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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1918
Page
4
The notice describes payment stoppage for subscriptions if not prepaid and directs updating address details. It lists newspaper offices at 299 Main Street, 188 Main Street, 652 Main Street, and 472 Main Street as locations where notices or ads can be purchased or updated.
Government weather bulletin from New Haven July 19. Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday for Haven and vicinity with fair conditions for Connecticut. A long trough of low pressure extends from Alabama to Maine bringing cloudy weather with local showers along gulf and Middle Atlantic coasts. Observations list varied conditions across cities including New Haven cloudy 72 and Hartford cloudy 66.
Report from Mt Higby station shows 24 hours ending noon with max 82, min 57, mean 69.5 and noon 80. A Northeast wind and clear conditions. barometer 29.66 and water at 25 feet 9 inches. The piece also notes wartime sentiments, German sympathy, and various brief political notes about America, Germany, and war news, including Quentin Roosevelt and public morale.
The text notes that women voters outnumber men in one Texas county yet some educated centers show reluctance among women to register. It argues war debt at six percent of wealth is not catastrophic and critiques speculative claims. It recounts Garabed as a myth and Baum seeking 50 000 airplanes, facing grand jury scrutiny after capitalists declined to fund him.
The New York Globe notes Republicans gathered at Saratoga seek Colonel Roosevelt to lead. It argues he shaped public opinion and pressed for preparedness in 1914 1917 and that the party should embrace progressivism to regain national confidence and pursue world reorganization for lasting peace.
The San Francisco Bulletin notes a newly discovered star could scarcely threaten Earth yet acknowledges the inherent risks of our crowded universe. The piece reflects on the fragility of life amid cosmic scales, comparing humanity’s activities to dodging projectiles in a side show.
A De Pauw professor lost $11 near Union Station after two strangers lured him into a penny matching scheme. The episode prompts questions about protecting students and teaching life skills against long-continued con games once common in society.
The Los Angeles Times notes a rare breach of civilized warfare in the Civil War as prisoners were starved maltreated and murdered at Andersonville. Captain Wirz, a German born officer, was held responsible and hanged after the war.
Chauncey Porter Goss Sr., president and treasurer of the Scoville Manufacturing Company and owner of Matthews Willard Mfg Co, died at his Waterbury home. Born August 5 1838 in Rochester New York he arrived in Waterbury in 1862 and rose from bookkeeper to president in 1900. He married Caroline Amelia Ketchum in 1864. she died in 1915. A Republican, he belonged to the First Congregational church but never held office.
In Waterbury Judge John F McGrath labeled Frank Andrulis the most dangerous man in the community and a menace as he appeared in city court on charges of practicing medicine without a license and performing an illegal operation. After a preliminary hearing he waived exam and was bound over to Superior Court on $3000 bond. Known as Dr Andrulis in the Lithuanian settlement, he had previously been fined $100 and costs for practicing without a license.
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