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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1917
Page
5
A historic look at Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound notes over 350000 pounds of herbs used annually. Herbs are gathered at peak potency and kept clean through percolation, sterilization, pasteurization, clarification, and filtration before bottling for consumers. The combination of herbs and careful preparation is credited with the medicine’s success in treating female ailments.
A wartime morale piece from Farmingdale praising Farmerettes at the New York State School of Agriculture. Composer D B Greenberg, poultry professor, set a marching ballad to Tipperary about Nellie, Sue, and women in farming joining the food army. Chorus notes hard work of planting and hoeing amid war, vowing to endure until victory.
A brief aphorism attributed to Gladstone on time thrift warning that prudent use of time yields future profit while waste erodes intellect and morality beyond measure. The passage presents a moral incentive to value time highly.
Thousands of readers embrace Q-Ban Heir Color Restorer to banish gray hair and revive faded locks. The ad touts a money-back guarantee, easy use, and availability at local drug stores and through mail order from Memphis firms. It also promotes related Q-Ban products and a free illustrated book on culture.
The Cornwall Sanitarium Co formerly Baker-Rose Sanitarium announces Dr. J. J. Carroll as superintendent and Dr. Ralph Waldo Thompson as visiting physician. Established 1292, it treats alcoholism as a disease with 27 percent success over 25 years. New home, confidential correspondence, rates on application, Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y.
The copy touts Kodak stock as the most complete in the city with all new spring offerings for amateurs and professionals. It highlights small items often missing in other stores and positions the shop as a full service photographic source.
In New York City on Memorial Day a regiment of Negro soldiers from the Fifteenth New York Infantry marched with the National Guard and Guand Army units. Led by Colonel William Hayward, the regiment drawn from multiple cities performed admirably at Peekskill and in the city, earning praise for discipline, drill, and shooting, with officers including Lieutenant Coloney Spencer and Major Pickering.
Pine Bush notes weekend visitors from New Canaan and Waterbury New Canaan resident William T Wallace Jr and Jesse Brink of Waterbury drove 110 miles in four hours Ross Decker of Middletown visits Pine Bush Mrs Annie E B Miller of Bullville visits sister Mrs William E Weller Middletown Transportation Co service is praised for access to New York trains Local church services and events are announced including Graham’s ChurchEpworth League and Bible activities The Rev George B Wright among graduates from Brewster Theological Seminary discusses wildlife rearing potential for farms
Rev Dr E Van Dyke Wiga delivered a fine sermon on the hidden manna and the stone in Revelation 2 27 at the State Hospital chapel. The Memorial quartet pleased with solos and a Verdi trio as patients and staff listened. graduation plans and staff changes were noted.
Miss Alice Jordan of New York visits with a cousin this week and will travel to the metropolis at week’s end. Miss Ethel A. Roosa leaves her hospital post. Charles H. Lane, visiting Corning and Bisshanton, and Mr. Cusack’s short stay ends. Henry H. Biedorf enjoys a vacation as official chauffeur. Lewis Bloom visits Delaware county and Kinzhamton, attends Matt and Jeff at the Parlor Theatre. Locust tree blossoms frame a Sunday stroll near the hospital grounds.
The Sunday School of Ellenville held a Children’s Day program titled Earth’s fairest flowers with recitations songs and dances. The M E Church reported infant baptisms four probationers and a sermon on The Candthood of Christ. A Red Cross Drive began in Ellenville with town canvassing led by J E Inness and others, aiming for $7,000 in Wawarsing. A tour party near Edenville had a minor collision with a parked car but escaped injury. Mrs. Walter H. White suffered a prior stroke and remained unconscious.
A New York Department of Health monograph discusses the infantile paralysis epidemic, noting its mystery and limited success in pinpointing infection or treatment. It urges early diagnosis, isolation, and public cooperation, suggests hospitalization to curb spread, and analyzes insects as carriers, excluding flies and mosquitoes.
Deeds filed show Marie A Frohbach of California avenue Middletown transferring land on California avenue Middletown to Edith A Horton for 32100. Theodore Fowler and Virginia Fowler of Neutsh transfer Roe street Newburgh parcel to John J Peel of New York City for 1. John P Peel and Anna Peel transfer Roe street Newburgh parcel to Mary Goodman and Elizabeth Goodman for 100. Short as Well as Sharp with quoted line from Louisville Courier Journal about a final rejected letter.
The report from the physician is bleak with no hope of recovery. The sermon to the Class of 17 will be delivered on Sunday evening June 23 at the MS OE Church by Rev J E Appley, pastor of the church.
News from Montgomery reports Thomas Taft son of editor Lyman H. Taft escaped harm after a car struck him while cycling on Clinton street. The car, traveling slowly, caused the bicycle to flip but Taft remained uninjured. the driver was shaken but unhurt. The item notes other local visits, exams, and upcoming events in Union Street locations.
A Maybrook social gathering Friday night at Mrs Edith M Eigner’s home turned into a genuine surprise party. Many guests attended including Mr and Mrs William Bishop, Mr and Mrs Isaac Carr, Mr and Mrs George McBride, Mr and Mrs Johan Wiley, Miss Wiley, Mr and Mrs Almeron Scott and son, Mr and Mrs John Bodle, Mrs Herid and daughters, Mrs Thompson, Miss Alice Thompson, Mr and Mrs John Zindel and son, George Pierson, George Penney, Miss Whitman, Miss Eveline Rowe, Mr and Mrs William Jewell and daughter, Mrs Hart Smith, Mrs Elvan Morton, Miss Anna May and Miss Rose McCormick, and Mr and Mrs William Manizan.
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