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Newspaper
Orange County Record
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1927
Page
4
A directory style notice lists member papers in Orange County including King Sentinel Cornwall-on-the-Hudson Maybrook Enterprise Star Highland Mills Central Valley Post Florida Journal Chester Press Highland Falls Standard and Florida and Middletown offices. It names publishers presidents vice presidents secretaries treasurers and directors along with a 1930 telephone contact.
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A historical argument contrasts Rome’s slave society with the American ideal of universal citizenship. The author argues Americans educate every child regardless of race or class, rejects the notion of a permanent social stratum, and asserts no dual national identity in one person.
Missouri valley residents celebrate Senator Curtis for securing 12 million dollars in the Rivers and Harbors measure to improve the upper Missouri River from Sioux City to Kansas City. The vote signals a milestone for midwestern economic hopes, river navigation, and regional development, with expectations of lower freight costs and broader irrigation benefits in the Mississippi watershed.
The writer urges intellectual duty toward history and memory of local and national events. He critiques misattributions such as Orange County's origin and stresses reading to cultivate a fuller, informed citizenry rather than enforcing moral decrees.
The British Ministry of Agriculture warns that English meals rely on imported eggs from Latvia Mithonia Norway Ireland Denmark Germany and Poland, with twenty million pounds spent yearly on foreign eggs. It urges British farmers to raise homegrown hens while planning higher import duties to curb alien eggs and raise costs for British consumers.
Governor Gifford Pinchot plans a Washington stay after his Harrisburg term ends January 17 to wage a campaign against forest service policies and Muscle Shoals transfers. He will join Senator Norris and other Republicans to push for Forest Service protection and electrification reforms, with Cornelia Bryce Pinchot shaping strategy.
The Daybook records anecdotes from a P. E. N. club dinner featuring Hugh Walpole Ford Madox Ford and Osher Sitwell. Walpole relays a dramatic hotel ride with a dramatic rich actress. Ford Madox Ford defends authorship while recounting a dinner mischief and spinach story. President Glen Frank of Wisconsin is teased for speeding and a police arrest. The piece also notes fashion confusion as social leaders push tail coats and top hats for nonformal events and a trend to revive prewar wear.
Brat soap owners and magnates voice protest against rate hikes and demand tax relief. Railroads pay about 400 million dollars yearly in taxes, with September taxes at 37.1 billion, up 11 percent from 1925 while earnings rose 4.7 percent. In 1911 taxes were 3.6 percent of gross earnings, railways argue current increases are excessive compared to earnings growth.
Residents along the southern Louisiana coastal stretch near New Orleans have hunted for Jean Ta FITTEs buried treasure for a century. Peace Island Vermilion parish bears signs of looting and disruption as diggers from locals chase the fabled gold doubloons amid cultural relics and wartime like destruction. The lure of adventure romance and treasure endures despite modern life.
The Epworth League monthly business and social meeting will be held at the Parish House on Friday evening. Mrs. L Hitchcock, sister of W D Loucks, is visiting at his home for a week. Mrs Jessack travels to Maine to spend the winter. Mrs J R Schounmaker returned from Thrall Hospital after pneumonia surgery. Rev Falshaw resumed teaching at Drew after a ten day vacation. Miss Ma York City visited Miss V Treby in the village.
A health clinic session is planned in Middletown on Friday morning at 10 o'clock. Local residents are invited to attend for basic screenings and advice from volunteers.
The piece muses on aging and friendship, noting old friends often fade as interests shift, while lasting ties arise from shared tastes. It recalls meeting Chic Sale after a vaudeville show, illustrating how taking initiative can forge strong, lasting connections.
A compiled Q and A column from The Daily Herald and Times-Press Washington Bureau answers varied queries. Topics include Bible names and kingdoms, kingsley verse, Greek wisdom, university enrollments, film character Sergi Quirt, French revolutionary governments, Alpha Centauri, old currency values, and origin of seventh heaven referencing Jewish mystics.
Reeys Makfen was re elected superintendent of the Goshen Methodist Church Sunday School at the annual board meeting held last night. Elected for the coming year were Irving Ackerman assistant superintendent Miss Marjorie Gren secretary Miss Miriam Dohr assistant secretary Mrs Hattie Makuen treasurer Miss Wilmacher assistant treasurer Miss Alice Iferd librarian Mrs Reevs Makupp missionary superintendent A S Doremus temperance superintendent cradle roll superintendent Miss Audrey Doremus. Refreshments followed and the board awarded Sunday School attendance prizes for the coming year.
At a Newburgh meeting last night John Rothery of Newhutch was chosen president for the sixteenth time despite his pleas. The association now counts more than 1 000 members.
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