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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1919
Page
2
Old and new traffic rules are outlined including yielding at intersections, night lights for loads, mirrors for rear visibility, width limits for vehicles, parking regulations near curves, and penalties for violations. The text notes enforcement difficulties and amendments relevant to horse drawn vehicles and highway safety.
Fragmentary OCR hints at a historical headline about Grinity Commencement proposing or discussing a unification or alliance with Serbia. No further readable context, dates, or identities are confirmed in the supplied text.
Former Torrington resident Edward W. Curtiss to be extradited from Brooklyn to Connecticut on charges of kidnapping his 11 year old daughter Helen and slandering Judge Lucien F. Burpee. He mailed circulars calling the judge "lawless Burpee" after a custody ruling. Daughter's location unknown.
Richard Hartwell Mather a Yale junior 20 was found dead in his Yale dorm room from a self inflicted gunshot wound. The coroner ruled melancholia after a recent nervous breakdown and lengthy infirmary confinement. He came from Toledo Ohio and was a Yale football manager in sophomore year with R O T C ties.
Washington May 10 A movement to repeal the war time prohibition act seeks to allow liquor dealers to close out with minimal loss. Conservative prohibition leaders in Congress back the federal amendment with the idea that manufacturers and dealers deserve at least 12 months to wind down and dispose of inventories.
Berlin notes to the Allies demand release of German POWs as peace negotiations proceed. Ex Kaiser extradition and trial stir anger with reports of a Potsdam league for his protection and debates over Germany Russia union. Public mood wary of signing, risk of revolt. Frontiers open. exchanges rise.
The piece notes lingering chill as warm weather returns and hints at concerns about coal supply and heating costs for the coming winter, reflecting residents' unease about energy readiness and prices.
Leaders of the American Legion sought to shield the caucus from political questions on prohibition and a questioned national guard bias while backing Roosevelt and Clark. Chicago Mayor Thompson faced denunciations as unpatriotic as Minneapolis was named potential convention city. Seattle"s council was barred for radical elements. Private P C Calhoun of Bridgeport became third vice chairman.
Joseph Petrollo age 33 of 28 Myrtle Street New Britain leaped from his third floor veranda early today and was found dead on the sidewalk. He suffered tuberculosis and had been sleeping on the veranda when a severe coughing spell preceded his suicide. He is survived by a wife and two children.
The Connecticut League of Local Building and Loan Associations held its annual session in New Britain with President John H. Standish of Bridgeport presiding. The meeting drew about sixty delegates from 22 associations across the state.
A verse recalls Abraham Lincoln as a plain farmer who tended a garden, learned thrift, and plodded through hardship. It praises his rise from humble farm life to lead the country through civil strife, ending with a pledge to tell future generations of his enduring legacy and liberty for the enslaved.
A Sunday School Convention was held in the Portland M B church yesterday conducted by W H Hall of West Hartford secretary of the State S S Association Rev H G Marshall of Cromwell spoke Amos Jones consulted a numismatist at Yale about ancient coins found in a garden on Fairview street Early peas bloom garden sass is active Dell Reeves killed a rattlesnake over six feet long Four thousand of the $5 000 needed for the driving park at East Berlin has been subscribed Old potatoes growing scarce and will need importation The body of a young woman dressed finely was found floating off Cornfield Light Mansfield Post G A R held a notable meeting with 64 Associate Corps admitted Second city in state to organize an Associate Corps Macadamizing Grand Street began The Hartford Wheel Club plans a shad bake at the Chaffee hotel on Sunday Andrew J Towner learns his son William D Towner died in Rio Janeiro Brazil of yellow fever Middletown Y M C A will host a reception for George T Meech at the South church parlors this evening.
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