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bCarriage House Will Remainy(1____ *-.....Worthington LandmarkToGoLi11A Doylesiowiu landmark—theJ former handsome, large Worth fimgton home and antique estab l Ushment next door to the post-office — will vanish from the periphery of the midtown business section.James H. Haidrman, a dental technician and head of Halde man Laboratories, now located in the Odd Fellows Building (Lenape Hall), has bought the former Harry Worthington colonial, frame and white residence and land for $21,500.The house, which has been converted into apartments, was previously owned by Harry Worthington and his son, Frank L.. now of New Jersey. Halde man bought the structure from Clyde I. Feist, Weisel.Robert H. Lippincott Jr., and Class Harlan, Doylestown real tors, said the carriage house on the property that runs from South Main Street to South Hamilton Street will be retain ed and converted Into iabora lory facilities for Haldeman’s business.Hakfeman said he expects to demolish the house and regrade the lawn, grounds and setting so that parking facilities will be provided and the exterior Of the South Main Street front age improved The former Worthington property at one time extended along West Ashland Street with its South Main Street frontage and was cne of the moat imposing residences In the area.The property became the fo eus of a Doylestown citizens’ controversy in the 1930‘s when, after dickering with various other owners of properties offered for sale, the Federal Government selected the cornerlawn of the Worthington proper ty and located the postoffice where it now is.The site of the postoffice, two blocks from the center of the town, and its brick constructionwhich was immediately painted white, was bitterly attacked ‘‘because it was too far to walk and also because it looked like a Coast Guard station.MI expect to make it one of the most attractive properties in town,” said Haldeman, who explained there is a driveway that leads from South Mam to South Hamilton Streets which affords excellent entrance and exit facilities, i,iToday sAlmanacNov. I, thewith 5$ toToday is Friday,307th day of 1967 follow. »The moon is between its new phase and first quarter.The morning stars are Venus and JupiterThe evening stars are Marsand SaturnOn this day in historyIn 1917, Americans back bom* learned of the first World War I deaths of U.S. soldiers, fighting at Nancy, France.In 1936, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president for his second term.In 1964, a record 67 million American voters went to the polls and Lyndon B Johnson was elected by the largest majority in history,A thought for the day: American novelist Dorothy Canfield Fisher once said—A mother Is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary,”A thought for the day: Pope Pius XII once said—“The American people have a genius for splendor and unselfish action, and into the hands of America God has, placed the destinies of afflected huraam ty,it* I- iPEACE CORPSMAN in Guam poses a sharp contrast to the garb worn by inhabitants of the land toward which he is heading. The corpsman wasen route to a training sitein the South Pacificwhere some natives still wear only loin-cloths.
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Doylestown Daily Intelligencer
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Nov 03, 1967
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