Laws of Find and Keep at Jersey City Woman’s Club
The Newark Daily Advertiser reports a Philadelphia style debate at the Jersey City Women’s Club over the loss and recovery of a fur-collarette at a philanthropic euchre party. Topics include fur use at events, euchre strategy, safe deposit vaults versus cloak checks, club liability for stolen articles, reclaiming property, and avoiding newspaper coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey City
Leetch
Newark Daily Advertiser
Monopoly Tax Bias Spars State New Jersey Wins Profits
A New York Susquehanna note critiques New Jersey taxation as unfairly favoring a large corporation. It laments the state board of assessors overestimating state gains and mocks gendered social commentary about women's fashion and truth about Santa Claus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
State Board of Assessors
Unique California suit over hydrant water for fire loss
Ukiah faces a landmark suit as the city sues its waterworks over a $570.75 fire loss blamed on no water in hydrants. The case argues the franchise requires constant water pressure for extinguishing fires, else other losses may follow if the city prevails. Also notes a New York garden exhibit with a boa snake as a rat catcher and a discovery of a 1521 Duerer painting in Lisbon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
of California
Ukiah
San Francisco
Sociogical Gardens
New York
Bronx
Farewell sermon ends Marlboro church tenure
The Rev Charles M Sherman preached his farewell sermon at Marlboro Baptist Church last Sunday night. Alexander G Rankin dockmaster at Perth Amboy drydocks was killed at work when his coat entangled in machinery and he was whirled to death. The marriage of former Assemblyman Alexander Simpson of Jersey City to his former wife, divorced years ago, was announced yesterday. The annual report of the State Home for Girls was submitted to Governor Voorhees, showing satisfactory conditions and smooth operation. Christina Wild of Jersey City died by suicide after attempting to harm her baby with carbolic acid. Preliminary steps were taken to organize a mass meeting in Camden to protest the abolition of the spring election. Two more smallpox cases were found in Jersey City Albert Mansfeld and Cuno Wernler. Gustave Ollosky, ten, of Rahway, was detained in Elizabeth for stealing bread and milk. sentence suspended after his guilty plea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles M. Sherman
Marlboro
Alexander G. Rankin
Perth Amboy
Alexander Simpson
Jersey City
State Home For Girls
Voorhees
Eyler
Christina Wild
Morris Wild
Bowers Street
Camden
Jerasy City
Albert Mansfeld
Pavonia Avenue
Cuno Wernler
Newark Avenue
Gustave Ollosky
Rahway
Elizabeth
Union County Court
Real Estate Transfers In Neptune Township And Surrounding Areas
A summary of property transfers including Henry C. Winsor to Elbert D. Darling for two lots in Neptune Township, multiple deals at West Bradley Beach and Ocean Grove, and numerous other lot transfers across Deal, Allenhurst, Belmar, and Asbury Park. Amounts range from $1 to $13,000 with parcels listed in 1900 transactions. Names include William Taylor, Ida Brown, Samuel Patterson, Rosalie Quoripel, and Hamilton Kean among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fortus
Neptune Township
Henry C. Winsor
Eibert D. Darling
Pena Ie Ae
Ohnrs
Jo M. Rogers
West Bradley Beach
Roose Ww. Reese
Rogers
William K. ‘Taylor
Ida B. Brown
West Asbury
Samuel A. Pajoe
Ocean Grove Heights
Vjean Township
William E. Lehman
Samuel Lolenen
Deal
Gallantic
Ic Coast Realty
John F
Kahoo
Hawkins Ar ‘Loast Land Company
Alphanrts
Green
Alleah
Allan
John F. Hawkine
Dea
Church
Allenma Sne Land Tiubers Compa
Rosalie V. Quoripel
Allonh
Benjamin F. Banes
Mathleen
Gertrude White
Deal Beach
Atlantic Seas Aeae Company
Hamilton J. Kean
Julia L. Osborn
Mary E Gitard
Belmar
Watson
Mary A. Bryan
L Tatmar
Obadiah E ‘Davisater
Oliver H. Brown
Spring Linke
Caroline W- Birk
Osborne Campbel
North
Obadiah Davia
Aber Willie
Sohn Smith
Norsee Ta
Obadiah E. Daviso
Phi
Satan
Bald A. Tilton
George I. Newman
Prominent People and Notable Figures Across Worlds
In New York Wickes and Lampe are lamp and lamp wick dealers. William A. Procter of Cincinnati gifts a large chemical library to the University of Cincinnati. Creek chief Porter, educated and wealthy, appears unremarkable on streets. William Richardson, successor to Gen Wheeler in Congress, was once sentenced to hang as a Confederate spy but recaptured before execution. Bjornstjerne Bjornson, turning sixty eight, writes Laboremus in Paris. Lord Rosebery’s mother, the duchess of Cleveland, at eighty one remains active, traveling after age seventy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wickes
Lampe
William A. Procter
Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati
Porter
Indian Territory
Joseph Wheeler
House of Representatives
William Richardson
Crittenden
Bjornstjerne Bjornsen
Paris
Bjornsen
Lord Rosebery
Duchess of Cleveland
India
West Indies
British South
Africa
Cost Of A Hurricane Losses In West Indies After Storm
Government estimates show rice losses of 73 000 barrels worth about 219 000 dollars. Total farm losses, excluding buildings and machinery, reach roughly 35 million. Livestock losses include 1 300 horned cattle 150 mules 20 000 cattle 2 800 sheep and 900 swine valued around 490 000 dollars. Pecans weigh 2 500 000 pounds valued at 100 000 dollars. Three thousand trees destroyed at 75 000 dollars. Corn area about 815 000 acres with 17 500 000 bushels produced potential loss about 1 000 000 bushels worth 500 000 dollars. Cotton area about 1 300 000 acres with 640 000 bales expected. reduced by 68 000 bales about 10 6 percent. At 50 dollars per bale destroyed value about 3 400 000 dollars.
