New Jersey Holds Canal Conference and Rent Reform Bills
Governor Edwards signed 171 measures from the New Jersey Legislature including a Mackay tenant bill allowing tenants to challenge rent increases of 35 percent or more in court within three years and a Morris Canal settlement bill creating a commission to negotiate canal abandonment with Lehigh Valley Railroad. The package also expands state police staffing, transit study, and various civic and public works provisions, with many veto messages anticipated.
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Trenton
Edwards
New Jersey
Assembly
Senate
Mackay
Catherine Brown
Jersey City
Smith
Passaic County
North Jersey
Roegner
William H. Spear
Circuit Court
Frank H. Sommer
Newark
New York University
Louis A. Focht
State Board of Taxation
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Hudson River Terminal
Phillipsburg
Sommer
Commission
Lehigh Valley
Schwarzkopf
Palisades
Hudson River
State Board of Health
Delaware Bridge Commission
Interlaken
Monmouth County
Philadelphia
Heath
Memorial Park
Washington’s Crossing
Senator Heath
New Jersey Building Code Commission
Stevens
Nicklas
James F. Norton
Reserve State
Hudson County
Hudson Boulevard
Lincoln High School
Jersey City Board of Education
Hunter
New York
Manhattan
State Association of Spiritualists
American Legion
Interstate Palisade Park Commission
Banking Commission
Newark Chamber of Commerce
United States Department of Agriculture
James 8. Knowles
Millville
Leonidas Coyle
Bridgeton
Seventy-eighth
United States Army
Palmyra
Tacony-Palmyra
Charles Wright
T. J. Wasser
State Highway Commission
Asbury Park
Methodist Episcopal Conference of
Joseph C. Kay
Kellogg, Spencer & Sons
Edgewater
Charles W. Gaudineer
Charles W. Gaudineer Company
Maplewood
Gaudineer
South Orange Township
Moorestown
Atlantic City
Bader
Recorder's Court
Public Utility Commission
Verga
Public Service Electric Company
Frederick Verfallie
Gloucester City
Samuel Rosen
Harry Simpkins
Logue
Redfield
Daisy M. C. Robinson
Washington, D. C
Millville Woman's Club
Dixon of
Needlework Guild of America
South Jersey
Amelia Damon
Hartford
Conn
North Carolina
Pacific Avenues
City
John F. Murray, Jr
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company
D’aloia
Verga Improvement ‘Association
Courts of Foresters of America
Camden
Gloucester Counties
Gloucester City Hall
New Jersey Briefs Highlight Local Reads and Deaths
New Jersey reports include veto of Pierson highway bond, obituaries for Doris Brunen's husband and John T Hilton, and advances in Camp Dix ROTC facilities. Also notes on suicides suspected, school events, arrests for armed bandits, and local civic and church activities across counties.
Scouts Report Kind Deeds In Knoxville And Indianapolis
A Knoxville boy recounts small acts of help from neighbors while a troop of 18 scouts in Indianapolis formed a bucket line human ladder to extinguish burning shingles above a home. Fire crews arrived after the blaze was out.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Robert Patterson
Indianapolis
Patterson
Scout Chief Receives Key to Cincinnati Boy Scouts
Chief Scout Executive West enters Cincinnati to a salute from over a hundred uniformed scouts. Richard Neff president of the local council presents a gold key inscribed Cincinnati Boy Scouts. Neff says visitors receive keys to the city, but West is the first to get the key to the hearts of the boys.
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West
Cincinnati
Richard Neff
Mr. West
Boy Scout Returns Ring Unrecognized by Owner
An Anaconda woman lost a sapphire ring on a camping trip last summer. A polite boy scout found and returned it, but when asked for a reward he declined saying scouts do not seek rewards and left without leaving a name.
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Anaconda
Mont
Eagles for 1921: Scouts Reach Highest Rank in Nation
The National Court of Honor report shows 1,306 first class scouts earned the Eagle rank in 1921, with 2,667 Life scouts and 2,598 Star scouts. Comparatively, 1920 had 629 new Eagles and 1919 had 468.
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National Court of Honor of the
Boy Scouts of America
New Life
National Council to Meet of Boy Scouts in Chicago
The twelfth annual meeting of the national council of the Boy Scouts of America will convene in Chicago on March 29 and 30. Scout leaders from every state will gather to hear reports and plan future development. Colin H. Livingstone of Washington will preside.
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National Council of the Boy Scouts of America
Chicago
Colin H. Livingstone
Washington
Western Canada Farmers Thrive on Low Land Costs and Crops
An advertisement extols Western Canada farmers for thriving on land priced at 25 to 50 dollars an acre and crops like 20 to 40 bushels per acre. It notes lower overhead, reduced rents and taxes, and favorable pricing compared with other regions after World War I. It urges homeseeker rates and government information for Western Canada agriculture.
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Western
Canada
Mark Brewing FS
For Voters to Consider. A caution on power and danger
The quote warns that granting power to a bad person is dangerous and that such a person discovering this power compounds the threat. It reflects concerns about governance and accountability in a political context.
Not at All a Bad Idea for Named Gifts
The excerpt compares wedding gifts to items named after givers such as Aunt Bertha and Jack explaining how household items carry memories. It notes that the system can also flatter an old flame by naming objects after their donors.
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American Legion
Hubby
Silver
Bertha
Jack
Mother Jones
Annie
Farmer braces in rain for storm within
A farmer stands in a heavy downpour, told by a minister to seek shelter. He replies that he is shielded from the storm by what lies inside, saying there is nothing outside compared to what is inside. The tale contrasts two evils and showcases a tongue cutting like a knife from a wife.
Problem in Criticism and its elusive role in art
Criticism presents to the creator a persistent, ghostlike presence that may never be solved. Waldo Frank argues it cannot be easily categorized as good or bad, proper or irrelevant, leaving the artist unsettled and unable to dispose of it.
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Waldo Frank
Dally Thought. What a man has, so much help sure of
Epigraph style line notes a Cervantes quotation about wealth and certainty of aid, reflecting a reflective or editorial tone within a historical newspaper excerpt.
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Dally
Cervantes
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Morris Canal
New Jersey State
Doris M. Brunen
John T. Brunen
Riverside
Brunen
Hazel
Harry B. Smith
Thomas Nelson & Son
New York City
Denmark Road
Plainfield
Newburg
N. Y
John T. Hilton
Paterson
Paterson Elks
Brereton Camp
War Department
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Camp Dix
Congress
Freehold
Viola Gravatt
William Feltman
Gloucester City High School
Kelsey
Burlington County
Welsh
Julius Weber
Highland Park
New Brunswick
William L. Dill
Dill
Weber
Lawrence
Willam A. Hopson
Call Printing and Publishing Company
Ile
James W. Ware
Bayonne
N. J
Cape May
Ware
E. Stanton Yoder
McKeesport
Home and School Association of National Park
John O’rourke
Horace Battersby
Lester Crismond
Gloucester
Anderson
Boy Scouts of
Umberland County
H. A. Lotee
M. B. Carson
Archibald Seton
B. D. Prickett
Metuchen
State Hospital
Kye Harbor
Clarence Mitchell
Meyors
Manasquan
National Council of the Boy Bcouta of America
BOY Scout
Eagles
National Council
Western Canada
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