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!
This newspaper page contains 10 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1920
Page
7
An elderly man recalls the first balloon he saw and laments missing a thrill. He describes a dramatic country fair accident where a helper became tangled in balloon ropes and spectators froze in horror, drawing a grim image from the Birmingham Age Herald.
A garbled remark suggests a woman rushed to a location may have spoken quickly about driving behavior. The text appears as a mistaken quote or fragmented phrase from an unnamed source.
Gov Edwards in a special message to the legislature urges remedial legislation to clarify the powers of the Public Utility Commission and to reform laws limiting rate suspensions. He opposes delaying the PUC trial and calls for a reorganization plan and additional bills to be prepared by a conference of the committee and attorney general.
Hightstown fixes tax rate at 2.93 up 51 cents since 1919. War surplus stock sold at Washington Park bagloading plant. Pensgrove dolls factory to start. Port Norris shirtwaist plant opened. Mullica Hill schoolgirls form baseball team. Vladimir Cornish elected bank president in Washington. Knight joins Morris Plains Board of Managers. Daylight saving gains momentum. Gloucester City tests water and fire systems. Several local officials face trials and resignations. state signs push to curb ugly billboards.
Drug advertisement claims thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder troubles with vague symptoms such as back pain and fatigue. It promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure and offers a sample bottle for ten cents by mail from Dr Kilmer Co in Binghamton New York. Availability of larger bottle sizes at drug stores is noted.
A Birmingham Age Herald tease frames a scene about a would be star admirer who boasts of personal acquaintance with a photoplay star. The light exchange suggests fascination, while the accidental Los Angeles street meeting hints at celebrity allure in early cinema lore.
The Old Settler jokes that with so many seeking loans to borrow trouble, someone should open a bank to serve them. He quips wryly about an enterprising fool capitalizing on bad fortunes.
Not a detective replies Madam and questions the professor about Slans and genius in a terse exchange from a fragmented line.
A terse exchange appears in an OCR fragment with lines about conscription and obedience. The dialogue hints at resistance themes and authority, but details and context are limited. No clear person or organization names are legible.
A humorous Dallas News snippet reflects on Daniel escaping a lion’s den. The punchline attributes the lion’s mercy to relief that Mrs. Lion did not use the den as a sewing room, as a child’s joke about a bright pupil and a tame tiger.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.