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Newspaper
Caldwell News
Location
Caldwell, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1902
Page
2
A garbled 1902 page mixes political satire, public health notes, and economic observations. It references charity work by Charles M Schwab, U S railroads, banana imports, a billion dollar Congress, mosquito fights, coal strikes, life insurance scales, and Roosevelt era foreign relations with Britain France and Germany. The piece blends commentary on immigration and a plea for arbitration and public welfare.
The piece argues that wealthy drivers buy immunity from strict enforcement and proposes tougher penalties and readable car numbers. It notes New York police may use fast cars to chase violators, condemns aristocratic exemptions, and mentions Swiss flea classification and bridal crowds at the White House.
A new book from the New Jersey Bureau of Statistics catalogs every city and town with 100+ population, detailing railroad links telegraph and postal facilities population proximity to cities and a county map. It lists leading manufacturers with employment figures and a separate industry directory.
The Senate eyeing three remaining appropriation measures and the General Defies bill faces delays as House and Senate negotiators huddle over immigration changes. The House passed a revamped immigration act raising per capita tax and banning liquor sales on government reservations. The Hill coinage bill drew party lines over silver, while irrigation and forest reserve bills are expected to advance. The Atlantic fur seal bill and military surgeon convention capped a week of high legislative activity. Strong focus remains on the Omnibus Statehood delay and river flood risks in Kansas.
The piece reviews a portable creed for the low church and celebrates Dr Felix Adler named professor of social and political ethics at Columbia University backed by a reform group. It also marks Horace Bushnell's 100th birthday and honors Southern Presbyterian leader Dr Benjamin Palmer explaining his influence and death, with comments on Episcopal views and war ethics by Bishop Hall of Vermont.
Readable items report Father Smyth's long tenure at St. Seeks Church and a long range of local topics. Milks shippers face penalties under new law. Pythian Day at Long Branch with prizes. physician Otis Freeman dies near Freehold. Delaware River herring dieoffs. cranberry and hay crops suffer from frost and dry weather. Supreme Court denies Barker new trial. unique turtle promotion by D B Gray. honey bee sting cures rheumatism claim retested. Mrs. Drake raises hundreds of chickens. shad season ends at Washington Park with high prices and large catches.
The article describes the upcoming royal coronation activities and church state debates. It notes a special Te Deum to be performed at St Paul’s, the King and Queen attending services, and a new wooden structure outside Westminster Abbey for processions and reception areas. It lists key participants including archbishops, dukes, the Prime Minister, and other dignitaries involved in the ceremony.
A compiled list documents patents granted to New Jersey inventors with assignees and locations including Rutherford Newark Jersey City Paterson Haterson Jersey City Hoboken Elizabeth Montclair Orange Belleville Newark Bayonne Roselle Park and other towns. Entries cover diverse fields from moving trains to electrical devices and improvements in medical and industrial gear with inventors such as Edison and others.
A blaze on Twenty-first Street and Wabash in Chicago left 12 men and one woman dead and twenty-one others injured. The old Woodruff Hotel, recently converted into a drink cure institute by St. Luke's Society, housed many unshackled patients at the time.
A Monday morning blaze consumed the Crouse Brothers property in New Brunswick including tee bonuses, stables, coal sheds, railway, and one horse. Two horses, four men, ice wagons, sixteen coal carts, and household goods were lost. Insurance valued at 145,000 with a loss around 0,000.
A heavy fall occurred one Sunday night as mountains were blanketed with snow. Black front was seen to expand places with frost affecting foreground and the Geren Mountains and Mount Cement in the Hoonlek Valley reported heavy snowfall.
An editorial urges boys to study systematically, work hard, and seek knowledge and experience to seize opportunity. It contrasts diligent effort with shirking, notes rewards go to the proficient, and warns that mothers’ prayers and love shape young lives. A closing vignette recalls a Moorestown lawn mower with a headlight as a whimsical sign of progress.
Mrs Roosevelt with Mish Alive and the young Rogeevelt children will travel to Oyster Bay by Dolphin for a Monday call at Wwngtyh in the Dolphin. They will stay until a later date before returning to Washington.
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