Evening Press and Penny Press Notice of Subscriptions
Subscribers are urged to send orders with names for prompt handling. Changes of address must be sent timely and discontinuations end on the publication day. The paper is mailed from Middletown Conn and is second class matter. Ads can be placed at local street addresses in Middletown.
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Penny Press
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Eek Wire
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Mt Higby Weather Report and War Era Commentary
The Mt Higby noon report shows 58 at midday, 36 low, 47 average, with 30.06 barometer and 23 feet 6 inches wave height, wind SW. Sunday highs near 59, lows 36, noon 54. The page blends weather with wartime notes on air power, neutrality debates, oil and coal shortages, Liberty Loan drive, and political talk about Middlesex County, Kentucky distilleries, vinegar prices, and brewing. It comments on public sentiment, gasless Sundays, and a call to stay calm amid rumors while urging support for war efforts and defense.
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Mt. Higby
Promoter's Rant Sparks Gale Fueled AEW Ttee Tension
A chaotic exchange erupted as a promoter criticized the AEW Ttee amid a gale of fury. Names and places are not fully clear in the fragment, but the scene centers on a provocative attack on the group and its leadership.
Sincere praise for Mr King noted in Senate remarks
In a recent Senate session, a speaker praised Mr King with a high encomium. The speaker recalled Mr Townsend’s past admiration for King, who led victory parades under trying conditions and had managed Townsend’s first successful senatorial campaign.
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Send
Mr. King
Senate
Townsend
Mr. Townsend
A Link With Earlier Ages from Madagascar's Fauna
The London Spectator notes Madagascar as the third largest island with unique ancient life forms and species found nowhere else. It highlights remains of an immense ostrich tribe bird, whose eggs have been found and measure 124% by 9% inches, underscoring vast prehistoric links.
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Madagascar
London Spectator
Toole Ensnared by a Toying Turn of Phrase in The Waterman
English comedian J. L. Toole narrowly faced a joke reversal while performing The Waterman with Sims Reeves in the role of Tom Tug. Reeves, tempted to tease, told Toole the meaning was he had been made a tool of, prompting Toole to quip So it Sims as a comeback.
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J. L. Toole
Waterman
Sims Reeves
Tom Tug
Toole
Sims
Laugh That Failed Reveals Uneasy Humor Tale
A humorist offers a joke of the Joe Miller vintage to an editor who deems it not funny. The editor notes the piece is no laughing matter and the author withdraws, wandering away with a bowed head, as described by the Indianapolis Star in a chiselled, reflective tone.
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Joe Miller
Indianapolis Star
His Big Loaf and the Four Years Loaf
A dinner tale shows a minister praising college bred manners while a father quietly jokes that college bred means a four years loaf. The exchange features Robert and James as listeners to a father's boasts of sons social, athletic, and scholastic successes.
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Robert
James
Papa
Mr. Brown
Thriftiest Item Under My Roof: Bulletin 28 Cited
A writer in the American Magazine praises the United States Department of Agriculture’s Bulletin 28 The Chemical Composition of American Food Materials as thrifty. It cost 5 cents and saves the reader about $5 a month by listing foods commonly used, with their starch sugar fat water and other nutrient proportions per pound.
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United States Department of Agriculture
A Secret Divulged in a Child’s Inquiry
A youth asks his father to define natural philosophy and explains the kettle’s steam as an example. The father, relieved, begins to describe science as the science of cause and reason, prompting the child’s eager interruption.
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Papa
Serial numbers for division 22 list many Connecticut names
A long roll of serial numbers for Division 22 lists numerous individuals by name and town across Connecticut, including William Percy Lawton East Haddam Oscar Julius Frederickson Westbrook Clifford Stannard Iveryton Frank Arrigoni Durham and many others from towns such as Portland Ivoryton Clinton Deep River Saybrook Essex and New Saybrook. The section ends with a financial note and a clearing house statement showing Sub-treasury debit exchanges and balances.
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William Percy Lawton
East Haddam
Oscar Julius Frederickson
Westbrook
Clifford Walcott Stannard
Iveryton
Frank Arrigoni
Durham
Charles Hayes
Everett William Doane
Essex
Allen Chase Frenyear
Saybrook
Oscar Wimler
Portland
Frank Zmek
Higganum
Davie
George Ahlberg
Lucius
Edward Weaver
East Hampton
Jimmy Sparko
Old Apse
Leroy Russell Rutty
Dee River
George Mormon
Dennis Aloysius McCarthy
Salvatore Ranno
Clinton
Marino Domenico Lanzi
Chester
John McAuliffe
Louie Pieretti
Ivoryton
George Edwin Phelps
Rocco Lombardi
Eugene Stillman Lord
Dee
River
John Johnson
Jenison Westenn Lewis Newson
Robert Molneux
Old Saybrook
James Holway Cone
Joe Lobs
Paul Lord Janes
William Francis McDonald
Walter Everett Smith
Paul Adolph Hoffman
Deep River
Frank Henry Ra
Herbert Henry Kremsler
Frederick Wm. Rowley
Wilhelm C. R. Zieroth
Raymond Moore
Per Gustav Munson
Harry Isaac Cross
Moodus
William Roscoe Mowry
Thomas John Huggins
Frederick Wm. Clark
John Henry Sullivan
Heinrich Wislichmus
Clearing House
New York
Sub-treasury
All Stars Fall Short In Town Championship Clash
In a close Sunday bout at Mill Hollow field Middletown All Stars and Russell Co. opened their town championship series. Krauth tossed a shutout for Russell Co. with 13 strikeouts to Peterson's 9 as Krauth doubled in the first and Nejako later scored. A hearn Ward and Krauth led the day for Russell while Oakes returns next week hoping to square the series.
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All-Stars
Middletown
Russell Co
Mill Hollow Field
Jack Krauth
Robbie Peterson
Krauth
Peterson
Russell
Weavers
Bobbie
Nejako
Lucey
Nick Strohla
E. Johnson
Johnson
Lacey
Dan Ahearn
Doc Ward
Dot
Eagle Eye
Schultz
Rockwell-Drake
Oakes
Ward
Francis Schultz
Woman Works 15 Hours a Day in Peru Ind
Anna Meteriano of Peru Indiana says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her long standing backache and dragging pains after doctors suggested operation. She reports rising at four, doing housework, working in a factory, and feeling well enough to resume daily tasks. Nurses and friends urged trying the famous root and herb remedy for similar ailments.
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Peru
Ind
Lydia E. Pinkham
Anna Meteriano
West 10Th St
General Soukhomlinoff Courted and Shot in 1914 Trial
General Soukhomlinoff, minister of War from 1909 to 1915, was court martialed on September 8 and shot the same day. A separate 1917 Petrograd court sentenced him to life hard labor for high treason abuse of confidence and fraud.
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Soukhomlinoff
Petrograd
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