Children Day Exercises Held at Red Bank Churches
Children Day exercises by Sunday Schools of Red Bank churches drew large crowds at First Presbyterian and First Methodist. The morning service baptized Cook Mahahan, Joseph Jackson ish, Mildred Marie Woolley, Rae ith, and Marjorie Woolley. Music featured chorus songs and duets with Miss Sarah HB Fay and Miss Hachel Doremus at piano. Six school girls served as ushers: Florence Lamb Emma leson Blanche Bennett W Worden Myrtle Allen Esther Davison.
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Red Bank
First Presbyterian Church
Sarah HB
Hachel Doremus
First Methodist
Percy Periuchier
Cook Mahahan
Joseph Jacksonish
Mildred Marie Woolley
Raeith
Marjorie Woolley
Little Woolley
Harry Woolley
Marriages and Honors Highlight Red Bank News
In Red Bank at the First Methodist on Monmouth Street a wedding took place at 11 o clock Saturday morning as Rev. Percy Perinchief officiated. The bride Miss Fran Harvey from Tren NJ and groom Chester Arthur Conover from Jersey City were tied in matrimony. The couple will reside in town with families noting past ties to Paul's Methodist Church in Trenton. Gregory's Daughters Win Honors Mary and Henrietta Gregory, daughters of Supervising Prince Christopher Gregory, earned college honors. Henrietta earned bachelor of science and bachelor of pedagogy degrees at Columbia while Mary graduated from Wheelock Kindergarten Training School and plans to teach manual training, spending part of the summer in Atchison, Kansas.
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Monmouth Street
Percy Perinchief
Tren N. J
Fran Harvey
George A. Harvey
Chester Arthur Conover
William H. Conn
Perinchlef
Paul's Methodist Church
Trenton
The Soft Answer General Scotts Retort to a Whist Partner
General Scott after retirement in 1862 at Cozzen s West Point hosts whist every evening. A judge filled in as fourth hand and, paired with Scott, they were badly beaten. The judge apologized for rustiness. Scott replied I am glad to learn I have been playing with latent talent and not with a natural born fool.
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General Scott
Cozzen's
West Point
Scott
Misused Sermon and a Pipe Dream Chandelier Tale
A Kansas City Journal clipping recounts a minister’s scathing sermon aimed at a vain neighbor Mr McDougall and a public story about political vanity. The tale includes a remark from Indian Jim Vinlay about funding a solid brass chandelier for a politician, sparking a sharp rebuke from an Irish-born contributor who recalls shared roots.
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McDougall
MacTay
Jim” Vinlay
Emerald Isle
Blank
Kansas City Journal
Boston Spinning School on the Common Recalled
Winsor notes a spinning craze in Boston with Irish spinners drawing crowds to a spinning school in the common. Thirty five years later the Society For Encouraging Industry and Employing the Poor again used the common for a spinning school with about 800 young women at their wheels as an example and advertisement.
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Boston
Winsor
A Curious Will Sets Raffle For Six Bibles
Dr Wilde of St Ives Huntingdonshire directs £50 to buy land whose yearly rent funds six Bibles at 7s each. Trustees must raffle the Bibles by a saucer with three discs on the parish church altar. Narratives include a humorous dialogue about a husband’s increased economy.
Notable Quotes on Independence by Everson and Celton
A compilation of two aphorisms about individuality. The first praises the great man who remains independent of crowd opinion while among people. The second contrasts the value of a meaningful life with a long life wasted without purpose.
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Ralph Waldo Everson
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Giants versus Long Branch in Hollywood exhibition
Enthusiastic crowd at Hollywood Horse Show Grounds watches New York Giants vs Long Branch. Giants win 11 to 10 after late rally. Hudson strikes out five for Giants, Dracke 8 K for Long Branch. Crowd estimated at 3,500 with ample parking and lively play throughout.
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Hollywood Horse Show Grounds
New York Giants
Long Branch
Giants
Nine
Brennan
Owens
Polo Grounds
New York
Drucke
Wilson
Battery
Hudson
Gonzales
Dracke
Garelesanens
Long Hranch
Rohn
Ramos
Henriques
Tighe
Daly
Johnson
Lugue
Madson
Doyle
Glante
Jonneon
Logie
Window inscription theft at famed chateau relic
Mrs. Lang recounts a French chateau legend where Henry of Navarre scratched Dieu garde de mal ma mie on a window pane. A guide guarded the famed inscription for forty years, until an English visitor stole the pane and was bribed to return it by the master.
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Henry of Navarre
Andrew Lang
Blackwood
Henry Itv
Henry
M. Endel
Chateau
Soldier of fortune William Walker filibuster tale
A detailed sketch of William Walker born in Nashville in 1824, his early editor stint in New Orleans, and his 1850 California move. It covers his Sonora expedition of 1853, the Nicaragua invasion and brief presidency, later Honduras voyage, second try and capture of Truxillo, his surrender to a British ship, court martial, and execution in 1860. Also noted is a Fleet Recorded Yacht Race from 1661 with King Charles II aboard.
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William Walker
Nashville
Tenn
New Ovor
California
Sonora
United Bier
Sanfrancisco
Walker
Nicaragua
Honduras
Truxia
Iscarus
Truxillo
Atlantic Ocean
Charles
Ovelyn
Dutch East India Company
Duke of York
Greenwich
Gravesend
Old Parr Age Question Reopened by Westminster Office
The London Graphic notes Dean Stanley recut the Parr grave inscription at Westminster Abbey. It claims Parr of Salop born 1483 and aged 152 years, died November 16 1685. It also mentions the Countess of Deamond said to be 140, with anecdotes about teeth renewal.
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Old Parr
Dean Stanley
Westminster Abbey
Parr
Salop
Vis
K. Charles
Deamond
Bacon
Archbishop Usher
William Temple
London Graphic
The Way Spaniards Smoke Described in Detail
A vivid account describes Spaniards as expert smokers who inhale smoke, drink a half pint from a wine skin without spilling, then exhale in clouds. The native then resumes conversation, finishing with a contented sigh and continued inhaling, exhaling through nose and mouth.
A Serious Moment In a Marriage Conversation
A married man reflects on a moment of abandonment when observing a woman hanging clothes. He notes the slip of a line and the outcome of mud, describing the psychological moment to leave the woman alone.
It Was Magistrate Records Wife Throat Grabbing Claim
A Philadelphia Record dispatch reports a magistrate hearing where a husband is accused of grabbing his wife by the throat. The court proceedings address the alleged choking incident and related charges.
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Chudge
Dot Vos
Bedle
Philadelphia
Speaker Urges Church In Politics At Men’s Meeting
Rev. Dr. George P. Dougherty of Newark stirred the audience at the First Presbyterian Church in a talk on Religion in Action. He urged the church to intersect with daily life, warned politics are a part of the church, and noted anticipated discussions on Sabbath desecration after the meeting.
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First Presbyterian Church
Men
George P. Dougherty
St. Paul’s M. B
Newark
Dougherty
Church of Today
New Jerusalem
Holy City
State Education Board to Hold Postponed Meeting
The State Board of Education in Trenton New Jersey announces a postponed meeting set for Saturday June 22 due to two members being in Europe causing a lack of quorum. The regular meeting is the first Saturday of each month.
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Trenton
N. J
State Board of Eduocation
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