Local Notes From Hartford Area Update
John Newberry visits Waterbury home near Parkers Corner and D Lane office shingling work on Pratt Street. Sedley Conklin resides on Main Street North under doctor’s care. Church event Friday night with full rehearsal tonight at 7. Newton Fields visiting parents on New Street. Graham of Middletown visiting daughter Pelton. Brothers busy with work for A D W Chalker. Adv for Hotel St John Essex listing dining options and private rooms.
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John Newberry
Wateritt-Penelli
Hartford
Parkers
Cor- D. Lane
G. Cheney
Weston Pratt
Sedley Conklin
Mains North
New Street
Dior
Newton Fields
New Haven
Lane
Graham
Middletown
Saesle Pelton
Tre Brothers
A. D. W. Chalker
St. John
Essex
Haddam Notices and Social Routines Include Guests
Local Haddam residents report visitors from Hartford Hamden and Ivoryton with social calls at Middle Town gatherings. Mrs Dickinson of Ivoryton dies after a ten day illness at St Francis hospital in Hartford while plans for burial or services in Haddam are noted, and Miss Carrie Shailer and Mrs Ingersoll enjoy a woods outing with a fine string of catches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Be
Hartford
Lucy Hazen
Clara Spencer
New Ha
Hamden
A. Dickinson
Middletown
E. W. Hazen
F. H. Mold
C. Mosell
Carrie Shailer
Red Tooms
Dr. Loveland
Louis Mosher
Clinton Brook Town Hall Friday Night Read by Dalton
Dalton reviews Clinton Brook town hall event held Friday night featuring reflections from The Ten Of Dia and The Spirit of the Red adv. men. Audience reaction noted as thoughtful though some attendees grew weary.
He Almost Fell Down at HB Gue Chitto Miss
A reader reports Foley Kidneys boxes gave complete relief for rheumatic aches and swollen joints, noting improved energy and vigor after use. The sponsor claims warning symptoms fade as kidneys respond, with puffiness and languor resolving.
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Foley
Old Saybrook News Roundup and Fire Reported Across Town
Old Saybrook reports a brush fire near Obed Heights on Wednesday at 3 p m that endangered nearby homes but was contained by firefighters after midnight. The blaze scorched miles of woodland and brush while shad fishermen continued nightly trips. Daniel Rowe left Fort Slocum for a southern camp, and New Haven railroad station fire briefly disrupted service as dispatchers rerouted trains. Mrs James Lee visits New Brighton then Boston.
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Old Saybrook
James Lee
New Brighton
Staten Island
Oscar Lord
Boston
Obed’s Heights
Daniel Rowe
Fort Slocum
Joel P. Newton
New Haven
E. E. Regan
Yellow Building
Local Notes From Higganum and Middletown
Higganum notices list residents in Middletown visiting the Red Cross rooms and a Miss Burr hosting the King's Heralds. A stereopticon lecture on The Wild Zulus was postponed and moved to Thursday at the Congregational church. Others attend missionary meetings, Grange programs, and family visits across towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Higganum
Engstrom
Middletown
Ella Burr
King’s Heralds
Caldwell
P. L. Cody
Albert Hubbard
Ursula Brainard
Red Cross
Congregational Church
Gilbert
Nettie Johnson
The
Grange
Horace Burr
Elbert Burr
Manchester
Ellis Spencer
Springfield
Mass
Enfima Noyes
Hartford
Death of Mrs. Albert Dickinson in Ivoryton
Ivoryton mourns the sudden Hartford hospital death of Mrs. Albert Dickinson two weeks after tumor removal surgery. Survived by husband, son Leslie in the naval reserve at New London, daughter Beatrice Reynolds of New Haven, a father in Middlesex Hospital, and a Haddam sister. Beatrice rushed home from New Haven after her mother’s passing while a demented youth escapee was recaptured in town.
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Albert Dickinson
Ivoryton
Hartford Hospital
Dickinson
King’s’ Daughters
Leslie Dickinson
Naval Reserve
New London
Beatrice Reynolds
New Haven
Middlesex Hospital
Haddam
F. Howard Stickney
Essex
Saybrook
East Haddam News and Local Happenings
May 9 reports Nellie Babcock returning from New Haven for summer. Moodúe Red Cross benefit date corrected to May 16. J H Halstatt readies cruiser Oma for season at Essex. Wendells to Atlantic City for a few weeks. Barge Frank Jones discharges coal for W C Reynolds then sails to New York to load again. Brockett hosted guests at Giant's Neck cottage. Wind to move into new home by June 1. Planting in progress. Thompson men to modify Wind’s barn for business. Shad numbers remain light. twenty to thirty caught so far.
