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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1899
Page
2
The piece urges grace in giving and receiving gifts and highlights thoughtful acts over commercial impulses. It then describes New York residents shifting from Bryan to McKinley and Tammany to a pro expansion stance, noting a broader trend of changing political support in 1899.
Henry S Budd of New Jersey requests facts on rural free delivery and road needs. The First Assistant Postmaster General forwards Heaths annual report noting better farm prices and social gains from improved roads. The Public Roads Commissioner sees farmers needing more information to demand free mail delivery and supports congressional funding.
The Newark News argues that Budd could shape a broader rural free delivery program in New Jersey if its practicality is proven. It notes the service expands mail, fosters sociability, signals government to rural residents, raises farmers’ revenues, and increases land values, urging more routes and larger appropriations.
The report covers Hibbard-Rodman-Ely Safe Company expanding at Hig Bridge with many workers, two indictments by Hunterdon Grand Jury, no prisoners in county jail, Quin ton glass workers soon back to work with raises, and the death of Rev H B Thomas in Cincinnati. It also notes M F Cornwell owning George Washington dated letter, traveling libraries distribution, Doremus disappearance, Ulrich pledge case, Avon improvement deal with Avon Inn value, John Larkin convicted of murder in Mercer County, Rector Maguire arrest, Bearden store arson, and Paterson diphtheria surge with planned sanitation and school disinfecting.
John A. McDonald a senior Hoboken post office employee and treasurer of the Hoboken Letter Carriers Mutual Benefit Association is held by U S Commissioner Linsley Rowe in Jersey City on charges of robbing the United States mails. Post Office Inspector Wm B Snow nabbed Olivier W Roper and exposed frauds nationwide. two weeks earlier James McAndrew was jailed in Jersey City for operating a green goods scheme. McDonald’s arrest ends a postal mystery spanning nearly ten years during which thousands of letters with money or valuables disappeared from the mails.
The first 1899 1900 personally conducted tour leaves New York and Philadelphia on Thursday December 28. Tickets include luncheon, stay at Old Point Comfort for 1 3 4 days, return by regular trains within six days. Fares: 15 00 from New York 13 50 from Trenton 32 50 from Philadelphia and proportional from other points. For itineraries contact ticket agents at 1196 Broadway New York 4 Court Street Brooklyn 789 Broad Street Newark N J or Geo W Boyd Assistant General Passenger Agent Broad Street Station Philadelphia. Dr Kings New Life Pills advertise health benefits and energy with 25 cents at N F Clayton's Drug Store.
J E Lilly of Hannibal Missouri recounts a severe illness from Typhoid Fever to pneumonia with failing lungs. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery as the rapid cure and cure-all for throat and lung trouble. Regular sizes 50 cents and 1 dollar with trial bottles free at N F Clayton’s Drug Store, all bottles guaranteed.
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