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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1919
Page
4
Sa ye DR IN EDITORIAL HOOMS. Subscribers must send payment and changes of address by the date of publication. Advertising changes and discontinuations must be received by the office on the day of publication to ensure prompt attention. Postoffice Middletown Conn. second class matter. On sale at 668 Main St.
Forecast calls for snow or rain tonight and Saturday with warmer conditions tonight. Moderate east to south winds across Connecticut. Disturbances over Oklahoma Indiana and New Mexico bring cloudy skies and rain or snow in central and southern districts. Observations include mostly cloudy readings from Hartford, New York, Boston, and Washington with rain or snow in several locations.
Mt Higby station reports 24 hours to noon: max 40, min 18, mean 29. Winds southerly, cloudy. News item notes Taft, Salvation Army aid to ex-bartenders, low reservoirs, impending coal and ice prices, beer shortages, and trolleys facing financial issues. Mentions graft in navy, land fraud fears, and rising taxes amid a general sense of national unrest.
The discussion foresees a national and state income tax as a rising revenue basis while public servants face broader taxation. It argues for more state parks on mountains and shores, and notes growing public access via aerial travel, hinting at easier shore and mountain getaways as climate allows.
The essay argues the July 1 war time prohibition act is a fraudulent, purely political move unrelated to the eighteenth amendment. It claims Congress enacted it as a peace measure after World War I to bridge the period before the amendment could take effect, warns of draconian future laws, and urges public and congressional pushback to protect liberties.
The New York Globe endorses free market forces over Redfield's plan to regulate prices via an industrial review board. It argues supply and demand should set prices, and that public publicity about profiteering effectively lowers prices by informing consumers to adjust buying.
A home remedy warning about darkening hair with Sage Tea and Sulphur, noting the prep is messy to make at home but available ready-made as Wyeth's and Sulphur Compound. The ad section emphasizes a simple dampening method with a sponge or brush to cover hair strands for a natural, even look.
Old Saybrook marked a sixth birthday with friends from town and Haddam enjoying two hours of games and music before a collation. Mrs. A Snow returned to Junction restaurant after two months in New Haven. Local officers J E Brooks and Edward F M McLean were called to Middletown for a meeting that was postponed to this evening. Italian immigrant Steve Tuerno, 26, jailed after threatening Dominick Pontello with two guns, was bound over to the superior court under bonds of two thousand dollars on multiple charges. Church services announced for St Johns Grace Episcopal First Congregational with Sunday School times. Mrs Frederick G Fish visited New Haven.
Large turnout for Siloam Lodge 50th year of P. M. Tucker as a Mason. Tucker, only living member of the 13 dispensation recipients for Old Saybrook lodge, and one of two surviving members with 50 years in Masonry. Past masters apron given. history of the Lodge shared. Banquet served to conclude.
An old style advert claims Tiz eases sore burning and swollen feet and eliminates corns bunions and callouses. It promises instant relief with a 25 cent box from drug or department stores and suggests wearing smaller shoes for a year of comfort.
In Bonn Germany on January 21 Americans and Canadians from the Forty second Rainbow division faced Second Canadian division competitors. The Americans won all wrestling bouts and five of six. A feature boxing match saw Gunnar Horskevitch of the Canadian forces lose to Gunner McCarthy of the US Army. Private Swabrook of the Canadian infantry defeated the American engineer. Sixty Canadian officers attended a banquet hosted by Alabama mountaineers after the show.
A simple home remedy promises painless corn removal using fingers and minimal cost. Advertised as safe, the method claims quick relief with no tools or medicines required.
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