New Jersey considers tax, highway bills amid Seven Sisters repeal
Trenton February 28 1917 legislative developments favor passage of utility tax increase and State Highways System measures. Smaller electric gas and water firms under 50000 annual receipts gain exemption, boosting state revenue near one million dollars. Bills repeal the Seven Sisters corporation laws, aiming to stabilize policy and attract chartering. Chamberlains Tablets for constipation touted as pleasant remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N. J
South Jersey
Public Service Corporation
Telegraph and Telephone Companies
Emalier
Kates
Pierson
Wilson
New Jersey
Seven Sisters
Senate Passes Local Option Bill in Wet or Dry Vote
The Gaunt-Mackay local option bill passed the Senate by 18 to 7 amid crowded galleries. The measure would allow municipalities to decide wet or dry status, with a public hearing to be sought in the House by the Anti-Saloon League. Senator Gaunt argued broad church and county support, noting 76 percent of voters opposed saloon influence and urging removal of temptations for weaker drinkers.
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Senate
Gaunt
New Jersey
Senator Gaunt
The Other Fellow's Job Insight by Crockett
An exchange illustrates that much dissatisfaction stems from envy and surface views. The piece follows Mike Kroger with hard labor at the farm and Jim Newton in town, showing both men secretly longing for the other's circumstances.
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Mr. Crockett
Mike Kroger
Mike
Jim Newton
Merchants’ Bank
Jim
Fred Waldo Crockett
Bilious Attack Relief via Chamberlains Tablets
A health note describes a severe bilious attack with headache coated tongue loss of appetite and vomiting bile. It says relief is possible by taking three Chamberlains Tablets, noting they are prompt and effective and available everywhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Countess Mutiny Ends In Fatal Clash At Sea
A Bristol brig Countess faces mutiny led by Bristol Bob on a voyage from England to Georgetown British Guiana. The crew plans to seize the ship and disappear north of Trinidad. The captain dies from a pistol shot during the mutiny and the mutineers vanish, presumed lost at sea.
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Liverpool
England
Thomas
Georgetown
British Guiana
Jamaica
Spain
Fo'castle
Bristol Rob
Travens
Bob
Jackson
Tve
Trinidad
Mizner
Bristol Bob
Roca
Alax
Bruce
Sheriff Sale of South Brunswick Mortgaged Premises
A New Jersey chancery sheriff sale advertises the foreclosure of a mortgaged property in South Brunswick Middlesex County. The sale is set for March 14, 1917 at two o'clock in the afternoon at the Sheriff's Office New Brunswick. Read details describe land parcels, boundaries and rights of way, with various tracts and exceptions, plus names of parties Edward F. Houghton as Sheriff and George Whitfield Betts Jr. as solicitor.
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Lillie M. Brewster
Robert Wasserman
New Brunswick
New Jersey
South Brunswick
Middlesex
New Brunswick and
Oagobury Turnpike
Wm. Oberman
Rightmier
Margaret Wilson
Wilson
U.N. J. RR
N. J
R. RS
U.N. J
NUT
Henry Becker
Becker
Mike Asselto
Bilstead
Asselto
Daniel Gulick
Gulick
J.D. Gabel
Wm. Oberman, Jr
Joseph Rahaim
George Mathami
Thomas Rahaim
Middlesex County
County of
State of
Pennsylvania Railroad
Land of
John Baker
Edward F. Houghton
George Whitfield Betts, JR
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Webster
Legislature News
THE
TN Chancery
Free Poultry Books
Martin C. Ribsam
Trenton, N. J
Bungalow Poultry Farm
J. W. Park
Plymouth Rocks
Plainsboro
C. H. Chandler
R. D
Monmouth
Nid
Peppler
Owego Jersey
Eclipse
Thomas Peppler
Shesand Tate
I Tod
SUN Optical
F.C
Horace Mann
Mer
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