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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1889
Page
3
Community greetings, vacations, births and deaths, and local business notes from Cranbury and surrounding areas. Trades, farm yields, a shoe factory interest, bank dividend, and jury lists appear alongside church and lodge activity and social events.
Christmas programs at the First and Second Presbyterian chapels drew large crowds on Monday night. The First Church decorated with holly and a Merry Christmas board, as children performed a pleasing program and received goodies. The Second Church offered confectionery and gifts, with a pantomime among the highlights and decorations that delighted attendees.
A sizable gathering marked the twentieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Gulick at their residence. Attendees included relatives from Cranbury Englishtown Long Branch and New York. The event featured silver and glassware gifts, an elegant supper and musical entertainment. Also reported: a barn fire in Jamesburg destroying three horses and totaling $1,700 to $2,000 in loss. health board logs show typhoid diphtheria and scarlet fever tallies. local umbrellas advertised by a Trenton shop.
The notice promotes a two dollar derby in Trenton at Hottel the Hatter 38 E State St featuring a full line of Reaver and Natria gloves and winter caps for men and boys. Also mentions Slippere Slippere holiday clippers from Win Robbins Hightstown.
Mason & Allen advertise a broad stock with affordable fashion for women and children. They tout silks mourning goods and woolen fabrics, plush jackets, Astrachan and fur capes, plus underwear and ready made clothing with prices ranging from a dollar to twenty dollars.
Yesterday's 75 cent Merino vests drop to 50 cents and a lace fichu falls from 1.49 to 99 cents. Fur stock bought last August at 50 to 65 cents on the dollar is now on sale, including monkey, seal and mink. Lace curtains,Turcoman curtains and an array of shoes offer deep discounts with a focus on value and variety for today.
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