Civil Service Reform Brings Postmaster Changes and Site Debate
The piece notes Civil Service reforms may reduce patronage in fourth class postmasters and discusses how exams might be conducted for smaller offices. It mentions a proposed Asbury Park post office site near the railroad station and that condemnation proceedings have been authorized. It also highlights interest from Wilbur A. Heiseley in the Garfield Monument at Long Branch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
New Jersey
Clas
Aacy
Postoffice Department
Congresamien
Congresamen
Comte
Asbury Park
Simmer
Supervising Architect
Treasury Department
Department
Department of Justice
Wilbur A. Heiseley
Long Branch
Monmouth County
Garfield
Long Iene Officials Back Howell Bill for Martyr Memorial Fund
Representative Howell introduced a year ago a bill to appropriate 230,000 toward the ingame for a martyr memorial. President A McFadkin and the Mayor of Long Iene have also written in support of the project.
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Howell
A. McFadkin
Long Iene
Clue to Owner of the U S Bonds Found in City Records
City Clerk John F. Kenah reports a potential lead in the Kate Burke missing bonds case. A Catherine Burke, widow of Daniel, lived at 76 Pine Street in 1883 and another, widow of John, occupied Bond Street 1851 to 1882, suggesting the bonds may be hidden in a former Burke residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Kenah
Kate Burke
United States Treasury
Catherine Burke
Daniel Burke
Pine Street
John Burke
Bond Street
Treasury Department
Kenah
Band Plays Dixie in Washington After Lincoln Death
A Washington society witness recalls April 14 1865 eventful day. Lincoln spoke from the White House window as regiments passed and the band played Dixie for the first time in the capital. His words and the moonlit crowd linger in memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capital
Abraham Lincoln
Washington
New York Times
Willard Hotel
Willard
White House
Lincoln
Pais
Dixie
Weather prophets of old in early meteorology facts
The article traces meteorology from ancient civilizations noting Greek and Roman practices. It cites early wind instruments and rain measurements, highlights Byzantine and medieval church influence, and mentions a revival in the thirteenth century with renewed observations and government interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Job
Homer
Hésoid
Palestine
Greece
Athens
Europe
Soret Pome
Miltoniana Tops December Book News Monthlys
The December Book News Monthly centers on Miltoniana with Norma Bright Carson’s piece The Homes of Milton and other essays on modern illustrators. It highlights Christmas themed fiction and art, and reviews from Popular Mechanics McClure's Success and national magazines, with notes on Mary Roberts Rinehart and Eugene Wood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norma Bright Carson
Milton
Fisher
Christy
Underwood
Books Every Child Should Have in Reading Circle List
Frederick Taber Cooper notes in The Reading Circle that children benefit from old tested tales. The December Circle Magazine presents a list of nursery classics including Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Jungle Books, Robinson Crusoe, Little Women and more. The feature also hints at an upcoming Journal aerial story on a French crime mystery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Taber Cooper
Reading Circle
Chilren
Dr. Cooper
Lewis Carroll
Rudyard Kipling
Hawthorne
Charles Kingsley
Jules Verne
Leila
Lord Fauntleroy
Frances Hodgson Sturnett
Hans Brinker
Mary Mapes Dodge
Lauren M. Alcott
Lamb
Tickena
Irving
Ernest Thompson Seton
Marvel Rheumatic Compound Promises Cures for $1
An advertisement claims permanent cures for rheumatism at one dollar and a half. it cites a testimonial from an elderly woman in Elizabeth New Jersey praising the Marvel Rheumatic Compound for freeing her from fourteen years of pain and enabling her to rise again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Livingston
Elizabeth, N. J
Pennsylvania Railroad Introduces All-Steel Passenger Cars
The Pennsylvania Railroad operates over two hundred all steel passenger coaches dining cars baggage cars and mail cars east of Pittsburgh. Steel framework steel sheathing fireproofing and cement floors render the coaches indestructible and sanitary with electric lighting and advanced ventilation on major routes. The new cars are longer with seating for sixty to ninety and are standard on lines to New York Philadelphia Washington and Pittsburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburg
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
Pennsylvania’ Railroad
America
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Civil Service
New Asbury Park
U. S
Weather Prophets OF Old
The
Circle
Business Circle
Music Circle
Collector's Circle
Home Circle
Mother's Circle
Leo Crane
Lilian Bell
John Fleming Wilson
Houston
Tomlinson
Billy
Kmartlet
Kate McLaurin
Channing Pollock
Henry L. Mencken
Carolyn Wells
Tudor Jenks
Harold Susman
Clinton Scollard
Elsa Barker
Theodosia Garrison
Gari Melchers
Frank Mond
Hugo Ballin
Mount Vernon
Oliver Kemp
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Lippincott’s
Eugene Wood
Ellis Island
Mabel Pottertt
Newark
Canal Departments
Popular Mechanics
Edison
California
Kimball
Wright Aero
Count Zeppelin
United States
Burton J. Hendrick
McClure
Kuropatkin
Japan
Russia
Richard Gotthtl
Turkey
Kayton Hamilton
Henry Litchfield West
Bismarck
Germany
John Gorst
M. P
Red Book
James de Gehler
Guilesey
Clarence E. Mulford
Richard Washburn Child
Success
Leroy Scott
Glenmore Davis
Robert Haven Schauffler
Albert W. Vorse
George Sand
Alfred de Musset
Panama
It& People
Eleanor Yorke Bell
James Whitcomb Riley
Riley
Frank H. Sweet
Charlton Lawrence Edholm
Captain M. B. Stewart
Ax Beach
Alaska
Roosevelt
National Magazine
Peter MacQueen
Globe Trotter
Magazine of Business
Henry Clews
C. 8
France
Aerial
Oliver & Drake, Graham & McCloskey Co
E. W. Parsons
W. RB. Richart
B.F. Davis
Thum Bros
Frank C. Stutslen
Martin & Reibel
Bulletin
BY Gaston Leroux
John Sloan
N. Y. Evening Post
Signet
Carmen
Howe
Otto Roggenkamp
Watchmaker & Jeweler
Broad Street
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