Severage City Notes and Timely Tidbits From Long-ago Page
A scattered montage of brief items covers personalities, events, and opinions. It references Joaquin Miller praised by the New York American, tornado fatalities in Nebraska, discussions of public libraries, a Poe manuscript sale, the Twentieth Century Limited’s speed, toy pistols on Decoration Day, and rainmaking experiments. It also mentions Secretary Armitrong’s signing load, debates on tariff and taxation, and a surge in corporate charters in early May.
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Reformed Church
United States
Theodore Wielinghuysen
Rutgers College
Henry
Theodore Frelinghuysen
Ashland
Clay
Frelinghuysen
Allence
South
North
Christian Intelligencer
New York
Automobilista
France
Ois
Weather and politics mix with drought relief and rail dreams
Scattered notices describe drought relief efforts saving hay and crops in Pennsylvania and New York, rain aiding cord crops and forest fires, and a focus on a postal recount. Separate items note night economy in Chicago and New York banking hours, tunnel plans under the Hudson, and a Punxsutawney inventor drawing power from coke oven waste. A Philadelphia parrot in a New York business tale closes the column.
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Perpsylvania
New York State
Debate on Automobile Regulations and Patriotism
A broad call for sensible motor vehicle rules cites deadly crashes and wartime enforcement as justification. The piece urges restraint on speed and advocates private tracks for racing, while stressing the need to instill patriotism in schools and to honor national heritage. It quotes Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis and Andrew S. Draper on education and civic duty.
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Newell Dwight Illis
Andrew S. Draper
Moore House Purchase Sought by New Jersey Sons of the Revolution
The New Jersey Society of the Sons of the Revolution aims to buy the Greshon Moore house and 160 surrounding acres at the Delaware crossing site. They seek state funds at the next Legislature session to preserve the historic Washington birthday locale once linked to his winter march.
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New Jersey Society of the Sons of the Revolution
Gershon Moore
Delaware
Washington
Trenton
Moore
Deetruc
Roosevelt Returns as Government Faces Fraud Claims
The article reports President Roosevelt's homecoming amid cheers while detailing calls for rooting out corruption in federal services. It notes military discipline, Navy budget limits, and a push for timbers and timber treatment to curb decay, plus a ceremonial reception by uniformed generals.
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Machen
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Hay
Cortelyou
Naval General Staff
Naval
Alates
Lake and Sea Coast Lines
Navy Department
Faulkner
Eighth Infantry
Murtaugh
Coast Artillery
Sixteenth Infantry
Bushfield
Seventeenth Infantry
Robinson
Thirtenth Infantry
J. F. McCarthy
Lowe
Betah Smith
Root
United States
Bureau of Forestry
Washington
Ral Young
Corbin
Bliss
Carter
Fmas
Army
Caera
Colombis
Appace Conte
No Obey in Marriage Service Adopted at General Synod
The Reform Church in America adopted new liturgical forms at last week's General Synod in Asbury Park. The marriage rite removes the word obey from the bride’s response, while doctrinal teaching remains unchanged and forms are condensed. The report notes U S rainfall varies by region from under four inches to over a hundred inches due to elevation ocean distance wind and storm paths.
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General Synod of the Reformed Church In America
Asbury Park
United States
Local Notes Chronicle Varied Sussex County News
A jumble of short items reports weather impacts on crops, a child injured in a leek incident, and oblique notices of local deaths. Major Freemas Meorve Krowe dies at eighty six from paralysis after a long career in public life. Crop activity around Swedestora station suggests a tough harvest with crates rising. safety and infrastructure updates appear alongside church and educational notices in a late 19th century paper tone.
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Gloucester
Bundey
Freemas Meorve Krowe
Gosad
America
Sasdsey
Standard [Co
New Jersey
Ioe Trost
Wiis
Historic Saengerfest concert program details announced
The program outlines Wagner and Beethoven selections, a Kaiser prize song, and mass chorus performances led by Melamet. It notes Prince Henry’s welcome, multiple German songs, and the prize contest with emblems and banners involving the United Singers groups from Baltimore Brooklyn Newark and Hudson County.
