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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1900
Page
2
The article notes Sir Thomas Lipton will not challenge for the America's Cup this year due to impaired health. It references surrounding sports and sailing news in a broad, reflective column.
A Chicago street railway adds whisk brooms and clothes brushes to a cabinet on each car. Passengers are invited to use the implements on the rear platform if their clothes become dusty. The move is described as an odd imputation on car cleanliness.
Reports from the Pacific coast allege open violation of exclusion laws and a thriving slave market in San Francisco with prices around 2800 dollars. The text accuses steamship companies and organized rings of traders of facilitating the trade, admitting Japanese and Chinese migrants under false pretenses and undermining federal laws, calling for action to stop the illicit commerce.
A broad roundup covers public projects in Englishtown and Belmar, a Perth Amboy park plan, a fire near Califon, and a Dover Firemen convention. It notes rail, school, and naval camp plans, a California timber loss, prize fighter James J Jeffries buying Loch Arbor housing, and local dairy inspections at Vineland.
A Camden county campaign by the Law and Order Workers of Gloucester county will meet Camden workers to discuss starting a movement. A strong athletic team is slated for High Bridge and plans to play top teams in the region. The State League convention will be in Jersey City on June 13 with four delegates and alternates per district.
The New Jersey Federation of Women's Clubs met at First Presbyterian Cranford with talks on poetry and civic roles. A fatal 1200 volt shock claimed William Reece atop Ascension Street pole. Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show faced misfortune in Somerville with a horse injured and a performer strained. James Gaskill, 83, died of paralysis in Dunellen. Scarlet fever alarms Plainfield and North Plainfield as cases rise linked to milk supply.
Druggist A W Rawtelle of Hartford endorses Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. A customer credits it with saving her wife last summer at the shore and recommends it for future use. A gentleman who was overcome with con..tation purchased it and felt relief in minutes. The remedy is sold by a local druggist.
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