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Newspaper
Orange County Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1915
Page
3
Mrs John Astor has joined the Duchess of Westminster's hospital staff in France as a nurse after completing training at Charing Cross hospital in London. She began duties at 8 each day and plans to deploy ambulances under her management before her official start.
A guide to meatless salads using beans lentils and peas as protein sources. Recipes include lime and bean salads with mayonnaise, lentil onion parsley cress salads, and fruit salads with pears peaches and melons dressed in French or lemon dressings.
A meticulous hostess maintains a weekly routine where guests arrive Sundays with a perfectly timed, enjoyable spread. She plans menus, orders supplies, and preps from a couch using a pad and pencil, ensuring Friday through Monday mornings run smoothly.
Leslie Crist, a recent graduate of Van Gelder's Business School, has accepted a stenographer and bookkeeper role in the trainmaster's office of Railroad Company at Port Jer. Miss Gladys Parkin has accepted a position as stenographer and with Morris B. Wolf.
A guide to dressing babies and girls with simple, durable clothing. Emphasizes minimal outfits, high quality fabrics, and careful sewing. Advises layering, modest styles, and avoiding overtrends to encourage comfort, character, and practicality. Provides specific garment counts and patterns for growing children.
Knitted or crocheted sweaters and scarves can be washed to look new. Fold flat, place in a pillowcase, and baste to hold position for washing with ordinary flannels. Delicate items require separate washing with soapsuds and ox gall, then gentle handling and three rinses, followed by pressing with a warm iron.
The article outlines petticoat flounce designs for dresses noting how the bottom of skirts is distended. It discusses deep flounces, gathered layers, and bouffant effects, including accordion plaited styles with edge cords. It also mentions the amocked flounce as a lovely option for those with leisure to craft.
A son has been born to Mr and Mrs Gifford Pinchot in New York on December 24.
Berlin announces the death of German General Kari Jung at Thian court in France on December 24. The report records a senior officer’s passing during wartime events in Europe.
The article traces the origins and rise of bookplates from fifteenth century Germany to modern collections. It explains three plate types engraved photogravure and line cut and four styles: armorial decorative pictorial and portraiture. It also notes placement inside books and how dual libraries reflect owners personality.
A New York World report describes glass sheets stacked tightly adhering by cohesion, forming a natural weld. It notes this occurs when surfaces contact with no separating sheets, and mentions similar bonding in certain machines for steel and iron making seamless joins.
H B Collier reports an afternoon aurora at Viking Alberta 53N seen half an hour before sunset on April 22. A cloud curtain above the horizon acted as a screen making the hazy milky streamers visible, rising about fifteen degrees from their source below the cloud.
A collection of quotable lines from a recent short story prize, including vivid phrases about a mother in a grave, Madeline at twilight on a wisterized piazza, Ethel planning a husband’s supper, and Adelaide riding through Paris at breakfast time.
A judge remarks on imagined devices to aid safety at home. A rocking chair that murmurs warnings in darkness, an electric collar button that lights when the pet escapes, a magnet-assisted latchkey, and a square straw hat that won’t roll away though it may blow off.
The Pittsburgh Post notes a ninety year old citizen's birthday as a small relief from casualty news. The editor questions the item's importance, but the line hints at human resilience amid tragic events.
A scene shows an applicant pitching business ideas to a boss who assigns a clerk to escort him to the unloading department. The dialogue implies a workplace dynamic and potential evaluation of the candidate.
A Pittsburgh Gazette Times note mocks a popular English author who cannot sell his work during wartime calling it hunger pains. The piece also coins writer's cramp as the real condition affecting writers today.
A reflective line contrasts solitude with abandonment, noting the emotional difference between being alone by choice and being left by another person. The statement emphasizes personal impact and loneliness arising from relational separation.
Commissioner of Public Works John Wilkin completed snow removal on city streets with the last labor performed Thursday afternoon. Total cost reported is 2125.26 dollars, of which about 413 dollars will return to the city from Wallkill Transit Company and from property owners whose sidewalks were cleaned. The effort employed 114 men and 40 teams.
London reports a 52 word pact among Britain France Italy Japan and Russia committing them to no separate peace talks during the war and to seek joint agreement on terms. Signatories include Sir Edward Grey Paul Cambon Marquis Imperiali K Inouye and Comte Reckendorff.
Chicago December 24. There will be no criminal prosecution of Dr Henry J Haiselden for alleged neglect in failing to prolong the life of the Bollinger baby. Patrick J Lucey attorney general says the investigation is dropped. No law under which Dr Haiselden can be indicted by a grand jury.
The Sigma Nu fraternity of Columbia University hosted a formal dance at the Masonic Temple last night attracting about 19 couples, many from out of town. Dancing ran from 9 until 1 with a dinner at the Mitchell Inn. Notable attendees included Arthur Scherpick William Spalthoff Edward Healy Zane Grey and several local residents. Chaperones were Dr. and Mrs. Hi C McBrair Mr and Mrs C A Adams and Mr and Mrs George A Swayze.
William 8 Luckey, winner of The New York Times Aerial Derby, died December 19 at Royal Victoria Hospital of injuries from a September 4 crash at Sturgeon Falls Ontario his back broken in a fall from his aircraft. He is survived by his wife mother and two sisters. His body arrived in Warwick and was placed in the cemetery vault. He was a cousin of the late Isaac Lackey of Warwick.
London lecture by Henry Hill explains how flies reach ceilings by semicircular wing turns and gluing pads. He notes backward and forward wing motion plus vertical lift allow complex directions. Each foot has a hair-covered pad spraying gum to stick the insect to the ceiling.
A reflection on perpetual desire as people strive for greater comfort and satisfaction beyond initial well being. It suggests a universal tendency to push beyond detected limits and seek ongoing improvement.
In 1889 a New South Wales hunter wounded a kangaroo in the northwest. The beast vanished into mulga and salt bush as the pursuer, a bushman, tracked a blood trail. He stopped, found a stone with a red spot inside it, and realized it was opal, igniting the White Cliffs opal field discovery.
A Boston Journal quote describes a well dressed, wealthy man with a heavy mustache affirming that the world is improving and becoming easier, noting optimism about the era.
Charles W. Fairbanks faces a Republican primary bid as sixty of ninety two Indiana counties already decline in favor of his name on ballots. momentum shifts amid statewide battle.
William Knoche who ran the Montgomery garage and machine shop on Union and Ward streets filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition on December 16. Liabilities total 6048 with assets of 4516. The shop in a building he recently purchased was pre arranged to fit his business.
A large portion of farm labor in Servia is performed by women who also weave the cloth for their clothes. The women are held in high regard for their services, leading some parents to resist their daughters marrying. As a result wives in Servia are often older than their husbands.
Union Pacific reports 8,951,864 passengers carried in the fiscal year ending June 30 with no passenger fatalities. The figure includes riders boarding and alighting at stations as part of the year’s total.
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