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Newspaper
Elizabeth Daily Journal
Location
Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1908
Page
2
An Astor Place establishment promotes a comprehensive home outfitting service for new or renovated houses. It offers painting, paper-hanging, flooring, furniture, kitchenware, linens, and full project management to return a completed, ready-to-live-in home with their best team and facilities.
China and Glassware For the Country House offers dining room and kitchen items with varied designs and prices. Dinner sets range 7.50 to 30 for full sets, plus single pieces, many patterns in English and American porcelain, with gilt pieces and meat platters included. Chamber toilet sets and white nets, water tumblers, Polonia pressed glass tumblers, Jardinieres, and umbrella stands are listed with assorted prices.
The Elizabeth Daily Journal lists offices at Broad Street and downtown branches in New York Chicago and other cities. Advertising rates include one cent per word for simple ads with four words minimum and ten cents for bold lines. The paper promotes telegraph news service and Chicago and New York offices provide subscription and advertising access.
A historical notice discusses forthcoming Presidential primaries across counties, with Democratic and Republican delegates chosen at district conventions. It notes polling hours, ballot handling concerns, and Governor Worth's earlier push for primaries under a statewide framework, while criticizing party bosses and election management in counties like Union and Kakex.
A fragmented discussion on myths about Romes fall and Horatii, noting how legends color history. It argues Conclunus and other yarns are fables, with the Ciwinmnatis invention used as a pejorative for spellbinding petition rhetoric, and cites the Chinese wall as a symbol of tariff plausibility.
A long and tangled report traces a former mayor of a major city returning to public life after obtaining an undertaker license while party factions split, a Republican candidate navigating a city deeply Democratic, and broader New Jersey and national political shifts. The piece mentions Mark Fagan, Colby, Franklin Murphy, and Roosevelt era discourse on governance, the governor’s race, and upcoming elections.
Fragmented OCR notes describe a harsh depiction of widow’s support and property bequests in a legislative session. The text laments misery, poverty among women, and the cruelty of laws that left honest women poor and dependent, highlighting flawed policy and social injustice.
The measure reforms a 150 year old issue by redistributing an estate when a man dies without heirs, ensuring a widow receives his wealth. Senator Ackerman pushed the bill, with Governor’s support as the session closed, ending competing legal burdens that left destitution in its wake.
In Paterson a plan to extend a trolley line faced opposition as President McCarter blocked the project citing civil service concerns. Debate centers on municipal support and the need for new legislation to permit rail expansion in New Jersey while officials urge orderly, lawful action and public interest.
The New Jersey diary notes Adopting the new Imwt Jersey City Journal on Fowler candidacy and reports Moxon denying a Fifth District Congressional bid. It predicts Fowler’s renomination, cites his influence in Congress, and mentions the saloon’s waning political power amid civic conscience and church influence shaping reform across states.
A fragment from Youth's Companion discusses money stringency and a humorous exchange about buying a hunter hat. Mike, newly named foreman, asserts authority in a terse exchange with Finnegan, emphasizing silence as the ultimate reply.
The Carpets and Rugs department occupies the entire Fifth floor of the New Building and announces summer rugs and exclusive novelties for vacation homes. It features hot fibre, nine to thirteen size options, and prices from affordable to premium. Also listed are Crex, Kay, cretonne, hand woven, straw mattings, linoleums, oil cloths, and made to order hand tufted rugs with three week delivery and specialist Oriental stock.
Classified ad listing Wanamaker gas ranges and oil stoves with various oven sizes and burner configurations. Includes prices for ovens 12 by 10 inches at 8.75 and larger ranges at 17 to 18 dollars, hot plates with one to three burners, tubing and wickless oil stoves, all described in period ad language.
A rich collection of new wall papers offers floral crowns, cut-out borders, hunting and nunnery friezes, fruit and foliage designs, grass cloths and papyrus coverings from America and Europe. Wide price range. staff can provide specific information on request.
The Wanamaker stock features a wide range of refrigerators and ice chests praised for excellence and efficiency. Various models are advertised with glass lined interiors and cooling features, including Puritan Refrigerators. Prices range from $1 to $20 for different styles and sizes.
The Furniture Store showcases spring and summer assortments for city country and seashore homes. Wicker chairs rockers and settees priced from low to high, with beds dressers and dining-room pieces in oak and enamel finishes. Displays on the seventh and eighth floors detail entries cabinets and extending tables.
These lamps fit oil gas or electricity with artistic designs for drawing rooms piazza wall or gateway. Wrought iron lamps plain or elaborate shaded options priced from 4 to 98 dollars. Lanterns for gateways 9.60 to 83 dollars. Summer lamp shades solid colors silk fringe. Third floor New Building.
A local supplier advertises ruffled muslin curtains with eelf ruffies and plain muslins in new combinations. Cretonne displays feature English and Arabesque designs in white, with bamboo furniture and window shades also promoted. Prices range from modest to premium, along with slip covers and fire extinguishers.
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