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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1918
Page
3
George A. Yaeger writes of life at Camp Wadsworth where local boys begin training, with 49 new rookies listed in the latest batch. The letter details private Geo Yaeger as captain of the quota and notes the recruits’ initial progress and rough start.
Report from Camp Wadsworth dated June 4, 1915 notes a heavy storm halted the eight hour drill for Company G of the Pioneer Regiment. Recruits from Middletown and Orange County praised officers, training advances, and anticipate deployment to France. Mentions rooks and regulars, local observers, and named soldiers visiting from Goshen.
The Western Sullivan Telephone and Telegraph Co. filed with the Public Service Commission a new rate schedule to take effect July 1 for Callicoon Jeffersonville Lake Huntington and White Lake central office districts in Sullivan County. Proposed changes raise the business line rate to 30 per ammu and residence rate to 29 30? Rural line business to 24 and rural line residence to 18.
Storm King Road between Cornell and Highland Falls will be finished within a year from next fall. Hayes Construction Co. pushes the job with about 150 men. The toughest work is now on the mountain near Newburgh, believed to be the era’s most extensive road project in the United States. GOES TO FRANCE. Long Ediz, June 7 Postmaster M. L. MedKoon leaving for France. MedKoon, Cornell A. B. LL. B. graduate, has been a practicing attorney and the postmaster the last three years. Watch the Times-Press Want Ad Columns.
About 15 persons attended the community chorus gathering in Otisville on Tuesday evening. Readings and songs featured soldiers from the area, with performances by Br. 7, Private Parmalee, Mr. Kirkpatrick, and Mrs. John McDowall. A meeting at the Presbyterian Church basement was announced to meet Serjeant-Major Witherington and wife, with Dr. Fowler to speak.
Miss Jacobson eldest daughter of Brooklyn lawyer I W Jacobson begins naval service at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She is a second-year student at Brooklyn Law School and will continue studies in New York City while stationed there. She holds offices with the Women's Law Club and the First Assembly District Republican Club.
An advertisement promotes daily inside baths using hot water and limestone phosphate to cleanse the bowels and remove toxins. It claims indigestible matter from daily meals feeds bowels and toxins enter the blood, urging use of lime phosphate to improve digestion and overall health.
A brief health ad notes that busy businessmen overeat and strain their stomachs causing sour tastes and heaviness. It touts Miona tablets as a remedy aiding digestion, with a guarantee via F C Tsuthill and Tuthill Terhune and claims of stomach cleansing and renewed vigor.
The Board of Managers of the Home for Aged Women held its regular monthly meeting on Wednesday at the Chester home of Mrs. Gearse Seely. Social time and reflections followed, with plans discussed for the annual full meeting scheduled for Friday, September 13. Katharine Woodward, Secretary.
A Busy Knitter Mrs Vernooy aged about 73 living at the Home for Aged Women is knitting wristlets for the boys over there. She has always helped those in trouble and says she will gladly do whatever she can for the boys. Watch the Times Press Want Ads.
An old advertisement promotes Phosphated Iron as a nerve builder and blood mixer. It claims nerve trouble is not organic but worsens with worry and fatigue, and credits the product with reviving worn nerve cells and improving life quality. The message urges buying capsules from physicians and reputable druggists.
A dialogue snippet shows Miss Cayenne questioning a statement about telling all one knows and doubting the impact of a first class censorship system on truth. The fragment hints at concerns over information control and personal candor.
A compact note notes pen craft and ink use in a historical setting. Mentions English terms and the act of writing for a project or event, with implied dates and locales, but remains non-specific about people or places. The item reads like a brief label or catalog entry for a manuscript study.
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