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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1891
Page
2
Residents urged to invest in local venture to raise town status and property values while seeking a new graded school. Officials note no district school exists, despite capable teachers. Citizens face responsibility to fund and support a quality education for all local children.
A long reminiscence describes Cranbury in earlier days with busy trade centers New Brunswick and South Amboy by ship and road. It recalls Jacob Simmins bakery garrets bottling works at M A Rue site, German bakers, John Richmond tailor shop and 50 workers making ready to wear clothing, and local farmers supplying cattle and sheep from Ohio. It notes penny-loan street finance, old elm tree legends linked to Washington and Brainerd, and vibrant 1850s civic life with Grenadiers, a tea party, and village leaders. The piece contrasts a thriving past with calls to restore civic improvements to avoid a deserted village, then shifts to tinplate industry news and fortunes for several companies and officers, including agitants toward tin deposits in the Black Hills, while praising American industry and warning against free-trade dissent.
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