Plainsboro Notes Highlight Local People and Meetings
John Wicoff Jr recovers and returns to Princeton school. Etta Johnson visits New York relatives. George White is confined to Mercer Hospital. W H Jeffers visits Washington. Large delegation attends Agricultural Week in Trenton. Emil Falk wins blue ribbon for Leg horor at state exhibit. Ladies Aid hosts Butterfly Social funded for charity. Plainsboro Grange installs officers led by Master H. Adtulrs. offices filled by re-elected members. Over forty attend installation with refreshments.
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Trenton
Emil Falk
Armory
Newton Hutchinson
Newtown Grange
Plainsboro Grange
Rightstown Community Notes Reflect Coal Shortage Adjustments
Local services continue in the Baptist Chapel with sermons by area pastors. The Baptist and Presbyterian churches unite due to coal shortages. Miss Alma Hale returns home from Millbrook after a visit with Dr and Mrs Franklin. Several residents relocate or host visitors while coal and sugar scarcities affect church events and routines.
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Baptist
Alma Hale
Millbrook, N. Y
Mra. C. M. Franklin
Tablets Aimed at Digestive Ailments
These tablets target stomach and liver disorders and help with heartburn indigestion and constipation. They promise relief for digestive upset and related symptoms.
How Much Food Does a Family Need These Days
A USDA guide outlines practical daily rations for a family of five with moderate work. It lists bread cereals fats and dairy requirements, suggests two milk/meat mix options for children, and offers sample meals with breakfast dinner and supper menus emphasizing cereals and economical ingredients.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Farmers
Bulletin
American Music Gains Prominence in London Concerts
With Britain entering war, American music becomes popular on London concert programs this fall. Critics note American composers seek modern techniques, balancing admiration with cautious enthusiasm as Queen's Hall Symphony Orchestra showcases an all American program. The Manchester Guardian lauds America's cultural generosity and hopes for lasting national pride.
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United States
London
Queen’s Hall
Manchester Guardian
America
Some Smiles and Snippets from Wartime Family Life
A light collection of humorous wartime vignettes shows a wife bragging the couple is both bearing arms, a mother and son scenes about manners at the table, a boy desiring a grown up sled, and quips on turkey pride and war rhetoric reflecting home front humor.
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Tommy
An Unusual Specialist in Indelible Pencils
An English chemist who analyzes indelible pencil marks to identify pencil type and manufacturer often helps in trials. His testimony recently helped convict a murderer by linking words written in the death chamber to the murderer’s own unusual indelible pencil.
Government truck displays cannon mold in Dayton
A government truck arrived Tuesday in Dayton carrying a cannon mold estimated between 40 and 60 feet long and weighing about 15 tons. Rev. James B Clark begins serving on the January term of the United States Grand Jury now in session. Miss Beesie Hubbard visited Trenton relatives over the weekend, and Mrs Edgar Carroll hosted their son Nathaniel from Philadelphia this week. The Mission Study Class at Mrs David H Griges home won a delightful event with Mrs George Waiter presiding and noting the textbook An African Trail completed, as Miss Avon McIvaine of Trenton spoke Friday as secretary of the Foreign Presbytery Study Classes of New Brunswick.
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James B Clark
United States Grand Jury
Beesie Hubbard
Trenton
Mra. Edgar Carroll
Nathaniel
Philadelphia
Mra
David H Griges
George Waiter
Avon McIvaine
Foreign Presbyterial
New Brunswick
Tried and Found Wanting
A gloomy man laments bad luck and sleepless nights. Friends advise to quit thinking of his troubles and focus on others. Three months later they ask how it worked, and he says he stayed awake thinking of others, but did not improve his own distress.
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Robert
Santa Claus
Hats That Will Bloom in the Spring
Paris fashion notes in Harper's Bazar describe spring hats trimmed with burnt ostrich plumes silk ribbons and foliage. Descriptions include straw and shaggy felt hats with a rounded crown and castor brim and a blue-tinted lace toque with tulle foundation drawn over the eyes.
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Paris
Harper's Bazar
the Bazar
Castor
Aged Folks Urged to Rest and Use Cough Remedy
A public health note advises people over sixty to go to bed at the onset of a cold and stay there one or two days. It claims quicker recovery, especially with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and notes reduced risk of subsequent serious illnesses.
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Chamberlain
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Corseta
Georgette Frocks
East State St
Trenton, N. J
Plainsboro
John Wicoff, Jr
Princeton
Etta Johnson
New York City
Geo. White
Mercer Hospital
H. W. Jeffers
Washington, D. C
Wm. Major
Ladies Aid Society
Perrine Home
G. A. Burslem
Annie Schenck
Mary Grove
Gertrude Barnard
Reed
Wm Meyer
Cornelia Perrine
Wn. Stryker
J. W. B. Wicoff
Frank Perrine
Mra. A
Rightstown
Thomas H. Everett
Etra Road
South Main Street
Presbyterian Church
Helen Farr
George H. Franklin
Corterie Club
R. W. Swetland
Peddie
Forrest Robbins
Freehold
Hightstown
Weller House
Stockton Street
Samuel Ford
B. Feistel
Horatio Mount
Mrs
Jobn Britton
Clifford Allen
Ezra
Harvey Pullen
Perrineville
Ezekiel Gordon
David Cole
Urip
Emerson Applegate
Willard Peterson
Cornstossel
Steinbach
Asbury Bark
Cougrany
Serary
Dayton
Peppler
Hoover
Owego
Eureka
Paris Green
John Deere
Prairie State
Thomas Peppler
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