Middlesex Theatre Showcases Mixed Film Lineup and Musical Comedy
A busy slate features four great pictures for Thursday including Eyes with Ruth Clifford Monroe Salisbury and Stolen Hours with Clayton. Prodigal with Fox athlete George, The Devil, The Bull’s & Keystone comedy, Oh Boy! musical comedy, and Empty Pockets plus A Life and That Prey. Casts include Helen Shipman Irene Gharries Compton Joseph Bel Caroline and more, with stage enhancements and smart gowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Theatre
Barbara Wilfred Lucas
Anders
Ruth Clifford
Monroe Salisbury
1 Clayton
Jay
Fox
George
Voradora
the Middlesex
New
Boston
F. Ray Meek
William Elliott
Middletown
Helen Shipman
Irene -Gharies Compton
Joseph Bel
Caroline
Ttest
Local notes mix with town events and arrivals
Fragmented OCR lists brief items from town life including home stays in New York visits by J McCann and Mrs Charles Young, new Ford cars, first time electric lights, Sunday callers Flora Harding and Pearl Hard, a cantata rehearsal for The Happy Family of Father Time, and a three day sale of trimmed hats beginning May 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ybrook Street
Charles Young
Flora Harding
East Long
Mass
Pearl Hardteacher
Guilford High Ool
Luther Braddock
New York
North Main Street
War pictures and talk draw Colchester crowd
Colchester yesterday saw a crowded hall for war pictures and a talk by Sergeant Arthur Gibbons of the third Canadian Infantry. Mrs Nettie Paine and daughters from East Hampton attended. Eleanor Paine played piano at the show. Local residents visited Norwich. The New London county Sunday school association institute meets May 2 at Westchester Congregational church. Joseph Lazinsk returned to Reading after a visit with his parents. Commander George Brown resumes activity after illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colchester
Arthur Gibbons
Third Canadian Infantry
Nettie Paine
Pleanor
East Hampton
L. C. Brown
Eleanor Paine
Frank Doane
T. P. Kinney
Norwich
New London County Sunday School Association Institute
Westchester Congregational Church
Congregational Church
Joseph Lazinsk
Reading
A. Lazinsk
F. E. Baker
New Britain
George Brown
Deep River Social Notes and Local Moves
In Deep River on May 1 Mrs. John E Williams hosts her Middletown guest. Julius Jacobs takes a job at the player piano factory. Seymour Tracy leaves for Hartford to pitch for Pratt & Whitney’s factory team. Mrs Alfred Johnson is ill and her daughter Miss Gunilla Johnson nurses her. Mrs George Johnson rushed to Meriden for husband’s sanatorium illness. Henry Palms injured by a circular saw at the piano factory. Mrs Thomas R Duggan and son Philip visit relatives. Mr and Mrs Max Wimovsky and children stay with Miss Esther Wimovsky in New London. Mr and Mrs Simon R LaPlace with children spend Sunday in Manchester.
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Deep River
John E. Williams
Middletown
Julius Jacobs
Player
Seymour Tracy
Pratt & Whitney Company
Hartford
Alfred Johnson
Gunilla Johnson
Middlesex Hospital
George Johnson
Meriden
Henry Palms
Player Piano Factory
Thomas R. Duggan
Philip
Max Wimovsky
Louie
Bessie Wimovsky
Esther Wimovsky
New London
Simon R. LaPlace
Manchester
Higganum Community Notices Prompt Various Local Meetings
Higganum May 1 The Congregational prayer meeting is set for Thursday evening at Adolph Stone s home Red Cross activities proceed Thursday at Miss Brainard s The Sunday school board of the Methodist Episcopal church meets after the Thursday prayer meeting An organizing meeting for the Red Cross drive was held in Haddam last evening The Epworth League annual meeting will be Friday evening at the Methodist church followed by a program Rev Mr Caldwell aims to meet local boys Friday evenings at the reading room where about seventeen to twenty three attend Mr Seeley of East Hampton visited the town yesterday
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Higganum
Adolph Stone
Red Cross
Seeley
East Hampton
Red Cross Meeting Planned in Chatham Library
May 1 The Red Cross will meet at the library Thursday afternoon and evening. Women in Middle Haddam have collected 6750 in Liberty Bonds. Prof and Mrs Whicher and Mrs Whicher Jr are visiting. Mr and Mrs Thompson plan to move belongings to Schenectady. Wm Connery returns home after winter in Savannah. Mrs Broome and daughter arrive for summer with Mrs Connery.
