Babies Contest Draws Wide Interest at Local Pageant
The kindergarten style event awarded best baby girl to Jamice Lee Watts and best baby boy to John Woolley with near perfect scores. Judges from New York assessed infants from New York and nearby towns, while donors and sponsors supported prizes and gifts for all participants.
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Ice Lee Watts
Eustace G. Watts
Clara W. Phillips
Daugh
Charles Phillips
Phillips
Alley
Son
George E
Plorence Sherman
Margaret Parker
Busi
I Miller
L. S. Plant & Co
G. T. Putnam & Son
Merrall & Conan Co
Lord Taylor
James W. Wood
J. R. Wert
James Seller
Altman
Horlick
A. M. Townley & Co
Jamice ‘Lee Watts
Eustace Watts
John ‘Woolley
George E. Woolley
Thomas G. Phelan
Thomas Phelan
Thomas Dickinson
Mary McVeigh
Thomas McVeigh
Deal
Woodrow Wilson Sandlerton
Bernard H. Sandier
Madigan Avenue
New York
Elisabeths Bennett
Charles Bennett
Red Bank
Florence McGinty
William McGinty
Oakhurst
Joseph Cable
McGinty
Thomas McGinty
Frank Watts
Marshall Smock
Rupert Smock
George Mulholland
James Mulholland
Joseph Sacco
James Sacco
Lass
Bertha Laws
John Laws
Florence Drake
Harry Drake
Dorothy Hyndsman
Albert Hyndsman
Rosane Heny
Arnold Woolley
Louis A. Woolley
Warren Hoons
Harry W. Hoons
Howard Lawn
Sol. N. Lawn
Harry W. Tallman
Augustine Bassone
John Bassone
Gladys McGuire
Thomas McGuire
Vivian Fesler
Wallace Fesler
Jeanette Morton
Frank Morton
Agnes Laws
Harry Laws
Ruth Hazel Johnson
John ¥. Johnson
Alma Grayson
Thomas Grayson
Lillian Lustbaum
Alexander Lustbaum
Rosalie Hennessey
Arthur Hennessey
Augustine Basone
John Bassdone
Lillie Lustbaum
Harvest Home at Holy Cross Sea Bright This Weekend
The annual harvest home for Holy Cross Catholic Church Sea Bright is scheduled for tonight and tomorrow night. A brief church notice encourages community welfare and reflections on happiness and generosity.
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Holy Cross Catholic Church
Sea Bright
The Mystery of Gravitation Explored by Ether Theory
In this early science essay the nature of gravitation is examined as an unseen force that gives weight and orbits bodies. It discusses how gravity acts on moving and resting objects, the Earth Moon system, and the ether as a possible medium for a push rather than a pull. It ends with aphorisms on spending and work ethics.
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Earth
Charles F. Roush
Audh
Garrett P
Serciss
New York Journal
Cuzco and the Incas in Ancient Urban Form
Scribner's Magazine describes Cuzco as a wealthy city of perhaps 200000, debating its age and royal lineage. It outlines the Inca capital’s rectangular plan, two main streets, four quarters, river Hoataway bridges, and palatial hills, reflecting imperial governance and provincial divisions.
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Cuzco
Gareflasso
Tere
Mitico Capie
Huayna Capac
Montesinos
Donited
Gipitat
Édeh Uader
Ciméo
Palatine Hill
Scribner
Checkered Career of the Wonderful Parisian Cathedral Notre Dame
A historical sketch from London Strand Magazine traces Notre Dame's origins from a 528 AD first cathedral to a 1351 finish, noting rulers and restorations. It recalls Saint Alexander II laying the foundation, Napoleon reopening the church after the 1793–02 upheavals, and later 19th century restorations by Viollet le Duc and others amidst revolutionary dangers and mob desecrations.
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Notre Dame
London Strand
Childebert
Alexander II
Beractius
Napoleon
Louis XIV
Lussus
Viollet le Duc
Boeswillwald
National Guard
Second Class versus First Class in Rail Travel
A London Globe remark notes how railway class distinctions apply to ticket holders. It contrasts mail addressing for second class season ticket holders Mr. Blank with first class holders A. Blank Esq. highlighting railway influence over motorbus class issues.
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Esquire
Mr. Blank
A. Blank
London Globe
Habits and hired men lure farm humor in quotes
A Kansas City Journal gag spread parodies farm life with Binks scolding a fisherman for not biting and a farmer noting the hired man eludes the moving pictures. The humor hinges on patience and the elusive worker, a light regional vignette.
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Farmer Heck
Kaonkas City Journal
Hushed Exchange Sparks Odd Journal Snippet
A fragmented dialogue from a Boston Transcript item shows Mrs Knoeg and Fane More discussing life and business rigor in a terse exchange. The readable lines hint at social commentary within a clipped newspaper fragment.
Crucial Point Bride Questions Nerves Before Ceremony
Bride recalls Amy showing self possession after her father’s cue as her mother asks if nerves troubled the ceremony. The fragment captures a family moment centered on composure and ceremonial timing.
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Bride
Public ovens in Japan heat meals for a small fee
The article notes that in most Japanese cities a public oven in streets offers meal cooking for houswives. It references Bishop Heber and his quick composition during a visit to Dean Stanley and mentions his revision from savage to heathens.
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Bishop Heber
Dean Stanley
Greenland
Ley Mountains
Japan
Where Wesley Wrote Hymns Amid Gravesend Vicarage Oaks
Rev J A Wickatead of Bexley gives a Wesleyan Methodist account from Gravesend and Dartford. It notes that Charles Wesley wrote hymns near an old oak in the vicarage garden where John Wesley and George Whitefield also met for conferences. Diary entries from September 22, 1740, and December 2, 1749, are cited describing sermons and leisure for other work.
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Wesley
J. A. Wickatead
Bexley
Kent
Gravesend
Dertford
John
Charles
George
Whitefield
Weelay
Shadow
Plera
Church Family
Fowl Kills Two Year Old At St Brieux France
A large thin China cock attacked a two year old child while he played near his parents home in St Brieux. The bird fought for bread and inflicted injuries so severe the child died shortly afterward.
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St.Brieux
France
Reformation Quote on Sending Him Away Abroad
A fragment urges letting him depart to a distant country where he is unrecognized and not known, avoiding sending him to the devil where he is familiar. The text attributes the line to Br, Aameg Jonguca.
Advertising Topham and the Central Emergency
A garbled OCR fragment references Dr Tophem and an accident report. It notes readers cut down a long story and mentions a Chronicle. Details are unclear but involve an advertising or medical figure and a central emergency context.
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Topham
Tophem
Ogee
Ceorien’ Ain Poeta Chronicle
Soured on Afternoon Teas
A fragmented note describes a rough scene with a teacup and a plate in one hand, a grand piano in the background, and a lack of items to set a scene, conveying a sense of dissatisfaction with an afternoon tea setting.
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W. H. Woolley & CO
Broadway
Long Branch
N. J
George Elliot
Pennsylvania Railroad
Hudson
West Point
Newburgh
Newbuire
West Pom
Jersey City
Confor
Benjamin Fraoklig
Dallas
Oman
Historic Notre Dame
Binks
Knoeg
Ron
Boston Transcript
Coldstein’s Department
the Store For
Thrifty
Hemi
al Goldstein
Tment
Grand Theatre
Dolly
Hanson Tre
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