Temperance progress and political notes in the era
Readers consider temperance advances and the role of party politics while noting the President's marriage influence and a favorite post mistress case. The piece reports a Congress bill to retire and coin the Trade Dollar, a proposed Arthur Kill bridge, and approval hurdles for the Staten Island link.
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Wikelay
George
Congress
Fall Vale
House
Senate
Stevensland Rapid Transit Railroad Company
Baltimore-and New-York Rairoad Company
New York
New Jersey
Staten Island Sound
Arthur Kill
Elizabeth N. J
Northfield
Staten Island
Saloonkeepers seek Sunday sale approval despite Smith law
Alderman John Kammerou and the Saloonkeepers Association celebrate a Board of Aldermen vote approving a resolution to legalize wing and beer sales on Sundays in Cincinnati. The measure, under the Dow law, awaits council sanction amid opposition over the Smith Sunday law and a partisan political climate.
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Kalderman
John Kammerou O
Cheepers’ Association
Cincinnati
Dow
John Kan
Aneron
Cincinati
Shicharvesie
Cincininati
Republican Legislatire
Blackeye
Mero
Culumbus
Prand
Cristian America
Sestian Patristg
Temperance action and local church notes at Trenton meeting
At the Trenton Baptist Association annual meeting in Central Church Trenton the Temperance Committee urged prohibition of the liquor traffic and license system. It called pastors to oppose establishments and applauded the temperance reform while reporting church sentiments and aims. The column also notes local fires deaths trials and other regional items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton Baptist Association
Ghurch
Trenton
Temperance Committee
Fires Burn Homes In New Brunswick and Other Reports
A string of fire outages and disasters as of June 7 includes a dwelling on Tenth Avenue near Dr Thompson burned to the ground with no occupants. a second fire on Hear Avenue B saved only furniture on the first floor. New Brunswick reports mason builder labor strife and a drastic construction method using mud sills and cedar logs. Additional items cover Synod finances, a deadly fire on South Gaul Street, a famous trotting stallion’s death, and a jail escape incident involving James Downing.
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Thos. Hudson
Tenth Avenue
Thompson
Sme Avene
Hear Avenue B
New Brosswich
General Synod of the Reformed Church
Weiss
Lea
Heath O
Board of Domestic Missions
Jersey
Cds
Smith
Sid
Maine
Fernoney
J. Jary
Gilli
N Y
Denis Wortman
Cincaco
Hkight
Mary Durkin
John Durkin
Willian Tum
C. Street
California sown with wealth and wonders in a vast report
The article extols California's vast size and resources from agriculture to industry. It notes 37 years since the gold rush, describes climate and geography including Sierra Nevada and Coast Range, highlights irrigation and wheat vineyards olives and cattle, cites 1883 crop values, and envisions a bright future for the state. It also reports a Seaside Park steamer on the stocks destroyed by a fire and a fatal crossing accident in Allentown with two victims at Hamilton Street crossing.
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Golden State
California
Pacific
Union
New York
France
Mexico
United States
Sierra Nevada
Goast Range
Manzanita
Nuifine
Sacramento
San Joaquin
Colorado
San Francisco
Isis
Berlin
Cualiformia
Prospect Plains
Barnegat Bay
Seaside Park
Toms River
Allentown
Jane Tz
Forest
Mack
Ehner Usenbachy
Rittersville
Hamilton Street
Lehigh Valley Z
Mauch Chink
Oenbach
Ozenbach
Error Corrected in Cranbury Press Guano Publication
The Cranbury Press reprints a notice from April 30 1886 stating an error in Bulletin No xxxvi analysis from New Jersey Experiment Station 1885. It clarifies that Peruvian Guano Lobos was mislisted causing an incorrect average deficiency figure of 5.83 per ton instead of 45.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark's Cove
New Jersey Experiment Station
Cranbury Press
New Jersey
D. Chiambers Leivis
Ipon Am Island
Pacific Ocean
Clark’s Cove
Thoe
Lewis
N. J
Anlés
Fertilizer Analysis Row Sparks Petition and Retraction
A March Cranbury Press feature claiming NJ fertilizer analyses by a state station drew ire. Local agent D Chambers Lewis pushed an ad, prompting a retraction and protest over misrepresented Peruvian Guano claims and a reply from New Jersey station authorities.
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the Cranbury Press
Cranbury, N. J
G.W. Burroughs
French’s
Cranbury,n
Miter
Si'Npay
Isaac Hutchinson
Board of Freeholders
Moore
Colleetor Vankirk
Phillips
Mercer Beasley
Tranton
Tunner
Tilley
Warren County
Beasley
Chestnut Avenue
Hewite Street
Chambers- Jury
Campany
Willie Mershon
Cadwallader
Florence
Italy
Coronel
Richard M. Moe
Mirie
Revert Hue
Tarrytown
Boston
Dearborn
Williams Court
eNuw Buenswick
Danc
Elie
Fisher Sayre
Tavaan
Cuba
New Brusswick
Monroe Berdine
Rother
Maxey Cobb
Bemont
Philadelphia
Isadore Colinfie
Yappy
Gady Jenkins
Binck Rank
Providence
Billy Bair
Cubb
Nota Medium
James Downing
Bobb
Sheil Brown
Johuson
Hughes
Johnson
Pennnsylvanian Railroad Deort
The
TEE Facts
Tave
Mith
Laine
Abby
Becter
Leoward
Eise
Thertses
Thutyere
Experiment Stadt
Clé
S Cove Cuango CO
W. Ixiitke
Gen
Burling Slip
Lemuel Slolts
John Wicoff
Garret G. Daviso
Miles L. Jounsox
Cranbury
Princeton
Junction
Jamesburg
Newtown Station
Central
Than
Cook & Jaques
Trenton N. J
Pantaloons
Custom Department
Anail
Aimerica
Warnnir & Cor
Estey Organ
Peter R. Bergen
J. J. Stouine
South River
New ‘Brunswick
M. Sayreville
New Brunswick
South’ River
L. Adams
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