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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1916
Page
8
Advertisement touts Knox straw hats as superior with better fix finish and fit. Mentions summer suits, quality focus, and precise fitting. Highlights serges homespuns and flannels priced from 10 to 25 dollars.
A complete line of reliable tools from precision micrometers measuring ten-thousandths of an inch to heavy vises and anvils. Quality is emphasized. Auto Waste Auto Sponges Auto Chamois Garage Hardware.
Collage of antiquarian curios and local notices. Mentions Ursuline Academy commencement exercises and a tale of early sawmills with a Madeira origin, plus a household cost riddle from a Boston Transcript item. Also notes a Junior CG. U. A. M. dance and a private OTA affair.
Charles Hovencamp aged 33, former Middletown resident, died in New Haven, Conn, last Sunday morning. Telegram via his mother Mrs Eliza Hovencamp reports he was married to Mabel Yeomans of Bellvale New Jersey, with two children, Florence and George. Funeral plans and burial arrangements are being finalized in Middletown.
Tickets for the students recital by Mrs Bindell Seeley at Masonic Hall on Friday evening June 3. Tickets available from pupils and at the studio Maconie Temple. Dancing begins promptly at 93 cents. McConnell's orchestra. Admission 35 cents.
An old time ad highlights ocean bathing in your tub with bath salt and sea salt. It touts products like bath sprays caps brushes sponges and soaps including Johnson's Foot Soap and Sodeen. Rexall stores at 36 North Street and 155 North Street advertise cleanliness and odor prevention.
Albany reports bids filed for Liberty county lime road project 52342 part 2 in Sultan county. listed firms include Abner Harper Newburgh 355,747.25 and Wagner and Braum Brooklyn 50,388.50 with multiple bidders across Saugerties Schenectady Yonkers and other locales. contract sums range from about 29,961 to 68,289.50.
Three escaped inmates from New Hampton Industrial Farms were chased by workers and guards after donning citizens clothes. They were pursued toward Goshen and caught near Hierson's bridge. one hid under bushes but was found and captured. The incident ended with the trio returning to the farms under close watch.
New York and Chicago market notes indicate price movements across several stocks including Marine preferred sliding then recovering, Goodrich Rubber rising, and American Beer Sugar dipping before rebounding. Transport and vehicle shares like Chandler Motor and Studebaker fluctuated, while Lehigh Valley and Union Pacific rose. Livestock markets in Chicago showed receipts and steady or mixed prices across hogs cattle and sheep. Grain markets in Chicago were described as steady for wheat, higher for corn, and oats steady with futures mixed.
Curious coats of arms linked to Penzance and Oxford. Penzance dates its arms to 1611 featuring John the Baptist head, while Oxford’s arms show an ox, tied to the town’s fordable river site. A separate line recalls a detective and a gentleman in a private capacity exchange terse remarks about crime, blackmail, and ruin.
Agnes M. Ackerson, a New York woman said to be mother of twins found on a doorstep, faced questioning at Goshen police HQ as scraps from papers and a milk bottle label pointed to Sloan Hospital for Women and a Bellvale origin. Recorder Starr arranged care and sent word to her New York sister while authorities sought a children's home placement.
Over 2,500 fabrics listed including blue serges and unfinished worsteds in greys browns and light homespuns. Options include patch pockets Norfolks and pinch backs with or without lining all made to measure by Browning King Co or Marks Arnheim Inc priced at 15 18 20 22 and 25 dollars.
Local readers are invited to send social updates by postcard or phone to the social editor. Recent arrivals include Mr and Mrs J Gordon Bennett Mrs F A Moxon and Miss Edith Wood of Bethel Conn visiting Mr and Mrs K E Wright on West Main Street with Noxon and son Reginald. Other guests include Mr and Mrs William H Wickham and Mrs J M Johnson visiting Mrs S W Dill in Tarrrtown Bis. Lee Joseph Maro, formerly of the Mitchell Inn, has taken a job in New York. Vera E Crans returns home to Dolson Avenue from Syracuse University for summer. Mr and Mrs A Deveraux of Page, N D spent weekend with Mr and Mrs C G Wood on Myrtle Avenue. Olga Russo and three sons left for New Fors and Bath Beach to visit relatives. John Derr of Hotel Hran visited Middletown with an automobile party. Reverend Robert Young, ex-pastor of Gusville Methodist, now at New Brighton S L, is in town on church business at Hainsville.
Funeral services for Mrs Willem F Maier were conducted at her late home 69 Monhagen Avenue this afternoon at 2 oclock by Rev S D Butler. Interment followed in the family lot at Lycust Hill Cemetery near War thought It Was a Joke. The article also notes her recent time with a sister in New York and other relatives, and that she left a New York hospital Monday morning with a 13 day old baby noted elsewhere in the piece.
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