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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1914
Page
8
An American describes a trip to Italy fraying nerves over elevator charges and personal data requests. Gendarmes interrogate him in his hotel room, he bribes no one, and with the help of the American consul he is released after signing a descent into the authorities.
Symmes McChesney a well known farmer living two miles from Jamesburg died by self inflicted gunshot. His daughter Mrs Louis Terhune of Newark found him seated dead in his bedchamber after the shotgun was fired. Coroner Morgan named the death as suicide in a personal crisis while deranged. He had been in usual health that morning and reportedly smuggled the weapon into the room prior to the act.
Stackhouse formerly of the Ehrlich Rockwell and Forester firm becomes head of merchandise on the third floor at the new H. M. Voorhees & Brother store. He will oversee children's, misses, and women's outer garments and furs. He trained in dress goods and silks with Sharp Jesa Cooper Strawbridge, then moved into ready to wear with several leading houses including Wana maker and Horne. An invitation to visit the new store is extended.
The Peddie Institute opened this week with 324 students, the largest enrollment in its history. A new $20,000 dormitory named Trash House will house twenty upperclass students, and trustees have leased nearby Keeler House Pumyea House and the Universalist Church parsonage on Main Street to accommodate the increase.
The Lapp version of a Turkish bath uses a crude tent with heated stones beneath a fire. Water is poured over the stones to create hot vapor before entry. A brief five minute session includes light twig whipping by Lapps, then a snow roll and rapid dressing.
Sibyl asks if it is safe to eat before sleep and quips that eating before sleep is safer than after. The playful exchange notes the difficulty of seeing food while asleep and keeps a humorous tone.
R E Roberts of Homer City Pa praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a reliable medicine taken for years. The testimonial states it has never failed to give the desired results and notes it is for sale by all dealers.
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