Peptiron as a powerful iron blood and nerve tonic. It claims the remedy aids recovery after influenza and grip, helps anemia and nervous weakness, and benefits worn-out men, delicate women, tired students, growing boys, invalids, convalescents, and the aged. It states the product puts iron into the blood and restores red cells and urges readers to ask their druggist.
The statement notes that water power of any size in the country that cannot be harnessed to electri generate and transmit remains untapped. It implies limits or barriers to converting water energy into usable electricity and grid delivery.
A fragment discusses transportation to nearby cities for ENea manufacturing with references to 200 and 300 mile ranges. It notes limits for distance and potential logistical implications for production planning.
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