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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1915
Page
5
Mrs. Andrew Carton visits. Goodwins Band plays at New Egypt carnival. Cranbury records rateables of 1 197 150 up from 1 195 600. Club to face Michelin nine. Hightstown Hs meet Grange Hall guests. Lambertville reporter Robert Thatcher visits Everittstown after 53 years.
A customer asked for a cure for diarrhoea and the clerk provided Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The clerk offered a free charge if it did not cure. The customer returned claiming cure after using the remedy. J. H. Berry & Co. Salt Creek Va report wide availability of the product.
Rumors say as many as sixty candidates vie for the State Home for Boys at Jamesburg after the resignation of Superintendent Kalleen. Officials claim strong secrecy surrounds the process as insiders push for the post.
Burlington will equip its fire departments with motor trucks by week’s end, positioning the city as one of the most modern in the area. The Asbury Park baby parade drew 75,000 spectators as 650 infants marched in review. Howard C. Davison plans to relocate and modernize Fountain Square store property with Ernest C. Arend designing.
Albert Leon and family have returned to their Perth Amboy home after a 1318 mile vacation in New York state. Their big National touring car traveled with no tire punctures while visiting Rochester Buffalo Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands with Julius Rasmussen driving.
Mr and Mrs Edward Rockhill visited Asbury Park this week. Mrs Harry Brower stayed with Mrs William Sutphen at Ocean Grove. Misses Elsie Baremore and Grace Breckwedel vacationed at Ocean Wave in Ocean Grove. Grace Emens returned from two months with Mrs David Dey in Cranbury and Mrs Leroy Grover in Plainsboro.
A stream of visits and relocations across cities: William and Mrs Smith of Philadelphia visit father J Mount Smith. Harold Jemison of New York spends Sunday with the Jemison family. George J. Burch resigns from Cumberland Pharmacy to start a business at Tuckerton. Dr E C Steinsick plans to build on Eura Road. The Allen and Dey families return from the shore. Mrs Raymond Higgins of Philadelphia visits sister Mrs D B Dey. Mrs George P. Dennis and children vacation at Belmar for two weeks. Mrs James M Maxwell will sell her Hightstown house August 31. On Sept 2 L Ackerman sells the Joseph Cohen farm near Cranbury Road to Hightstown with farm stock and implements.
The clock lists filing deadlines for state and municipal offices, primary and general election dates, and party conventions from September to November. It also notes social items including a Sunday school cake sale, visits, and community notices with names and locations.
Cuba remains the leading cane sugar producer, yielding 2,579,732 tons in 1913–14 against a western hemisphere total of 4,919,814 tons. World production reached 9,773,348 tons, with Cuba supplying about 35 percent of the available market after subtracting India’s 2,262,600 tons.
An ancient advertisement fragment promotes a "Catarrh Cure" by Urvegtate in Toledo Ohio. The text lists conditions and supposed benefits and urges reader belief in a universal remedy advertised as cure for catarrh and related ailments.
Sealed proposals requested by Middlesex County Board for reinforced concrete slab bridge over a Millstone River branch on Kingston Acqueduct Road Cranbury Township Bridge No 204. Bids due Sept 13 1915 at 2 30 PM at County Record Building New Brunswick NJ. Deposit $5 for plans. certified check $200 with bid. county may reject any bid.
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