The Perfect Couple in a Eugenist Dream
A fanciful 1922 vignette follows Amanda Jones and Horace Chapin, billed as perfect specimens of beauty and strength, as they marry in a Smithfield college gymnasium amid eugenics fever. Miss Deadman guides the ceremony while a governor and scholars look on, and the pair depart for Niagara Falls after a dramatic, staged wedding.
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Amos Deadman
Smithfield College
Amanda Jones
Green Point
New York
Horace Chapin
Miss Deadman
Horace
Amanda
Lou
Lohengrin
Professor Deadman
Niagara Falls
Ike
Tattooing Customs Highlight Fiji Islands Traditions
The article notes widespread tattooing in Fiji and Samoa where birth certificates are indelibly marked on bodies. Mothers have their children's birth dates tattooed on their hands and some fathers tattoo the date on their child. In some islands most children are tattooed by age twelve, producing striking proportional changes as they grow.
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Fiji Islands
Fiji
Samoa
Red Cross Water First Aid Gains in Life Saving
The American Red Cross reports over 325 chapters active in life saving or water first aid last year. The Life Saving Corps set enrollment records while expanding qualified lifeguards. Learn to Swim Week reduced water fatalities through instruction and resuscitation method dissemination. Police and fire departments adopt prone pressure resuscitation as standard.
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Red Cross
Help to Help Others Through Red Cross Aid
Community appeal emphasizes giving to the American Red Cross to support those hurt and needing relief. The message urges readers to contribute a dollar to join and assist ongoing relief efforts.
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American Red Cross
Inalienable Right Sparks Home Dispute
Old John Smithers of Richmond faced his wife in a heated domestic scene after being found in the woodshed kissing the hired girl. He defended his actions by asserting a man’s right to some privilege in his own home, prompting a sharp rebuke from his wife over labor and propriety.
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John Smithers
Richmond
Old John
Indianapolis News
Public Sale Calendar and Local Advertisements
December 19 Thomas Murray will sell stock, farm utensils and household goods on the Tren ton and New Brunswick turnpike opposite Penns Neck school house. Auctioneers F. F. Grove. December 12 Maria L Stults will sell household goods at Prospect Plains at noon. Auctioneer W. H. Johnson. Weekly fish clam and oyster deliveries in Cranbury by J Kilcomins Keyport. Ads: Buckwheat for sale Russell C Spratford Cranbury. Wood stove lengths Robert Sawyer Cranbury. Sideboard wash stands and tables Mrs Peterson Cranbury.
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Thomas J. Murray
Trenton and
New Brunswick
Penns Neck School House
F. F.grove
Maria L. ¢Stults
Prospect Plains
W. H. Johnson
Deceptive Coffee Advertising Exposed by Local Roaster
R. R. Heroy Co. of Trenton exposes misleading packaging claims for coffee brands Java Mocha and Bogota. They advertise Heroy's Special After Dinner Coffee as Mandheling and Ankola Java mix with no package contents listed, insisting their offer delivers 100 percent coffee value, fresh from their roaster.
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Santos Coffee
Java
Bogota
Heroy
R. R. Heroy Co
Coffea Importers
East Hanover Street
Trenton
N. J
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Clara Delafield
Western Newspaper Union
Chamberlin
Elmer S. Edsall
Cranbury
S. Porvancher
Academy Street
Hightstown
Bungalow Poultry Farm
Plainsboro
Empo Sales Company
Box
Charles V. D. Symmes
H. R.reid
Russell C. Spratford
Robert Sawyer
Peterson
Cranbury, N. J
Gustave Escherich
Dayton
New Jersey
Traver
South Broad Street
Trenton, N. J
General Electric
Eldredge & Burroughs
Electrical Contractors
John J. Oehler
Charles G. Groves
Stranbury
Daily
THE
NEW York Times
the Cranbury Press
Cranbury, N J
Steinbach
Steinbach Company
Asbury Park
Studebaker
Locke
Pasa
W. B
Ten
P. Tou
Sedan
IMULS
J. Arthur Applegate
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