Great Program Of Racing At County Tracks This August
A bustling county racing circuit unfolds in August with events at Monroe Goshen and Endicott. The Orange County Circuit meets include Grand Circuit action at Goshen Good Time Park and a total purse surpassing 52 700 across races from July to August, featuring trotting and pacing events, Ladies Day purses, and the John R. Gentry and Weston noted stakes.
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Monroe
Goshen
Orange County Fair
W. H. Cane
Range County
Endicott
N. Y
Walden Girl to Wed Dorothy MacGowan Plans Quiet Walden Wedding
Miss Dorothy MacGowan daughter of Mr and Mrs Lewis F MacGowan Walden will wed N Scovil Osborne of Amityville NY on Saturday April 9 at the prospective bride's home in Walden. The ceremony will be intimate with immediate family. MacGowan is Albany Teachers College and New Paltz Normal School graduate and has taught for two years. Osborne is a Amityville business man planning to live in Amityville.
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Walden
Dorothy MacGowan
Lewis F. Mac
N. Scovil Osborne
Amityville
N. Ya
Miss MacGownes
Albany Teachers’ College
New Paltz Normal School
Teac
Borne
Amityville_ hing
Osng
May Solve Pension Problem Inflationary Plan Mentioned
President Coolidge hopes Treasury and Interior officials can arrange legal means to divert funds for pension payments until next fiscal year. May and June pensions delayed to July 1 after Congress failed to pass deficiency bill, affecting 40 400 New York pensioners. Additional item notes two student crisis reports: Anthony Zeno 18 Port Chester NY died after poisoning himself with gas. Frank Conklin 18 Richmond Hill NY, son of a policeman, shot himself with his father’s pistol.
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President Coolidge
Treasury
Interior Departments
Congress
New York State
Anthony Zeno
Port Chester
N. Y
High Schoo
Frank!’ Conklin
Richmond Rill High School
New York
Frank Conklin
Beacon Opposes Bill on Water Supply Acquisition
Beacon manufacturers urge residents to protest the Webb bill allowing New York City to acquire more water in Dutchess and Columbia counties. They fear diversion of Fishkill Creek would deprive local industries along its banks of needed supply.
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Beacon
New York City
Dutchess
Columbia
Fishkill Creek
News of the World Roundup of 1926 events and legal cases
Browning separation denied alimony for Peaches Heenan Browning. Kermit Roosevelt fined 2 dollars for driving on wrong side. Earl Carroll loses bid to avoid a year and a day in federal prison for perjury. Shanghai fallen to Nationalists. 1200 US marines deployed. Moscow rejoices at Shanghai victory. Rise in alcohol admissions at state hospitals since 1920. Baumes laws praised by Nassau DA. Governor Smith taps Frank Utter to head Standards Bureau. Fertilizer price report issued. GOP criticizes Smith over gas tax. Typhoid epidemic in Montreal persists. Knothole gas leak alarms Hornell residents. GE develops long-range searchlight gun for cloud imaging.
Aged performer faces eviction in New York tenement
An eighty five year old former circus star, once lauded for equestrian feats, now faces eviction from a dingy two room New York City apartment. She is nearly deaf, rheumatic, and struggles to pay $9 monthly rent while living with her dog Elsie. Her background includes Goshen origins and Barnum show fame with husband Ed Jackson.
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Anvie ‘Jackson
Goshen
East 25Th Street
New York City
Florida Road
Ed Jackson
Herbert L. Pratt
Glenblind
Cove, L. L
State Board of Regents
New York State
Charles B. Alexander
Tuxedo
New Drivers License Law Set To Start May First
Bartholomew authors a three year junior operators license reform for rural drivers. The bill standardizes licenses for all drivers aged 16 to 18 and introduces learners permits. It shifts renewal to April 30 and sets a two year effective period, with a $2 fee for each three year license.
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Bartholomew
Smith
Inspectors Continue Talks to Students in Orange County
Motor vehicle inspectors on duty in Orange County continue a statewide campaign by the state motor vehicle commissioner in schools to cut accidents through street safety guidance. They are concluding at Cornwall and will move to Walden and Montgomery schools, urging pupils to observe a list of donts to curb thoughtlessness at crossings. The inspectors note deaths and injuries from mishaps are appalling and began yesterday at Cornwall, also visiting Central Valley and Highland Mills.
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Orange County
Cornwall
Walden
Montgomery
Central Valley
Highland Mills
Trial of Ellenville Women Called Off
The third degree assault trial of Mrs. Arland J. Sanderson and Mrs. Roy M. Currey was dismissed after attorney Leroy Lounsberry argued that all facts had been aired during the Police Chief's trial. The matter is declared a dead issue with exoneration for all involved.
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Ellenville
Arland J. Sanderson
Roy M. Currey
van R. Moffitt
Leroy Lounsberry
Lounsberry
Arland Sanderson
Cross Bill Passes to Amend Municipal Railroad Taxes
Albany dispatch reports the House passed a bill by Assemblyman Cross of Sullivan County to amend municipal law governing railroad taxes. The measure, along with Knapp’s claim bill, advances in the legislative process.
