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Bating out in Malvern is no difficult problem now and, in fact, rather pleasurable with the best choice in restaurants that we've enjoyed for a very long time. This is important, John D. Paddock, the town’s first citizen businessman and historian, reported in his Brief History of Malvern, that “For a place where hunger can be satisfied and a bed for rest and sleep, a lodging house is the first need of a town.That was in 1869 and by the end of the year, Tommy Cullers put up the Cullers House, the town’s first hotel. “The important event of its completion was celebrated by a grand social gathering of the entire population of the town and of the country around about to participate in the house warming. After awhile, there was music in the air, and the old style dance was on. Most of them tarried and went home in the early morning, wrote Mr. Paddock.The Cullers House was on the lot where Ted Alley now has his home. It was the first of a series of hotels in the community. Its name was later changed to the Malvern House,A year later J. J. Curtis put up a hotel on Third Street, south across the street fromThe Leader’s present location.A couple of years later the Cottage Hotel was started and soon became the largest of thelocal hosieries. Its original building is now a major part of the Nishna Cottage.The Cottage Hotel, with a large dining room, large lobby and public rooms, became an important part of the community’s social structure. Not only did it provide lodging for the many drummers, or traveling salesmen, who came to town as well as other visitors, but it also provided space and facilities for weddings and a variety of social functions.Its dining room was justly famed and continued to be used long after rural hotels declined in importance. The offerings of its dining room is well illustrated by the following menu which was published in the November 18, 1915, issue of The Leader,advertising its Thanksgiving Day dinner:Relishes, Green Olives Cream of Toma to Soup Cranberry Sauce Mashed Potatoes Sweet Potatoes en glace Perfection Salad Parker House Rolls Plum Pudding with Wine Sauce Cherry Pie a la Mode Chocolate Pie Salted Peanuts-Salted Almonds Tea-CoffeeThe price of the meal wasn’t Included in the ad, but it probably was 75 cents, which would be a fairly high price back in those days. The meal would have been served in excellent style and dining at the Cottage was a pleasurable event at. any time, and particularly for Thanksgiving.
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