General Election Notice for Jamesburg November 1921
Notice of general election in Jamesburg Borough on Tuesday November 1921 from six AM to seven PM Poll No 1 Council Chamber Poll No 2 Fire House Augusta Street Jamesburg district split by Augusta Front Street and Pennsylvania Railroad lines Officers to be elected State Senator General Assembly Surrogate Freeholders Mayor Councilors Assessor Collector and one year council seat A statewide bond referendum on a 14 million dollar debt for state institutions to be approved Witnessed by Clerk William H Brooks September 2 1921.
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Borough of
Jamesburg
Council Chamber
Borough Hall
Augusta Street
Fire House
Pennsylvania
Front Street
General Assembly of
State of New Jersey
Board of Chosen Freeholders
Middlesex
State Board of Control of
William H. Brooks
Wanted to Buy Chickens and Pork for Top Prices
Advertised buyer seeks well fed chickens and pork with high quality. Pork must weigh 125 pounds or more. Large demand for all kinds of poultry. Reference Mechanics National Bank, Trenton, N J.
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Mechanics National Bank
Trenton
N. J
Is Your Automobile Insured Do Not Wait For Rates
Insurance notice announcing automobile coverage options including fire theft public liability property damage and collision. Urges calling writing or visiting to obtain rates before loss. Also lists many related insurance services and a notary public seal.
Boasting and praise as a cultural code across Japan
Julian Street explores how Japanese etiquette discourages boasting and overt praise, preferring indirect language. A foreigner may misread this nuanced habit, while the interviewee notes universal human nature behind these customs, illustrated by a Kyoto anecdote about a man forbidding his wife to smoke yet offering his cigarette case to others.
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Kioto
Julian Street
Century Magazine
Idea Frowned On By Nature In Single Child Debate
A Transylvanian Child Study Society report notes the one child family tends to be poorer not richer. The Lancet’s Roumanian correspondent cites data from Banat showing single children grow idle and self-indulgent. Families fear ruin as farms are worked by others and wages rise. Female vanity and social disdain reinforce the pattern.
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Child Study Society of
Transylvania
Banat
The
Lancet
London
Why Radio Appeals
A historical note on the rise of wireless telegraphy from amateur curiosity to a broad public interest. Government radio reports and multiple radio telephone stations expanded access, letting farmers, village businessmen, campers and others stay informed on commerce politics sports stocks and even religion.
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Scientific American
Why the White House got its name
The residence of the U S president is called the White House because freestone walls are painted white. During Harrison and McKinley administrations officials used executive mansion, but Roosevelt restored the term White House as the official name.
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White House
United States
Harrison
McKinley
Roosevelt
Why Some Men Like Golf
An exchange about golf captures a man’s sense of freedom and exhilaration. Mr Grow cher jokes that the sport’s lure lies in promenading over the landscape without being told to keep off the grass.
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Mr. Growcher
Emerald Isle term origin in Drennan poems
The phrase Emerald Isle is linked to Dr. William Drennan, author of Glen dalloch and other eighteenth century poems, whose prolific ver dure usage popularized the name in literary circles.
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Emerald Isle
William Drennan
Glendalloch
Weekend visitors travel among towns in New Jersey
Hightstown residents hosted visitors from Bordentown Trenton Union Valley Nutley Bergen Mills Clarksburg Applegarth and Hightstown while Mrs Schenck and her mother visited Plainfield with Mr Culver. The social week end featured multiple family gatherings and greetings across several communities.
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Holmes Pellett
Bordentown
Peter Ives
Trenton
Frank Wolfe
Jacob Heidinger
Union Valley
Nutley
Clifford Heidinger
William Rogers
Applegarth
Lester Sherman
Clarksburg
B Frank Mount
Bergen Mills
George Rogers
Hightatown
Mra
J. B. Schenck
Martha McDowell
Plainfield
John Culver
Hud son Highlands excavations settle Revolutionary camp facts
A New York Historical Society commission reports three years of digging in the Hudson Highlands near West Point. Studying camp refuse shows ten Massachusetts regiments, five Connecticut, and one Rhode Island, plus luxury British camp items and unbroken gear. They found fortifications and previously unknown forts.
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Hudson Highlands
West Point
New York Historical Society
Washington
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Highlands
America
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Ody
Fohadine
McCall’s M
APER
Youth’s Companion
Boston
the House of Kuppenheimer Clothes
Reiton
ChiBing
Trenton, N. J
Horace Mann
Scotland
BR. A
Donnelly
State Street
Broad
John N. Stonaker
Cranbury, N. J
John Worcb
N. Broad Street
Charles G. Groves
Office North Main Street
Japan
Steinbach’s
Stein
Asbury Park
Tersey
Hightstown
Hudson Heights
B. F. Gunson
E State Street
Clothier and Haberdasher
Hotel Windsor
Trenton,n. J
H.R. Disbrow & Son
Allentown, N. J
Oranbury, N. J
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