Local Social Notes Highlight Cranbury Visitors and Events
Mis Edna Pierson of Trenton spent an over Sunday with the Johnsons. Several families from Trenton Freehold and Philadelphia visited relatives in Cranbury. Calves for Walker Gordon Laboratory Co. contracted to E C Wilson for the year. Community members and guests gathered at Asbury Park Adirondack trips and birthday celebrations announced. Plans note auctions at Plainsboro Mills and Dayton Harvest Home on August 9 1916.
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Edna Pierson
Trenton
H. Johnson
Fred Maple
C. H. Lewis
D. Baird Davison
Freehold
Earl Wilson
G. M. Perrine Ard
Asbury Park
E. C. Wilson
Walker-Gordon Laboratory Co
Plainsboro
van Dyke
Hake
Gettysburg
Miss Lee
Philadelphia
Luella Reynolds
Rey
Z. W. Wells
Delaware
Enid Walker
Frank Perrine
Phoenixville
Mildred Hussart
Englishtown
Madeline Perrine
Contractor
H. N. Scotter
Camp Kanuka
Adirondacks
Harold
Isaiah
Albert Barclay
John Major
Stanley Barclay
Albert Chamberlin
Hightstown
Alfred Bennett
G. A. Bennett
Appendicitis Risk by Gender Warns Cranbury Readers
Surgeons report men are slightly more prone to appendicitis than women. A local druggist promotes Adler-ika a mix of buckthorn bark glycerine and other ingredients as a remedy to relieve or prevent digestive issues and possibly appendicitis claiming instant effects with one spoonful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cranbury
LN. F. Clayton
Surrogate Clayton Seen Safe Against Re-election
A Perth Amboy report notes Surrogate Clayton has earned broad respect for fairness and courtesy. Voters from both parties report they will support him, making it hard for Republicans to find a challenger capable of defeating Bednins.
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Clayton
Bednins News
Perth Amboy
Stamp Whistle Sing And Play During Test
Miss Frances Snyder of William Penn high school added a column of figures in one minute and twenty eight seconds despite a noisy room with piano, band, whistles, singing and stamping. The distraction race was part of a math sports contest with 338 entries across seven events. A relay event tested speed and mental math as teams read total credits and extensions before racing to the platform, won by Rose Dimitman's Stevens school team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Frances Snyderman
William Penn High School
Frances
Rose Dimitman
Stevens School
Finger prints taken for playing ball in street
Three teens Walter Sharpe seventeen John Mehrtens sixteen and Ulrich Hotel eighteen were arrested in Washington Heights for playing base ball in a street. They pleaded guilty in Magistrate Charles Ek Simms court, paid $3 fines each, and had prints taken despite relatives' protests. Their records will be checked for prior arrests.
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New York
Washington Heights
Walter Sharpe
West
Travelers urged to carry Chamberlain remedy on trains
The New York Sun notes the danger of bowel complaints and advises travelers to bring Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy since supplies are unavailable on trains or ships. It highlights superstition around floor 13 in uptown hotels and shows how patrons avoid that floor, with clerks sometimes assisting transfers to different rooms to dodge the hoodoo number.
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New York Sun
Wanted Man for Steady Hay Press Work in N J
A short classified notice seeks a man for steady work in hay press. Also listing for a seven room house to rent at five dollars per month. References Bennett and Bennett of Prospect Plains New Jersey. Scotch Collie pups and Raymond 8 GEiaas Cranbury N J appear as misc. items in the column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond
Geiaas
Cranbury, N. J
Hay Press
Bennett & Bennett
Prospect Plains
N. J
Where Efficiency Counts Heating Contractor Ad
An advertisement emphasizes careful selection of a heater contractor. It promises satisfactory heating systems using proper boiler size and adequate radiation, with guarantees and fair pricing based on quality materials and workmanship. The seller rejects undersized systems as poor investments and centers on customer satisfaction.
No Unkissed Future Pastor at St Stephen’s College
Graduates of St Stephen's An nandale New York report a class where every member acknowledges kissing a girl. The class day exercises reveal eight entering the Episcopal ministry, one medicine, two teaching. Statistics list Vassar as favorite women’s college and Princeton as favorite men’s college, with Lincoln as favorite historical figure and David Copperfield as favorite fiction figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Stephen’s
Annandale
Bussing
N. Y
St. Stephen's College
Vassar
Princeton
Lincoln
David Copperfield
Bernard Shaw
Browning and
Tennyson
Court Rewards Brave Act In Yonkers Street
In Yonkers New York City Judge Beall encountered a youth named Frank ONeill of 139 Vineyard Avenue as he halted a runaway horse dragged across Getty Square. The judge commended the bravery and later suspended the youth's sentence for street fighting after the dramatic restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yonkers
Beall
Getty Square
Frank O'Neill
Vineyard Avenue
Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy Ad
A persuasive Victorian era patent medicine advertisement urges every family to keep Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy during hot weather. It claims high value, universal usefulness, and wide availability, urging readers to buy now.
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Chamberlain
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Elwood Groves
Albert Walters
Alfred Chamberlin
Marie Chamberlin
Edward W. Dunham
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Archie Forman
Mr. Leybach
Pennsylvania
Penn State College
Emma Snow
L. G. Appleger
John Mickle
Point Pleasant
Ethel Madeline Perrine
Lillie Farr
Elias Stults
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Great Barrington
Mays
Edgemere
L.I
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Beth Mount
Brooklyn
Richard Mason
Harvey Hutchinson
Mrs
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Stults
Joseph
Palisades Park
W. H. Johnson
H. N. Scott
Geo. W. Burroughs
Ocean Grove
Arborton
Edward J. Levy
Apollo Lodge No. 156
Eldridge Bennett
Plainsboro Mills
F. F. Grove
Dayton
Geraldine
New York Times
Stamp
George Puerschnee
William H. Brooks
Garret W. Reid
County of
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Wirrias HB. Brooks
Jacob P. Bescher
Hightstown, N. J
S. P. Dunham & CO
Trenton, N. J
Kayser
Fowne
Meyer
America
Paris Point
Panama
Palm Beach
B. F. Gunson
East State Street
Hotel
Windsor
Bld’g
Trenton, 'N. J
State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
A. W. Gleason
J. Cheney & CO
Bicycle and Supplies
Red Wing
A. J, Wade, Cranbury
Gebo
Charles G. Groves
North Main Street
Peppler
ATLAS
Dixie
Martin Carriage Works
York
Owego
Fairbanks
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Oliver
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Thomas Peppler
Hone
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