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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1918
Page
2
A vintage ad touts Poslam as excelling in treating eczema and minor skin troubles with a medicated soap. It promises quicker relief, calming irritated surfaces and urges readers to request free samples from Emergency Laboratories in New York City.
An odd fragment notes banana peel humor and a cryptic query about corn and peels. The text appears as a stray line from a page segment with no clear event or identity details to locate.
A brief music record item lists Victor Records selections including Missouri Waltz Keep the Home Fires Burning When You Come Back National Emblem March Ill Say I M Sorry I Made You Cry The Sweetest Story Ever Told Lucia Mad Scene Galli Curci, highlighting a mix of patriotic, sentimental, and operatic titles.
As British forces hold the Western Front, German troops rise in revolt in Brussels. Civilians report German officers killed and many Belgians wounded. Rebellious soldiers loot and burn. Belgian ire rises against suspected spies. officials urge King Albert to act. A Brussels woman linked to Germans faces vigilant crowds.
Samuel Gompers leads the international labor conference in Laredo with resolutions embodying Wilson's fourteen peace principles. The document calls for a league of free nations, opposes vindictive economic restrictions, and stresses labor as a non commodity, eight hour day, free speech, and trial by jury while advocating sailors' right to leave ships in harbor.
Washington reports the Department of Labor harshly critiques vegetable canneries in Maryland and Virginia for employing 1094 children under 14 during the past season. Illiteracy and squalid living conditions are noted, with the department citing continuation of child labor after a prior law was struck down.
Washington reports October 1918 cotton consumption exclusive of linters at 440,833 running bales, down from 584,946 in 1917, with 231,940 bales consumed in cotton growing states in 1918 and 324,528 in 1917. Linters used 97,927 bales in 1918, down slightly from 100,155 in 1917, and stocks in consuming establishments total 1,497,195 bales in 1918 versus 1,075,859 in 1917. Exports including linters fell to 383,995 running bales in 1918 from 530,658 in 1917. Cotton spindles active dropped to 2,760,623 in 1918 from 33,576,048 in 1917. Linters held in consuming establishments 135,900 bales in 1918 and 83,679 bales in 1918 at compresses, with 93,754 in 1917. Linters exported 16,719 bales in October 1918, down from 26,394 in October 1917.
Paris reports Marshal Foch will enter Metz and Strassburg on Sunday to take possession of the fortresses in the name of the allies. President Poincare Premier Clemenceau and other ministers will accompany him.
Hartford reports from the state comptroller reveal Connecticut has paid over one million dollars for war activities including the state council of defense the military emergency board and the food supply committee. Salaries range from 12 to over 50 dollars weekly across numerous clerks. In Washington the draft examinations near completion show 1291 local boards are about 90 percent through class one screening for 19 to 36 year olds from the September 12 1918 registrants. Local boards report 90 percent finished with the Septem ber 12 classification, totaling 3898.
A vintage advertisement promotes Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound to restore natural hair color. It claims a simple application darkens faded or gray hair, producing a glossy, youthful look within days. The product is framed as a cosmetic, not a medical cure.
American Red Cross prepares to send a train load of food into Austria at once. Boston Commissioner Bennett leads the relief with attaches aboard. The effort aims to ease food distress of Roumanian Serbian and Russian prisoners there amid dire conditions. Meredith O'Neill from St. Louis notes the severity as the hungry crowd fights for scraps at hotel doors.
Surgeon General Ireland reported that health conditions in camps and cantonments improved for the week ended November 8. Influenza cases fell to one third of the prior week's level, with 1,002 deaths from all causes versus 1,272 in the week ending November 1.
An American airman reportedly landed on Thursday at Cologne Germany according to an Exchange Tele-dispatch from Copenhagen. Cologne lies in the Rhine valley about 48 miles east of the Belgian border and is described as a key railway center.
Dr Lee H Smith warns that influenza or grip can be fought with care and discipline. Emphasizes three Cs clean mouth skin and bowels and daily laxatives like Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. Advises hot lemonade bed rest tepid baths and Anuric tablets to flush kidneys and reduce fever, with a return to strength via Frontic or Golden Medical Discovery tonics.
Washington reports two army casualty lists with 1065 names. Killed in action numbered 223, died of wounds 32, died of accident and other causes 5, died of disease 276, wounded severely 59, wounded degree undetermined 170, wounded slightly 22, missing in action 278. Connecticut entries include Private John J Brereton New Haven died of wounds and Private John W Lynch Bridgeport died of disease. Others listed for action and missing include Raymond H Brookman Rockville and Nels T Mattson New Haven.
Washington November 15 War Department releases the prisoners of war in Germany at Camp Rastatt. Sergt Joseph S McGrath Pittsfield Mass Pervations galvatee Amedes J Bolduc Worcester Mass Robert E Kelley Boston Mass William H Swanson Norwood R I Only a fool man would deliberately make an enemy by guessing within ten years of a woman's real age.
A chilled survey of local items from 25 years past notes the Methodist mission band aiding a Chinese Christian school with door offerings during a Tuesday lecture on physical culture. Vandalized shop windows at Warwick and South Main. A horse race challenge over three miles from four corners to the Portland ferry for 100 dollars. Middlesex Rubber Works Co incorporated with capital 75000. Hartford steamer and Brownstone ferry nearly collided in fog. Internal Revenue Collector Hutchinson to hand office to successor in November.
A vegetable tea marketed as Celery King is touted as a natural cure for constipation upset stomach coated tongue and headaches. The ad claims it is a long trusted remedy costing only a few cents per package and suitable for children when they are cross or feverish.
A patriotic notice urges plain service and timely deliveries. Citizens are advised to carry packages and avoid special deliveries while acknowledging constraints on after 3 pm purchases that can only be delivered the next day.
November 20 is the final day for Red Cross box collection for the boys overseas. The public is reminded that Christmas homecoming is not guaranteed, despite recent hopes.
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