State wards need $1.1 million for new buildings
New Jersey Commissioner Byers reports the state must spend about $1.1 million to provide proper accommodations for 17,706 wards. He urges two new insane colonies, completion of Morris Plains expansion, and more facilities at Vineland, Rahway, Clinton, and Burlington.
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Trenton
State Charities and Corrections
Byers
Mielder
Rahway
Clinton
Essex
Byerg
Morris Plains Insane Hospital
Morris Plains
Commission On
Crim
Trenton Insane Hospital
Skimmiin
Vineland
Burlington County Colony
Red Bank Council Cleans Up Affairs In Adjourned Session
The Red Bank mayor and council adjourned to tidy year end finances approving notes totaling 24675.78 and 1900 for legal services while noting cash on hand of 13000. Chief Wymbs reported 496 arrests in 1914 with bicycle and auto violations highlighted. The dock committee was discharged and New Year’s Day meeting set.
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Borough of
Red Bank
Arthur L. Wymbs
Williams
Council
William J. Swannell
New York
W. A. Sweeney
Buena Vista Place
Hurley
Edmund Wilson
Land and Loan Company
General Markets HUTTER Price shifts after holiday light receipts
Receipts after the holiday were lighter than expected, allowing gains in Taney butter and fresh table stock. Cheese and eggs showed mixed demand with a generally weak market tone for creamery and dairy items. cheese prices drifted lower and market activity remained subdued with limited high grade demand.
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Hutter
Taney Bulter
Healiday
Muiliee
Wisconsin
Binennery
Hennery
Live Stock Markets Report from Litt leburgh
Receipts varying across cattle hogs and sheep markets with steady to higher trends. Prices include prime heavy hogs 7.40 to 7.65 per cwt, fat cattle 7.00 plus, calves up to 8.75, and sheep and lambs broadly steady with calves around 5.75 to 6.50 per cwt.
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Litteburgh
Dee
Gi Cattlye
Travels of the Blood in a Mitn’s Belly
A dated medical note states that all blood in a mitn’s belly passes through the heart every two minutes, highlighting a curious circulation detail from historical physiology notes.
Bell System Offers Stock Purchase to Long-Time Employees
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company announces that Bell System workers with at least two years of service may buy stock at 110 per share on easy terms. Each employee may purchase up to one share per 300 of annual wages or ten shares total, with $2 monthly payments starting March 1915. Dividends will be applied to the purchase and the plan targets full payment by November 1918. If employment ends or the employee dies, payments plus earned dividends (minus 4 percent interest) are refunded. The Bell System, parent to eight and a half million stations, employs about 160,000 and has 60,000 stockholders.
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State Arsenal
State Farm
Cumberland County
State Home
Jamesburg
Women's
Byers
Rahway Reformatory
Rahway
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell System
Bell Telephone System
United States
Christmas Gatherings Brighten Oakhurst Homes
Oakhurst residents share Christmas visitations among family and friends including Wilber, Brown, White, King, Eisele, Gramann, Hibbetts, Coon and Youmans. A Lauried marriage of Cora Youmans and Robert Bennett occurred Christmas Day. Church events at Oakhurst M. I. and a New Year’s Eve Ushers’ Union meeting are noted.
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Thomas Wilber
Eatontown
Lottie Brown
West Park Avenue
Edgar White
Deal Boulevard
Bloomfield White
James King
Irene
Lewis Street
Frank Eisele
New York
Joseph Hisele
Hiberon
Henry Gramann
Norwood Avenue
William Gramann
Long Branch
Harry Demorest
Marcus Coon
Benjamin Fury
McCann
Freehold
George H. van Note
Monmouth Road
Rogsteen Hibbetts
Lake Street
William Hibbetts
Nora Hibbetts
Rutherford
Royal Hibbetts
Cora Youmans
George Youmans
West Lincoln Avenue
Robert Bennett
William Bennett
West Long Ranch
J. B. Whitton
Louise Snyder
Lester Youmans
Rosteen Hibbetts
Oakhurst
Owen proposes peace insurance plan for referendum war vote
Senator Owen of Oklahoma unveils a peace insurance plan to replace presidential and congressional war declarations with a national referendum. The scheme calls for a majority popular vote and invites readers to advertise in the Daily Record to promote the idea.
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Owen
Washington
Oklahoma
Congress
Navesink News Timber Buyers and Local Notes
Charles Thompson and Manuel Silva bought Brown's woods timber near Navesink and will ship piling poles and cordwood. Fire Company truck out of order. hand hose cart in use after cylinder cracked and sent to Red Bank for repair. George Snyder finished porch and floor at Joseph Linz Mayer’s house. Uncalled letters at Long Branch post office include names from Dec 19 and Dec 26 1914. Too Much Johnson play set for Red Bank’s St James Hall New Year’s Eve with George Grause directing and local cast and dancing afterward.
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Charles Thompson
Manual Silva
Brown’s Woods
Navesink
Navesink Fire Company
Red Bank
George Snyder
Joseph Linzmayer
John Robertson
Locust Point
Long Branch
Harry Archer
George W. Brooks
Corwin Fisher
EK. A. Gillespie
A. M. Hayes
Warren H. Higley
Philip Reynolds
Paul de Mola
Mary Graves
Katherine Kean
Henry Keller
Ruth Keller
Everett Lawndress
Gregory Mazza
Jos. A. Oliver
Katie Parens
Eugene Taylor
Helen van Wickle
Thomas Young
T. L. Slocum
P.M
Johnson
St. James’ Hall
Monmouth Street
George Grause
Arce
Edward O'Flaherty
Marion Conrad
Alice Schmidt
Michael J. Hynan
Francis J. Egan
William Ryan
Martin McCue
James A. Larkins
John J. Gorman
Harald A. Giblin
Marie Skelly
Harry Giblin
Frank Monahan
To Keep Stoppers From Sticking
A note on using glycerin around glass bottle stoppers to prevent sticking. The item ends with a quip about Satan never vacationing and working overtime from the Washington Post.
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Satan
Washington Post
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BELL
Oakhurst News
The
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van Loons
aRicuy
Wes TS
LE Gant
Navesink News
Steinbach Company
Nefit Jeracy
Asbury Park
Deaver
Broadway and
Third Avenue
Eixtra
Wien
Norway
Dunham's
Schepp’s
Taylor’s
van Camp
Columbia River
Juno
Scott Tissue Towels
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