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Erstyma
United Sing Re
Prince Henry
Saengerfert
Amerea
William
Flandel
Wallelujah
Thay
America
Hoosevelt
Shannah Cumming
Angerer
Victor L. Saar
United Singers of
Baltimore
Saengerbund
Brooklyn
Augusta Tiernan
Carl Lantz
Newark
Saengerband
Protestant Episcopal convention to meet in West Orange
The adjourned Protestant Episcopal Church convention of Newark will meet in St Mark s Church West Orange on Tuesday June 16 to select candidates for bishop see Dr Alexander Mann of Grace Orange and Dr George McCellach Fiske as contenders. Government halts plague research after Milan Sachs death at Berlin Hospital citing public health risk over potential spread of germs.
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Christian Engeavor Union of the Oranges
Essex County
Stephen D. Riddle
Etta Schroeder
Mabel G. Irwin
Eagle Rock
Riddle
Bulletin
Union
First Presbyterian Church
Orange
Monda
Fred G Mme
Presbyterian Church
P’rotestant Episcopal Church
Diocese of Newark
St. Mark's Church
West Orange
Alexander Mann
Grace Church
George McCellac Fiske
Mano
Broad School
Flood W. Tompkins
Holy Trinity Church
Philadelphia
Charles Wheeler Colt
St. Luke's Church
Baltimore
Jacob A. Regester
St. Paul's Church
Buffalo
W. Arundel
Pitsburg
Berlin
Milan Sachs
Dr. Sachs
Dr. Koch
Sachs
Bukownia
Steamers collide near Marseilles sink Liban with heavy loss
A collision near Marseilles at noon Sunday between two Faissenet Steam ship Co. passenger steamers the R osulaire and the Liban caused the Liban to sink. Over one hundred passengers and crew perished in the disaster, and many more were saved or missing.
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Marseilles
R Osulaire
Liban
Faissenet Steamship Company
Dover Strawberry Prices Hit Record Peak for Season
Strawberries of the choice varieties sold in Dover Del on Saturday at 10 cents a quart bring the highest price seen this season. The date varieties are being marketed this. Outside sales were ruined last week by market up of large quantities of inferior fruit.
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Dover
Del
scattered world notices and disasters across the globe
A wide assortment of early 20th century items covers topics from natural disasters in Spartanburg South Carolina to weather trends across Illinois and the Missouri Valley. Reports mention indictments in Alabama, daring feats by explorers Howard Blackburn and Lucile Mulhall, technological and geographic societies planning expeditions, and currency concerns for Spain in the Philippines.
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Che Caldwell
Rome
Cae Raiier Bayern
Sam
Hudson Bee
New York American
Joaquin Miller
Mr. Miller
Nebraska
Onebog
Carnegie
Paris
Bordeaux
Pittsburg
Canada
Armatrong
the Treasury
Register of the Treasury
Congress
Hadi
Mr. Chamberlain
Secretary of State
South Carolina
Gilesville
United States Treasury
Roberts
Treasury
Chicago
Jersey City
Hudson River
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Punxsutawney
Minneapolis
Swedestora
Wrawnrs
Will Mickle
Palatine
Austin J. Patterson
New Jersey House of Assembly
William H. Nesbit
Cedarville Cannery
Arthur Cleveland Hall
Orange Valley Social Setlement
Princeton University
Hall
Columbia University
Thomas O'Hanlon
Pennington Senet
Trenton Trust and Safe Deposit Company
O'Hanlon
Delaware River
Central Railroad of
Highlands
Delaware Bay
Ocean City
Neafie & Levy Shipbuilding Company
Philadelphia & Reading Ferry Company
Charles Waterhouse
Beverly
Fort Leavenworth
Waterhouse
Sixth Regiment
United States Volumera
Filbert Street
Philippines
Samuel Core
Hammontown
Burlington
Atlantic Counties
Pleasantville
Somers’ Point
South Jersey
Sammy
Cole
Portblic
Pleasant Mills
Dazsling
Eran
UR Vancee
Knowoeg
Idaho
Vermont
Mincesuia
Kraneus
Hrocklyn
Geographical Sociey
Phile- Gelphie
Anova
Wea
Selon
Cherehin Byron
Thelook
Hapitat
Kee
Lenenbore
Uralue
Liwiaware
Disney
England
Federal
Elaine
Montgomery
Alabama
United States District Attorney
Jupes
Howard Blackburn
Atlantic
Havre
Gibraltar
Wester Island
Porto Tuco
Cuba
Napoleon Bonapart
Habana
Spartanburg
8. C
Southern Railway
Pacolet
Clifton
Glendale
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri Valley
Kansas
Holland
United States Signal Service
Spain
Taft
State Department
Manila
Lucile Mulhall
St. Louis
Zack Mulhall
West
Miss Mulhall
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