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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1918
Page
4
A damaged OCR fragment mentions the postal office in Middletown with several Main Street addresses and a note about publication timing and second class matter. Limited legible details prevent full context or action.
Weather at Mt Higby shows a high of 85 and a low of 52 with readings of 68.5 and 77, barometer 29.58, wind from the south. The piece debates drafts, patriotism, and German papers, urging action against slackers and urging support for war effort amid mixed commentary and stray observations.
The article argues that saloon and liquor interests were corrupted by reformist rhetoric and that future legislatures will be watched as to whether reforms can end the saloon business. It blames distillers brewers and saloon men for past corruption and endorses education as the path to reform.
Detroit News notes that General Pershing joining the Episcopal Church reflects a broader army trend: strong daily religion in camps guides moral conduct without sectarianism. It praises an American moral code shaping well formed soldiers and government support for interfaith efforts among Jews Catholics and Protestants.
New York World reports Austria's currency backed by gold at four tenths of a percent, while Northern Tyrol and Bohemia face famine and are suggested to be provisioned via Bavaria and Saxony. Reichsrat to be adjourned. force possible to stop reassembly. Civilians die seeking political rights as unity grows among Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs.
Branford mourned 18 year old John C Klockars son of John C Klockars after reports he was missing when the Florence H. sank off France. Telegrams and letters later said he had arrived safely in New York and planned to report to the naval station before a furlough home. The family and town held funeral and memorial services in his memory.
Camp Devens Massachusetts May 7 The trial of acting Corporal John Austin Spaulding formerly assistant German professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute opened here this afternoon before a general court martial Spaulding is accused of unpatriotic utterances while a candidate at the third officers training camp at this cantonment and his trial is expected to be the most sensational yet held at this camp Col Charles C Smith commander of the Old Colony infantry regiment is president of the court and Lieut John B Cummings of the same regiment son of John W Cummings of Fall River is judge advocate It was stated at division headquarters today that the fourth officers training camp which opens here on May 1 would be conducted as part of the division schools under the general supervision of Lieut Colonel Edward Croft
A letter from B. B. Hayward of Unadilla Georgia praises Foley Cathartic Tablets for quick relief from biliousness bad breath bloating gas indigestion and constipation without griping or nausea. The note links wartime worry to digestive disturbance and endorses the product as widely sold.
The Council of Defense launches a drive to save one thousand babies in the state this year by weighing and measuring every child under five, enlisting volunteers and loaned scales, and canvassing to reach children not in school. The effort echoes national calls to protect children amid war and disease. Boxer Harry Greb and Charley Weinert join the naval reserve in New York, both listed as second class seamen, to aid recruiting.
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