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East Haddam
Nellie Babcock
New Haven
Red Cross
Moodué
J. H. Halstatt
Essex
Omi
F. C. H. Wendell
Atlantic City
Frank Jones
H. & Ney Transportation Co
New York
H. N. Starr
E. Boardman
C. L. Brockett
Giant’s Neck
Cc. L. Brockett
P. S. W. Judd
H. M. Wind
G. W. Thompson
George Thompson
Mr. Wind
Shad
Westbrook Poet Dorothy Dalton Presents Works at Town Hall
Dorothy Dalton Westbrook reads from The Ten of Mond s and The Spirit of the Cross at a Friday recital in Westbrook Town Hall. The event highlights her verse and advocacy for simple, plain-spoken poetry.
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Dorothy Dalton
Ofmonds
Spirit of the Cross
Westbrook Town Hall
Local notes from Saybrook Point and Essex
Saybrook Point resident Better, of New Mor, spends days with Mr and Mrs George Joe i Calvin. E Fairbanks and son Philip visit Essex business callers Tuesday. Bishop Olmstead, recently ill in Buffalo, returns home and rests quietly. Miss Mabel C Holman visits Lyme Tuesday afternoon. Walter Beckwith moves family from Ingham Hill to Ivoryton for future work. Mr and Mrs Wright relocate to Ingham Hill. Miss Catherine Deu in Essex Tuesday afternoon giving music lessons.
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New Mor
George Joe i
Calvin
E. ‘ Fairbanks
Philip
Essex
Bishop Olmstead
Buffalo
Mabel C. Holman
Lyme
Walter Beckwith
Ingham Hill
Ivoryton
A Wright
Ingham
Summer Train Service Expanded for Valley Shore Trips
The New York New Haven and Hartford railroad adds Sunday summer trains to the Valley Branch for shore patrons. A Hartford to New London service via Middletown runs Sundays from 8:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m., returning 6:45 p.m. to 9:11 p.m., with stops excluding North Cromwell and Dividend southbound and Wethersfield northbound. Additional Sunday Middletown to Berlin service, with a Berlin to Middletown return, and a Sunday 9:16 p.m. New Britain service are added, with full timetable details at agents.
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Valley
Shore
New York
North Cromwell
Dividend
Wethersfield
Middletown
Berlin
New Britain Junction
New London
New Britain
Fire Devastates Westport Maine Town and Timberland
Fires that struck Westport Island six miles from Wiscasset wiped out a garage multiple cottages and timberland on Evergreen Landing Peaks Island. Gusts reached 50 miles per hour as flames moved across the island, destroying 23 year round buildings 11 cottages and a school. Authorities estimate losses surpassing 500000 and warned the blaze could threaten Gorham and Yarmouth in Cumberland County if not contained.
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Portland
Westport
Wiscassel
Evergreen Landing
Peaks Island
Gorham
Yarmouth
Cumberland County
Shipyard volunteers enroll over five thousand in state drive
In Hartford on May 9 the 5000 mark was passed as Connecticut reports 5028 shipyard volunteers enrolled through War Bureaus and town committees of Defense. Cities listed include Bridgeport 465 Bristol 144 Hartford 2825 total 1565 in state director’s office Manchester 101 Meriden 395 New Britain 269 New Haven 644 New London 111 Waterbury 488 Stamford 124.
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Hartford
Connecticut
United States Shipyard Volunteers
Leo. A. Korper
Public Service
Reserve
Connecticut State Council of Defense
Bridgeport
Bristol
Manchester
Meriden
New Britain
New Haven
New London
Waterbury
Stamford
Hindenburg and Ludendorff Disagree Over Offensive Delay
London May 9 reports say Field Marshal von Hindenburg and his aide General von Ludendorff clashed over delaying the western front offensive. The Kaiser and crown prince reportedly sided in the quarrel. War correspondent Hamilton Fyfe confirms Mackensen’s likely transfer to the western front.
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London
von Hindenburg
von Ludendorff
Western Front
Holland
Hamilton Fyfe
von Mackensen
Hot Water Breakfast Detox Promoted by Limestone Phosphate
A newspaper item promotes drinking a glass of hot water with a teaspoon of limestone phosphate each morning. It claims the morning flush cleanses the stomach liver kidneys and intestines of indigestible waste toxins and bile, improving headaches backache and other stomach troubles. It urges readers to obtain limestone phosphate from a drugstore and start this “inside-bath” daily.
Austro German Planes Shot Down Over Italian Front
London reports seventeen Austro German aircraft downed on the Italian front. The British War Office says no raids achieved success and emphasizes losses and disrupted operations for the enemy.
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London
British War Office
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