A 20th Century Proposal
Clive Culver, urged by Ben Marshall, pursues Annette Keating amid a dance invite and a teasing rival Wallie Ebers. Annette, tied to family duties, discovers a recording from Clive declaring love and marriage. Buddie’s phonograph exchange at the Culvers triggers a playful, fatefully public confession.
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Ben Marshall
Wallie Ebers
Clive Culver
Annette
Ben
Marshall
Culver
Annette Keating
Clive
Ebers
Buddie
Buddle
Irish Chief of Police in Shanghai Links to New York Visit
A prominent downtown lawyer recalls meeting an Irish Shanghai police chief famous for mob power who later visited New York and met the lawyer. Months after, an Irish stenographer applicant from Tipperary arrives with a letter from the same chief. The tale ends noting the lawyer advertised for a stenographer and received shesponses.
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Shanghai
China
Tipperary
New York
Po- Nee
Richard Harding Davis
New York Evening Post
Love's Thorny Path at a Nickel Movie Night
A thirteen year old recounts a boy from class inviting her to a nickel movie. He asks her father for five cents loan so they can see both showings, and they return home at eleven after their mothers wait outside.
Judging by Feet
A school stage curtain failed and a boy swatted at unseen feet thinking it was a classmate. He struck the principal instead, realizing his mistake with horror as the prank backfired on an adult authority.
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Chicago Tribune
Equitable
Parry
Lehigh Valley
Jersey City
Corbin City
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
White
Weymouth Township
Atlantic County
Ralph Harcourt
John Stewart
Bethlehem Corporation
Harcourt
Laird
House Committee On Health
American Bakers’ Association
Escapade Proved Jake
A seventeen year old boy recalls a dusk near town when a man in a curtained car tried to abduct him. The driver turned out to be a friend playing a prank, easing the fear with a familiar connection.
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Jake
New Jersey Briefs Recall 1904 06 Mayor and Local Events
Elizabeth former mayor Samuel J. Berry dies at 82, with a large family. Crimes, acctractions, court actions and local improvements span Elizabeth Jersey City Camden Vineland Bridgeton Hammonton and Millville with rail and bridge issues and a $70 000 parochial school plan.
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Wenonah
Camden
Grenloch
Sadie K. Dorant
Salem County
Salem
Rosenhayn
Edward F. Somers
Agnola Facemyer
Dare
Deerfield
Supreme Court
Justice Trenchard
City Commission of
Millville
John Franklin
Frank R. Sheppard
The
American Legion Auxiliary
South Jersey
Parkside
Greater
Ocean City Gas Company
John Honywell
Florence C. Pileggi
St. Augustine Church
Thomas F. Blake
Emma Topovits
Newark
John
Topovits
Backes
Iis
Hammontonton
Ifor
Hugh
Frank Bowker
Bridgeton
Johnson
Commerce Street Hill
Franklin Lamb
Hammonton
Vineland
St. Maury Magdalene Church
Dock Street
Ahe
Isaac M. Loughead
Sacramento Avenue
Ventnor City
City Hospital
Race Street
Philadelphia
Common Council
Board of Education
Delaware River
Belvidere
Belvidere-Delaware Bridge Company
Public Utility Commission
Veto stalls Rowland plan to abolish Camden court
Governor Edwards vetoes Speaker Rowland's bill abolishing Camden County District Court citing adverse impact on pending cases and litigant fees. Legislature aims to override, amid wider talks on bridge and tunnel board representation and public service rate issues.
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Rowland
Camden
Frenton
Hobart
Wailworth
Camden County
South Jersey
Delaware Bridge
North Jersey
Hudson River Tunnel
Evans
Republican Central
Edwards
House
Camden County District Court
Rudolph
Avers
Camden County Bar Association
National Guard
Senate
W E. Guthrie
Paterson
One Hundred and Fourteenth Infantry
Borden
Powell
Guthrie
T. D. London
W. S. Price
L. D. Coyle
E. B. Stone
Heath
White
United States
Public Service Corporation
Public Service
State Utility Board
Utility Board
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Falseman
Mberty
Keating’s
Buddile
Buddy
New Jersey State
Samuel J. Berry
Elizabeth
New York City
Mr. Berry
William Voorhies
Sussex
Hackensack
Deal
Erie
California
Erie Railroad
Jersey
Hudson
Frank Hague
James H. Hagan
New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission
State House
Trenton
R. A. Adams
New York Tunnel Commission
New Jersey
Hudson River
Charles Dibella
Linestreet
Cooper Hospital
Mary Riley
Rudolph Scheiber
Landis Avenue
Samuel Berstein
Vineland Hospital
Port Norris
Methodist Field Club
Gloucester City
West Deptford
James J. Mantell
Princeton University
Robert Alexander
Agnes Primitz
Baltimore
City
John Gramski
William H. Bricker, Jr
Atlantic City
Mays Landing
Irene Michaelson
Black
Sense
Woodlynne Board of Education
New Broadway Fire Company
Brooklawn
South Vineland
East Avenue
Senator White
Judiciary Committee
Case
Port Authority Commission
Port of
Gaede
Commission
Morris Canal
Publc
House Committee On
Assembly Chamber
Carlton Godfrey
Phillipsburg
Warren
Morris
Essex
Hudson Counties
Godfrey
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
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