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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1896
Page
2
The fifteen year old son of Whitford Stires near Milford was kicked in the head and chest while handling a mule in his father’s barn on Monday and died within minutes.
At a Thursday meeting the board read resignations and appointments, including J F Garzleon replacing J B Silvera. R L McDowell named census enumerator. After reading teacher applications, the group moved to decide the school building lot by ballots. The Duncan lot won a majority on the second vote, with May 1 set for a special school meeting and building resolutions adopted.
New York man Benjamin Letson, retired and living in Stelton New Jersey, learns his daughter Ruth aged eighteen has secretly married Willie Eldridge last August after meeting at Peddie Institute. Letson tears up, blesses the couple and questions why she did not tell him sooner. Eldridge's family is based in Camden and Philadelphia.
Rev Charles H Parkhurst argues in a May Ladies Home Journal piece that college can fit a man for life yet may unfit him for ordinary work. He notes farming, law, medicine, theology as overrepresented fields and stresses agriculture as essential to national strength despite prestige in higher education.
A fragmented dialogue shows a telegram asking about a potential injury to Jama and money owed. A moralizing quip counsels patience and warns of conjugal strain. An advertisement praises Chamberlain remedies for coughs rheumatism and stomach issues, urging household use and noting N F Clayton as the local druggist.
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