Shipping and Kean rise in New Jersey politics
The piece argues for a robust American shipbuilding program to cut costs, expand foreign trade, and reduce reliance on foreign vessels. It cites steel steamships as affordable in the U.S. and promotes a federal shipping bill. It then profiles John Kean, highlighting his election to the U.S. Senate, education at Yale and Columbia, banking and manufacturing success, real estate and railroad interests, and past political contests in New Jersey.
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Commissioner of Navigation
United States
Great Britain
Congress
Hanna
Payne
John Kean
United States Senate
Kean
Yale College
Columbia Law School
New Jersey
George T. Werts
Reform School report backs charges. 77 percent progress noted
The State Reform School agent George H. Shinn reports that charges by Jersey City police justice were merited and that guardianship over former inmates yields 77 percent doing well. Many arrive from vicious homes, yet the outcome is favorable. Governor Voorhees will have a quiet first year, with few major appointments expected. State aid roads show decay from lack of repairs, prompting a push for state maintenance costs.
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State Reform School
George H. Shinn
Board of Management
Jersey City
Reform School
Camden Courier
Govenor Voorhees
McGill
Supreme Court
Lippincott
Collins
Circuit Court
Miller
Ch'lda
Neville
Reuben
Jersey City Journal
Many spurious silver dollars in Camden circulation and local concerns
Camden reports excess spurious silver dollars while farmers in Bridgeton warn they will not grow tomatoes next season due to unprofitable crops. Preparations in Elizabeth New Brunswick and Rahway for a reception to Company F of the Third New Jersey Volunteers after Athens Ga muster. Princeton Alumni of Newark gifts and stock issues at Newark Essex and Hudson Gas Co. Details on local deaths, dilated diphtheria, school closures, and upcoming public sales in South Brunswick, Monmouth Junction, and New Brunswick Cranbury Turnpike area. Also ad copy for Dr King s New Discovery cures grip with a free trial bottle.
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Elizabeth
New Brunswick
Rahway
New Jersey Volunteers
Athens
Mary Griggs
South Brunswick Township
Dayton
H. H. Mershon
Monmouth Junction
Dr King's New Discovery Fights The Grip
Modern scourge grips air with fatal germs yet protection is found in Dr. King's New Discovery. Soreness in bones and muscles chills fever sore throat back of head and cough signal grip and need for this remedy. It cures the worst cough inflamed parts kills germs and prevents after effects. Price 50 cents and 1 dollar trial bottle free at N F Clayton's Drug Store.
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Dr. King
Enduring Image Of The Camera And The Baby
A Glasgow Herald piece recalls a photographer asked about difficult subjects. He cites a ten month old as hardest, detailing six poses and a mother and relatives debating which photo truly represents the child. The photographer wonders when he can schedule another sitting.
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Ellen
Fanny
Glasgow Herald
Strokes of a Razor and Other Oddities
A column of humorous vignettes and anecdotes from the era. It recounts a barber’s estimate of razor strokes in a single shave, a Pennsylvania farmer cashing a check, a Baltimore convention anecdote, a Caribou hotel remark, and a reader quiz listing famous names from Aristotle to Zoroaster, all presented in light, comic prose.
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the Cranbury Press
Cranbury,n. J
John 8. Silvers
New York Tribune
State News
Camden
Philip N. Jackson
Princeton
Newark
University
Essex and Hude Gas Company
Fidelity Trust Company
Benjamin Morgan
Hamilton Township
Yardville
Groveville
Messra
John H. Stuka
Frank A. Brown
Abram G. van Deventer
New Brunswick and
Cranbury
Margaret’ van Deventer
Baby
Babst
New York World
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Bruequely
Caudry Gronls
Baltimore
Wing Party
William Henry Harrison
Canton
Young Men's National Committee
San
Megomnia
Sera
Mach
Aristotle
Baco
Confucius
Darwin
Evra
Franklin
Goethe
Homer
Isaiah
Justinian
Kant
Lorber
Mohammed
Newton
Oursian
Plato
Qoweliilian
Rougseau
Shakespeare
Tasso
Oleland
Virgil
Washington
Xavier
Young
Zoroaster
London Globe
Jersey Coats
Donnelly
Haberdashery
Opera House
Trenton, N. J
BES
Clothiers
LION
T Am
Hightstown
Edward Schaffer
Bill
Burroughs
J.S. Silvers
Bro
Bergen & Rue
Tory
Hamburg
Torchon
Wears, Hightstown
Publihesr
3Ds
Thomas Mason
Main St
Hightstown, N. J
Lextend
ozWatch
Thomas Peppler
Davison’s
Lehigh Coal
B.D. Davison
Jamesburg, N. J
Liverpool & London & Globe
German American, Royal, Inc. Co. of North America
Commercial Union, Standard
Mercer County Mutual
Shrewsbury Mutual
Monmouth County Mutual
Press Building
Oranbury, N. J
By Dee
The
Prince of All Values
Ulster
E. State St
Trenton
Jobbins & Large, Hatters
East State Street
Lupton Bros
Matawan, Keyport
Perth Amboy
P.O
Matawan, N. J
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