Lest We Forget dramatic romance in wartime Paris
Winslow a young American in France courts Rita Heriot at the Paris Opera. Affairs, engagement, and family opposition unfold as war breaks out and German forces seize a village. Rita is rescued, and the tale shifts to grand theatres with films and vaudeville acts filling Middlesex and Grand venues.
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Winslow
Aire
France
Rita Heriot
Fagoprano
Paris Opera
Rita
Amery Club
Paris
Baron van Gen
van Berg
Ruth
sur-Meuse
Kaiser
Fritz Muller
f= Comique
Alsacefaine
Colchester May 25 Local Notes and Memorial Plans
Colchester notes a visit by Max Seigle to see son Abbie in New Haven Hospital and Oliver Way staying ill at L A Freeman's home. Brink moves household goods to South Main Street from East Hartford. Dennis Bigelow returns from furlough to tend crops. Mrs. George Potter visits from Westchester. A union memorial service at Congregational church will be attended by State Guards and G A R. New telephone directory effective May 26. Margaret Murray returns to New York. Daniel Goldberg away on business. Brick loads moving from old rubber mill yard for New Haven. Memorial Day ball game announced. Sam Gellert away on business in New Haven. Tip-Top Hall events May 28 with Edison educational film benefitting Red Cross. Admission 1e and 22c. Evening show at 8. Ticket sales start early.
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Colchester
Max Seigle
New Haven
Abbie Seigle
Oliver Way
L. A. Freeman
Main Street
Brink
East Hartford
South Main Street
Dennis Bigelow
George Potter
Westchester
Congregational Church
State Guards
Sam Gellert
Edmund Horton imports new Chalmers auto in Hebron May 25
Hebron residents organize Red Cross drive with collectors for town centers and streets. Mary Lord and Bertha Porter report over 25 dollars on first day. Community updates note illness in Edwards A Smith and N Eugene Smith, local school committee meeting, and a lightning event injuring a heifer and burning a telephone.
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Hebron
Edmund Horton
Chalmers
Red Cross
Mary Lord
Bertha Porter
Fred Burnham
Daisy White
Jones St
Jennie Loomis
Gulf
Estelle
Gladys Broome
Hope Valley
James Dingwell
Lord
Porter
Viner
Fred Post
Rocky Hill Community News Roundup
May 25 notes include Miss Doris Williams visiting grandmother Mrs L B Williams of Elm Street. Justus H Churchill returned from a trip to Camp Devens and Massachusetts. State Guard to attend church service Sunday morning and drill at Grainge Hall Monday evening. Ira Holmes takes a position in Hartford. Red Cross canvass active in town. Mrs George B Chandler hosted an auction party last evening. Miss Jennie Risley hosted the Thimble Club at her home Wednesday afternoon 2 30 to 5.
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Rocky Hill
Doris Williams
New 4Ay
L. B. Williams
Elm Street
Justus H. Churchill
Camp Devens
Massachusetts
State Guard
Congregational Church
Ira Holmes
Hartford
Committee For the Red Cross
Eee
Connecticut State Guard
Grainge Hall
George B. Chandler
Red Cross
J. Robbins
Special Reichstag Commission Report on Suffrage
Berne May 25 The special commission appointed by the Social Democratic majority in the German Reichstag has issued a report in favor of universal suffrage. The document outlines proposed reforms and calls for wider political participation across the empire.
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Berne
Reichstag
Fascinating Fanny Brown opens East Hampton season
The carrier's pavilion hosted the first season event last evening a benefit performance by East Hampton High School pupils. The play Fascinating Fanny Brown drew a large audience with strong acting and costumes followed by dancing with Ford's orchestra. Church notices list services at Congregational Methodist St Patrick's Swedish Lutheran and a memorial service at the Methodist Episcopal church with a program led by Rev Frederick Grant and Rev Samuel Thatcher. Veterans and Sons of Veterans and O U A M members to assemble five minutes before seven for seating.
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Fanny Brown
Carrier’s Pavilion
Red Cross
Ford
Methodist Episcopal Church
Frederick L. Grant
Liberty Chorus
Old Camp Ground
A Dudley Williams
Samuel Thatcher
America
Veterans
Sons of Veterans
Church Green
Card of Thanks and Local Notices Summary
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for help during sickness and death of a family member. Notices cover social visits from Edith Collins and Miss Margaret Ivers, Red Cross meetings and canning demonstration, Co L recruits drills, people visiting New London, and theatre ads for Red Cross benefit shows. Also upcoming Liberty chorus rehearsal and a talk by Prof William H Hall on Near East Armenia and Syria.
Clinton News Roundup and Obituary Notes
Mrs Richard Hull returns to East Main street home in Clinton after wintering in East Haddam. Mrs Mary Rice and son Wendell come back from a visit in New York. Harry Q Shailer of Morgan died in Hancock New York after months with tuberculosis. He leaves a wife, mother Mrs H Oscar Shailer of Middletown, brother Philip in Panama, and sister Mrs Nat Johnston of Northfield Vermont. Funeral held at his Clinton residence with burial at Indian River Cemetery. Eberhardt Funk son of Mr and Mrs Christian Funk of Kelseytown married Eva Kennedy of Maromas at Westarya Col. Burpee of Hartford will give lecture on Curdl...
