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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1917
Page
6
Trotters dominate the year in harness racing with world records and multiple 2:xx mile marks. The Real Lady and Bertha Dillon headline age class records while Mo entrant notes and purses exceed prior totals. Mechanics versus Goshen round out the featured events as the season closes strong.
An old advertisement from Vernon Drug Company offers a mysterious remedy labeled relief for cholera and swelling. It promises quick relief with a nascent formula sold in druggists and by mail order for 50 cents, with bottles sent upon receipt.
A rural Tennessee postman notices a misfiled letter to Susie Barker. Susie chases a man with a red beard seen at a tavern, then pursues him along a mountain trail toward the Cumberland plateau base. The pair encounter, miscommunication and uneasy tension as the extended pursuit unfolds.
A man and a distressed girl he persuades her to walk while she sprains her ankle. A passerby arrives, and the pair realize a warning letter has saved them from arrest for whisky. The woman urges the man to abandon illicit work for his sake.
Exclusive photograph shows Arthur B. Macy crowned billiard champion after defeating John Low by a wide margin in the National Association of Amateur Billiard Players novice event. Macy lost only one game in the final round and won seven straight in earlier rounds.
The Poughkeepsie Automobile Club will stage an auto show combined with a society ball during the first week of March, presenting a social and automotive event in the city.
A Philadelphia Public Ledger discussion questions the source of wing design for angels and modern birds. It notes albatross wings as closest to ideal, compares swans and pterodactyls, and cites the extinct Pterodactylus as a supreme flight machine whose 25 foot wingspan and paperlike bones outclass today’s fliers.
In the Embryo Gertrude parades in her aunt's hat and veil while Billy mocks her. She retorts that she is the beginning of a lady, claiming she is twenty two.
The Stratton Theatre features the Wolfville tale The Tenderfoot a Greater Vitagraph Blue Ribbon production. The plot follows a woman torn between love and obligation as the Tenderfoot fights to protect a western girl amid a promise broken and dangers faced in a dramatic western moral tale.
The Well Street Journal recounts the creation of Claftins, Tecor porated, and its founder H B Claftin who, as the era's largest cotton prints importer, signed a petition to Congress in early years. The document, backed by A T Stewart and others, highlighted high import duties harming domestic production.
A homemaker explains cooking with a skillet as a substitute for a gas range. With a two burner plate and an old coal oven, she bakes biscuits cakes and scones by using a stiffer biscuit batter and careful fire control.
A Chicago Herald vignette shows a recruiting sergeant begging a handsome young man to volunteer. The man declines, joking he fights but won’t volunteer due to a previous family quarrel that left him with a chin scratch. The exchange hinges on royal cousins and a lighthearted quip about volunteering.
Wind strength determines tree growth and form. A square trunk and heavy branches create resistance, causing branches to snap and leaves shed under strong gusts.
The tale follows a western girl who saves a Tenderfoot by spurring affection, liquor, and a pistol confrontation in Wolfrile’s saloon. After a duel, the couple learns the western girl’s reason for departure and marry. Cast includes William Duncan and Carol Holloway with supporting players, plus Universal Screen Magazine.
Timea the assessor notes slate roofs endure harsh tests of time. In Bamford-on-Avon England an eighth century Saxon chapel uses slate, mossed but sound after twelve centuries. Wales quarries supplied slate long before America, with a Philadelphia 1700 roof lasting until 1887. New England homes show 60 to 70 year slate coverings in good condition.
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