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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1917
Page
10
A sketched exchange shows Old Gotrex and Young DeSmart discussing a marriage portion and a $90,000 arrangement. The dialogue pivots on questions of first kisses and propriety, framed as a humorous want ad caption in the Times-Press.
A German agriculturist develops a method to extract the fibrous inner bark from hop vines for use in cordage manufacture. Engineers claim that standing four inches from a telephone while speaking is equivalent to stretching 218 miles. Read the Times-Press Want Ads.
An exam of 20 applicants seeking chauffeurs licenses was held in the city basement under Examiner Cha B Hawver of New York with Chief Investigator Curran present. A road test followed and tables were used to assess competence to operate motor vehicles. Hawver and Curran had previously conducted the exam in Newburgh with 19 participants and then moved to Liberty. By December 1 the New York office had received license tests totaling 2 235 014. the three offices Albany Buffalo and New York totaled over 4 590 000 in receipts, making Francis M Hugo head of a vast auto bureau.
An advertising promotion extols daily hot water with limestone phosphate to cleanse the stomach liver and bowels Each morning dose aims to purge waste with claims of improved appetite and health It urges readers to buy a quarter pound of limestone phosphate from the drug store and touts internet sanitation hype.
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