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Newspaper

Cranbury Press

Location

Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America

Date

Aug 04, 1922

Page

7

New Jersey Briefs Highlight Local Crises and Hopes

A packed statewide digest notes John L. Thompson in Trenton facing bail on liquor charges, James Ayres captured after a Red Bank post office robbery, and a New Jersey relief drive feeding Europe. Police pursue moonshine stills near Mays Landing while teachers gain state normal school credit.

John L. Thompson Trenton Backes Newark Mark Sabre James Ayres Red Bank Ayres Rosemont Atlantic City League of Nations Palestine Penn's Manor Chapel Delaware Bay Millville Caleb Green Salem County Edward C. Stover West State Street Citizens’ Military Training Plattsburg Cheorge J. Thomas Plane Street Samuel Fressickhoug Adam Baltruski Clover Street Dill Frances McColl South Arkansas Avenue Eckels, Johnann de Martino Jackson William H. Smathers Orphans’ Court Mays Landing Reega Fulmer and Nusbaum New Jersey State Hospital Charles W. Philhower Westfield New Jersey Wilfred E. Petry Hanover Neck Morris County Frank Hopping Supreme Court Justice Minturn New York Board of Estimate Theodore S. Oxholm Richmond Staten Island Sound Elizabeth Staten Island Joseph Brovine Monroe Avenue Plainfield Whitehouse N. J Walter A. Kip Rutherford John Donaldson Ridgefield Park Republican Bogart & Hansen Bloomfield Avenue Montclair John £. Curry John J. Curry, Jr West Hanover Calhoun Streets Bodine United States District Court Serate Baird Sam Layfield Burlington County Felix Fuld Europe Rahway Reformatory Arthur Henry Davis Main Street Millburn Marcellus Hartley Dodge Madison Morris County Tax Board Henry Scheer Ledgewood J. Paul Jamieson Second District Scheer Jamieson McCran Wells Burlington Emma Maines Dover Willam R. Maines Hackettstown Stacy Park Fairview Park Volunteer Fire Company State House Horace Foraker Anderson Street Morrisville McKinley Hospital Stahl Frank D. Schroth Cape May Realty Company Peter Shields Pittsburgh Buckes Tshudy Pennsylvania Traction and Associated Companies Easton War Department National Guard Secretary of War England Holland Long Branch Elizabeth Avenue Howard Kerr St. Elizabeth's Hospital Kerr Burlington Island Park Trenton Lodge B. P. QO Joseph G. Buch Newark Chamber of Commerce Atlantic Deeper Waterway Association Portland Herman F. Weber, Jr Passaic

Radium in Congo Report Sparks Uranium Mining Interest

Science cites a Belgian bulletin stating Schoep of Ghent assayed Congo Upper Katanga minerals yielding 424 kg of uranium and 139 mg of radium per ton. Deposits extend to other sites with two new radioactive minerals named curite and kaselite.

Congo Bulletin Belgian Chemical Society Schoep University of Ghent Katanga Union Miniere Societe Generale Metallurgique de Hoboken Antwerp

Sixth Sense Saves Train From Bad Wreck

Sunbury Pennsylvania passenger engineer Robert Getz felt something was wrong under his locomotive with 100 passengers aboard. He halted the train and found a brake rigging hanging by a shred of a broken chain under the tank, a failure that could have caused disaster. Railroad men praised his intuition and quick action.

Robert Getz Sunbury Getz

Nye born in Shirley Maine in joke with senator

Bill Nye the humorist joked during a chat with Senator Shirley of Maine that he was born in Shirley, Maine and the town named for the senator's ancestor. The senator replied he did not know of such a town, to which Nye quipped he did not know it either until his birth.

Shirley Maine Bill Nye Nye

Young Charles Appears on Stage in Holiday Exercises

Charles took part in holiday exercises marking his first onstage appearance. He showed nervousness, but his mother praised his effort saying he did well despite feeling scared as he insisted his voice was the issue.

Charles

Tin Can Tale Marks Street Accident

An elderly woman was struck after a dog collided with her, and a light auto ran over her as a witness rushed to help. The woman stated the injury came from a tin can tied to the dog’s tail, not the animal itself.

First English Hedges Began After Black Death Change

England lacked hedges until the Fourteenth Century when hedges were planted following a shift in land tenure during the Black Death era.

England

Not Always Successful

A quoted exchange sketches a cautious aviator and companion. The flyer explains his descent preference is feet first, contrasting with ascent, while a listener questions the approach.

Aviator

Pinkham Vegetable Compound praised in Wauseon testimonial

A mother from Wauseon Ohio reports her daughter suffered backache and leg ache during cycles but improved after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter urges other mothers to trust the remedy and publish testimonials as proof of its effectiveness.

Lydia E. Pinkham Wauseon Ohio A. M. Bureborer Lydia EB. Pinkham Fletcher

Ancient ninepins claims claim to seven millennia

The article asserts ninepins, an indoor skittles form, may be at least 7,000 years old. It also states a figure of 12,000 lepers in the Philippine islands.

J.ennery Estern Hennery Virginia Philadelphia Jersey New Orleans Grange County Bermuda Watercress Long Island Norfolk East Ore Best N. Y Lima Limas Madagascar California Delaware Georgia Sete Carolina Carmen Seater Georgia Belle Blackderrins Gari Jersey Maryla Denen Rio Philippine Islands

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