Local notes from Cranbury area July 1918
A Cranbury Press page lists social visits and travels among residents of Prospect Plains Kingston and nearby towns. Guests include Mildred Applegate, Miss Mary Spaulding and Miss Gladys Barlow. Also noted are bank staff movements, trips to Atlantic City and Long Island outings, plus church picnic plans and updates on relatives serving overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Applegate
Prospect Plains
Mary Spaulding
W. R. Silvers
Manasquan Beach
Barclay
Cranbury
Evelyn Petty
Madeline Perrine
Amzi A. Duncan
Harvey H
Stairs
Kingston
Kingston. Mr. and Mrs.’ Benjamin Bayles
Trenton
Dire
Emma Reynolds
Bayles
Howard Walker
Marlboro
Gladys Barlow
Thomas Hatton
Otto Deitz
Jamacca
L. I
George Puerschner
Lemuel Stults
Warren Elsing
John I. Bergen
Anna Spaulding
Ernest Stults
Gladys
Long Island
New York
David H. Griggs
Delaware Water Gap
Eleanor Petty
Newark
Jersey City
Leo Cahill
New York City
James Cahill
Jamesburg Road
A. W. Deane
Mabel Musk
Mary
West Orange
Harvey H. Green
That City
Harry Terbell
Pittsburgh
Mr. Brown
Denver
Col
Mary E. Osborn
P. C
Are You One of Them Chamberlain's Tablets Fame
Mrs. M. R. Sears of Baldwinville New York reports a severe stomach spell lasting weeks. After a druggist recommendation she took Chamberlain's Tablets and found rapid relief. The tablets do not dull pain but may prevent recurrence after relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
War Strategy and Chess in Ancient Military Lore
The London QChronicle notes the link between strategy and chess, tracing the game to ancient military systems. It cites Arriana’s vivid Hydaspes battle image showing elephants advancing against Macedonian phalanx, suggesting chess began as military education and evolved with warfare changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon
London
Alexander
Hydaspes
Arriana
Battle of Wits Over War Losses Cited By Doctor
Dr Woods Hutchinson argues in a Royal Society of Medicine lecture that disease and pestilence cause most wartime deaths. He cites data showing far fewer battle deaths this war and notes civilian death rates among allied populations stayed low, sometimes below prewar levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dakin
Woods Hutchinson
Royal Society of Medicine
London Globe
Rent Courts and Digestive Aid Featured in War Measures
Rent courts prove successful in German cities and are adopted by Swiss towns to curb unjust rents. Each tenant may appeal to a commission. Despondency cases cited as caused by digestion issues, relieved by Chamberlain's Tablets which improve digestion and promote bowel movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzerland
Chamberlain
Transportation of Cranbury Township School Pupils Bids
The Cranbury Township Board of Education invites sealed bids for transporting pupils on five routes with limits of 25, 23, or 18 pupils. Bids due by July 30, 1913 at 8 p.m. to District Clerk N. J. Butcher. The board may reject all bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Cranbury Township
N. J. Butcher
Cranbury Neck
Wyckoffs Mills
Cranbury and Hightstown
Plainsboro
New Brunswick
Hightstown
H. J. Butcher
Poultry Wanted Alive Highest Price Paid
Advertises live poultry buying with Julius Zaitz at 37 McClain St Freehold New Jersey seeking birds and offering top payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Zaitz
McClain St
Freehold, N. J
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claims Deafness Cure
Catarrhal deafness cannot be cured by local applications and requires a constitutional remedy. The ad states Hall's Catarrh Medicine works through the blood to mucous surfaces and offers $100 for any cure it cannot achieve, with circulars free and druggists priced at 75 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Brass Bed Outfit in Stock at Special Price
A brass bed outfit with 2 inch continuous posts and 1 inch fillers at head and foot, plus a top quality combination mattress and steel link springs. Market value around 45 dollars, offered here at 36 dollars. limited stock. Also available in all sizes at 12.50 dollars for 2 inch post brass beds with heavy fillers in dull or bright finish.
Roll Edge Cotton Mattresses and Top Mattresses Prices
Advertises roll edge cotton and top mattresses with prices from 15.75 to 18.00 dollars. Describes soft comfortable rest beds in all sizes with ticking covers and tufted finishes. Includes combination mattresses with cotton felt tops and fibre sides priced at 5.50 dollars.
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the Cranbury Press
Margaret Bergen
The
First National Bank of Cranbury
M. Russell Johnson
First National Bank
Stanley Conover
Atlantic City
William Stein
John Stein
Perth Amboy
Marion Hughes
Alberta Grover
Ann Stults
Hannah Perrine
Mary Dey
BE. W. Dunham
Catherine Furman
J. 8. Silvers
Ella Stults
Alice Suydam
Culver
Monmouth Junction
Harry Moore
Sarah Voorhees
George Chappell
Milltown
Katherine and
Marion Scott
Rhode Hall
Joseph Hutton
Albert Walters
Alfred Chamberlin
Jacob Gordon
Elligon Dey
Mary Gordon
Misa Helen Wilson
Second Presbyterian Church
Clark’s Landing
Manasquan River
Ernest L. Nixon
Samuel Nixon
Montreal
Canada
Porter
M. EH
Carnegie Lake
Princeton
David M. Griggs
J. P. Matthews
Harriet Garretson
Ernest Hutton
Brooklyn
Thomas Hutton
Emma Schnell
Harry Schnell
Tullytown
Edna Hutton
G. H. Grover
Irene Bradley
McCue
Bull
Fred Hoffman
Camp Dix
New York Herald
Old Glory
Old Tennent
Dayton
Margaret J. Ely
Deans
Mary A. Ely
James Shreve
I. E. Stetler
West Philadelphia
Mange
Paul Matzke
Norman H. Smith
Mortimer L. Stites
Great Neck
M. I. Osborn
Willis Schoenly
Buffalo
N. Y
Armenia Dey
A. B Wycott
Anna Littell
Scotch Plains
Henrietta Osborne
George Blackwood
William Conover
Army
U.a. Ciscece
Cackersund
J. 8. Bilvers & Bro. Co
C. Raymond Wicorf
Aseesgor
McCormick
Joan D. Bennett
Cranbury, N. J
George B. Morshon
Belinda Kane
County of
Middlesex
Geonce B. Merson
Utor
Charles C. Groves
Office North Main Street
Cranbury, N.J
Township of
Board of Health
Odd Fellows Hall
N.J
Walter H. Havens
Wu. M. Cox
P. Dunham & Co
Trenton, N. J
America
State Street
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