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Newspaper
Asbury Park Journal
Location
Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1900
Page
10
The item highlights fashion fabrics such as panne velvet with gold, Persian colored pannes, and figured velveteens for waists and accessories. It notes May Irwin declining to sing unless royalties are paid. A separate report tells of a Scranton woman accidentally killed by a train while safeguarding a neighbor’s baby, throwing the child to safety.
The era sees theater and operagoers in eastern cities ditching street cars as fashionable. Analysts predict next autumn may bring a widespread move to walking rather than riding public transit.
A balloonist named Frank Leroy obtained a marriage license in Paris Texas to wed Mrs Ella Whitledge. His romance began after he fell during a parachute descent at a firemen's street fair injuring the widow who cared for him.
Retta L. Long argues in the New York Herald for humane, businesslike domestic service relations. She calls for proper pay for overtime, two daily personal hours, a shift in terminology from servant to helper, government funded domestic science schools, and wider societal respect for home labor as essential, skilled work.
Gertrude Leigh in Farm and Home describes revived seasonal crafts including a cardboard cornucopia with green duck fabric, pink poppy design, green pique lining, and laced ribbons for hanging. Also outlines a matching waste basket from stiff cardboard with glued linen edges and decorative bows.
In Mark 10 46 52 Jesus passes Jericho with a crowd and blind Bartimaeus begs by the roadside. He cries out to Jesus the Messiah and is summoned by Him. Jesus heals the man granting sight and he follows in the way, showing faith and gratitude as central to the miracle.
Special notices announce a Personally Conducted Holiday Tour by the Pennsylvania Railroad to Washington starting December 27 for three days. Rates from New York Trenton and Philadelphia cover rail travel two hotel nights and guides with optional side trips to Mount Vernon Richmond and Norfolk at reduced prices. Tickets valid ten days with later hotel rates. itineraries available through agents in New York Brooklyn and Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers round trip tickets to Washington from all line points for a single fare for the round trip for the Centennial Celebration events in DC. Tickets are valid for travel December 11 to December 14 inclusive.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey offers one fare for round trip tickets from all stations to Washington for the centennial celebration. Tickets are valid for travel December 11 and return on or before December 14.
The Missouri Pacific Railway announces 1900 1901 excursions including weekly personally conducted trips to Los Angeles and San Francisco via the Fast Mail Route and Colorado Short Line. Special excursions cover Mexico and the World’s Sanitarium at Hot Springs Arkansas. Inquiries directed to J P McCann or W E Hoyt at 391 Broadway New York.
The first 1900 1901 personally conducted tour to Old Point Comfort via the Pennsylvania Railroad departs New York and Philadelphia on Thursday December 27. Tickets include luncheon on the going trip and 1 3 4 days aboard Old Point Comfort with return by regular trains within six days. Fares from New York 15.00 Trenton 13.60 Philadelphia 12.50 and proportionate from other points. For itineraries and full information contact Ticket Agents Tourist Agent 1196 Brooklyn 789 Broad Street Newark N J or Geo W Boyd Assistant General Passenger Agent Broad Street Station Philadelphia 292 8
Mails close for New York and northward routes with times to Freehold Ocean Grove and Point Pleasant. Mails depart for Trenton Philadelphia and southward, with arrivals from New York Philadelphia Trenton and Asbury Park and schedule for collections and carrier deliveries.
The list shows fire alert calls and street intersections in Asbury Park. Entries include 17 Banes and Bond 198 Cookman and Main 28 Cookman and Bangs 36 Second and Main with alarms at 68 General alarm and 2 Fire out.
Fire alarms at multiple Ocean Grove intersections including Main Avenue Burf and Beach Embury and Beach Pilgrim Pathway Broadway Tabor Way and Pennsylvania Clark and New Jersey Heck and Whitefield Main Avenue Gates Corlies and South Main West Grove Unexcelled Engine House West, signaling local evacuations. General alarm signals indicate fire out of town and a townwide alert.
A historical note describes weather flags and their meanings. Flags indicate fair weather cold waves rain snow and various combinations suggesting warmer or colder conditions. The document lists single flags numbered from 1 to 4 and combined signals with 5 and 6 for extended forecasts and temperature trends.
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