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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1915
Page
4
The Cranbury Press reports New Jersey voters rejected the proposed constitutional amendment granting women equal suffrage by over 50,000 in a statewide vote. Every county except Ocean voted against. Ocean gave a small majority in favor. The two other amendments on constitutional change and condemnation of property also failed.
An editorial urges removing Delaware River tolls to ease crossing from Pennsylvania to Trenton. It argues toll abolition would boost Trenton merchants and regional business, urging mutual state cooperation to fund free bridges and promote local progress.
The Spring Lake Gazette notes a strong New Jersey majority voting against a constitutional amendment for women's suffrage. It criticizes suffragist arguments as lacking wisdom and warns of lingering animosities from the campaign while hoping for better discourse in five years.
The Voice of the People reports suffrage leaders plan a campaign to win New Jersey lawmakers to grant women the right to vote for presidential electors. They will seek pledges from legislative candidates though most voters oppose women voting. Dr Anna Howard Shaw says New Jersey results aid the national movement.
The article notes the special election held last Tuesday cost over 150000 dollars and will be paid by taxpayers. It concludes that residents must decide whether the price was worth it in their own minds.
A 1915 editorial extols protection as the safeguard for wages and industry, arguing tariffs raise factory jobs and demand for farm goods, while free trade warns of hard times. It promotes subscribing to Youth's Companion 1916 and cites editorial praise from Washington.
A reader testimony states that Cham berlain's Cough Remedy cured a severe bronchial cough after one bottle. She praises its immediate benefit and ongoing recommendation to friends from Fort Wayne Indiana. Obtainable everywhere.
The President writes from jail in 1916 about accepting a summer home offer in New Jersey. He thanks Mr Scully and the delegation, hopes to visit, and suggests paying his usual summer rent or donating to charity. He promises to stay away from the camp and asks to send regards to friends back home.
The Middlesex County Board of Agriculture schedules its third annual exhibition in Brunswick Hall New Brunswick on November 30 1915. It features a corn growing contest with cash prizes for top ten varieties supported by the National Bank of New Brunswick, a Grange exhibit race for four county Granges, and ribbons for other agricultural products. Exhibits arrive by 10 00 AM for judging in the afternoon.
On October 15 1915 the Middlesex County Board of Agriculture held a field meeting at John Evans farm New Market to review a neighborhood corn test conducted with Farm Demonstration. Nineteen samples were weighed per variety showing yields from 44 to 67 bushels per acre an increase up to 50 percent. D P Witter of New York State Agricultural College spoke on corn growing followed by an informal discussion on farm practices.
Mrs. John Newton of Irving New York reports two years of stomach trouble and chronic constipation improving rapidly after using Chamberlain's Tablets. She says four or five bottles restored her health and the product is obtainable everywhere.
For indigestion never take pepsin or preparations containing pepsin as you will need more and more. A tonic like Chamberlain's Tablets helps the stomach perform its functions naturally and is obtainable everywhere.
Notice states a general election in Cranbury Township on Tuesday November 2 1915 from six a.m. to seven p.m. Votes cast in Odd Fellows Hall Cranbury and Grange Hall Plainsboro for state senator assembly members five freeholders county coroner an assessor a collector a township committee man and justice of the peace. Final register revision meeting October 26 1915 from 1 to 9 p.m. Walter H Havens clerk.
Ship of Monroe hours from six in the morning to seven in the evening for a township election at the School House Prospect Plains. Voters choose one State Senator three General Assembly members five Freeholders one Coroner one Constable two Surveyors of Highways one Poundkeeper and Appropriations for Monroe. JOSEPH SHAW clerk.
The township of South Brunswick announces local elections at VanDerveer's Hall in Dayton and American Mechanics Hall in Monmouth Junction at seven o clock pm. Voters will elect a State Senator three General Assembly members five Freeholders a Middlesex County Coroner an Assessor a Committee man a Justice of the Peace a Constable two Surveyors of Highways for the township. Howard Jemison Clerk. Dated October 17 1915.
Election will be held in the Borough of Helmetta at seven o clock p m in the Hose House. Purpose to elect one State Senator three General Assembly members five Freeholders one Coroner for Middlesex County one Mayor two Councilmen one Assessor one Collector two Surveyors of Highways for the Borough of Helmetta. Board of Registry Pp J Hogan Borough Clerk of Helmetta.
Notice from William H. Brooks Borough Clerk Jamesburg that an election will be held Tuesday November 2 1915 in Borough Hall Augusta Street for the Mayor two Councilmen one Assessor one Collector one Constable for the Borough of Jamesburg.
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