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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1917
Page
4
A garbled note claims Cuba expects to resize a massive sugar crop valued at $350,006,650, described as two large lump sums. The text also mixes in political and sports fragments, with foreign coal trade, German chancellor remarks, and unrelated musings on poems and public figures.
The article quotes a National Baseball Commission chair urging unity to save baseball during the war. It contrasts professional baseball as a business with amateur baseball as the national sport, noting amateurs suffer less from wartime. colleges paused intercollegiate play as players joined the army, while football teams faced similar pressures but did not seek exemptions for athletes.
Saturday Snips describe The Magical Cutter presented to the vernscom by Eugene Horton and a Wartime Quickstep as a rapid, efficient gauze cutting process. It notes gear, timing, and a Red Cross effort, plus hospital knitwear records and auxiliary activity across multiple units.
Fragmented notes recount a Missed Friday performance by the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel talent at Amusement Hall and a rescheduled Monday show at Eagles Hall. Ralph Albert Blakelock, the well known American landscape artist, visited the hospital Friday amid continued health recovery and delayed recognition.
The school has formed a class with practical nursing and nurses aides training, including pupil nurses and graduate registered nurses. Officers are President Ethel Mo Chardavayne, Vice-President John E McAloon, Secretary Phoebe M VanAirt, Treasurer Katherine V Dunn. The class flower is the pansy and colors are purple and gold with the motto Facta Non ...
The article notes 16 juniors paying 10 cents monthly, 14 senior members, new hires Clyde Hornbeck and others, and a focus on wartime Christmas observance. It mentions hospital staff and a December 1 1917 letter from Riddletown State Homeopathic Hospital seeking patient gifts, guidance on packages, and time-sensitive delivery for Christmas. It also references preparations, decor, and a planned Christmas carol rehearsal at the chapel.
A Brookyn household hosts visitors Louise Blurray in New York and others. a long list of local happenings follows from weather, harvest, hog processing, bowls results, chapel, housing, and a Newburgh mental clinic outlining a city clinic at Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital with thirty-two attendees and various cases.
A terse notice hints at a men only event or display connected to Druggist Pronk, urging attention to a storefront window and implying limited access or exclusivity while referencing related initials.
A lively meeting of the Ladies Aid Society of the Italian Chapel elected officers including President Teresa Sardeli and First Vice President Rosanna Testa. Members planned purchasing curtains and kitchen furniture and discussed a lecture and concert event.
At Lancelot Lodge No 1163 K of P a regular convention at Castle Hall Friday elected for the ensuing year C C Chas H Coon V C A L Deisseroth Prelate C W Jones BM W L C Wood K R S A P L Rifenbury M FJ E Corwin EX L J Hasbrouck M 4 Elmer E Cole J G Edward Cranston O G George Tyrrell Trustee Wm Herman Rep W T Cornelius Alt Rep F M McPermott Ready now at old prices fresh lots of Foles s Honey and Tar offered at prewar prices this year also promoting a cough medicine to use at home Mrs Mary Kisty 3532 Princeton Ave Spokane
Mr Marriott of 73 Lees Ave Ottawa writes that after liver and kidney troubles he started using Fruit-a-tives and experienced health improvements including a full, clear-thinking brain. The ad promotes price 25c per trial bottle and six bottles for 2 50, with orders via Fruit-a-tives Limited New York.
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