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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1918
Page
3
Reader notices list cows pigs and setters for sale alongside multiple houses and land offerings. Names include Cromwell Saintangelo Santangelo and Caiazza with locations in Cromwell East Hampton and Westbrook. Market items cover livestock, farm equipment, and building materials with prices and contact hints.
Descriptive ad seeks a pleasant 1 room or 4 room unit near Durham Main St. and offers a space for horse or automobile. Eight dollars monthly for an elderly couple. Contact Mrs. Sie I. Clark at Durham Centre for details.
Classified notices call for general help and animal stock buyers. Several entries seek cattle fat stock and live poultry at high prices, second hand clothing and bedding, boats and boating services, boarding homes, and various household goods. Local readers are instructed to respond via box numbers or phone listings in Colchester and Middletown areas.
Furnished and unfurnished rooms for rent by the day at 171 College St and 247 ZFURNISHED rooms with conventancies and central A ie Midd 5 College St. Also an 19 Grand St listing for property sales and real estate services in Middlesex county. Jos real estate and insurance. Phone 3835.
Help wanted notices show government positions for women in Washington with exams optional, and postings from Civil Service and private firms. Entries list locations, duties like clerical and telephone operator trainee, and contact details for applicants seeking government or domestic work.
Classifieds list several job ads for a male applicant to run auto delivery, blacksmith foreman, drop forge and press work, and general farm and factory roles. Employers include Riordan Bros, Warner Hammer Co, Caulkins & Post Co, Gildersleeve Ship Construction Co, and Royal Farms. Each ad specifies duties, locations in Norwich Cromwell Amston Conn, and wage cues.
Situations wanted by a young woman seeking clerical work in an office. Address 83 Asyl Street South Farms. Also a 16 year old girl seeks a place to care for children in the country or seashore. Apply Social Service League 542 Main Street between 11 am and 5 pm.
Notices detail voter registrar meetings in Cromwell on August 2 and August 5, 1918 for caucus list revisions, plus a bankruptcy discharge hearing for Loucas A Goukas in Middletown August 1, 1918. Other items include firm dissolution Xenesis & Andrews, guardianship sale of Emily Lietke property in Middletown, and city ordinance amendments on milk sample collection.
Washington dispatch outlines American expeditionary forces casualties totaling 105 with 24 killed in action 3 died of wounds 5 died from disease 5 from accidents and other causes 67 wounded severely and one missing. Marines attached report 6 casualties including 4 killed 3 died of wounds 15 wounded severely and 1 missing. New England lists include several killed in action died of wounds and wounded. One marine officer Arthur T Elmore died of wounds. Kaiser condemned by many societies in multiple languages.
Mrs H H Goodwin of Duked Tennessee recounts a nervous run-down condition eased by Vinci. She says the product, containing beef and cod liver peptones iron manganese compounds and glycerophosphates, rebuilt her weak system. Woodward Drug Co Hartman Drug Co and druggists advertise Vinci.
Pittsburgh beat Boston 7 to 2 while no other NL games were scheduled. In the American League Washington edged Chicago 3 2 while Boston won 3 1 and Detroit and Chicago battled to a 0 0 tie through nine. New York and St Louis tied 4 4 in 15 innings at darkness. International League results had Binghamton 4 Buffalo 3 and Toronto 7 Baltimore 6. Today’s games include Pittsburgh at Brooklyn St Louis at New York Detroit at Boston Toronto at Jersey City Buffalo at Newark Rochester at Baltimore.
Former Middletown pugilist Teddy Hubbs, once heavyweight rival to Boston and Hartford fighters, has moved to New Haven for muni tions work and plans to base his boxing活動 there. He has faced Benny Leonard Eddie Wallace Frankie Calahan K O Eggers Sweeney Condon Houck and Kirkwood in recent years and has even fought above his class near 125 pounds. Hubbs aims to revive his career in New Haven while continuing his work.
The snippet shows a dialogue about milking a dairy animal with farmerette asking “What’s the matter” and a response about milk to be collected. It appears to be an early humorous or social note from a New York Sun piece, illustrating rural life or agricultural topics.
Connecticut appeals to young women to enroll in the United States student nurse reserve. Connecticut must provide 40 volunteers before August 11. The campaign runs July 29 through August 11 nationwide, aiming for 25 000 enrollees aged 19 to 35. The State Council of Defense, Woman's Division, Hartford HQ offers information and coordinates enlistment via local committees. Heat kills four in New York as record July heat persists with 96 degree highs and widespread prostrations.
A historical advertisement lists live lobster at 40c per pound along with swordfish halibut salmon Spanish mackerel and various mackerel sea trout bass weakfish flounder scrod and cod steaks. Prices show 18c 38c 24c 246 22c 2c 18c and 12c per item with high grade sea foods emphasized.
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