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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1918
Page
6
The Connecticut Woman's State Council aims to mobilize Portland women for a meeting at the town hall from 2 to 3 p m on Monday May 6. Attendees are urged to bring a lunch box and a speaker from Hartford Mrs Eve s will discuss women's roles in the war effort.
In Meriden 2:80 o'clock news notes Sergeant Arthur Evans of Camp Devens has been recommended to the war department for a second lieutenant commission after attending the third officers training school. He is the son of Mr and Mrs M Evans who recently moved from here to Brooklyn New York. Evans married last week to a county girl. The town school committee plans an important meeting this evening at the town hall at 7 30. George F Cramer enjoys two days rest from bank duties.
Higganum May 2 report notes the King's Heralds postpone their meeting this week. Mrs Kellogg of Middletown visited town. Children enjoyed May baskets. Frank Luntz of East Hampton read meters here yesterday. Mrs Whitney Porter hosted a sewing meeting for Belgians. News arrives of Miss Margery Thayer's illness. Miss Thayer is aunt to Union school teacher Ivanette Bailey. Andrew Sorenson of Bridgeport visits his parents. Mrs Emma Noyes, lately in Washington, stays on Walkley Hill. Miss Daisy Marble leaves for Middletown work. Mrs Miller suffers rheumatism at home.
Old Saybrook notes Saybrook remembrances for Arnold a well known Essex druggist born in Bridgeport 39 years ago who left a wife Leora C Jillson and a son George Edward plus two sisters in New Jersey. He suffered chronic Bright's disease for weeks with sympathy letters from friends in multiple towns. Also local notices share Eastern Star meeting rehearsals Liberty loan rally at Town hall plans and Red Cross Red Cross meeting details with loans fundraising totals and speakers.
Sunday brought pleasant weather as residents in and around the Grove shared updates on visitors, moves, and local errands. Families from New London Hartford and Willimantic arrived or returned, while several cottages at Pine Grove were booked for the season and local tradesmen worked at Black Point.
Washington Star lines urge national thrift in wartime by listing goods to economize on including wheat meat corn beans coal brass platinum steel rye milk eggs lard and even pie. The verse warns waste could threaten the plan and urges restraint in speech.
Thomas F. Logan notes in Leslie's that the railroad director-general aims to solve congestion with a system of immense warehouses near industrial centers and ports. Spanning ten miles, these warehouses would sit over main-line tracks, allowing long trains to unload swiftly and return to trunk lines, aided by cranes. The plan could free locomotives for long hauls and cut side-track freight pileups. McAdoo has begun building such warehouses, a scheme the fuel administrator might borrow to prevent coal shortages.
Reports from Washington indicate the German command recognizes the United States will stay in the war to triumph. The nation plans to mobilize ships to deliver a million or more troops to France this year, with potential growth in subsequent years. Observers note ships anchored along the Hudson vanish in secrecy as night departures continue.
Passage describes a stealthy retreat with thousands of American soldiers moving away and disappearing from view as they leave land. The fragment emphasizes secrecy and the moment of going out of sight.
A health column urges drinking a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate each morning before breakfast. It claims internal sanitation cleanses the stomach liver and bowels, removing waste toxins and improving complexion. It targets constipated and bilious individuals, selling limestone phosphate as a cheap, life changing remedy.
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