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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1917
Page
7
Multiple small ads listing rhubarb for sale cow and calves for sale Indian motorcycles a runabout horse and wagon a housekeeper position request plus a phone and box address for Bloomingburg and Itasca New Hampton. Includes contact details for Mrs southwell C Seward Garnell J Creeden and a Competent Times-Press reference.
Help wanted male and female listings from Times Press with clerks, draughtsmen, electricians, drivers, waitresses, housemaids, and farm help, plus a note of $190 lost from Pronk's drugstore to Old Ladies Home. Multiple names, addresses, and boxes shown.
A long list of rental notices appears, listing furnished rooms, six and seven room cottages, flats and houses for rent across streets and avenues including Houston avenue Saul street Cottage street Linden avenue Forest avenue Liberty street Canal street North street Smith Street and High View. Ads offer one and two person rooms with meals or light housekeeping and several properties with baths electric light steam heat and other improvements. A few entries mention garages and tenacre farms near Johnson station with references to contact names and phone numbers.
Classified notices advertise farms up for sale including a 111 acre James Suydam property in Orange County New York with exchange options, a seven room cottage for 2500 dollars, a two family house and a 167 acre farm with multiple houses and outbuildings. Also an auction at 123 East Main Middletown for furniture and household goods, plus poultry listings and a historical note about Pope Sixtus V. and a 1917 General Orders notice from Middletown.
A collage of advertisements and notices from Middletown and nearby towns, urging readers to buy furniture and beds, visit local stores like Embra Fur and Mrs Allen, and join education and loan programs. The page also touts carpet pricing, a telegraph school, a barber opening on James Street, and a teeth buyer offering $2 to $15 per full set.
Directory item listing JOAN SELLECK COMPANY 70 Sprague Avenue and multiple local businesses including auctioneers appraisers and an attorney network. Notices mention administrator and executors for estates of Charles Osburn and Jacob Gunther with addresses in Middletown New York and legal deadlines for claims. Town office and local service notes include insurance bonds funeral services and an automobile service option.
Dr Stephen Wise of New York City urged support for a woman suffrage resolution adopted by the Eastern Council of Reformed Rabbis. He said democracy is a moral and religious issue and churches must lead, not echo, in the fight for political rights for women. He cited President Wilson and warned that democracy abroad is hollow without enfranchisement at home. Wise appealed to rabbis to speak out and push for emergency war measures to grant women the vote.
A. B. Davidson writes that triumph over temptation gives the highest joy, expanding the self and lifting one into a wider sphere. He speaks of fellowship with higher beings and a felt harmony with all creation as a source of profound delight.
A philosophical query asserts that justice and morality are universal. It frames the issue as a moral and religious duty guiding every point of view. The text explores how fundamental justice informs personal conscience across beliefs.
A reflective admonition urging individuals to scrutinize their own faults rather than chasing the approval of others. It argues that if every person valued an honest view of themselves as highly as others' praise, many social standings would change.
A list of upcoming events includes a rummage sale at Liberty Street School and 28 North Street on June 1 and 2, a Grace Church organ fund dance on June 15 via Girls' Friendly Society, a Mt Carmel C of M Society refreshment room and cake sale on June 2 at 70 North, and a June 6 lecture on canning vegetables and preserving fruits by Miss Hageman. Also planned are a Euchre and dance on June t at South Centreville, a strawberry shortcake supper on June 7 at Universalist parish house, a June 11–12 festival at First Baptist Church, a concert by Apollo Misto sections at First Presbyterian Church on June 12, and a lawn festival at the Universalist parish house on June 23.
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