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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1918
Page
8
A detailed description of a 45 by 37 foot brick and tile home designed by architect Chas. B. Sedgwick. Features include a single large chimney with a central fireplace, a brick Mat face, Spanish tile roof, a porte cochere, an oak first floor, white enamel finish on the second, two baths, maid’s room, and four second floor chambers with ample closets. Estimated cost $10,000 to $12,000 not including heating or plumbing.
Hartford May 2 Beginning next Monday morning an intensive drive for sale of 1 300 000 in war savings and thrift stamps will be launched in Connecticut retail stores. State director Joseph T McWeeney will oversee quotas based on employs per store and clerks will urge customers to take thrift stamps as part of change.
Cameron Wisconsin May 2 A farmer named Albert Heyming reportedly refused to buy Liberty bonds yet now owns three $50 bonds and has donated to the Red Cross. A large crowd gathered near his home from across the country to show support for the war effort.
A Campbell era advertisement touts Peterson's Ointment for pimples and skin blemishes. It urges men and women to use a thirty cent box nightly for a week, promising clear, velvety skin and admiration. The text claims a druggist will refund money if the product fails.
A poem urging citizens to dig in their backyards for vegetables to support wartime needs. It promotes home gardening, saving resources, and sending for the National War Garden Commission manual from Washington, D. C. for free with a 2 cent stamp. The piece ties personal effort to national thrift, duty, and morale during wartime. The voice emphasizes digging, planting, and contributing to the war effort through gardens and self sufficiency.
A Belgian widow of sixty and her pregnant niece were forced from their home by German soldiers at five o’clock on a Wednesday morning. The tale is presented as part of a representative story from Everybody’s. Brand Whitlock, our minister to Belgium, calls such accounts factual despite claims of fabrication.
In a grim sequence the group is driven through St. Martin's barracks and other sites by German soldiers who force kneeling, arm raises, and gun muzzles to the chest. They are kept in barracks until Thursday, then sent home to find their house burned and valuables hidden in a garden satchel.
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