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Newspaper

The Evening Press

Location

Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Nov 29, 1918

Page

3

Public Auction Offerings and Miscellaneous Farm Goods

A long list of farm items and sale notices appears with prices and descriptions. Includes onions, spruce, vegetables, livestock, tools, and household goods for auction or sale at various Connecticut addresses and dates. Also contains wanted ads for help, materials, and animals, reflecting a bustling local market page.

C. Ackley Jacob Jains Samuel Stewart Cobalt John J. Myle Creest Middletown Alexander Lawson Westfield James Hull Durham John H. Warner East Haddam Conn East Hampton Thomas A. Iden Portlanad Cement Myichreest Bros Thanasgi Sing Bowers Jos Travaia Ferry St Edazzo’s Court St Baldwin Northern Spy Joseph S. Annino North Main &J

California Syrup of Figs advertises a laxative

An old advertising blurb urges mothers to use California Syrup of Figs for constipated children and even adults. It promises gentle relief within hours, claims to cleanse liver and bowels, and warns to beware of counterfeit fig syrups while directing readers to ask for the California Fig Syrup Company product.

California Fics California Fig Syrup Company

Back from Italy with war cross for Hartford man

Seymour Wadsworth son of Clar ence Wadsworth has returned from the Italian front where he served five months as a Red Cross ambulance driver on the Piave front He won the bronze war cross after a June offensive and endured a gas attack He drove up to 300 miles daily often carrying wounded Austrian prisoners The armistice halted his plans to enter Camp Taylor and he expects to resume Harvard studies January 1 He also recalls a submarine encounter during the voyage home and notes illness among troops in low swamp land along the Piave and near Venice He helped build ships in Stonington since his return and plans to return to Middletown in December

Hartford Courant Seymour Wadsworth Clarence Wadsworth Red Cross Camp Taylor Kentucky Harvard University Italy Young Seymour Seymour Austria Piave Connecticut Wadsworth Venice America France Mr. Wadsworth New York Tardieu Commission United States Stonington Middletown

1731 Casualties Reported Today From Connecticut List

Washington reports two army casualty lists listing 1731 names. Categories include killed in action 129 died of wounds 80 died of disease and other causes 3 missing 407 wounded severely 36 wounded undetermined 87 slightly wounded 407. Connecticut names include Corporal Francis P Shuckerow Hartford Private Matthew Gerra Bridgeport and others with sections noting killed in action wounded severely and missing in action. A Boston Herald note accompanies the item criticizing Wilson's Atlantic tour and executive power.

Connecticut Washington Francis P. Shuckerow Hartford Matthew Gerra Bridgeport

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