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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1918
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows multiple historical Middletown newspaper titles and dates from 17th to 19th centuries, including Tri-Weekly Press and Middletown Deity Press variations. Details are garbled with inconsistent years such as 2051 and 1670, making precise events unclear.
A 1918 Times-Press notice extols honest advertising and urges readers to report scams. It praises New York State defense efforts, automobile clubs aiding a state census, and calls for war-era financial cautions about bonds, touting Uncle Sam securities as safe investments with high return prospects. It ends with the signing of Harold A. Lassb.
A volunteer driven effort, led by sabiotic dlugens, produced a remarkably low-cost New York state military census. The program, aided by Home Defense Committees across counties, gathered extensive data on war availability for about 5.6 million men and women aged 36 to 50, with thousands of unpaid volunteers coordinating statewide administration.
A Washington dispatch urges curtailing personal needs to speed Allied war effort. Gen Pershing demands and the National Government mobilize resources as American families, soldiers, and the Navy contribute every dollar and possession to win the war. Buy War Savings and War Trust Stamps at local banks or agents.
The Times Press urges readers to hold their Liberty Bonds as savings and discourage selling bonds early. It warns that delaying purchase benefits Uncle Sam and that those who sell could be acting dishonestly or risking their financial security.
A fragmentary page blends verse and prose with antiwar and social thoughts. It includes an intense poem railing against tyranny and war, quotes from Paine and Lee, wry lines about cinema, and social musings on gender and leadership, touching on faith, patriotism, and public life. The jumble mentions Zeppelins, gas, and the harvest of iron seed, plus brief notes about Sugar Loaf and local figures.
A compact note traces the rise of Honesdale along the anthracite creeks and the Lackawaxen River, highlighting how the region’s thriving trade and progressive growth shaped the town’s development and local identity.
The piece chronicles Maurice and William Wurts and their venture to link coal mines in the Lackawanna region with New York City via a Delaware Hudson waterway. It notes the sparsely settled terrain, key early settlements, and the shift from river navigation to an artificial canal, including surveys by William Wurts and the plan's expansion from Delaware to the Hudson.
Personal items reveal a two day romance during filming near Ventera California for Douglas Fairbanks aircraft picture Say, Yours Fellow. Director Joseph Henaberry secured permission from Miss MacNeinan to use the family estate and a creek weighing hundreds of pounds supplied a climactic effect for Riders of the Purple Sage.
An advertisement touts Phosphated Iron as a blood purifier and nerve builder for men women and children suffering from winter weakness and fatigue. It claims to rejuvenate blood purity, relieve nervous tension and restore appetite and sleep, urging use of capsules rather than pills.
Iola Dana is Mrs John H Collins while William Kunn a noted Vitagraph actor appears in The Little Runaway. The text lists actors Hephy Payton Stock Company Jack Root Roscoe Fatty Krueger Mary Brough Edith Storer and others in various stage and film works with mentions of marriages and onstage roles.
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