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Newspaper
Elizabeth Daily Journal
Location
Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1908
Page
2
A lengthy review traces hoaxes involving the Amitheonian Institute, including forged tablets and “ossified” remains. It details Kinorsan and others exposing baked clay artifacts, a Cardiff Giant and San Diego specimens, and widespread public intrigue. Exhibits and legal questions fueled sensational displays across Michigan, New York, and Washington.
A reader claims Grape Nuts with milk and Dream are a cure for hunger and fatigue, boosting energy for seniors and a traveling son. The letter praises memory, nerve, and balance, noting family members now use the product. Readers urged to “Read The Read to Well- Me” in packages.
A boy fishing on Sunday accidentally tumbled into a creek while an elderly man on the bank was helping to thin out the bank. The boy insisted he intended to fish, not fall in, and a nearby onlooker recalled a garbled exchange.
Early this morning a chicken house behind Ferdinand P. Pepin’s residence at 249 West Grand Street caught fire, likely from a passing railroad spark. Firefighters prevented spread to nearby structures but the chicken house burned. The No. 1 fire carriage was damaged when its horse slipped on a trolley track, breaking carriage shafts and injuring the horse slightly. both are being cared for.
Astronomers anticipate a Sunday eclipse lasting from 8 40 to near noon in Chicago and the U S visibility extends nationwide. The annular event will show a ring of light around the obscured sun with a cluster of planets Mercury Venus Mars Neptune and Uranus nearby after sunset. The phenomenon may not recur for hundreds of years and observers will note the star Arcturus approaching from the south at over 300000 miles per hour.
A historic notice announces free excursions to Westfield lots by the Jersey Club. It claims over 1 million people moved from West Twenty third Street and Liberty Street ferries, with nearly 400 indicating plans to become members. Free round trips to Elizabeth and Newark depart from Liberty Street ferry and West Eighth Street on Saturday and Sunday schedules with tickets obtainable from merchants or company representatives.
A scrambled clipping from Philadelphia Record hints at Paradox and Slobhsi in strong form, with Scudda and Tobhe noted as promising, while a figure called a million is mentioned in relation to current prospects.
A letter from the Philadelphia Record notes a worker named Muggins and Mrs Wigwag, describing a dispute over $10 worth of tickets for a straw berry festival. The piece portrays a frontier style exchange showing tension over pay and admission.
Samu Wl Aslowsky a Union County real estate dealer and builder has vanished after a week. Sub-contractors file claims against his property including seven Bond Street houses a Second Street house and a Fourth Street property. Deeds show Aslowsky transferred properties to a New York man Asoteky then to Baniet Kesaner with Kesaner acting for Aslowsky. His wife unaware of his whereabouts searches New York and Europe possible exile rumored. authorities note two recordings in Union County two weeks prior.
A Maryland State Investigating Commission report criticizes indeterminate sentences and the probation system as flawed. It argues prisoners may game the system for early release, questioning whether merit and reform truly occur under parole guided by officials rather than fixed terms.
An attendant leads a visitor through a frenzied asylum, describing two inmates. The first man sits vacantly, in love and grieving after his beloved wife wed another. The second inmate is a heavily padded, silent, waiting man, unnamed and mysterious.
A wide survey notes Canadian labor growth with 232 unions formed in 2007 and 58 dissolved, alongside movements to unite unskilled workers in Stontrea and a New Zealand colony in Terra de Fargo pursuing mining work. It reports a planned workers hospital in Chicago, an eight hour day policy at the Paris miners conference, and various labour reforms including child labor bills and safety measures. The piece cites figures on unemployed Fort Indiana beggars in Vancouver, union parleys in Washington, and a pending shift toward broader US political organizing. It also mentions British, German, and Australian labor developments, including apprenticeship terms and a Santa Fe Railroad layoff, plus seafaring fatalities in April.
Rev Jervia Clinton Worden former organizer of the Independent German Congregation in Trenton was driven from the city by a mob of around a hundred children and their restrained parents as he left for a Brooklyn call. Police investigated complaints but found the children practicing in bloomers as taught by their teachers. Worden had earlier resided in Elizabeth and served at St Johns Church.
John Olsen of Garwood and Patrick Fitzpatrick, hurt by the interns Wednesday near Palmer street and Third avenue, have been discharged and sent home. Eugene Durr of 138 Sherman Avenue remains hospitalized, with his condition improved and likely to return home in a day or two.
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