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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1898
Page
3
Local church schedules list sermons at First Church and Second Church with pastors Rev J E Curry and Rev O F Taylor, plus prayer, mission and class meetings. Town residents and visitors are named among social events at hotels, homes, and gardens, with notes on travel, vacations, and a Labor Day bank closure.
The Zimmerman Cycle Club schedules a race meet in Freehold on Saturday September 10 with an 11 AM 20 mile road race starting and finishing in town followed by an 8 PM track program at Driving Park. Also public sale of estate items by John J Bradley on premises at 1 PM includes horses a cow chickens farm tools and antique furniture. Mrs Noah Applegate aged 80 dies after a Sabbath night fall and illness. funeral at House on September 8 at 1:80 PM.
The First Church congregation hosted their pastor and wife with a large outdoor gathering under a bright moon. About four hundred attendees enjoyed refreshments as steriopticon views of Chinese cities and missionary work were shown and discussed by Rev. Curry.
The four year old bay filly Aurora by Alcan fancy, dam by Draco Medium, stepped a full mile this week in 2:31 in her work. Ajax also progressed, running a full mile in 2:292 with a half in 1:09. Middlesex County Sunday School Association schedules a meeting on Thursday September 8 at the Seventh Day Baptist Church New Market with sessions from prominent speakers addressing the audience.
Sunday services at Second Presbyterian featured the Primary Department singing and an illustrated address by Rev. Mr. Taylor on the value of impressions on the brain. The talk used a graphophone cylinder and mosaics to show how daily acts shape character, urging purity of thoughts before God. The evening featured Samuel Melkonyan discussing his homeland, and agricultural reports from New Jersey noting poor peach yields and a large pear crop.
A string of short items reflects on modern life with humor and irony. Observations range from military pay and household moving to flirtatious fascination, drunken harboring, Mary Stuart’s allure, a farm fire mystery, a Berlin dancing feat, a British Guiana baptism joke, a tragic note, food science claims, London umbrellas, and quips about war and Spain.
A vivid anecdote recalls pianist Paderewski getting lost in a vast New York hotel maze. A black porter guides him to a barber shop by accident, prompting an apologetic manager’s note that the staffer mistook a famous guest for a troublemaker. The piece blends this yarn with light quips and brief observed vignettes from Daily life.
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