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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1917
Page
3
A collage of old time classifieds lists sale items and notices from shops and individuals. Items include furniture, clothing, groceries, farm goods, and misc services with contact cues and corner addresses such as Wick avenue and West street. The jumble hints at urban commerce and classified layout typical of a past era.
About 188 questionnaires numbered 153 to 3 were mailed Thursday from Middletown Campbell Hall Wall Monty Roseton Maybrook Newburgh Walden Sche nectedy Burnside Akron Chicago Marlboro Wilker purs and scattered to many places including New York Chicago and Ohio. With 2,100 remaining to mail, only 138 per batch could be sent out.
Classified missives from Times-Press include help wanted ads for a male farmhand and a kitchen woman, a female helper, and a middle aged companion. Also listings for real estate, lost items like a black satin headbag and a green pin, found items, and notes on registrar address changes creating mail notification delays.
Multiple short classified lines offer rooms and flats for rent in various streets including Broad Street and Linden Avenue. Listings show furnished options, housekeeping rooms, a garage for two cars, and prices or contact hints such as phone numbers and addresses.
A report traces Mary Newcomb and actor Robert Edeson toward marriage while detailing Edeson’s prior marriage to Mrs. Edeson, a divorce ongoing motion, and Mrs. Edeson’s dramatic letters about love and heartbreak as she withdraws from New York life with their child.
Halifax report notes nearly ten thousand pupils in 25 public schools granted an indefinite vacation due to widespread building damage. Estimated losses exceed a million and a half dollars. Also mention of a Boy Scout meeting for Troop 2 at 7 PM and a quoted motto about friendship.
Classified columns urge readers to mail written answers and state many wants. Notices include buyers of beef cattle meat teeth rugs and wood, an auction for household goods, and a weekly sale of business stock at Goshen Hotel area with items like wagons harness furniture and more.
Local Levinson Market at 21 West Main Street advertises a wide range of groceries including flour, corn meal, rye and wheat products, grade A pork loins from Oxsine county, and weekly prices. Also promotes Christmas trees from Mama Kating Park with delivery, celery hearts, cranberries, apples, and holly offerings. Phone numbers 17u and 779 listed for ordering.
A crowded station style business directory lists Artelian Well Drilling John Sellack Company and various trades including auto repair upholstery and dye works. It notes insurance firms Boyd & Deming and H H Branchard, funeral services, and coming events with dances and social gatherings in Middletown.
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