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Albany
Marca
Assemblyman Cross
Sullivan County
Knapp
Frank J. Nearn a longtime county figure dies in Central Valley
Frank J. Nearn died Friday at his Central Valley home. A former Middletown police member, longtime McQuaid Engine Company stalwart, and former Central Valley postmaster, he was active in Monroe Council Knights of Columbus and local fire groups. Survived by wife Elizabeth Reilly, two grandchildren, three sisters, two brothers. Funeral Tuesday at 9 a.m. from the home and 10 a.m. at St. Joseph's Church Middletown. burial in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Nearn born in te
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Frank J. Nean
Central Valley
Middletown
McQuaid Engine Company
Elizabeth Reilly
Wurtsboro
Tvo
Lucy Nearn Ford
Nearn
Monroe Connell
Knights of Columbus
St. Joseph’s Church
St. Joseph’s Cemetery
Victim of Lockjaw Reported Near Death
John Stanklerwicz, forty five, a black dirt farmer from Florida, lies dying in Warwick Hospital from tetanus after a splinter under a fingernail. Surgeons report convulsions and severe rigidity despite heroic measures and repeated doses of antitoxin. He had closed a chicken coop two weeks earlier, did not seek treatment promptly, and misinterpreted neck and facial pain as mumps before diagnosis by Dr M R Bradner.
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John Stanklerwicz
Florida
Warwick Hospital
Stanklezwicz
Stankierwicz
M. R. Bradner
Warwick
Spring Weather and Local News From Middletown Area
Spring arrived with a heavy rain storm as a cold wave failed to materialize. The Middletown High School senior class staged a major fashion show at J. W. Demerest dry goods, drawing 1,500 visitors and serving 500 luncheon guests led by Wilson C. Van Duzer. The event funded the seniors Easter trip to Washington, with over ninety outfits on display and models from Chester and Florida schools.
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Hed Bers
Agather Bureiu
J. W. Demerest Dry Goods
Middletown
Middletown High School
Wilson C. van Duzer
Chester
Florida
Washington, D. C
Local men successful in Albany civil service tests
Middleton residents passed competitive civil service exams. Raymond A. Henry, 265 North Street, was named Chief railroad inspector in the Conservation Commission with an annual salary of 1200 dollars. Joseph Herbert of Middletown State Hospital was named Chief transfer agent for the State Hospital Service with a monthly salary from 74 to 82 dollars.
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Albany
Middleton
The
Conservation Commission
Raymond A
Itenry
North Atrset
State Hospital Service
Joseph Herbert
Middletown State Hospital
Highway committee in Cir cleville pursues Middletown Pine Bush highway rights of way
The Highway Committee of the Board of Supervisors met in Cir cleville on Friday to secure rights of way for the Middletown Pine Bush highway. Most rights of way are secured and bids may come soon. The text also notes tax revenue and federal debt projections for 1927.
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Board of Supervisors
Circleville
Middletown
Pine Bush
Two Counties in New York Face Crime Commission Report
A Crime Commission report targets two rural New York counties named Atlantic and Pacific, alleging drab schools, illicit dances, and ongoing bootlegging. It hints Putnam possibly reflecting these counties, with other candidates including Tioga and Schuyler, and notes lax enforcement of compulsory education, prohibition, and highway laws amid social stress.
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Sinclair Lewis
Mary Street
New York State Crime Commission
New York State
Atlantic
Pacific
Pacific County
Putnam County
Orange County
Tioga
Schuyler
Crime Commission
Atlantic” ‘S
Port men given bail before Crist in café raids
Tony Fantano John Bridsi der and Alphonse Petito port Jervis cafe owners whose places were raided by federal men the week before last were arraigned Saturday before U S Commissioner Harry T Crist of Middletown they were represented by a New York attorney they were released on bail and the cases were adjourned one week.
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Tony Fantano
John Bridsider
Alphonse Petito
Port Jervis
U. S
Harry T. Crist
Middletown
New York
Weston Injured in Accident Near Orange County Visit
Edward Payson Weston, renowned trans continental pedestrian, was struck by a taxi in Orange County while en route to church to thank a donor for a $30,000 lifetime gift from Anne Nichols. He suffers a fractured skull and remains in serious condition after his eighty eighth birthday.
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Edward Payson Weston
Orange County
Anne Nichols
World War Vets Warned of Insurance Lapse in 1927
Veterans of World War I are warned that the privilege to reinstate and convert war time insurance will lapse on June 2, 1927 after Congress failed to extend the time. The murder trial of Mrs Lucy Barley of Newburgh, charged with killing her husband Daniel Bailey, is set for April 18 by Justice Arthur Tompkins but may be delayed pending Court of Appeals decision on a writ of prohibition by District Attorney Lemon, which nullifies Justice Seeger's order to expose prosecution to the defense.
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Congress
Lucy Barley
Newburgh
Daniel Bailey
Arthur
Tompkins
Court of Appeals
Prohibition
Lemon
Seeger
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