New Year’s Day through the years

1924

You could get your Dodge Brothers Type-B Sedan at O.D. Ford Motor Co. in Martinsville, Bassett Motor Service Co. in Bassett, Central Garage in Rocky Mount or Stuart Motor Co. in Stuart. “When winter intensifies your desire for closed car warmth and protection, remember that Dodge Brothers Type-B Sedan is almost as inexpensive to own and operate as an open touring car.”

1949

Edith Doyle’s Millinery was at 24 ½ E. Main St. It offered fall and winter hats, hand-beaded, feather trimmed, on sale from $4 to $6

Bettie’s Beauty Shop (Bettie Gilbert) opened on Jan. 3 at 909 Starling Avenue, tel. 2717. Bettie Gilbert was from Miller & Rhoads in Richmond.

Ad: What’s Cookin’ – Why the Most *Snappy *Fast *Cheerful Service in Town. Eanes Atlantic Service. 624 Bridge St., Phone 5214.

1974

Ad for Globman’s Basement Store Wednesday Bargains: Mary Proctor All Steel Ironing Boards, $4.96; Ladies Nylon Slips, regular 2 for $7.98 and $9, 2 for $6.44; Men’s Nylon Umbrellas, save 40%, $2.99, limit two; Boys’ Never-Iron Shirts (picture shows long sleeved, buttoned shirt, worn with large bow tie), $1.96; Automatic Toaster Oven, Proctor-Silex, $18.96; Hoover Dial-A-Matic vacuum cleaner, regular $169.95, $139.95

1999

The Martinsville, Henry and Patrick unemployment rate was at 6%, up from the 5.1% of October 1998.

— Information from those years’ editions of the Henry and Martinsville Bulletin