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Middletown Times Press

Location

Middletown, New York, United States of America

Date

Dec 17, 1917

Page

10

Classified Advertisements and Personal Notices Fray

A cluttered page shows mixed classifieds including for sale items such as a new bookcase and a porter store appliance, plus wanted ads for dealers, help wants for male and female positions, and lost and found notes. A narrative follows about artistic inspiration, memory, and a surprising self-made sale of a painting, detailing an artist’s discovery of a dealer’s interest in his work after his sister unknowingly sketched his marine scene.

Willata Deaser Gs Marine View Esherman's Cottage

To Rent Multiple Rooms In City Listings

A dense list of rental ads offering furnished and unfurnished rooms and small flats across Broad Street South Street and nearby avenues. Includes prices from 2 to 23 dollars, various amenities such as heat electric light and baths, and references to local real estate agents Townsend Dyer Bon Merchants Bank Waits Land Company and others.

Howston Townsend Prospect Street Houston Avenue Bath Centre of Tow Waits Land Company East Main Street

Mental Mystery of Mind Waves and Art Debt

A writer describes a belief in a barely understood mental influence between brains akin to wireless telegraphy. An artist recalls early talent, failing formal training, financial strain from a sister’s loan, and a seaside retreat that unsettles his thoughts while contemplating his debt and a mysterious mental force.

Eleanor

Imaginative playmate shifts Edward’s view of neighbors

Edward meets a new neighbor with vivid pretensions who turns ordinary objects into steeds boats and animals. His mother asks for impressions and Edward responds that the boy is like him with such a strong pretend world.

Edward John Brocks

Not That Kind of Case Joke From the Front

A frontier Irish regiment tale has a corporal solving a supply problem by asking a quartermaster for the spare horse. When refused due to a “case of emergency,” he suggests placing the case on the cart to free the horse.

Farewell Dinner Before Jipson's Wedding

A small group of Jipson's bachelor friends gave him a farewell dinner on the eve of his marriage. He recalled it with a stubborn headache that lasted two days, a memory likely to linger.

Jipson

Egg advice sparks domestic kitchen quip

A light exchange centers on grocery choices with a remark about not always buying eggs. The reply notes eggs are necessary and attributes the wife’s cooking skills to the challenge, framing a domestic humor moment.

Ledy Questions Work Attendance Amid Graft Claims

In a brief exchange, Ledy asks why someone won’t go to work. Bobo replies he is honest and cannot find any business free of graft. The dialogue hints at a pervasive corruption theme in the local economy.

Ae Ledy Bobo

Poetry of Motion and Politics in A Fragment

A fragmented verse piece contrasts dance and motion with a political scene where a proposal to adjourn is praised as grace. Dialogue features Senator Sorghum criticizing an industrious figure for wanting to quarrel with one country while fighting another. The text closes with a remark about great women in history and sacrifice attributed to Leigh Hunt.

Gelf Leigh Hunt

Wanted-Miscellaneous ads fill crowded page

Classifieds show a variety of informal notices including WANTED items for sale and service ads. The text lists beef cattle veal calves pigs and poultry buyers in Middletown and Philadelphia addresses, plus a humorous or miscellaneous note about a bird and Bible quotations. It reads like a collage of short ads and quotations with fragmented lines.

Cres Babery Ak Ee Aep Middletown Alg Yon J. Ders O. & W. Rhop Camis and Bath

Sea Colors and Family Bonds in Brief

The piece notes sea hues from red in the Bay of Lounge to nearly black near the Maldive Islands, alongside a reflection on timekeeping and a family bond. It recalls a child’s plea at kindergarten about not being separated, highlighting parental responsibility and care.

Bay of Lounge Japan Cape Palmas Maldive Islands

Three Kinds of Good Ad Promoting Times-Press Columns

A short ad styled piece outlines three kinds of good. It claims the first is animal, the second heroin, and the third divine. The text invites readers to use the Times-Press want columns for seeds or advertisements.

Times-Press

Bainbridge Colby Studies Army Food Rations in France

Bainbridge Colby, serving with the American Army in France, lives among soldiers to gain firsthand knowledge of army rations. He aims to promote food conservation back in the United States by studying ration practices and efficiency.

Bainbridge Colby France United States

Christmas goods and local shop ads clutter town page

An assortment of Christmas merchandise appears with ads for wrapping paper cigars tobacco and gift items from local stores Levinson's Market Greenwald Bros and Porter & Delavan plus listings for trees holly wreaths and mistletoe. Also includes essays on memory and elephants clipping of magazine content and an advertisement for taxi service and business guidance.

Ingersoll Com Pew Adeluan Levinson

Middletown business directory items and notices

A dense list of local businesses and services including an automobile repair shop, auctioneer and appraiser, awning maker, dry cleaning, fur cleaning, and a bank notice. Also includes obituaries notices for Laura Peck and Bema Leonard, a probate notice for Louise Geer, a funeral director ad, and upcoming local events and meetings from the Merchants National Bank and a charity lunch shop.

Methodist Church Central Valley Highlands, x

Fish Seat Whiskers on Monhegan Barber Rushes Boat

A visitor on Monhegan Island, Me. Te elininga near half his face lathered when the shout Mackerel to the southward rang. The barber abandoned his razor and ran to his boat, returning with a $20 fish catch and one fewer customer.

Monhegan

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