Given that the French troops endured heavy losses due to German artillery, it was reassuring to read locally that one Dr. Howard Emery Adams is advertising that his claims to be our city’s true painless dentist are absolutely, positively true.
For a discussion of the painful news of World War One, then raging in Europe, and the (so-called) painless dentist downtown, join me for today’s episode of “This Day In New Haven History.”
I’ve recorded the show — a reading of the Oct. 6 pages of the New Haven Evening Register of 1915 — in a cozy corner of the Local History Room at the New Haven Free Public Library.
It’s as if we are having a cup of coffee together and I’m rustling the pages of the paper and taking you with me as we time travel back … and what’s this? The Democrats have lost badly to the Republicans in the mayoral and aldermanic elections.
Mmmmm … “The old theory that rainy weather is democratic weather has been torpedoed,” says one of the articles, not without a tincture of irony.
To experience Oct. 6 in our town maybe as it was experienced by someone who himself spent the two cents for the busy evening paper and then read it, with feeling, aloud, to his partner over the kitchen table, click on the audio below or find the episode of This Day In New Haven History in iTunes or any podcast app under “WNHH Community Radio.”