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Clinton
Richard Hull
East Haddam
East Main Street
Mary Rice
Wendell
New York
Harry Q. Shailer
Morgan
Hancock
N. Y
H. Oscar Shailer
Middletown
Philip
Panama
Local News and Social Notes from Durham May 25
Mr and Mrs Fred Hick return from their wedding trip. Ward Church of New Haven visits on business. Miss Helen Clark of Meriden visits Mrs E F White. Fred L Jackson of New Haven plans a stay. Wedworth Wadsworth wires his house for electricity. J B Atwell and daughter Irene take a car trip to Middletown. Earl Watrous works for Walter F Wilcox building a new barn for Mr Ashton of East Long Hill, whose barn burned recently. A daughter Margaret Diana born May 21 to Mr and Mrs Merrit C Skelton in East Northfield Mass. Mrs Skelton is daughter of Mr and Mrs W S Scranton. The state highway between Middletown and Northfield to receive oil coat soon. A cobweb party at Mrs Hattie M Newton’s home delights children. Methodists announce 10:30 a.m. sermon, 11:45 Sunday school, 6:45 Epworth League, 7:45 union Memorial service with Rev Morris Alling speaking. Liberty chorus directed by Frank W Strong will sing, with out-of-town talent. collection night to fund music. Wesleyan Woman’s Committee meeting notes and talk by Miss Wilkinson of Hartford on child welfare and government safety measures for five-year-olds. Church of the Epiphany plans 3 p.m. evening prayer and sermon with 3:46 special service for Sunday school scholars.
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Wedworth Wadsworth
J. B. Atwell
Irene
Middletown
Earl Watrous
Walter F. Wilcox
Ashton
East Long Hill
Margaret Diana
Merrit C. Skelton
East Northfield
Mass
Epworth League
Union
Morris Alling
Congregational Church
Rocky Hill
Liberty’ Chorus
Frank W. Strong
Woman’s Committee
Council of National Defense
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Wilkinson
Hartford
Visiting Nurses Association
United States
Memorial Day services and local notes in Chester
Chester reports John Alexander, a member of the 102 Second Regiment in France, hospitalized after a gas attack. Alfred Saffrey returns from Storrs College for summer. Local State Guards to assemble at 9.45 am Sunday for a Memorial Day march to the Baptist church. Daniel W. Bradley, recently ill, seen downtown. Mrs. DeForrest and several others attended a D. A. R. meeting in Clinton. White elephant sale for Red Cross draws a crowd. Baptist services Sunday with a 10:30 Memorial service. Home Guards join veterans in procession. Choirs and young singers to perform. Two addresses planned on the subject.
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Chester
John Alexander
102 Second Regiment
France
Alfred Saffrey
Storrs College
State Guards
Baptist Church
Daniel W. Bradley
Sylvester DeForrest
Lowell
William Hills
John Strickland
S. Brooks
Westbryes
Clinton
Red Cross
Garfield
Our Church
Young Ladies
Schenck’s Macdvake advertised by Dr Schenck
An early advertisement from Philadelphia promotes Schenck and Son relief remedy Macdvake for tired feet constipation bilious headaches and fatigue. It targets worn out feel and promises renewed vigor with a medical patent treatment.
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Schenck
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May Hunt
Fienne
Lyle and
Harris
Comy
Ie Franklin
House of Silence
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Allace Reid
Reid
Ann Little
Adele Farrington
Judge Car
Elwyn Barron
Himbissador Gerard
Germany
James W. Gerard
Berlin
Gerard
Adorno
Thomas A. Edison
Breen Want Ady
East Hampton
Chuch
Methodist Church
Samuell Thatcher
St. Patrick’s Church
Patrick Fox
Swedish Lutheran Church
Jas. Cridland
Lillian Moody
Adv
Edith Collins
Willimantic
Margaret Ivers
James Ivers
Red Cross Society
Chatham
Florence Thatcher
M. E
William H. Hall
Barush
Syria
Hall
Near East
Armenia
Durham
Fred Hick
Ward Church
Helen Clark
Meriden
E. F. White
Fred L. Jackson
Dr. 3. H. Schenck & Son
Philadelphia
Fn the
Barton Clothing Co
Christ
Connecticut
Christian Science
John W. Doorly
Leeds
England
Mother Church
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Massachusettes
Arrigoni
Vay Hte A
Thomas H.ince
Enid Bennett
Matinee
Jesse L. Lasky
Wallace Reid
Eagle’s Eve
Thurs
Peggy Hyland
Peggy
Eit
Benjamin Chapin
Burton Holmes
Twede
Dan
Arthur B. Jenkins Gollolter
U. S
Foreign
Louis M. Schmid
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