Middletown Times-Press History Notes and Postal Details
A fragmented log lists the Middletown newspaper’s historical name changes from Whig Press in 185 to Tri-Weekly Press in 1870 and Middletown Daily Times in 1906, plus postal filing notes and odd dated fragments. The legible lines name shifts, dates, and a post office classification reference.
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Middletown Times-Press
Whig Press
Tri-Weekly Press
Middletown Daily Press
Middletown Daily Times
Niddletown Daily Times-Pr
Asiago Battle Holds Line as War Rages and Zionism Debate
An article discusses Austro Hungarian and German efforts at Asiago with the Italian defense holding, and warns on the strategic stakes for Venetia. It also surveys Zionism, Jewish unity, and Palestine as a Jewish homeland, noting British support and German policies amid wartime tensions.
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Palestine
Jerusalem
Balfours
Love's Lanes of Long Ago in Verse and Prose
A mixed page of verse and prose items recalls love and faith. Poems talk of memory, Arcadia, and a hopeful afterlife with God, while a quip about Methuselah crosses into satirical cartoons. A wartime notice argues against alien enemies in the home front and defends stringent loyalty tests.
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Winter
Ares
Ett
Ostrander
M. D
Wurtsboro
Jewish fate tied to autocracy’s fall and Palestine rehab
A historical article argues that sympathy for Jews shifts as autocratic Russia, once seen as allied with Western democracies, falls. With Russia’s decline, Jewish rehabilitation under Jewish auspices appears nearer, making the allied cause uniquely the Jewish global cause.
Knitting Room Buzz at Red Cross Camp Why
Weekend note outlines a busy knitters scene with 40 volunteers lined up for outfi ts, hospital dressings, and muslin strip needs. Reports box totals, shipments of gauze, sweaters, wristlets, and bed socks, plus a plea for old muslin and clean white goods to tear into strips for surgery packs. Military air, Christmas packets, and local auxilians contributions highlighted.
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Vernon
Benedicts Pass Exams Enlisting for Aviators Headed to Texas
Smith and Gumner Benedict recently enlisted at the local recruiting station and have passed the required examination. They left Fort Siocum with others attached to the Fourth Company of Aviators and are believed bound for Texas for months of training.
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Smith
Gumner Benedict
Fort Siocum
Texas
Salvation Army Christmas Dinner Aid Planned in Middletown
The Middletown Salvation Army under Ensign and Mrs. Paul Kaiser aims to provide a worthy poor population with a good Christmas dinner. Community support is urged as kettles appear on streets and past work providing baskets, food, clothing, and fuel continues.
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Middletown
Salvation Armyr
Ensign
Paul Kkaiser
License Debate Sunday Evening Prompts Civic Discussion
Sunday at 7 36 p m a debate on the question of estee d license and local option will be held. The city churches will mingle on the occasion and a cordial invitation is extended to all to attend and hear this discussion of a topic of current interest locally. Walter Hones of Roscoe Review to enlist in navy as his brother serves in the army. Also notes on a W C T U social and a playful humorous piece about Copernicus and Galileo.
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Young Hones
NAVY
Walter Hones
William Hones
The
Roscoe Review
William Hones, Jr
Johnny
Howier
Copernicus
Galileo
London
Read thee Prees Want Ads for Money
Classified insert urges readers to cut out the ad, mail it with five cents to Foley & Co in Chicago for a trial package of Foley remedies including Honey and Tar Compound and Kidney Pills, plus Cathartic Tablets. The note lists products and benefits for coughs colds rheumatism backache and digestive issues. It reads like an old publicity banner.
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Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago, Il
Foley
McMonagle &Rogers
Young Folks Stage Charity Play at Presbyteran Church
Pleasant entertainmentlast evening featured the Cartsuzo boreaver society presenting A Case of Suspension with student actors from the seminary and nearby college. The event included a vocal solo My Love She Comes on a Ship by Mildred Carner and a token presentation to Miss Dill for coaching. Also noted were recovering patients Hernine and Herman DeGraag after a tonsil operation and the fatal automobile injury of Dr. C S Allaben of Marzaresville.
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Cartsuzo Boreaver Society
Sss
Virgina
Tal Dae Dan
Dorothy Adams
Herold
Lum
Sacs
Irving Brver
Ladies Hose
Kenneth Sacsey
Rlon
Tutolga
Pian
Ilempis
Esther
Harold B. Woodward
Miss Dill
Soreia
Coliege
Aliss Virginia Dill
the Seminary
Marjorie Fellows
Alice
Irene Jordan
Mildred
Harold
Irving Fryer
Dedley Hoyt
Kenneth Mackey
Ophelia Judkins
Esther Mould
Edgerton
Montreal resident praises Fruit-a-tives for constipation cure
A letter from A Rosenborg of Montreal dated April 20 1913 extols Fruit-a-tives as a cure for chronic constipation and indigestion. He cites five years of illness and a sedentary music career causing intestinal problems, and says six months of use fully restored health. Product priced 50 cents per box or 2 for 2.50, sent postpaid by Protives Limited Ogdensburg NY.
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MR. Rosenauag
Casgrain St
Montreal
A. Rosenborg
Protives Limited
Ogdensburg
New York
Enjoying Venison and Army Enlistment Notes
Donald L Toepp who has been in Maine since October deer hunting has returned home. Lawrence A Toepp his father recovered the carcass seized by the temper protection and the fame is now enjoy Tyrrell at Ft Slocum Clarence E Tyrrell of 3924 Broad Street sergeant in Co I First Provisional Regiment on guard at the aqueduct has enlisted 252 stenographer in the quartermaster corps and is now at Fort Slocum.
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Donald L. Toepp
Maine
Lawrence A. Toepp
Tyrrell
FT. Slocum
Clarence E. Tyrrell
Co. I
Aqueduct
Quartermaster Corps
Army
Fort Slocum
Rippinger Enlists in Army Aviation Corps
Ernest Rippinger of Middletown has enlisted in the regular army aviation corps as a radio operator. He left for City College of New York to take two courses in instruction after being employed by Ontario & Western at Campbell Hall.
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Rippinger
Ernest Rippinger
Middletown
The
Ontario & Western
Campbell Hall
Aviation Corps
Regular Army
City College of New York
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