Now Playing at the Ritz: The Iron Major (December 4, 1943)

In this true story, Frank Cavanaugh proves himself as a football coach and a World War I hero.

 

Newburgh News Advertisement (click here for original movie trailer)

RITZ

"The Iron Major"

Convincing and realistic is "The Iron Major." Pat O'Brien's new film proves to be a surprisingly entertaining film that is a well deserved tribute to a great American - the late Major Frank Cavanaugh. Cavanaugh was a Massachusetts boy who, at Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Boston College, and Fordham, became one of the greatest football coaches of all time, and who on the battlefields of France in 1918  became one of the nation's heroes. Ruth Warrick plays Cav's loyal wife and Robert Ryan the coach's former teammate.

The Palatine: Model Hotel of the Hudson Valley

THE PALATINE

Model Hotel of the Hudson Valley

Ownership Management Carl Willmsen

NEWBURGH, NY.

American Plan, Open all Year

At the North End of the Storm King Highway and only 18 miles from Bear Mountain Bridge.

A most natural stop between New York and Albany or New England and Pennsylvania points.

THE PALATINE

 HARKING back to the historical associations of the city resulted in the choice of the word "Palatine" as the name for the leading hotel of the Hudson Valley, for in the beginnings of the city the name had its origin. In the winter of 1708-09, a little party of 53 persons, all in abject poverty came hither under a grant from Queen Anne of England. They were in search of freedom, having been driven from their homes on the Palatinate of the Rhine. They were called the Palatines. Others of their kindred started to join them, but finally took another course, passing over the Mohawk Trail and settling in Utica.

The name was somewhat prophetic, for the Palatine from its inception became more than a mere temporary abode or refuge for a traveler. Your traveler's first impression of it will be that of a comfortable, well equipped hotel serving its guests admirably and he will soon sense that it is at once a home and a community center.

The hotel is most fortunately situated. Withdrawn from the haunts of business and the noise, at a point where the outlook is one of pleasant green lawns, it is yet within easy walking distance of the city's activities. From the veranda and rear rooms is a commanding view of the Hudson as it sweeps majestically on, an unobstructed vista of 20 miles or river, flanked by mountain scenery.

Crawford House (1959)

As reprinted from the Newburgh, New York 250th Celebration (July 5 thru July 12, 1959)  program book:

CRAWFORD HOUSE

Headquarters of

THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEWBURGH  BAY AND THE HIGHLANDS

OPEN HOUSE

July 6-12 {1959}     ---     2:00-5:00 P.M.

The Public Is Invited     ---     Tea Will Be Served

There will be  a temporary exhibit of historic materials, paintings, china and furniture, as well as those things which are in this beautiful and historic house permanently. A small but charming garden is another feature.

COMMITTEE

MISS HELEN VER NOOY GEARN, Chairman

         

MRS. WILLIAM CLEMENT SCOTT                MRS. RALPH W. STEVEN   

MISS ANNE WELLS                           MRS. FREDERICK R. SMALL

MRS. J. TOWNSEND CASSEDY                  MR. OLIVER SHIPP       

MR. and MRS. C. D. ROBINSON               MRS. CLARK SMITH       

MR. CHARLES H. FLETCHER                   MR. CLARENCE STETSER   

On March 9, 1830, David Crawford was leased Lot 39 on the Glebe map for a period of 900 years. On it, he built his handsome home. This was 120 years from the settling of Newburgh by the Palatines, midway of the city's history. Newburgh was then a village of 6,000.

The Ionic columns, the Palladian windows, front and back, and the second floor balcony under the overhanging top floor at the front are reminiscent of all gracious Georgian period homes.

The house has an interior exquisitely executed. Over-windows, doors and cornices are deeply carved. The Dolphin of the newell post is possibly the work of a Massachusetts ship figurehead carver. The doors between the two parlors repeat the carving and column motif of the Greek Revival so loved by the architects of the Georgian Period.

MISS MARY ROGERS, President

         

MR. OLIVER SHIPP, 1st Vice Pres.        MISS LUCY ALDRIDGE,  3rd Vice Pres. 

MR. CLARENCE STETSER 2nd Vice Pres.     MR. GERALD C. STOWE, 4th Vice Pres. 

MRS. M. SEYMOUR PURDY, Rec Sec'y        MISS IRENE WEGLE, Corres. Sec'y     

MR. CLARENCEW TRAPHAGEN, Treasurer

 

CRAWFORD HOUSE                           189 MONTGOMERY STREET, NEWBURGH, N.Y.

250th Celebration 1709-1959

250th Celebration

NEWBURGH, NEW YORK

1709     ~     1959

JULY 5 thru JULY 12, 1959

~ The First Newburghers

spend their first Christmas in America. On December 25, 1708, Pastor Joshua Kockerthal leads his flock of German Palatines, jut arrived in New York City, to service at Dutch Lutheran Church, at the present corner of Broadway and Rector Street, where he is welcomed by the Rev. Justus Falconer.

350th Hudson  ~  Champlain

Celebration

1609     ~     1959

PRICE: FIFTY CENTS