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Newspaper
Middletown Weekly
Location
Middletown, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
4
Local church notices list preaching times across Stephens City and nearby towns with Sunday School, prayer meetings, and youth group schedules. The column also items residents’ activities and small incidents including a burned smoke house, a broken arm, and travel for business and visits.
Local items report visits and travels of residents to Martinsburg and Winchester areas. Several names surface including Frank Hausenfluck and Mrs Hausenfluck with scarlet fever losses, Mrs Leslie D Kline visiting relatives, teachers Lou Baker and Florence Weedon, and Dr Elmer Steele detailing upkeep plans. A recital by Old Dominion Academy’s Elocution Department is announced for December 7 with 15 cent admission.
The document shows a bank cash summary with deposits dividends and notes and bills rediscounted. W. E. Coffman cashier signs a sworn statement from Middletown Virginia dated November 1912. Notary public confirms the commission expiry April 29 1916.
The poem reflects on feminine sorrow and memory as night binds sleep. Memories of boyhood joys and friends who have fallen echo like leaves in winter, leaving the speaker alone in a deserted banquet hall as lights go out.
A compact meditation on cherishing today as the seed of happiness tomorrow. It elevates the day as life’s core, urging action, truth, beauty, and hopeful vision while deeming yesterday as a dream and tomorrow as a promise.
An 1912 excerpt reports Hetty Green, the wealthiest woman, promoting health tips such as daily roasted onions and dress without corsets. She advises against envy, overdressing, cold weather exposure, and dishonest dealings, and asserts women should stay home rather than pursue suffrage. The piece blends personal counsel with unrelated court notices from Frederick County Virginia.
A tip advises adding a pinch of salt to boiling water before cooking green vegetables to preserve their color. The note reflects practical kitchen advice likely from a column in a historical newspaper.
The page lists household tips such as oiling and polishing rusted steel, storing silver in dry flour, mending gloves with court plaster, and a corn fritters recipe with corn eggs milk sugar baking powder and flour. It also notes pensions for ex presidents and widows, Sidna Allen’s murder conviction, and a Maryland man who shot his toe while rabbit hunting.
Small ads invite applicants and buyers. Gregg shorthand teaching, banking course, law-office positions, and free job placement with $600 first year. Also Oliver No. 1 typewriter for sale with prices. Lynchburg to Stephens City ads in Virginia.
Advertisement notes daily service for travel to California with Sunday exception. It lists berth price at $9 and credits A. J. Poston and G. A. with address 905 F Street Washington D C for the Washington Sunset Route.
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