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Newspaper
Asbury Park Journal
Location
Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1900
Page
4
Lead or follow in holiday advertising strategy
Early holiday advertising wins. Offer clear prices and details, dress windows attractively, and instill holiday cheer in staff. Urge early buying with stock, layaway, exchange policies, and money back offers. Advertise in the Journal with a concise note of your plans to boost Christmas Eve sales.
Community notes from Ocean Grove and Asbury Park
Local visits and events include Mrs. 8 N Chew visiting daughter in Ocean Grove, a nut tapping machine bid by Oriel A H Rigue, and a Mabey and Roosevelt Club meeting in Clarendon building. Daniel B Reeves returns from Semen Bay hunting over 100 ducks, Asbury Park Building and Loan sells 7000 at mixed premiums, Miss Dolores Emory visits from New York, evangelists McDowell and Rimanozzy to speak at Epworth League vesper, Rev Dr John Love Jr to repeat sermon in Grand Avenue Reformed Church. Allenhurst voter bonds for beachfront purchase set at 65000. First Presbyterian fair with “Tootsey” Beecroft portraying the old woman who lived in the shoe, plus dolls for sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asbury Park Building and Loan Association
Dolores Emory
New York
Bessie
Marie King
Epworth League
McDowell
Rimanozzy
John Love, Jr
Grand Avenue
Allenhurst
Asbury Park Lodge Plans Christmas Road Race
The Asbury Park Lodge of Odd Fellows will stage a ten mile road race on Christmas Day over the city course with a committee overseeing preparations and prizes for winners. On Monday evening December 17 the lodge will host a masquerade and civic ball in Winckler Hall with prizes for the most comical and handsomest costumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asbury Park Lodge of Odd Fellows
Asbury Lodge
Winckler Hall
Clergymen to Pay Full Fare on Major Rail Lines
Rail officials on several New York to Chicago trunk lines decide to end half fare tickets for clergymen missionaries relief committees and Salvation Army workers effective after January 1. Clergy members must now pay full fare like other passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
Salvation Army
How Jersey Lawyers Fare
Increase in New Jersey lawyers prompts debate among practitioners. About 2,000 lawyers statewide with 1,600 in practice. active numbers much lower. Of the 1,000 active, estimates split with few earning over 2,000 yearly, more earning 3,000 to 5,000, and top earners above 7,000. Local news teased from the Journal. Carriers offer six cents weekly door delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Sunday Church Services Listed Across Town
Multiple churches announce sermon times and topics including First M E Church with morning Christian Graces and evening Fall of Man, First Presbyterian Beauty in Nature and Christ and the Millionaires, Trinity Episcopal What Church Needs and The Sin of Our Land, Grand Avenue Reformed Immortality in the Bible and Is God in Everything, and various other congregations detailing Sunday schools, Ep worth Leagues, and Friday prayer meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E
Eli Gifford
Epworth League
First Presbyterian Church
A. G. Bale
Rai
Trinity Episcopal Church
A. J. Miller
Byterian
Ingins
John Love
Grand Avenue Reformed
Central's Business Increasing Maintains Freight and Passenger Boost
The Jersey Central Railroad reports rising traffic prompting two new ferryboats and 2225 new cars. Of these, 25 will be passenger coaches of the latest approved type. In the past two years the line has added 4600 freight and coal cars and 56 new locomotives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey Central Railroad
Jersey Central
Oleo Bill Passes as War Tax Cuts Planned
The House approved the Oleomargarine bill by 196 to 92, while a minority substitute was defeated 113 to 178. The measure taxes colored oleomargarine at 10 cents per pound, uncolored at 0.25 cent, and preserves state police powers while barring bans on sale when uncolored. House Ways and Means backs a $40 million reduction in war taxes, noting continued postwar needs for army and navy funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Committee On Agriculture
Payne
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Funston in a Fight and Morrows Men In Action
US forces in northern and southern Luzon engage insurgents with several minor actions and reported enemy losses. Major Flores captured. Morrow’s 60 men drive rebels from Bulacan while encountering Victores’ entrenched position. Bahul activity prompts reinforcements as Dagupan hosts Philippine commission officials. French naval bill debated. Combes urges 20 cruisers to threaten British trade. wary talks on invasion drills and war readiness with Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrow
Manila
Luzon
Fawer
Funston
Fourth Cavalry
Nehico River
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Forty-seventh Regiment
Bulacan
Victoris
Flores
San Roque
Bahul
Philippine Commission
Dagupan
