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Newspaper
Caldwell News
Location
Caldwell, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1902
Page
2
Local notices and assorted items from Verona New Jersey include classified ads for sale wanted and found, remarks on post office rules, and peculiar society notes. A Paterson wedding setback features a groom missing at the ceremony but guests proceed with the feast.
A collection of paragraphs covers anti trust themes tied to Roosevelt and Hoar, Porto Rico’s shift from conquest to prosperity, Kentucky pensions for widows, fashion satire on trousers, a Jim Crow confrontation, Rev Sheldon’s Christian only life insurance, John L Sullivan bankruptcy, Consul Nast’s death in Guayaquil, Manila customs rulings on Chinese residents, 1902 US revenue and outlays, Reed’s death, and Martha Washington postage stamp rollout.
The piece reports senators and representatives debating trust regulation and anti trust enforcement, with support across parties for bills in the House and Senate. It notes prospects for a treaty with Cuba and Panama Canal implications, plus comments on Colombian relations and Philippine tariff proposals. Key figures include Senators Frye, Allison, Lodge, Proewr, Dryden, Huova, Elkins, and representatives like Hepburn and Richardson.
State Board of Health annual report to the Governor cites widespread adulteration. Of 382 samples, 62 percent fail purity standard. 77 of 126 non milk foods fail. 50 percent of hamburger steaks and olive oil from druggists impure. Milk and butter samples show significant adulteration. Canadian Pacific Railway orders locomotives to Great Britain for the first time in its history.
The report by Secretary Margerum of the Later Staw Pair shows tulip profits for the year at 7 dollars and a plan to use the money to erect a replacement building after last summer's cyclone. Mayor-elect M. Doremus announces Henry Young will succeed Colonel J. Livingston Prive as City Council member starting January 1.
The annual report of the State Geological Survey recommends forming a state forest fire brigade with a chief, twenty wardens, and one hundred fire wardens. It urges immediate legislation for fire suppression and locating the chief at Winslow Camden county to cover central areas with districts ten miles square and wardens five miles apart for daily inspections.
The State Charities Aid Association plans over fifty bills for the Legislature. Proposals include making wife desertion a felony, building a hospital for the convict insane, hospital patient inspections, Rahway Reformatory funding to avoid double cells, abolishing the prison lockstep, boosting the Fann Institution for the feeble minded, and a State Board of Charities and Correction with a reformary commission for girls and women.
The article notes Chinese writing uses ideograms where a symbol conveys meaning, with about 3 000 marks sufficient for trade. It claims Russian is harder for Americans due to dialects, but literacy can be gained in months and refined with a linguist in a year. It mentions Mrs Humphry Ward living at Stocks in Scotland, linking to historic references.
The text describes Purging of pele melt and notes on a guest lecture by Rev. Dr. Pinacaut at Whe-ahond church in Newark. It discusses Sunday school movements, global travel plans for teachers, and the 100th anniversary of the London Sunday School Union with preparations for a world convention in Jerusalem in 1904.
A lengthy discussion argues reform for women, stressing proper leadership over buildings. It urges using plain speech, moral discipline, and avoidance of envy to teach boys and girls work, thrift, and self control toward lasting success.
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