Macadam Road Progress in Cranbury and Hightstown
Freeholder Silvera leads effort to macadamize the Cranbury to Station road despite landowner opposition over taxes. State and county road funds will fund improvements. the Cranbury to Hightstown route is also slated for upgrade. The Third District Republican Convention renominated Benjamin F. Howell for another term for Congress, praising his leadership and financial background in New Brunswick and South Amboy banks.
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Cranbury
Silvera
Middlesex County
Cranbury Township
Board of Freeholders
Hightstown
Benjamin F. Howell
Third
Howell
National Republican Administration
New Brunswick
People’National Bank
South Amboy Bank
Cumberland County
Cedarville
Fort Edward Institute
N. Y
12Th New Jersey Infantry
Hancock
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
South Amboy
John A. Wells
Jacob A. Geissenhainer
Separate skirts spark fashion debate among tall women
In fashion notes several women complain the new bell style is too long and narrow, favoring taller slender figures while plump women praise the revival. Studios show models including a black autumn leaf striped foulard skirt that hugs the hips.
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New York Mail and Express
Brazilian Indian Story and Odd Bits in One Page
A mosaic of fables and jingles from a New York paper notes a jaguar and monkey tale about promised pay from a fawn, a jurist parable on bite sizes, burglar misdirection, clothespins production, and humorous snippets about Plymouth pond, polar currents, and a talkative laundry notice.
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Enya
New York Times
Alea
New York Sun
Indulgent father’s kite blower wrecks parlor chaos
In Storkville Center Vermont, Silas Zingto ck built a 4% blower linked to a cellar engine so his son Rufus could fly a kite indoors. Ignoring warnings, Rufus increased the wind, causing a hurricane that smashed windows, pictures, glass, and bric a brac as the parlor fell into ruins. The tale ends noting what ended the indulgence.
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Colonel Calliper
Storkville Center
Silas Zingtock
Storkvle Centre
Rafa
Zingroet
Rufus
Rufu
New York Sun
Eight men escort a stranger home through nocturnal Bourbon Street
The article recounts a Chattanooga like scene where eight polite gentlemen form a human lantern procession to guide a woman safely to her boarding house in New Orleans. They create a luminous advance guard and walk behind as matches glow along the street.
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Comas
Shoe
Bourbon Street
Opera House
Aviat
New Orleans Times-Democrat
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the Cranbury Press
John B. Silvers
Hobart
State Republican Committee
Essex County
Voorhee
Anna Shaw
Misa Shaw
United States
Spain
America
Minneapolis Daily Journal
Anna
Berlin Vorwarts
Forward
University of Opsal
Sweden
Elva Exohelasohn
Scotland
Wys
New York Tribune
Blington's Sea
Plymouth
John Eilington
Billangton
Chicago
Sandy
Glasgow Times
Jesy Sale
Equator
Massachusetts
Tewan
Dortor
Tre
New Orleans
Meno
Marshal von Moltke
Shelly
London Spectator
France
Marchand de Vans
Saherbao
Boston
London
Leith
Wootton Howe
Far West
Dosteus
Donnelly
Taylor Opera House
Trenton, N. J
Bergen & Rue
General Merchandise Supply Store
LION
Tam
Edward Schaffer, Fr. J
Ribsam & Son
Trenton, W. J
Wobbins & Large, Hatters
Knox
Youman
Bill
East State Street
Trenton
Claus Joba
Lupton Bros
Matawan, Keyport
Perth Amboy
Matawan, N. J
Geo.w.burrouds
J.S. Silvers
Bro
Dongola
Nortons
Mern’s and Boys
Inlightstown, N. J
Syracuse
South Bend
McCormick
Blanet Jr
Thompson
Lehigh
Lister's
W.j.rowland & Son
Monmouth Junction
N. J
Davison’s
Lehigh Coal
B. D. Davison
Jamesburg, N. J
James
New Jersey
Thos. Peppler
Hightstown, Wi
Frank A. Brown
Liverpool & London & Globe
Royal, Inc. Co. of North America
Commercial Union, Standard
Mercer County Mutual
Shrewsbury Hutual
Monmouth County Mutual
Office Press Building
Oranbury, N. J
Trenton Clothing Company
N. Broad St
Clothiers
Furnlohers
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