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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1917
Page
10
A mixed lessthan-crisp page lists items for sale including dresses coats and men’s clothing at local shops such as West Main Street and 3 Avenue with cash or credit terms, plus farm equipment and parlor heater ads. Several lost items are noted with contact details for returns and rewards.
Amsterdam December 19 reports show the German imperial food department system collapsing amid widespread shortages. Neukoeln’s municipal memo reveals 1800 large employers fed workers at inflated prices, undercutting max prices. Smaller firms suffered, prompting municipal distributions and breach of price controls across many cities.
Anted jobs for sober first class workers with references. Elderly man seeks light work with state wages. Boy 15 plus to learn a trade. Wages good for 37 North Street worker. Help wanted women in factory with good wages. Married man seeks country work four to six hours daily with care of horses. Young man seeks clerical position with references. Times Press advert contains multiple LLI items.
New York December report says City College cooperates with State Military Training Commission to enforce the Slater law. Five men dropped and one suspended until January for drill attendance violations, with less than one half of 1 percent of drilling men dropped despite 1,000 liable. Dean pledged cooperation with Major Lion’s details, aligning with warnings about attendance. Bertha’s father teases a suitor in a separate cartoon caption from Puck.
The speaker laments visiting the long cherished swimming place after forty years. He describes it as cool and clear in memory but finds it now a hot, shabby puddle, causing pain at the contrast with the past.
A short, vivid family vignette shows five year old Charles announcing to a baby sister just arrived from heaven that she should tell all about heaven before she forget. The moment captures innocent curiosity and the child’s earnest request for heavenly details.
A fragment notes a Goethe phrase about Ormin shaping the world and cites a memorandum predicting near term impossibilities in food sap tasks. The terse lines suggest philosophical reflection on control and future limits.
Various rooms and furnished suites listed for rent on Broad Street, Highland Avenue, Prospect Street, and Hamford Street. Offers include furnished or unfurnished rooms, light housekeeping, electric light, water, and toilet access. Phone numbers and addresses provided for inquiries.
Edwin D Wood, longtime Goshen overseer of the poor, fell ill while walking near the post office and was taken to the St Elmo Hotel for treatment. His condition is serious. Also reported, Erie engine 2095 derailed yesterday and held five hours before rails were replaced by wreckers from Port Jervis. A basketball game Friday evening will feature Crescent Five of Middletown versus Garr team, promising a good contest.
Justice Young reserved decision in a hear auction to set aside a deed. The case continues as of 2 pm. An automobile suit settled involves Lorenzo Lambert of Monroe against Richard Fittis, Bronx manufacturer. Lambert injured Aug 12 on Mein Street Monroe road. car at 25 39 mph, Lambert carried 25 20 feet, then thrown. Fittis fled, later arrested Middletown, grand jury for failure to stop. fined $164 in County Court. George P Fall represented Fittis. Elwood C Smith for Lambert.
Mrs. Charles A Kinch Carrier wife of Dr Charles A Kinch died at her daughter Mrs R W Laster s home 184 North 12th Street Newark New Jersey on Sunday December 16 after protracted illness Funeral services were held at Mrs Lusters Newark this afternoon and interment was in the Westfield New Jersey cemetery Watch the Times Press Want Ad Columns Advertisement
A collage of late 1910s classified notices requests buys for livestock and goods, auction announcements, and seasonal sales. Items include wanted calves, pigs, poultry, cash registers, horses and sleighs, old teeth, rugs, and reversible carpets. Local stores advertise Christmas specials, fruit, and dry goods with directions and contact details.
Arthur Davis, 13, of Manhattan, was abducted near Sacred Heart School on Monday afternoon by two men in a car. He was found unconscious in a Perth Amboy home yard with head wounds and iodine stains, later recounting the kidnapping and naming captors as officers investigate the case involving prior similar incidents.
The Board adopted a $2,000 allocation for the Charities Committee season work. County Officers and Compensations reported $441.99 in bills, Justices and Constables $66.29. County Sealer John E B DuBois of Westtown presented his weights and measures report, noting cooperation with officials and the jail garden project by prisoners. The Finance Committee will submit its report this afternoon.
The Common Council schedules an adjourned regular meeting Friday evening. At 7 o'clock aldermen canvass the soldier vote, with regular business starting at 8. This will be the last meeting before year’s end New Year’s Eve, marking administration change and farewell and congratulations.
The Stratton Theatre presents Rex Beach's The Auction Block tonight with a starless cast led by Rubie De Remer as Lorei K and a lineup including Florence Deshon Tom Powers and George Cooper in a period drama praised for acting. Also listed are local happenings and a Furman Branch meeting at 2 PM Friday.
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