Domestic animals by region and city counts in 1920s data
The report tallies 2,833,877 horses 1,406,970 meat cattle 162,115 mules 156,470 sheep 1,592,861 swine and 47,652 goats outside farms. Mules average 2.7 in north central and south central regions, 7.0 in the north Atlantic. Cities over 100,000 show Kansas City highest horses and mules, Chicago sheep, Indianapolis swine, New Orleans Milwaukee goats. Goats incline in south central states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Central
South Central
North Atlantic Division
Kansas City
Memphis
Chicago
Indianapolis
New Orleans
Milwaukee
Florida
Bits from afar a snapshot of world news
The Paris theaters give away 8500 free tickets daily. Germany has 2918 public bath establishments or one per 18000. Britain asserts control of the gold fish market as prices double due to scarcity. New Zealand plans to mail letters worldwide for two cents. The German East Africa protectorate spans 620 miles of coast, 384000 square miles, with about 8 million natives and 1000 foreigners, mostly German.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
New Zealand
East Africa
Zanzibar
Military notes on eight field marshals and global fleet ideas
The report cites eight field marshals in the British army and notes a French minister's tour of Toulon harbor in a submarine. It mentions Russia’s census showing over 10 million horses fit for war and discusses a proposed floating machine shop for squadrons worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toulon
Russia
Panama canal plan gains French effort and scope
Wright A Patterson reports on a revived French project to complete the Panama canal. The new company offers a controlling stake to the U S and claims a partially finished canal closer to completion than widely believed. Dredging advances reach Bohio locks, Culebra cut nears completion, and 4,000 workers push toward a tidewater route with substantial machinery and storage for flood control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama Canal
de Lesseps
Panama
North
South America
Atlantic
Pacific Oceans
Pacific
Canal
de Lessepa
Wright A. Patterson
Paris Theater Run Ends With Noted Engagement
Sara Dernhardt’s long engagement in L Aiglon at a Paris theater just closed and reportedly averaged 2100 dollars per performance. The club chatter also notes high dinner praise and quips about money and manners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sara Dernhardt
Paris
Religious notes and historic church items across cities
Bishop McCabe of the alethod Episcopal church plans early January travel to South America for conferences before returning. Michigan Sunday schools enroll 17 percent, above the union average of 16 percent. Grace church Manhattan receives a sun dial sculpture from a 50 year old stone pinnao base. New York City reports two fire clergy assisting the department and ministering to the dying and wounded. Philadelphia’s Church of the Holy Communion sells for 350000 to a syndicate, with property division and improvements undecided. Rev. David Edwards Blaine, Seattle founder of Methodism on Puget Sound, was a New York native and Hamilton College graduate, among Seattle’s early pioneers. Philadelphia seeks to preserve Wissahickon old monastery built by the Seventh Day Baptists a century and a half ago, now decayed as orders declined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCabe
Alethod! Episcopal Church
America
Soutern
Michigan
Union
Grace Church
Manhattan
David Edwards Blaine
Seattle
Puget Sound
New York State
Hamilton College
Philadlphia
Wissahickon
Seveth Day Baptista
Railroading and railway fuel developments feature new power systems
A survey notes railroading uses over two thousand sleepers per mile. The Russian ministry will adopt petroleum to power locomotives across its railways. A new remote coal loading method weighs coal as it feeds the tender. Green glass in New York Grand Central yard switch tower protects eyes. German carbide use for car illumination rises from 8 thousand tons in 1899 to an estimated 1 thousand tons in 1900, about 7 million gallons of petroleum. Central London Railway plans handsome stations and flats with business premises on space allows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russian Ministry of Communication
Grand Central Yard
New York City
Germany
New
Central London Railway Company
Educational breadth spans nations in school reach
The article notes chess taught in Australian public schools and praise for Japan adopting kindergarten methods. It reports Germany doubling an annual 150000 marks for German schools abroad, cites 1100 Chinese pupils at Queens College Hong Kong, and claims 16 million pupils in US schools, three times Britain and five times Russia. It mentions a former Hong Kong civil servant offering a practical Chinese language school in New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Queens College
Hong Kong
United States
France
Italy
Great Britain
Ireland
Russia
Her Majesty’s Civil Service
Hong-Kong
He Haa
New York City
Bees and honey trade details from early reports
The article notes eggs of choice bee queens as a Swiss commerce item and describes tinted glass used in England to gauge honey color. It reports Florida honey for table use and manufacturing, bee foraging ranges usually within one mile, occasional seven mile flights, and worker weight shifting from about a pound leaving the hive to nearly two pounds returning laden with honey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzerland
England
Florida
Venus Light Photography and Pestfree Grain Progress
The report notes experiments photographing objects only by light from Venus. It claims jellyfish absorb food by wrapping around it and cites weevils not injuring grain germ. Pollak-Virag system improvements enable messages to be printed in ordinary hand letters at 1000 words per minute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venus
Alphon
Also Mentioned on This Page
Asbury Park Journal
DAL
Lia
T Bundat
Asbury Park Printing House
Mattison Avenue
P. O. Drawer F
Asbury Park, N
Philadelphia
Santa Claus
Water Company
Duerer
St. Jerome
Albrecht Duerer
Erltic
Lisbon
Fine Arts
Transfors of Real Estate
Bohio Lake
Colon
Bohio
San Pablo
la Corosita
Culebra
Great Culebra
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Cleverton
Dashawaoy
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!