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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1919
Page
4
Postpaid subscriptions to IN ONAL NE CIAL WIRE AND OPER will be stopped if payment is not received. Subscribers must provide order details and term. names not listed until payment. Ads cannot be altered after publication. Paper mailed from 3 book Giore ary Main Bt Middletown, second class matter.
Weather notes from Haven report fair and cold conditions with a storm near Nantucket bringing heavy rains along the Atlantic coast and frigid temperatures inland. The piece also discusses taxes, daylight saving debates, dry laws, vote buying, and statements from Governor Sleeper on Prohibition and enforcement amid national political chatter.
The text argues against establishing a higher court in the county’s remote lower sections, noting transportation hardships to Middletown the county seat. It contends one high court suffices given modern roads and automobile use, and warns against adding tax burdens through new judicial or related authorities.
The Detroit News argues the U S government holds a vast, war time surplus including 64 055 362 pairs of socks and millions of coats trousers undershirts and gloves It warns distribution could disrupt markets and urges careful use to stabilize commerce and preserve business confidence nationwide.
In Los Angeles Record style dialogue a philosopher and a squire debate fear. A hog’s uncontrolled vandalism prompts a blunt lesson on fear as a tool of control. The squire frames use of force to subdue the animal while noting it could apply to humans. The exchange ends with a warning on brutal methods.
The London Tit-Bits item recounts a new clerk, ultra Scotch, who wears a white chrysanthemum. Jenkins teases him with a joke about a thistle while the clerk quips that any flower is a threat to a donkey. The exchange shows playful workplace banter and ethnic humor of the era.
Fragmentary OCR hints at a health product or regimen for weakened lungs with mentions of cough relief and bottles or dosages. No clear person, organization, date, or outcome is readable.
Saturday night at the Y M C A Fisk Red Tops of Chicopee Falls Mass meet Middletown in a highly anticipated game. The Red Tops feature Snooks Dowd Al Remelee Gunther and guards Dayton Allen and Sheehan. The local five are in top form and will aim to repeat last year’s close 26 25 victory over Middletown.
An 19th century style advertisement touts Schenck's Mandrake Pills as a cure for dullness and constipation. It claims one dose improves energy and relieves bilious headaches, offering uncoated or sugar coated boxes at 25 cents, by Dr. J. H. Schenck & Son of Philadelphia.
Weimar on February 26 reports show the second reading passed for a national army of defense amid socialist opposition warning of militarism. War Minister Gustave Noske defended the measure, stressing frontier defense and that the new army would be far smaller than the old, aiming to curb bolshevik threats.
Cromwell hosts a rifle match with East Hampton this evening. Andre Lodge No. 18 O. of V. marks 20th anniversary Thursday with Henry Hanson speaking. Rocky Hill Grange hall hosts a dance Friday by Hartford orchestra. Willie Burns ill at home. Robert Karlstrom visiting Holyoke. Congregational supper Thursday evening. O Richter lectures on Sweden during the war Sunday in Middletown. Crowmell citizens urged to attend and learn true wartime Sweden conditions.
Mrs Lizzie Courtney of Oskaloosa Iowa writes of relief from years of misery and pain from displacement irregularities and other menopausal symptoms after using Lydia E Pinkham's Compound She endorses the medicine and invites others to seek advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass for help based on its long experience.
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