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Newspaper

The Evening Press

Location

Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Oct 02, 1918

Page

7

Army and Marine Corps casualty lists published

The army lists a total of 187 missing in action 73 died of wounds and 693 died from other causes including aircraft accidents and disease. The marine corps list covers 28 names with one new entry Lieut David A Redford of Pawtucket reported died of wounds. Names span New England states and extend to Connecticut Rhode Island Massachusetts and Maine with many privates corporals and sergeants listed as killed missing in action wounded severely or wounded slightly.

Marine Corps Army David A. Redford Pawtucket K. L New England

Deep River News Summary of Local Events

Quarantine forces entry to halt a Wagner House stay and students depart town. G L Black Katherine Webber and Allan Smith join Aid Society tomorrow afternoon. Loren Seeley enters Wesleyan College for studies. Arthur Carleon returns after illness. Atwood Fleet to begin Essex work with Tiley Mfg. Co. Kathryn Connor, a nurse, ill in Boston helps at Camp Devens. J H Christenson to relocate. Mary Looby moves household goods to New Haven. Autumn town hall dance by Three Jolly Harvesters draws county crowds. Belgian clothing appeal urges Red Cross drives. donations welcome at LaPlace building Central Row this week.

Wagner Who Jett College G. L. Black Katherine Webber Allan Smith Kathryn Connor Boston Connor Hartford Camp Devens Mary Duggan J. H. Christenson Mary Looby New Haven Mathy

Old Saybrook Health, Travel, and Farewell Notes

Old Saybrook reports residents returning to Hartford and relatives sending off Seymour Tracy and others to Fort Slocum New York. influenza cases rise as several locals are listed ill. William Hood dies after a week illness. aged 50, a Chester transplant and carpenter, leaving a mother and two sisters.

Old Saybrook William Morrison Robert Molyneux Hartford Seymour Tracy Deep River Wilbur Prescott Essex Joseph Bergazi Chester Sherman Chrystal Ivoryton Fort Slocum N. Y A. H. Barber Saybrook Point Joel O’brien Northampton Frederick Lamay Frederick B. Derby Junction Station William Hood Saybrook New Haven France

It Looked to Her A Grand Red Cross Parade

A Minneapolis laundress, a Black woman, described the Red Cross parade with 15,000 white clad women as a grand spectacle. She recalled never seeing so much washing at one time and conveyed her patriotic support for the Red Cross.

Minneapolis Red Cross Lawdy Neva

War artist Frederic Villiers to speak on What I Saw at the Front

Frederic Villiers, famed war correspondent and illustrator for The Illustrated London News, arrives with a collection of relics and will give an illustrated talk on What I Saw at the Front the French and British Armies at Middlesex tonight at 8 15 p m He recounts twenty one campaigns and a device used to imitate machine guns early in the war. A Romance of the Underworld at Grand Theatre features Catherine Calvert in a six reel photoplay about New York underworld figures and a naive girl who falls in with a dope ring led by gangster Mike O Leary Vivian Martin stars and Thomas Edwards directs the picture with a strong supporting cast Also Lyons Moran travel weekly on the bill.

Fredy Corresent Illustrated London News Middlesex Villiers Grand Theatre Catherine Calvert New York Doris Elliott Underworld Mike O'Leary Richard Julia Crawford Ivers Viviette Paramount Vivian Martin Tom Sawyer Twain William J. Locke Miss Martin Walter Edwards Lyons-Moran

Vaudeville and film double bill at the Grand theater

Tonight a big double bill features Catherine Calvert in A's Romance of the Underworld and Harry Morey in His Own People with a Vitagraph Blue Ribbon photoplay and new Pathe weekly. The week also offers vaudeville stars, Bluebird plays Play Things, The Lion's Claws episode, My Own United States and Her Price, plus Interloper and Pershing's Crusaders in a triple bill Friday.

Catherine Calvert Harry Morey Vitagraph Blue Ribbon New Pathe Weekly Bluebird United States Virginia Pearsoy New Animated Weekly

Durham News Roundup and Local Happenings

Mrs. Fred Alling is confined to her home by illness. Mr and Mrs Frank E Korn welcome a daughter born at Middlesex hospital in Middletown on Monday night. Edmund W Shelley of Noroton visiting relatives. Nehemiah Burr adds a new roof to his Main street tenement. Liberty Loan committee elected officers led by Paul P Wilcox. Women committee chaired by Mrs Hattie M Newton. council of defense women meet at the high school Friday at three. Durham fair day brings busyness. shooting wild ducks was legal again yesterday with many gun reports on the meadows.

Darbiain Fred Alling Ness Frank E. Korn Middlesex Hospital Middletown Edmund W. Shelley Noroton Nehemiah Burr Main Street Liberty Loan Committee Paul P. Wilcox Harold C. Parsons Frederick H. Page Arthur F. Hull Leonard B. Markham William P. Camp J. Edward Newton F. S. Newton Hattie M. Newton Council of Defense Durham Ladies’ Society

Diagnosis. Kaiser’s nerves in Kansas City Star piece

The Kansas City Star quips about the Kaiser’s nerves, noting the issue isn’t shell shock. The column uses sardonic humor to question the German leader’s stability in the wartime context.

Kansas City Star Kaiser

Local Notes and Notices From Essex and Amsterdam

Essex reports farm activity on Say Brook. residents John Imaria Bon and Louis Akin are mentioned. September papers are due for money by the newsboy. Funeral services for Mrs Emma Williams will be held at her brother-in-law William Williams home on Thursday at 11 am. The Hom Worker society convenes Thursday at the Congregational church. A few locals attended a Deep River dance. Rev Orrik Colloque resigns as priest in charge at St Johns Episcopal. Thelma Tonight features Billie Burke in The Land of Promise and Allies War Review.

Essex A. EB. Ames Pola Saybrook New York John Imaria Bon Peter Avenue Louis Akin North Main Street Emma Williams Amsterdam N. Y William 5. Williams Hom Worker Society Congregational Church Sue Deep River Orrik Colloque St. John’s Episcopal Church

His Method. Boy's Life humor brief about a tip trick

A waiter asks how the diner found the steak. The reply notes a joke about moving a hidden potato to reveal the steak. The exchange reflects light humor in a Boy's Life vignette with everyday restaurant banter.

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