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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1917
Page
3
December 18 reports heavy snowfall from 18 inches to three feet in Bloomingburg. Friday morning mail delivery by Alva Comfort hampered as horse passage proved impossible.
Rates for single rooms at Hotel Continental on Broadway near 41st Street New York list 2, 2.50, and 3 dollars. Double rooms are priced at 3, 4, 4.50, and 5 dollars.
The text notes a long walk with a mat pouch on the back and one hour fifteen minutes per mile. It mentions no school Friday due to scholars blocked passage, a failed leechers’ effort, reform church services in the chapel Sunday morning, and Mrs. Albert Hultslander leaving Friday for Elmura on business.
Ridgebury notes the M. L. Sundry School Christmas program with carols and spraying in the church on December 22. Santa Claus is expected. A snow drift mail ride by Mins Sebuk from Slate Hill to Ridgebury is mentioned. The recent endowment drive for Methodist schools reached 256 dollars with thanks to contributors.
An item notes manna as a desert honey dew produced by a tamarisk bug, likening it to aphids secretions. It mentions Arabs and their word for manna, alongside a Times-Press Want Ad Columns advertisement reference.
Pine Bush community pages report the Pine Bush Hooks and Ladder Company electing officers at their annual meeting, naming president William Wetter and other officials. The issue also notes a 55th wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Esvert and a funeral gathering for James Rhinehart with relatives visiting from New York and Middletown Bank figures. A sale of the "Tasler House" on Pine Bush is announced by auction.
Monroe announces Christmas Day Masses at the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and St Columba s in Chester with Father Gilmartin directing the choir. Midnight mass at St Columba s, another at Sacred Heart, and a 9 4 0 mass at St Columba s. Aimed to unite Catholics and non Catholics with a peace message and Red Cross appeals noted by Father Gilmartin.
A fragmentary passage recalls a speaker lamenting how a decade ago his views were denounced as dangerous while today he is urged to abandon his opinions. He insists he has not changed them despite changing perceptions.
A Colombian river runs with waters so thin in acidity that it has earned the nickname Vinegar River, likening its sour taste to vinegar. The description highlights an extremely sulfuric, acidic flow that resembles a vinegar solution in color and odor.
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