Legislature weighs Full Crew repeal amid rail and tax battles
In Trenton on February 16 1917 lawmakers focus on three administration measures the Highways System Utility Tax Increase and Home Rule while expanding discussion of Assemblyman Roberts Full Crew repeal. State Chamber of Commerce and State Grange back repeal citing costs and safety. Opposition grows to Home Rule and Utility Tax with hearings continuing as arguments unfold.
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Trenton
N. J
Roberta
Burlington County
State Chamber of Commerce
State Gronze
State Grange
Assemblyman
Roberts
Public Utility Commission
Wakabee
George L. Record
Osborne
Statesman call for restraint on spending and war economy
The article urges Trenton leaders to limit new laws to essential needs while wartime strains press the state budget. It criticizes a proposed 25,000 display expenditure for Wilson’s second inauguration, arguing funds would be better used for coastal defense and prudent public finance.
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Trenton
Wilson
Local Option Bill Up Monday Night in New Jersey Senate
The Gaunt Local Option Bill and the Mackay Bill move toward final Senate passage on Monday night February 19 with the Gautt Mackay compromise bill. Supporters foresee Senate approval and an Assembly hearing follows as church groups plan a united Sunday drive for passage amid calls to honor home rule and oppose brewery protection.
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Gaunt
Senate
Wells
Stat
Smalley
Somerset County
Assembly
Great Federated Church Movement
Anti- Saloon League
New Jersey
Supreme Court
Union
Assembly of New Jersey
Not Good Enough for This Age of Progress
Shailer Mathews argues at Chautauqua that progress should define a people. He says ancestors matter but it is greater to be an ancestor and to aim to be like the best of future grandchildren rather than repeat his grandfather’s example.
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Shailer Mathews
Chautauqua
Prairie State
Mann
Pittsburg
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy Earns Strong User Praise
Mrs. Amanda Gierbart of Waynesfield Ohio says Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been used in her family for twenty years and has never failed to cure a cough or cold. Obtainable everywhere.
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Amanda Gierbart
Waynesfield
Ohio
Chamberlain
Major Crofoot's Gall Returns to His Old Office
The grand promoter of frauds, evicted for rent nonpayment, reoccupies his former Chicago office after moving furniture back in with two laborers. He charms his cleaner to lend $1 then deceives landlord Mr. Cramps about back rent and a new venture Cinnamon Scented Applesass while plotting to stay rent free for a year.
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Crofoot
Chicago
Wall Street
Mr. Cramps
Cramps
Rod
Sheriff’s Sale of South Brunswick Property in New Jersey
Edward F. Houghton as sheriff will expose to public vendue on March 14, 1917, at 2 PM the mortgaged premises in South Brunswick Township Middlesex County described by metes and bounds. The sale includes two tracts totaling about 148 acres with certain deductions and rights of way, as detailed in the writ and deeds. George Whitfield Betts Jr. is solicitor with fee $43.48.
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Lillie M. Brewster
Robert Wasserman
New Brunswick
New Jersey
Rightmier
Margaret Wilson
Wilson
Ilgon
N. J
N.S
Henry Becker
Becker
Joseph Rahaim
George Malhami
Thomas Rahaim
Middlesex County
South Brunswick
County of
Middlesex
State of
Edward F. Houghton
George Whitfield Betts, JR
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Pres
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State and
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Trenton, N. J
Horace Mann
Mgr
Bungalow Poultry Farm
J. W. Park
Plymouth Rocks
Plainsboro
C. H. Chandler
R. D
Monmouth
Farmers’ Co-Operative
Mercer County
Broad Street Bank
Paris
Clover Seed
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