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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1919
Page
2
A brisk sea adventure tale filled with action romance and fighting. The American hero and heroine drive a plot laced with mystery and Orient spice as a capable pirate villain tests their resolve.
Wahen Stacey Wallen, first mate of the bark Apollo, fights fever and mutiny as white heat and becalmed seas trap a dying crew. Ting Wah warns of six Chinamen planned to kill him, while Wallen recalls a grim childhood in a walled gray house with a coercive father and servant Gunga signaling a dark past.
New Jersey briefs note four resignations create teaching vacancies in Glassboro schools before the September term. Other items include ice sales by Gloucester City dealers, retirements, appointments, road work surveys, fair plans, wage increases, and local incidents across counties.
The 1919 report by the State Board of Taxes and Assessment under Governor Runyon shows statewide taxes totaling 17,856,119 with major shares from railroad taxable property capital stock taxes on corporations and public utilities. Municipalities add 86,134,092 in road school and local taxes, while real estate remains the largest taxed property with 2,463,203,446 value. The Public Utility Commission orders electric rates cut, reducing the Public Service Electric Company income by hundreds of thousands, with relief to over 10,000 retail users but little to wholesalers.
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