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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1919
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate an office at 299 Main St, with references to 188 Main St and 552 Main St. The text mentions opening, day of publication, and a recontinued advertisement, but lacks clear actions or dates.
The report blends a routine weather forecast showing scattered showers and varying temperatures across several hubs with world affairs notes. It mentions a cold front moving through the Tennessee valley, East Coast conditions, and a Mt Higby 24 hour update. It also touches on political discourse about treaties, immigration, and postwar diplomacy with several dated references and speculative statements.
Wholesale prices for potatoes, vegetables, eggs, pigs and chicks are listed with local dealer quotes. Potatoes sell to retailers at 1.90 to 2.00 per bushel, seed potatoes 6.50 per sack in Middletown. Other items include parsnips 1.00 to 1.25, carrots 1.00 to 1.15, onions 2.00 to 2.25 per bushel, asparagus 40-45c wholesale, eggs 50-52c per dozen to stores, first class pigs 7.50 to 10.00 each, one day old chicks 25c, grain prices varied with a general rise. Hay prices remain high with retail net 45-46 per ton, timothy 40-43 in barns.
Simple home cleaning guide covers rugs curtains and fabrics hung outdoors on wind days. Step by step methods include scrubbing rugs with soapsuds ammonia then rinsing. wiping painted woodwork with warm water and soap. cleaning piano with lukewarm water and chamois. polishing furniture with linseed oil vinegar and turpentine. cleaning glass with whiting paste and polishing with tissue. silver with whiting in alcohol. polishing brass and copper with pumice and oil.
Benjamin Franklin Bushnell, born December 11, 1834 in Westbrook, died recently in Hartford after living 25 years in Chicago. He was a scholar and poet, formerly a Westbrook teacher, and died at his brother E Newman Bushnell's Hartford home. Commitment services set for Saturday at 2 p.m. at Westbrook Cypress Cemetery officiated by Rev. George W. Eastman.
The Hartford Times reports William H. Anderson of the Anti Saloon League calls Connecticut a “little wart of a state” for resisting his pressure on lawmakers and shaping state laws during the Victorian campaign.
At a meeting held in Cross Street Church in 1919 the colored people of Middletown and vicinity adopted seven resolutions. They include refusing to unite with the annual conference, claiming funds in city banks as their right, punishing enemies of justice, supporting the board of trustees, demanding a say in church location, appealing to Middletown residents for influence, and making the resolutions public to seek freedom from present conditions. Thomas E. Smith chaired, Charles Gear secretary, Middletown, May 8, 1919.
United States Department of Labor estimates national building deficiency at 1.511 billion dollars, with North Central and North Atlantic states showing large shortfalls. Survey ties deficits to prewar city permits and state valuations, signaling unprecedented 1919 construction activity ahead of higher costs.
Nervousness, irregularities, and weakness described by Mrs. Alice Heller as improved by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Ad touts the remedy for female troubles and offers guidance from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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