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Chatham
Middle Haddam
Red Cross
Mayo Scranton
East Hampton
Leon Hale
Women’s Activity Committee
George Whicher
Thompson
Schenectady
Wm. Connery
Airs Home
Savan
Father’s Advice Stirs Awe in May Day Column
Yonkers Statesman item recounts A. F. Kokojan presenting a fatherly counsel. The piece notes a tale of love and finances set on Old Saybrook day May 2. A humorous quip asks what a father advised when his child loved someone but had only $100 saved.
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Yonkers
Portland Takes Liberty Loan Lead With Oversubscription
Liberty loan drive boosts Portland subscriptions to more than three times its quota, with $7,600 raised at Gildersleeve Ship Construction Co. and the possibility of a further quadruple allotment. An honor flag dedication is planned for May 13 near Town Hall with music and speeches to mark the raising. Attorney Carl F. Anderson departs for Fort Slocum to join the U S army. his brother Benjamin serves in France. Emeralds Fair planned May 9–11 to aid the repair fund with Ford's Orchestra for dancing. Stated Masonic meeting set. officers to be installed. Edwin Gustafson ill with appendicitis. no operation expected. Community notices include lodge and church events and relocations of residents to Washington and Brooklyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Liberty Loan
Gildersleeve Ship Construction Co
A. N. Shepard
Liberty Loan Committee
Anderson
Carl F. Anderson
Fort Slocum
N. Y
United States Army
Ferdinand Anderson
Waverly Avenue
Benjamin
France
Middlesex County Bar Association
Gustaf B. Carlson
Middletown
Young
Emeralds T. A. B. Society
Ford
R. C. Kuldell
Ethelyn May
Robert Cramer Kuldell
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Temple of Honor
Bayliss
Seymour
Edwin C. Gustafson
Freestone Avenue
A. OH
Bransfield
C. G. Erickson
Swedish Lutheran Church
Brooklyn
Old People’s Home
Atlantic City
N. Je
Prices Fall Despite Sidelong Weather Jests
A Newark Advocate quip mixes verse about snow in winter and ice in summer with a punchline that prices always fall. Uncle Hummer and Luke McLuke mock fluctuating weather while noting the steady downward trend in prices amid seasonal irony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Uncle Hummer
Luke McLuke
Newark
Luke
Hood's Sarsaparilla and Peptiron Medicine Duo
Advertising copy touts Hood's Sarsaparilla with Peptiron as effective for rheumatism appetite and vitality. Claims iron content and blood purifying stomach toning benefits. Recommends Hood's Pills for biliousness constipation and liver ills when a cathartic is needed.
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Hood
Burglars Loot Postmaster Office Safe in Huntington
Report says fourteen burglars entered Postmaster Arthur W. Gibbs office in Huntington and stole items from F. P. Stanton's stable to muffle noise. They blew open the safe with stolen tools, found it unlocked, and left a Gibbs note describing how to open compartments. nothing of value was recovered as they escaped through a rear window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Repub
Arthur W. Gibbs
Huntington Ee
F. P. Stanton
Mr. Stanton
Mr. Gibbs
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Lucille Ward
Carls
Freddie Smith
Bull
Mary Miles Minter
Moore
Ton ‘Holmes Travel
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A. F. Kokojan
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Old Saybrook
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Leah Baird
James Morrison
Barbara Castelton
Wilfred Lucas
Ethel Clayton
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Bluebird
Sidney Drew
George Walsh
Jack Spurlock Prodigal
Roy Stewart
Devil Dodger
Camille
Genuine Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Montgomery Flagg
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Custom Tailors
Burton Holmes Travel
Benjamin Chapin
Victor Moore
William Russell
Matinee
Adolph Zukor
Ann Pennington
Nan
Calvary Alley
Alice Hogan
Billy West
Herbert Brenon
Eagle’s Eye
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Fray
COMED
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