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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1919
Page
4
The notice informs subscribers to update addresses and changes to avoid service interruptions. It notes the paper operates under a post office registration and that changes must be received before publication deadlines. It also lists mailing offices and mentions second class matter status.
Feb 8 forecast indicates snow late today with tonight and Sunday partly cloudy. Local conditions favor partly cloudy skies with possible flurries and little temperature change. Observations list varied cloud and precipitation across Atlantic City Boston Chicago Hartford Jacksonville New York Norfolk Pittsburgh Portland St Louis and Washington.
Mt Higby station logged a 24 hour period ending noon with a 35 high, 12 low, 23.5 average. The column then drifts through wartime slogans, taxes, politics, price trends, and public works talk, noting electric use for summer, beverage bans, labor issues, and debates over public versus private institutions in Connecticut.
Contemplation of a three dollar per mile seat of seeent road implies a permanent roadway. The Durham to Guilford highway will be built this season, relieving congestion on other routes. an early construction of Higganum to Killingworth will provide a shore outlet and improve safety on the Saybrook river road.
Cromwell readers learn of illnesses and furloughs, church schedules for Lutheran Baptist Congregational Swedish Mission and other faiths, plus a Roosevelt Sunday postponement to Feb 23 for Boy Scouts medal ceremony. Local visitors Rev Mortenson and Lt Fred Nelson are noted.
Westbrook on February 8 reports Mrs Avery, Mrs Scudder Lewis, Mrs Hoxsie and Mrs Hill hosting the Ladies' Congregational society gathering. Notices include Mrs L W Gregg in New Haven, apron committee meeting at Miss A S Moore's home, and Mr and Mrs Henry Parker visiting their daughters in New Haven and Wethersfield. An all day Red Cross work session with box lunch is planned, Owing to this, Tuesday's usual opening is omitted. Ice conditions hinder harvesting. 8 to 9 inches unfrozen for cutting. February sale at Arkin's Essex lists fabric and clothing discounts.
The Rocky Hill column reports church services planned for tomorrow, and updates on residents. Mrs John Backe recovers from illness and various locals attended Hartford events, with Miss Barbara Brown visiting Hartford and a Center school demonstration led by Annie B Andrews. The library and Fort Center activities, social meetings, and family travel are noted along with a furlough visit from Sergeant Horace H Hills of the Base Hospital in Boston.
Centerbrook Feb 8 The Liberty chorus will sing Sunday evening at the Theodore Roosevelt memorial service at the Baptist church in Essex. They meet at six oclock for rehearsal. Mrs Edward Bushnell and Mrs Albert Ely were guests of Mrs Frederick Chapman in Ivoryton. Mr Andrews of New Haven was in town Thursday on business. John Potter has received his honorable discharge from the U S army and has returned to work at Behrens and Bushnell s garage. William Griffin is making repairs at Mrs John Bly s residence in Essex. Mrs D C Stedman has returned home from Middletown.
Baltimore reports its first real winter taste as a snowstorm starts early today. More than an inch of snow has fallen, blanketing streets and triggering winter weather warnings across the city.
A lengthy Essex page lists church services at various houses of worship with times and topics including Catholic, Baptist, and St. John's. rosters note union memorial events for ex president Roosevelt with speakers from Ivoryton and Centerbrook. Red Men adoption ceremony, Sunday school, and youth guild details follow. Local school sports results mention Pratt High basketball wins over West Haven church team and upcoming games with Branford Home Guard and East Lyme or Westford teams. a sale ad for fabrics and calico appears among the notices.
Lieutenant Jack Tweed, stationed in Panama, plans a visit to his Madison mother at Webster Point. The Madison Red Cross branch has abundant garment material awaiting sewers. The community notes include Young Men's club meeting at Jay Clark's home, flu illness in Union district, and travelers Mrs. Parker, Miss Coe, Miss Scranton, and others. The Boy Scouts prep a Lincoln birthday banquet in the chapel next Wednesday.
An advertisement touts a homemade cough remedy using sugar syrup or alternatives like molasses honey or corn syrup. It claims rapid relief for coughs, bronchitis and related throat issues, touting a concentrated Norway pine product as key and offering a money back guarantee for the Pinex brand.
An advertisement asserts that daily bowel elimination prevents auto intoxication linked to kidney and bladder troubles. It argues constipation poisons the blood and causes ailments from indigestion to skin disorders, promoting Fruit-a-tives tablets as a remedy. Available as 50c per box, six for $2.50, or 25c trial size, from Fruit-A-Tives Limited in Ogdensburg New York.
A vintage ad from East Berlin features Henry Hubbard claiming he sells Dr. McKee's Couga Syrup and uses it himself. He notes he was the first customer and cites its cure for his wife’s severe cold, with Chas. L. Sage endorsing it at local grocers and druggists.
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