Formal Opening of Italian Community Rooms
Three young women and local sponsors open Italian community rooms at 9 Cottage Street with a program featuring Rev. C. B. Neyroz Harold Woodward and others. The event promotes citizenship, education and American integration among Italian residents with speeches recitations and music.
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Sadie Williamson
Antoinette Jordan
Ethel Sliter
Messrs
Palmtteasa
Maressi
Schuppe
Cottage Street
Mise Williamson
Misa Williamson
C. B. Neyroz
Well Horton Memorial Presbyterian Church
Mr. Neyroz
Mr. Negros
Italy
America
Engileh
New York
Bogiteh
Mr Nevror
Ida Duranto
Harold B Woodward
Woodward
Debutantes Continue Prominent Run of NYC Receptions
New York, Dec. 21 Debutantes featured at a busy series of events hosted by Richard Delafield at Sherry's. He gave a dinner dance for his granddaughters Mme Madeleine Marie Carey and Miss Marion Carey Dinsmore. After dinner guests danced, then attended Miss Mary Norrie’s party for her niece Miss Rita Norrie in Sherry's ballroom.
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New York
Richard Delafield
Sherry's
Mme
Madeleine Marie Carey
Frederic Foster Carey
Misa Marion Carey Dinamore
WiLliam HB. Dinsmore
Sherry
Mary Norrie
Misa Rita Norrie
Governor Plans New Large Hospital for Old Inmates
Albany December 21 Representatives from the State Hospital Commission and 14 state hospitals met with Gov. Whitman to discuss fiscal year funding. He approved about 1.042 million in new construction and permanent improvement out of 1.749 million requested, while deferring 396 thousand and delaying 110 thousand. The plan calls for using Mohansic’s unspent 200 thousand plus more to build a 2000-bed facility at Middletown State Hospital to relieve overcrowding and separate senile dementia patients from the mentally ill. If approved by the Legislature, about 700 thousand more may be sought for the new hospital on Middletown grounds.
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Albany
State Hospital Commission
Mohansie
Mohansic Hospital
Mohansle Hospital
Pilcher
Middletown State Hospital
New York City
State Hospital
Robbery at Monroe National Bank Reported
The Monroe National Bank was robbed overnight with entry through a rear window. Treasurer C A Maxstadt opened the bank at daybreak to find a small cash haul of four or five Canadian dollars from a drawer near the receiving tellers area. Chief Henry Osterhout led the investigation into the break in and forced entry through a door from the directors room.
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Monroe
Monroe National Bank
C. A. Maxstadt
Henry Osterhout
Get-Together of O and W Clerks Held in New York
The seventh annual Get-Together of the Association of the O and W General Office Clerk was held in New York Saturday evening. Members attended a matinee at the Hippodrome and a dinner at Delmonico's on Fifth Avenue. GR Parker of this city served as treasurer of the association.
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Association of the O. & W
New York
Hippodrome
Delmonico’s
Fifth Avenue
44Th Street
GR. Parker
Association
Governor Goethals Faces New Panama Canal Challenge
The Baltimore American notes Governor Goethals had difficulty mapping the Panama Canal and anticipates an even tougher task to prevent it from sliding off as guests attend Mr Delafield's dinner.
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Goethals
Panama Canal
Baltimore American
Sleuths Fail In Hunt For Middletown Counterfeits
Local police and federal agents struggle to curb rising counterfeit money circulation in Middletown. Quarters and half dollars, first found on Cottage Street, now appear in central business districts. Secret Service and other detectives have yielded no arrests or decisive breakthroughs as new cases surface daily.
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Middletown
Cottage Street
Think Break Is Now Sure Think Break Is Now Sure
Washington reports the United States awaits Austria’s reply to the second Ancona note. The options are compliance with U S demands, severance of diplomatic relations, or repudiation of the admiralty statement about the Ancona sinking. Officials see repudiation as humiliating and unlikely.
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Washington
United States
Austria
Vienna
Foreign Office
Admiralty
Ancona
Daily Record in Uniontown Closes Over Losses
The Daily Record of Uniontown Pennsylvania ceases publication after 10 years. Owned by W A Stone the paper failed as a paying venture with about 109000 dollars lost since its 1913 founding on October 13.