Paris
Senate
Combes
Charente-Interieure
Great Britain
Marine
M. de Lanessan
France
Mercier
England
Prohibit Polygamy and Federal Marriage Reform
Representative Taylor of Ohio introduces a constitutional amendment for uniform marriage and divorce laws aimed at prohibiting polygamy. He asserts the measure goes beyond uniformity to end polygamy, deeming it the most effective remedy. Ballington Booth announces tenement work will become national with active field efforts expanding from New York to major cities nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taylor
Ohio
Brigham Roberts
Utah
Congress
Ballington Booth
New York
New York City
Dine With the Sultan at Constantinople This Week
United States charge d'affaires Mr Lloyd C Griscom and Captain Colby M Chester of the battleship Kentucky were hosted by the sultan in Constantinople. The sultan invited Chester to prolong his stay and attend an audience with Griscom and his suite, dining at the palace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Lloyd C. Griscom
United States
Colby M. Chester
Kentucky
Selamlik
Chester
Griscom
Coal famine in Norway prompts U S coal interest
Christiania reports a coal famine in Norway with prices up 40 percent despite a 25 percent rise in imports. The Christiania papers indicate the United States would likely buy coal here, signaling potential demand from America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
Christianta
Christiania
United States
Humorous Quips and Domestic Mischief in Old Columns
A collection of witty exchanges and light satire from Turn of the Century papers. Jests range from tell fortunes and broken eggs to a dress behind joke and a librarian's thrift. Portraits of society life mix with gentle irony in playful vignettes from Mrs. Perkins and Sir John Pope-Hennessy scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Republic
Philadelphia Bulletin
Joe
Cincinnati Enquirer
John Pope-Hennessy
Hennessy
Charlie
What's In a Name and Ants as Industrious Creatures
A look at settlement workers noting the humor and hardship in tracking diverse immigrant names as families adopt American identities. Also a brief feature on ant industry with examples from South America, India, and a London Express report of an ant carrying larvae for long hours. The piece contrasts human adaptability with insect diligence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eudoxia Slombodinsky
Blank Street
Joneses
Slombodinsky
Eudoxia
Maggie Jones
Stanislava
Jane
Natalia
Minnie
Betsey Budge
Annie Balenka
Annie
Balenka
Father
Valenka
South America
India
London
Archbishop Names New Vicar General for Chicago Archdiocese
Archbishop Feehan appoints Father M J Fitzsimmons as vicar general of the Chicago archdiocese succeeding the late Very Rev D M J Dowling. Fitzsimmons, previously chancellor, secretary, and rector of Holy Name parish, was ordained 18 years ago after studies in Morris Kankakee and Baltimore. He served as assistant at the cathedral and then as St Mary’s pastor before his rapid rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archbishop Feehan
Chicago
M. J. Fitzsimmons
Archdiocese of Chicago
D. M. J. Dowling
Holy Name
Fitzsimmons
Feerman
Father Dowling
Father Fitzsimmons
Morris
Ill
Church College
Kankakee
Baltimore
Hunting Adventure and Ottoman Census Report
Rochester hunter Curtin Burgett and his dog were on a coon hunt when a porcupine leaped from a tree and bit Burgett, leaving the hunter with quills and the dog with one eye. A separate note reports the Ottoman census totaling 196,500,000 Mussulmane, with Turkey Europe and Asia Minor accounts and wide geographic distribution. A mention of a precise English weighing machine notes it can weigh twenty six coins per minute, showing sensitivity to slight weight differences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtin Burgett
Rochester
N. Y
Burgett
Curtis
Curtis Burgett
Mussulmana
Mussulmane
Turkey
Europe
Asia’ Minor
Beluchistan
The
Indies
China
Africa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Asbury Park Journal
P. O. Drawer F
Asbury Park, N.J
Tootsey” Beecroft
Asbury Park
Jersey
Pathe
First Congregational Church
Henry Kitchen
Westfield
William G.—Moyer
West Grove M. E
Church of the Holy Spirit
George D. Genzmer
Clark Marten
First Baptist Church
J. H. White
A. M. E. Zion Church
Springwood Avenue
Wear Park
E. M. Stanton
Bethel A. M. E
Second Avenue
Main Street
T. E. Franklin
F. E. Owens
Watertown
J. G. Reed
St. Paul’s
Ocean Grove
West Park
G. E. Hancock
Barton Brown
P.G. Snedeker
South Main Street
Central
OLEO
Hay- Pauneefote
Committee On Foreign Relations
Teller
Nicaragua Canal
Organ
Lodge
Mondell
Wyoming
A. N. Kepoika
A. B. Lowenstine
Hawaii
Wilcox
Elwood
Mary Holden
North Branch
Peter L. Kline
Océan Port
Elisha J. Mapes
Pennsylvania
Binkley
Bea. Leig
Glosser
Mina Frederick
Rhode Island
Crompton
Daniel W. Bachelder
Berlin
McKin
Melaage
Germany
BM. J. Flinsimmons
Archdiocese of
Mr. J. Fitzsimmons
Catholic Archdiocese of
Hunting Adventure
Dow
New York State
Nimrod
Porcupine
Scrallive Unite
Arias
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