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Newspaper
Middletown Evening Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1871
Page
1
Mr A B Deming Newsdealer Bookseller is named general agent for the Middletown Evening Press in Middletown. He will have charge of village delivery and collections biweekly. Single copies of the current issue are sold at Deming's and Vail's Bookstore for four cents.
The article describes huckleberry production in Orange Sullivan and Ulster Counties and Pike County Penn supplying New York with most of its supply. It notes daily shipments by rail to New York, earnings for pickers, rugged mountain picking sites, and dangers of lost pickers with a rescue tale of Mrs. Glennon and children. Immense volumes move through Monticello Port Jervis and Shohola hubs with Germans carrying berries to New York City.
At Hulse's Grove the German Picnic- Society gathering ended in a brawl as James Cunningham Thomas Burns and David Duggan assaulted Special Policeman Abram L Weller. Joseph Hinchman intervened to help, the rioters fled, Cunningham and Duggan were jailed on $1000 bail for the next court appearance.
George Moore, a Peekskill tobacco merchant, claimed to seek work here. He spent Sunday with Thomas Tatham, who led him to taverns, and Moore woke Monday without his $50. Tatham was arrested after a search found money on him and $30 matched Moore's loss. bail set at 800 dollars and he was sent to Goshen jail.
A brief line notes that the Orangemen are mostly Protestants while the orangewomen are nearly all Roman Catholics reflecting sectarian composition within the groups.
Early morning accident on a westbound Erie Railroad coal train east of Draper's hat factory left brakeman Edward Salisman dead after the cars rolled over him. The inquest was held by Justice Little and his body was sent to Port Jervis.
A man and his wife with a dog and their three year old son left the boy behind when boarding a Sullivan County bound train at Midland. The father failed to notice the child while tending a faulty car and the mother focused on bandboxes. The trio boarded, crossing the Shawangunk Mountains before realizing the lapse. The child cried in distress until kind locals aided until the father returned.
J H Gunning M D cousin of Rev J H Gunning of First Baptist Church resigns as U S Army surgeon after serving with the western army among the Indians. He has set up in Middletown with office at Mrs Fullerton's on James street as noted by a card.
Evening Press reports hourly temperatures from North Street Drug Store readings taken July 22. Data includes 6A.M 9A.M 1P.M 8P.M 6P.M 9P.M with figures listed as decimals and marks, indicating daily variation.
The item lists varied quotes and snippets from economic and social notes including onion shipments, bank circulation, fashion and local events. It preserves a collage tone with several named places and people and suggests public notices and local concerns.
Cincinnati July 22 A. D. Babbit a Michigan resident and telegraph operator descended into an unexplored pit in Mammoth Cave Kentucky reaching 198 feet. The rope sliced by rocks caused a near fatal fall witnessed by many observers.
Mrs Anna Glennon and her several children lost while huckleberrying on the mountain. Night fell and they sheltered under rocks until midnight when Mr William Connelly and companions found them and guided them home.
Residents around Seneca Lake New York report millions of dead shad floating on the surface. Theories suggest the young fish hatch from shad garbage containing both sexes, and seek salt water but perish when unable to reach it.
The piece notes the progression from George Stephenson’s 1814 locomotive at four miles per hour to 1825 speeds around six miles an hour. It claims the traveling public now demands at least forty miles an hour, despite stoppages.
New York correspondent reports General Sherman arriving unannounced at Congress Hall Saratoga. He discusses Grant Hancock and the Ku Klux bill, defends presidential power, and warns against imperial ambitions while reflecting on his career and public life.
Readable notes show August issue items from Arthur’s Home Magazine and a feature on the children’s hour program.
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