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Newspaper
Elizabeth Daily Journal
Location
Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1908
Page
5
A large number of students from multiple grammar schools are slated to receive diplomas on June 26, with many graduates planning to enter Battin High School in the fall. The list includes numerous students from Schools Nos. 1 and 29 and 26, among others, with a broad roster of graduates named and a sense of historic achievement for the district.
A New York woman recounts a Halifax shopping trip where 10 percent discounts are the norm. She learns prices are reduced only by discount, not marked, and notes locals dress plainly yet shop with wary savviness. The piece ends with a quip on gyroscopic steadiness for newspapers and leaders.
The Journal's Daily Puzzle presents a cryptic, garbled item titled Puzzle of Yesterday. It features unclear text remnants and puzzle clues that puzzle readers as they try to decode names and phrases from the faded page.
Elizabeth High School Alumni Association marks its tenth anniversary with a Friday evening meeting at Accanuity Hall. An 8 PM business session includes officer elections. Principal William F. Little will present graduate class entries for alumni status. Superintendent Clement will speak and Irene Mein will recite. Harold Febrey performs Quixotic Quakers in a musical farce directed by Thomas F. Wilson, with a cast from area schools. Afterward, dancing and informal reunions follow.
A London ode explains petrified forests in Albany Australia. It suggests ancient full vegetation buried by sand, water solidified branches, wind removed sand, leaving a stone forest that reappears over ages as fossilized trunks and gray rock.
Vice Chancellor Fluwell signed an order directing Au nt Maulbrede to pay Pauline Mulbrede $5 per week alimony pending divorce trial on cruelty grounds. Mulbrede, with three children ages 10, 9, and 7, is represented by Samuel Schleimer. Alfred A. Stein denies cruelty. The piece also includes unrelated local advertisements.
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