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Newspaper
Asbury Park Journal
Location
Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1900
Page
2
A social note highlights a shift from scarcity to abundance as Dotty Dim Pie offers two fine gobblers to her grateful parents, reflecting a broader wave of prosperity influencing holiday feasts.
Cranberry jelly is made by washing berries then simmering with sugar and water, straining, and moulding the cool mixture. Cranberry tart uses berries sugar water and rapid cooking before setting in a mold. Cranberry pie combines chopped berries with raisins sugar water flour vanilla and two crusts. Cranberry sauce simmers berries with sugar and water in a porcelain or granite pan.
The piece reflects on nature and spirituality with imagery of beeches, flowers, and forest hush. It contrasts joy and melancholy, considers awe in sacred spaces, and ends with a verse about Madison Cavern in New York Independent.
A New York letter surveys the season’s blouse and shirt waist revival in varied fabrics from cotton to silk. Lace, Chantilly, and taffeta dominate styling with intricate sleeves, decollete forms, and gilded trims. Evening pieces show delicate lace grafts, black taffeta options, and wide tucks.
The Missouri Pacific Railway announces special excursions for 1900 and 1901. Regular weekly tours from St. Louis to Kansas City and connections to Denver Salt Lake City California Texas routes. Personally conducted, inexpensive trips to Los Angeles San Francisco and Mexico. Special tickets to The World's Sanitarium Hot Springs Arkansas. Write J P McCann or W E Hoyt at 301 Broadway New York for details.
The Passenger department of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway has issued a booklet listing populations of all U S cities over 26 000 as of 1900. Copies may be obtained by sending address and a two cent stamp for postage to the General Passenger Agent in Chicago Illinois.
Week ending November 24 lists multiple names including Mary Applegate George Jackson Mia Lizzie Redden Mia Heiden Lillie, along with several garbled entries. Indicates letters awaiting pickup and potential misspellings in the name list.
Poem from Rural New Yorker reflecting on life's wasted vanity and the slow arc toward justice. It contrasts pursuit of fame and wealth with aging, self restraint, and eventual moral reckoning. The piece warns that those who exploit others will face payback when justice returns.
Mails close and arrive times listed for routes to New York, north, Trenton, Philadelphia, Freehold, Point Pleasant, Ocean Grove, and Asbury Park. Also notes collections from letter boxes and deliveries by carriers with multiple daily times. Includes references to carriers and service windows for local and regional destinations.
Fire at Agbury Park triggered a general alarm with 17 range and bond lines reported. Fire units responded, condition stabilized with the blaze extinguished and no injuries reported.
A fragmented list shows street names and numbered locations on Main Avenue and nearby paths. Mentions include Pilgrim Pathway Broadway Tabor Way Pennsylvania and West Grove area with references to Corliss and Darxcelled Engine House, plus fire alarm notes in town.
Weather bulletin lists signals for Haigwaia and Loch Local showing varying conditions. It mentions fair weather, stationary temperature, rain or snow, warmer or colder trends, and joint signals with other numbered codes. Authorities indicate combinations predict local rains and temperature shifts.
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