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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1918
Page
3
A vintage charity of health ad copy promotes California Syrup of Figs as a universal gentle laxative for children and adults. It urges mothers to use a teaspoonful for feverish or constipated children, promises quick relief from stomach issues, and warns to demand the genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Company to avoid counterfeits.
In Middletown District on November 14 1918 Judge Curtiss S Bacon presiding the Court of Probate orders November 27 1918 at 11 00 am for the hearing on the administration account of John W Edwards deceased Middletown residents are to be cited by publication in a newspaper circulating in the district for the allowance of the estate account.
An essay argues critics overstate war’s influence on fiction. Journalists tell war stories, not novelists, and true epic fiction about conflict must wait for battles to end. It notes Blasco Ibanez and Sidgwick as exceptions, then discusses Sterne, Don Quixote, Tom Jones, Scott, Stevenson, Hugo, Zola, and Tolstoy, asserting war scenes often fail to convey real drama.
The speaker argues that in his view the tremendous war will not alter human nature. Charlatans across professions peddle vain talk about peace while true change waits for the novelist who will later describe life after conflict. People are expected to resume the same old ways once hostilities cease.
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