Weddings at City Hall Before Registration Day
A historical notice reports weddings performed at New York City Hall every three minutes on the eve of Registration Day. The piece notes many grooms may be slackers and that marriages since the war declaration do not shield from military service, linking the high wedding rate to draft concerns.
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New York
City Hall
Walter A. Wood
John Deere
NUEX
Pittsburg
Cambria
Farner
Lounge Lizards and New WV Work Law Foe Idle Habits
The Daily State Gazette reports plans to drive idle loungers from public view by assigning able bodied men to fixed weekly work hours. The drive targets corner loafers and uses a new West Virginia law to enforce work, keeping public eyesores under cover while appealing to farms needing labor.
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West Virginia
Daily State Gazette
The Real Remedy on Gold Flows to Japan
The Treasury boosts San Francisco redemption limits on gold certificates to Washington, boosting coast shipments to Japan and signaling currency inflation. The author argues the cure is higher tariffs on Japanese goods to balance trade and curb gold outflows.
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Treasury Department
Japan
Sub-Treasury
San Francisco
Washington
Pacific
Early Tomatoes A Heavy Crop In New Jersey State Report
The June crop report from the New Jersey Department of Agriculture notes a slight rise in early tomato acreage. Weather delays may cause the early and late crops to mature near simultaneously. Rutgers expert R W DeBaun urges early harvesting to avoid cracking and ensure a larger, higher quality yield.
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New Jersey State Department of Agriculture
R. W. DeBaun
New Jersey Agricultural College
Woman Hostess Delights Guests With Simple Hospitality
A hostess excels not by lavish meals but by calm effective charm. A cheerful welcome and genuine warmth set guests at ease and embody the proverb hospitality is sitting with gladness. Ancient example Xantippe and Socrates illustrate that friendship matters more than excess. Pearl Chenoweth.
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Ding
Xantippe
Socrates
Lydia
Pearl Chenoweth
Weekly Letter to Farmers on Calf Selection and Beef Value
Agriculture columnist F. R. Stevens argues against raising veal from dairy calves. He notes high feed costs and dairy-oriented calves often lack value as milch cows. Stevens urges slaughtering poor calves, while improving herd quality for future beef and dairy profits.
Speed of a Motorcar and the Costs of Fast Driving
A Farm and Fireside piece warns that driving at high speed damages tires and bearings, increases fuel use, strains steering and springs, raises crash risk, and endangers others. It argues optimal efficiency and lower costs occur at fifteen to twenty five miles an hour depending on car and road.
Ex Confederate Soldier Repays Insult in Swiss Duel
In 1870 Albert Collins ex Confederate sharpshooter, after touring Switzerland, fought Captain von Sonntag in a rifle duel on Jungfrau terrain. Collins, injured but victorious, accepted the captain’s apology and showed restraint after the staged exchange.
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Albert Collins
Switzerland
Collins
Clear Creek
Colorado
Interlaken
Scheidegg
Jungfrau
America
Tle
Captain von Sonntaz
Zach
von Sonntag
Rocky Mountains
von Somme
Collings
Catarrh Cure Claim Promises One Hundred Dollar Reward
An advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure fully cures catarrh a constitutional disease. It states the medicine is taken internally and builds up the system while destroying the disease's foundation. The notice offers one hundred dollars for any cure it fails to achieve and directs readers to request testimonials from Jd HSV & CO in Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
HSV & CO
Toledo
Sheriffs Sale in Chancery New Jersey United States Hotel Property
Arthur C. Hensley sues in chancery to foreclose a mortgage on the United States Hotel property in Cranbury Township Middlesex County New Jersey with a sheriff sale set for July 18 1917 at 2 PM at the sheriff s office New Brunswick. The property description runs along Main Street and adjoining parcels with a detailed metes and bounds.
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Chancery
New Jersey
Arthur C. Hensléy
Charles N. Reichert
Sophia Reichert
Sheriffs Office
New Brunswick
Cranbury
County of
Middlesex
United States Hotel
W. HR. Johnson
Main Street
Johnson
Abijah Applegate
Elmira Voorhees’ Lot
Matthew A. Rue
Rue
J. W. Barrichios
David J. Perrine
Charles H. Reichert
Henry C. Miller
Edward F. Houghton
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Liberty
Union
Webster
F. R. Stevens
Agriculturist
Sherrife
Stoll’s
Wright & Ditson & Paramount
Nets
STOLL
E. State St. Trenton, N. J
Farmers’ Co-Operative Association
Mercer County
Broad Street Bank Building
Trenton, N.J
National Bank
Federal Reserve System
First National Bank
Granbury, N. J
Peppler
Thomas Peppler
Suno Opricat Mfo
F.c.leaming
Pres
Cor
State
Warren St's
Trenton
Universal
Ford
J. Ernest Laird
Garace
Cranbury, New Jersey
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