Cranbury Social News Highlights Weekend Visits
The Cranbury Press lists numerous visitors and social events from August 1920. Residents and guests travel between South Orange Asbury Park Trenton Brookyln New Hope Elizabeth Jamesburg and Ocean Grove with church events and family visits noted throughout the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elias Stults
South Orange
Abram Voorhees
Stults
Misa Bertha Appleger
Asbury Park
R. P. Stillwell
Trenton
Jack Geisler
Brooklyn
Peter Urban
Thomas Hutton
Cured of Stomach Trouble and Constipation
Rachel Cribley of Beaver Dam Ohio was sick for two years with stomach trouble and constipation. A neighbor praised Chamberlain's Tablets, she bought a bottle and soon after benefited. The Long family announcements note meetings and gatherings, plus local social visits and a town meeting on Cranbury Township bonding for public school funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rachel Cribley
Beaver Dam
Ohio
Chamberlain
Cranbury Township
Lucky and Unlucky Days
A Montreal Herald piece analyzes weekday superstitions with statistics showing Mondays prize premier gallantry awards, Tuesdays lead in disasters and fatal acts, Saturdays host most petty crime and drunkenness, Wednesdays favor weddings, Thursdays high birth rate, and Sundays low death rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal Herald
Missouri’s frontier role and independence in early history
The piece surveys Missouri’s 19th century arc from an intended independent republic to a pivotal frontier state. It notes 1812 Santa Fe traders from St Louis, 1824 Missouri acts and memorials, and the state’s influence on Congress debates over slavery and westward expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Congress of the United States
St. Louis
Missouri Legislature
Congress
Mussouri
Missouri River
Kentucky
Great Plains
Child Cured of Bowel Trouble By Local Notary
Floyd Osborn of Dungannon Virginia, a notary public, reports his child was taken with bowel trouble and was quickly cured after using Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. He calls it the best he ever used.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Osborn
Dungannon
Mogul the Buffalo Makes Peaceful Entrance at Golden Gate
In San Francisco, Mogul a two year old buffalo in the Golden Gate Park herd avoids immediate rank conflict. He exchanges a brief spar with the reigning bull, then unintentionally aids by removing a cactus stuck over the elder’s eye, ending the encounter without a clear claim to sovereignty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
Mogul
First United States Coins Fugios Issued in 1787
The earliest U S copper coins known as fugios were authorized by Congress in April 1787. The Treasury was directed to contract for 300 tons of copper coin with a 15 percent premium and to coin under U S inspection. A July 6 1787 resolution mandated two designs with the motto We Are One and the phrase Ming your own business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Congress of the
Board of Treasury
James Jarvis
Congress
Autograph Hunter's Coup in 19th Century France
French bohemian Lud ovic Picard earned income by forging letters to celebrities posing as a distressed unappreciated individual seeking counsel. He attracted figures like Beranger Heine and Dickens who replied in French. The ruse collapsed after Jules San desu exposed him in the press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ludovic Picard
Beranger
Heine
Lacordaire
Dickens
Picard
Jules Sandesu
Englishman on Papal Throne
Pope Adrian IV was born Nicholas Breakspear in Langley Hertfordshire England. An Englishman to hold the papal chair he left England as a beggar later serving as a monk and abbot before becoming cardinal bishop of Alba. He was elected pope in November 1154 and ruled until his death in Anagni on September 1 1159.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adrian IV
Langley
St. Albans
Hertfordshire
Nicholas Breakspear
England
Avignon
France
Alba
Denmark
Norway
Rome
Nicholas
Anagui
Alarm Clock for the Deaf Patented for Alerting Sleepers
A new patented alarm clock designed for the deaf uses a standard bell and a wooden ruler that taps the sleeper on the head until the cease action levers are pulled. It has backing from the American Association of the Deaf and Dumb and aims to wake those whom ordinary clocks fail to rouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Association of the Deaf and Dumb
Lives in Constant Dread The Zulu Baby and Witchcraft Fear
Dr. James B. McCord notes in Medical Missions that a Zulu child is born into fear of witchcraft. As he grows, he believes charms, spells, and evil influences threaten him from every source, shaping suspicion of neighbors, friends, and family throughout life. He fears talismans and unseen poisons in daily life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James B. McCord
Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy advertised
An advertisement extols Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as highly effective for bowel complaints. It claims quick relief for diarrhoea colic and dysentery and notes it tastes better when diluted with water and sugar. Also includes miscellaneous small ads seeking farm land owners, horse sale, celery plants, and a garage for rent.
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Fred Myers
Millville
Imlay O'Neil
Fred Hoffman
Plainfield
Mra
I. C. Hoffman
Archibald O. Rue
New York
J. D. Chamberlin
W. Dunham
J S. Silvers
Ella Stults
W. J. B. Edgar
Jamesburg
Edgar
A. W. Forman
Archie Forman
Elizabeth
Margaret
Fred Maple
C. H. Lewis
Mary Forman
Charles Hoffman
Maplewood Avenue
Charles Butcher
H. J. Butcher
Bessie Bergen
David Post
Dutch Neck
L G. Appleger
Afflicent Snow
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Emma Harder
Arthur Cox
Matilda Cox
Raymond Griggs
Forked River
Mary Spaulding
Mary Hughes
Stony Brook
L. I
Milton Lawrence
New York City
Mrs
Samuel Lawrence
Andrew Harris
Harriman, Pa
Charles Petty
Bordentown
L. G. Appleger
Milicent Snow
Gertrude Harder
Martha Carlson
Luella Dey
Roberta Dey
Grace Norton
Clifford Conover
Enid Walker
Jacob van Deventer
Helen Hagerman
A. G. Hagerman
Miss Hagerman
Charles Stout
Robert
Princeton
Russell Johnson
Mr. Stout
Mr. Johnson
Marian W. Barclay
Franklin Park
Mary Suydam
Allen Wilson
Hightstown
John H. Barclay
John Jr
Stokes Hall
Ocean Grove
Eleanore Schroder
New Brunswick
Marian Barclay
Baird-Wyckoff Association
Old Tennent
Lewis Long
Wm. T. Jones
Anna Long
Lewis Long Jr
East Millatone
Windsor Harvest Home
Goodwin
Voorhees
William
Elizabeth Hudnut
Joseph Dey
Hudout
Imlay O’neil
Edna Walker
Lewis Chamberlin
James O’neil
Ely Perrine
Joseph Hopple
Philadelphia
Luther Runyon
Missea Eleanor and
Emily Ouderdonk
Mrs. W. F. Perrine
Harry Schnell
Edward Schnell
Wilmington, del
L. Jones
Olney
P. O. Box
Hightotown,n. J
Joan D. Bennett
Cranbury, N. J
Talad
Ang
Joan W. Pullen
Willys Light
Fidelity Bond
Wilkes Barre
Moreau
Freehold
N. J
Estella A. Mount
John P. Mount
County of
Middlesex
Charles J Rue
Clarence
Grover
William E. Kus
William E. Hue
Cranes J. Rue
T. H. Jones & Bro
Electrical Contractors
Stockton Street
Hightstown, N. J
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
P. Dunham & Co
Trenton, N. J
Axminster Rugs
Scotland
Oxy IL
Brussels
America
Crex
S. P. Dunham & CO
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