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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1919
Page
3
Multiple classified sale notices from Middletown and surrounding towns listing for sale a Paige touring car milch cows and calves horses hogs wood chicken coops pianos sheds farm properties and more. Also offers services like junk buying window cleaning and household repairs with contact names and addresses in Cromwell Middlefield Portland Haddam Essex and Ansonia.
A Navy Chaplain's letter from Brest France describes war graves and burial logistics amid influenza. He recalls 2000 soldiers dying there, most after being brought ashore from transports, and notes shortages of coffins and lumber. Bodies were laid to rest in a Brest district field, with 250 Black workers digging graves. Coffins were scarce, and yet reverent funerals were held as Catholics and Protestants prayed side by side.
The Atlantic Monthly describes engineers using a chiophone to detect faint sounds during quiet listening sessions. An officer listens over a chalk surface while troops wait for activity reports, noting that even minor movements reveal enemy activity from a distance. The scene ends with a planned blow at 8 45, barely felt by the observers.
A batch of lost items and a found row boat appear in local notices. Items include a wristwatch with initials L M K on Grand Main or Court Streets with a reward at 152 Grand St, a small bag with gloves and money to Miss A C Sisson of Cent erbrook, a wire wheel and a Good year tire on Middletown turnpike with reward to G L Gaines, a floating row boat on the Connecticut River found by B Jeobenszle at 111 Bridge St, several dogs including Tango registered No 10568 with Alfred Anderson Cromwell, a shepherd puppy named Leo to Berjeo Troerno at 90 Grove St, another shepherd dog Paeian around Hotelnies St, and an umbrella taken at the Parish House to Miss Forbush 46 a ham Ave with phone 523-12.
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