Church guest list fills Cranbury weekend
The Cranbury Press notes visitors and residents' travels across town. Rev A G Hagaman of Millville will preach at Schultz Memorial Church Sunday. Dozens of locals and guests from Jersey City to Yonkers enjoy Asbury Park, Atlantic City, Ocean Grove, and other spots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.G Hagaman
Millville
Lewis G. Appleger
Milicent Snow
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Robert Walker
Matawan
Harvey
Dey
William Gordon
Stanley Conover
Asbury Park
Joseph Hutton
Warren Hutton
J. C. Hoffman
May Zarp
Nelson Petty
Gladys Petty
Olive Petty
Ocean Grove
Gertrude Davison
Edna Walker
Grace Mershon
Charles Dayvison
Emily Gravatt
Morristown
Erma Rowland
Princeton
Anna Groves
Bedford Gulick
Highland Park
W. H. Johnson
Atlantic City
Miss Peterson
South Amboy
Martha Carlson
Charles Carlson
Carlson
Anna Spaulding
Mary Spaulding
Enid Walker
Yonkers, N. Y
Mrs
William W. Walker
Z. W. Wells
Wilmington
Del
Thomas Wella
Nellie Keating
Agnes Uhirick
Trenton
Louiza Schnell
Harvey Hutchinson
Gertrude Wray
Harry Petty
Elizabeth
Amica
Charles Cox
Symmer H. Perrine
Barclay
Pocono Mountains
Margaret Perrine
Pennington Miss Woodruff and area vacation notes
Plainsboro submits a social page full of visits and getaways. Miss Ethe Woodruff of Pennington spent a week with Mrs Reed, links to families in Yonkers and New York, and many others plan travels to Pennsylvania and New York during vacation. The Stokes Seed Farms consolidation at Windermoor, Moorestown, shifts seed trade to a modern, efficient headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Ethe
Woodruff
Pennington
Mra
Reed
Plainsboro
J. E. White
Ohio
Howell Jones
Mr. Jones
Pennsylvania
Mike Murphy
Frank Foster
New York State
Wm. Bolles
Thomas Hickey
Julia Bolles
New York
Stokes Seeds
Windermoor Farm
Stokes Seed Farms Company
Philadelphia
Windermoor
Moorestown
New Jersey
Burlington County
Stokes Company
219
Market Street
Johnson & Stokes
In Memory of French Heroes Proposed Sacred Trench Forest
A proposal by the Meuse department general council envisions turning the entire French front line trench network from Alsace to the Belgian border into a national sacred forest to honor the Poilus who defended their soil. The plan aims to submit the idea to France and the world as a lasting tribute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Alsace
Belgian
Poilus
General Council
Department of the Meuse
Ense
A Traveling Man's Experience with Cholera Morbus
W H Ireland of Louisville Kentucky recounts a summer 1888 episode of severe illness. He paid a hotel porter to obtain Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy and took a double dose as directed. He slept and awoke well at five the next morning, then continued travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Ireland
Louisville
Yale Acquires Webster House for Dormitory Plan
Yale University has purchased the Noah Webster house in New Haven to support a plan to build dormitories for the Sheffield Scientific School. The historic corner property on Grove and Temple streets was once home to Webster and later housed soldiers with the Student Army Training Corps. The acquisition is tied to a broader effort funded by Frederick W. Vanderbilt to create a square of university dormitories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noah Webster
Yale University
New Haven
Lome
United States
Student Army Training Corps
Webster
Amherst
Mass
Yale
Samuel I. B. Morse
Eli Whitney
Grove and
Temple Streets
Courtland T. Trowbridge
University
Wall, Temple, Grove
College Streets
Sheffield Scientific School
Frederick W. Vanderbilt
New York City
Tie
Cooties and Laughter From the Front in a Soldier Letter
A Wyoming State Tribune letter from Lieut. Tarry D. Henderson recounts frontline humor amid danger. He describes a gunner in a Prince Isaac coat pushing a baby buggy loaded with potatoes and dynamite, a blasted dugout, and jokes about cooties tired of wandering through lace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bullees
Gdissons
Track Motors
Lieut
Tarry DB
Henderson
Wyoming State Tribune
Literary Digest
World Religions by Population According to Latest Figures
The latest figures show Christians 564.51 million, Confucianists and Taoists 300.88 million, Mohammedans 221.83 million, Hindus 220.54 million, Animists 158.27 million, Buddhists 188.03 million, Shintoists 25.01 million, Jews 12.21 million, and unclassified 15.28 million. This tally appears in People’s Home Journal.
Blue-eyed baby adoption boom misleads Hampstead
In Hampstead England a "bonny blue-eyed baby" headline drew 350 would be adopters to adopt it. The infant’s eye color proved not blue, causing some suitors to withdraw after the misdescription was revealed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hampstead
England
Devils
The Fragrant Weed and Early Tobacco Use in America
The text traces tobacco discovery to Columbus in 1492 and notes natives burning herbs for perfume. It mentions chewing and later widespread use as exploration opened up the Americas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Cuba
Milky Way Arc Seen Across Evening Sky
The Milky Way arches from east to west across the evening sky between Orion and Gemini. Jupiter shines like a diamond, passing Cassiopeia in the zenith and descending toward the horizon between Vega and Apollo’s lyre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orion
Gemini
Jupiter
Cassiopeia
Vega
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Jersey City
Adelaide Everingham
Abbie Bergen
Jamesburg
Edna McDonald
Connecticut
John J. Bradley
Francis
Robert Sutton
Mayme Appleger
Cranbury Press Office
Margaret E. Bergen
Alyah Forman
Samuel Perrine
Sparta
N. J
Theodore Townsend
AG. Hagaman
Helen
Edward
Alex
Cole
Burtig Stout
Willard Reed
Arthur
Virgie
Hazel Stout
Gertrude Harder
Howard Snow
Snow Homestead
James Holmes
Amanda Nixon
Plainfield
William Carder
Marvel Purse
Farila Purse
Phillip Cook
Mr. Hill
Newark
H. W. Jeffers
Kingsley
Jeffers
Dairyman’s League and Breeders Association
Fair Grounds
Geo. Davison
John Barclay
Miss May Jackson
Manasquan
Ladies Aid Society
Cadwalader Park
Aid Society
Rider College
Rider-Moore & Stewart School
S. Broad St
Trenton, N. J
Frank B. Moore
John E. Gill
The
Dark Bay Horse
James O'Neil
Cranbury
WN. J
Bennett & Denison
Prospect Plains
Frank Kennedy
Broadway
Turk
Joan J. Ofehler
Disprow
Harpward
R. A. Grarr
Edward Dilatush & Co
George L Stille
P. B. Silvester
Mercer Street
Princeton, N. J
Winfield Stahl
Murphy Building
Main St
Cranbury, N.d
S. P. Dunham & Co
Axminster
Whittall
St. Swithan
Robin Ares
Screnton Clothing Go
Trenton, N. d
Horace Mann
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