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Uniontown
The
Daily Record
W. A. Stone
Coal and Coke Man
Mrs Margaret N Tuthill Fractures Hip in Fall at Daughter’s Home
Mrs Margaret N Tuthill aged 81 sustained a fracture of the hip last Friday afternoon at the home of her daughter Mrs John J Ketcham 37 Watkins avenue. She was descending stairs to answer a delivery and tripped on a small rug, striking the doorway. Drs Morgans and Hulett were summoned and set the fracture. she is recovering and doing as well as possible.
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Margaret N. Tuthill
John J. Ketcham
Watkins Avenue
Tuthill
Will Issue 0. W. Cads Promotes Federation Labor Advertising
A Middletown effort to publicize merchants through 150 to 200 large framed signs listing 50 plus businesses, placed in labor hubs and public spaces, backed by the Federation of Railway Employes of the New York Ontario and Western Railway with Central Labor Union sanction. J F Mooney and Joseph Precour coordinate with the federation. About 4,000 laborers will receive folders naming participating merchants and a monthly newspaper column will publish the list.
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Federation of Railway
New York, Ontario & Western Railway
Central Labor Union
Middletown
Chamber of Commerce
Retail Merchants’ Committee
Federation
Lawrence 8
Conkling
Middletown Chamber of Commerce
American Federation of Labor
Pine Bush Case Tried in Newburgh Supreme Court
Killian Schmitt of Pine Bush sues Geo W Evans of Bullville in Newburgh Supreme Court over a 2015 horse trade. Schmitt asserts he traded a team of horses valued at 450 dollars plus a 130 dollar note for a gelding and mare, alleging warranty and illness that led to death within a week. Defense says the deal occurred after warning of pinkeye in Evans Stable, attributing the horses' illness to that ailment.
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Newburgh
Killian Schmitt
Pine Bush
Geo. W. Evans
Bullville
Supreme Court
Ivan A. Gardner
Thomas C. Rogers
Schmitt
Evans
Mr. Evans
Pinkeye
Funeral service for Mrs. George Decker held at home
The funeral of Mrs. George Decker was conducted at 2 p m Tuesday at her Highland Avenue home. Rev. Dr. Van Dyke Wight and Rev. F S Smithers Jr led services attended by relatives and friends with a musical sole by Mrs. Milabaugh and Watson H. Giddings. Honorary bearers included James A. Clark and others. nephews served as active bearers. The body was placed in the receiving vault in side cemetery.
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George Decker
Highland Avenue
EB. van Dyke Wight
Webb Horton Memorial Presbyterian Church
F. 8. Smithers, Jr
Grace Episcopal Church
A. H. Milabaugh
Watson H. Giddings
Bringing Old Times Back in Orange County Slavery Reflections
The Antiquarian recalls Orange County slavery days with ads from 1791 and 1817 showing a slave market mindset. It notes last slaves left long ago and discusses the moral view of past proprietors and their communities.
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Orange County
South Carolina
Louisiana
Goshen
John McWilliams
Wallkill
Es Miches
Probe Causes of Big Fire In Village Business District
Monroe December 21 Every effort is being made to learn the origin of a $40 000 fire that swept the village business section Sunday morning The firemen theorize clothes on a kitchen range at Cappetta s barber shop started the blaze Cappetta s wife and six children were asleep on the second floor and escaped with little clothing The flames were first discovered in the rear of Cappetta s shop
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Monroe
Cappetta
Children Warned After Shoplifting Spree
Four youngsters, active in shop fittings at various city stores, were brought to Chief McCoach. He urged them to return stolen articles. On leaving, the youths quarreled over alleged thefts, seeming unfazed by their crimes due to their young ages.
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McCoach
Country schools face snow disruption and holiday shift
The country school districts report heavy snow damage causing widespread closures last week. Most schools resume this week and will close again Friday for a week’s vacation, reopening Monday January 3 under District Superintendent A. Cortright who oversees 56 schools and braved drifts and fences to reach them.
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A. Cortright
Myrtle Avenue Extension
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My Ladile
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Aude
Herman Aude
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Pittsburgh
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Uncle Sam
Cuba
Lhileash DeLace
Fanelli
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Misa Whlliamson
C. H. Hopkins
MP. Delafield
Monroe Bank
Merchants’ Committee
Newburgh Supreme Court
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Smithers
Dr. Wight
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