What kind of a town is Middletown anyhow
A Dayton newspaper columnist laments Middletown as a parade town with poor Fourth of July participation. The letter cites few marching bands and only nine floats, noting Memorial Day parades had more regional support and suggesting outsiders may need to organize future parades or abandon them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Middletown
Ed Reever
Feerer
City of Progress
Ed Feerer
Pris
Shrine
Mem
President Carter abandons garment bag on travels
Marianne Means argues the president has capitulated to the imperial presidency by letting staff handle luggage, diminishing symbolic humility. The remark notes the bag’s absence signals fear versus growth, urging focus on bigger duties beyond personal baggage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
Trish poetry contest sparks Irish verse and roguish wit
Hugh Mulligan reviews a Cork distillery fish whiskey poetry competition promising honorary poet certificates to all entrants. The column riffists on Irish poetry, history, and the biting tradition of satire, recalling a London embassy party with a legendary redhaired poet and Irish literary heritage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ridgefield
Conn
County Cork
Ireland
London
Grosvenor Place
Her Majesty
Braden cites group's 100 measures to curb basic necessity inflation
Washington columnist notes the National Center for Economic Alternatives presents 100 proposed actions to attack basic necessity inflation. Gar Alperovitz and Jeff Faux warn prices in food energy medical care and shelter outpace overall CPI, with suggested policy shifts in housing energy health care and tax rules to reduce inflation without wage-price controls or demand restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Center For Economic Alternatives
Gar Alperovitz
Jeff Faux
Alperovitz and Faux
Seven Deadly Sins Today review by George F. Will
Washington critic George F. Will examines Henry Fairlie's The Seven Deadly Sins Today and the self help boom. He argues the self fulfillment movement overemphasizes quick fixes and rationalizes vice, while Fairlie contends that pride envy anger sloth avarice gluttony and lust reveal deep personality tendencies and resist easy explanations of human nature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Knox
Fairlie
Fairne
What more to expect from Middletown community pleas
A reader urged Middletonians to support local bodies and merchants including MOM Shop City Centre Mart Middletown Shopping Plaza Middletown Area Automobile Dealers Association and Middletown Board of Realtors. The letter also promotes Kiwanis Lions Club Jaycees Madison Band and Fenwick Festival while urging civic participation and spending locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Middletown Journal offers parade notes and rates
The Journal outlines subscription prices for home delivery and mail, yearly and monthly rates, plus motor route costs. It notes a 1857 founding and delivers a light mock caution about local parade sponsorships, recounting a parade with vehicles, fire trucks, and horses along the route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
News Journal, Inc. & Broad
First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
USA
U.S.A
Also Mentioned on This Page
Marianne
Hugh Mulligan
Conn Howard
Boston
Cathair Mor
Belfast Telegraph
Tom Braden
Jimmy Carter
Congress
Alperovitz
Faux
Tams
George F. Will
P.G Wodehouse
O.K
Henry Fairlie
Lewis
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
the Journal
Dennis the Menace
Mr. Wilson
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!