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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1919
Page
11
The New York Medical Journal notes chewing gum as a widespread masticatory habit with possible physiological benefits. The War Department reports field units using chewing gum to substitute water, and the American Red Cross ordered gum for reconquered territories where wells were poisoned.
Sergeants Abe Griesner and Murphy of Company C moved a 350 structure on rollers and jacks to a new site, claiming it the first time a stone house was relocated in France. French officials doubted feasibility but the house settled with no cracks, prompting photos for the Academy of Sciences. The move could expedite railway track clearance and station protection along new lines.
The Societe Francaise de Secours aux Blesses Militaires unveils a flexible new mobile field hospital for active warfare. It includes tents for triage administration operating and autography, with sterilizers and autoclaves, carried by two trucks and two trailers to rapidly relocate and treat thoracic abdominal and head wounds.
Miss Jessie E. Cone of Granville has toiled in tie drum shops, tacking hoops at a high rate. She works from 6 a.m. to about 6 p.m., assisting at home on the farm where she milks cows and tends other duties, raising 25 bushels of produce and preserving over 70 jars of vegetables last year.
The Air Ministry announces a light blue uniform approved for Royal Air Force officers and airmen. Some months pass before widespread provision, with khaki soon available and gradually replaced by blue uniforms.
The Riverside New York restaurant Sweets, once run by a proprietor who helped his father after the Civil War, recalls cooking the finest steaks in the world for six cents and turning a profit before bankruptcy ended its era.
War department reports more than five thousand gas masks for horses produced by the gas defense service. They are to be shipped immediately for use by American expeditionary forces in the field, ensuring animal protection amid chemical threat.
Providence Journal argues that democratic leaders will face campaign questions on wasteful extravagance in government war activities. It cites investigations showing inefficiency and mismanagement, attributing some waste to wartime urgency and much to administrative incompetence.
Reginald Bryan Owen, six, son of Major Owen in Egypt, traveled from Liverpool on the Megantic to Portland to join his grandparents William Jennings Bryan and wife in Baltimore. He bears a French Legion of Honor medal awarded by a French captain. A governess accompanied him four months abroad. Postmasters at Boston and New York met them. Major Owen and Mrs. Owen plan to return to America soon. A Boston photo captures the youngster on arrival.
The Iron Duke, famed Duke of Wellington, is noted as more than a war leader he directed a concert in England after achieving fame as a commander. A Brooklyn Eagle writer observes this rare shift from soldier to musician highlighting his adaptability.
A wealthy Englishman argued that a good home civilizes a community and built an open fence so passersby could enjoy the house lawn and garden. He believed girls growing up to be homemakers should learn the home owes something to the community.
In Persia the great drink is sher bet a plentiful beverage with many varieties from lemon water to diluted fruit juice. Glasses are reserved for the rich while the common folk drink sherbet from china bowls and deep pearwood spoons.
A ruin at Casa Grande near Florence Italy shows the remains of a communal Pueblo house. The structure likely dates from a southern plains people who may have left or merged with other tribes before the 1800 Aztec southward pilgrimage.
An advertisement promises a new method that cures asthma and offers a free trial at the sender’s expense. It targets long standing and recent cases regardless of climate age or occupation and urges immediate mail-in coupon submission with no payment required.
Joy-Walker introduces Gets-It as the world’s magic corn remover. Two to three drops ease pain, loosen corns from the toe, and allow peeling with fingers. Avoid greasy salves and razors. guaranteed money-back, sold by E. Lawrence & Co. in Chicago and carried by Woodward Drug Co. and Hartman Drug Co. in Middletown.
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