Trouting Season Returns as Old Timers Revisit Brook
The piece recalls the trouting season’s return and the lure of the old trout brook for aging fishermen and members of Equanimity Lodge No.1. It shares memories of youth, the ritual of preparing tackle, and a hopeful return to the brook on opening day, with anecdotes of family outings and the enduring pull of the sport.
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Equanimity Lodge No.1
Coleridge
Pop
Kerplunk
Saw Mill
Big Brother
Tim
Otter Pond
Oliver
Tom
Middletown
Sage and Sulphur Darkens Gray Hair
A vintage advertorial notes Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound restores natural hair color. It claims easy use with a sponge or brush, fading gray in days to a darker glossy look and promotes the product as a convenient toilet requisite.
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Wyeth
Designs Signed For Solar Light Co and Silverware Labels
Nathan Cozatsky of New Haven signs for Solar Light Co New York N Y gas lamp socket. Clarence D Platt of Bridgeport electric switch holder with two patents. Labels Harry A Goulden Botsford “Kure Zit. Prints” International Silver Co Meriden for Tales over the Tea Tables. International Silver Co Meriden “A gift of 1847 Rogers Bros Silver ware” for silverware.
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Nathan Cozatsky
New Haven
Solar Light Company
New York
N. Y
Clarence D. Platt
Bridgeport
Harry A. Goulden
Botsford
Kure Zit
International Silver Co
Meriden
Rogers Bros
Volunteer Farmers For France
The piece argues for American agrarian aid to France as vital for wartime logistics. It urges sending tractors, threshers, binders, and other tools, and even suggests 1000 American farmer volunteers to develop liberated land while awaiting U S military deployment. It highlights transport for nitrate of soda and labor needs as critical to a successful 1918 harvest.
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France
The
New Republic
America
Co-Operative Movement
Deserted Lands of France Show Agricultural Ruin
The New Republic notes war’s damage to French agriculture extends beyond battlefields. Loss of labor and fertilizer reduced productivity, leaving vast wheat and beet lands overgrown with weeds and pests. Evacuated departments reveal shell holes and ruined fields alongside neglected crops and trees.
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France
New Republic
Souvenir Gas Masks Show How Germans Saw Him
Major A. W. Owen, commander of western division of the British Canadian Recruiting Mission, explains why gas masks are top war souvenirs. He recalls comrades from trench raids and shows how recruits view the grim sides of war. Recruits carry both masks on active service, ten to fifteen seconds to don, with P H cloth hood and box respirator described.
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No Man’s Land
A. W. Owen
Major Owen
Western Division
T. J. Wall
Canadian Pacific Railway
France
Owen
John Payne
Milwaukee
Pat's Church and State Satirical Ballad
Rev F J ONeil laments church and state conflict in a comic verse about clashing loyalties. It mocks wartime patriotism to claim church and nation are intertwined, promising steadfast support for red white and blue and a fierce stance against Kaiser Germany.
How To Honor Redmond
Praise of John Redmond for Ireland and civilization fills Boston Transcript readers. His wartime support is praised as justified. Irish Americans, with bared heads at his bier, honor him by following his leadership and aiding concord between Ireland and England.
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Redmond
Boston Transcript
John Redmond
Ireland
Redmond’s dying plea for Ireland’s unity and memory
In his final message to Lloyd George, John Redmond invoked reconciliation beyond faction and urged honoring his service to Ireland. He rebuked hatred, stressing lifelong loyalty and undeniable gains for Ireland, urging countrymen to consecrate his work after his death.
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Lish
Lloyd-George
Redmond
John Redmond
Ireland
Boarding-house Ad Seeks Blue-Blooded Boarders
Boston Evening Transcript notes a humorous want ad proposing a boarding house that claims it accepts only blue-blooded boarders and jokes that the host verifies status by bleeding them. The quip reflects satirical press want ads of the era.
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Boston Evening Transcript
New VapoRub Trial Offer Delights North Carolina Druggists
Local druggists report strong interest in Vicks VapoRub a new treatment from a North Carolina druggist. Sold on a 30 days trial with no charge, the salve is promoted to ease chest coughs bronchitis tonsillitis and other lung ailments by releasing medicated vapors through body heat. Patients benefit from rapid relief for croup and night-time attack prevention with routine nightly use. The ad urges customers to try the product as a modern substitute for southern air therapy.
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Pine Barrens
North Carolina
Vick
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Plainville
George W. Downing
Stamford
Downing Carburetor Corporation
Esopus
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Bead Chain Manufacturing Company
Ellsworth A. Hawthorne
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Waterbury Mig| Co
Waterbury
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Pat’s Church and State
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