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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1914
Page
5
Fragments show visitors and guests in Cranbury and nearby towns from East Orange to Newark. Many residents hosted relatives and friends including Smith College graduates, a Panama Exposition traveler, and university attendees. Streets oiled. no town baseball game tomorrow due to Princeton Yale clash.
Mrs J J Bradley hosted a W C T U prize essay event on her lawn in Cranbury with about fifty two attendees including students from Cranbury Public School and parents. Prizes ranged to 200 dollars in silver for the high school winner Henry Wilson and other grades awarded silver and books. judges were Miss Helen Grover Miss Donnell and several Cranbury residents. Additionally the Cranbury High School beat Jamesburg State Home 6 to 4 with Hoffman pitching a strong game and key hits by Moore Hoffman Perrine and Schnell.
A black kid glove vanished between the Second Presbyterian Church and Brainerd Lake after the Harvest Home events at Union Valley and Dayton. The note asks Harrie Lewis to return the item, urging help from readers in locating the missing accessory.
An advertisement lists children’s day needs with prices for babies’ slips from 50 cents to 75 cents, slips in lawn and nainsook up to $1.50, and dresses in lawn to Persian lawn fabrics from $1.25 to $4.98, urging readers to contribute generous selections.
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