Parr-Vreeland wedding gifts include Belgrade Lake honeymoon key
The Parr Vreeland wedding at Branchport featured a unique gift from the Jer sey City bank head a gold key cast for a Belgrade Lake honeymoon a one month stay for the newlyweds The box warned not to open until 24 hours had elapsed. The gift signaled a month at Belgrade Lake Maine before returning to New Jersey.
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Parr-Vreeland
Branchport
Belgrade Lake
Maine
Jersey City
Drifting Life Ends Over Money Demand
A humorously candid exchange from Houston Post captures a husband noting 80 percent of marriage happiness is money. The wife reveals a need for funds, jolting the couple from their dreamy drift into a practical financial reality.
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Houston Post
Picturesque vacation trips possible in motor busses
A Long Branch auto bus offers scenic trips along the Jersey coast. The two o clock Sea Bright excursion includes Ocean Drive and Monmouth Beach with ocean breezes and views of grand homes. A 2.50 trolley connects to Red Bank via Rumson road, with sights like Cadwallader’s and the Road of the Two Rivers.
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Long Branch
Sea Bright
Second Avenue
Broadway
Liberty Street
Pleasure Bay Sestion
Monmouth Beach
Ocean Drive
Jersey
Rumson
Hintelmann's
Middletown News Notes Local Change and Commerce
Contractor Fred F P Elston builds a jail behind the Town Hall on the King's Highway. Thomas V Coulton buys the Field property with five acres. Community updates cover travel, church events, agricultural progress, and small business practices amid an approaching summer ice famine.
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Fred FP. Elston
King’s Highway
Thomas V. Coulton
Travelers’ Insurance Company
Joseph Field
George K Hopping
Lake George
Flopping
Anna Applegate Conover
Riverside Avenue
Charles d. Merford
Herbert Smith
Yonkers
William Smith
Asbury Park
William C. White
Plainfield
Monmouth Memorial Hospital
Long Branch
Woman's Missionary Society
The
Reformed Church
George L. Crane J
Jacob T. Beekman
Red Bank
Charles Fallardean
Lave
Jacob Beekman
Second
Freehold Reformed Church
Howard Tindall
Benjamin F. Allen
Unique Gravestone Inscription With Daguerreotype
A gravestone between Kennebun sport and Cape Porpoise bears a unique symbol and a silver mounted daguerreotype of a young man. The inscription hints at a prudent, book-loving figure preserved beneath the cover, weathered by the elements.
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Kennebunsport
Cape Porpoige
Tristram Tapley
Best Test of Man Says Hugh Black on Struggle and Success
A concise quotation by Hugh Black argues that a man is tested most after achieving success. He warns the path of least resistance appears once attainment is reached, suggesting continued struggle strengthens character.
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Hugh Black
Conversational Lunatics Hear Echoes of Napoleon
In the asylum yard two disturbed men trade grand delusions. One declares he would be a second Napoleon if released, while the other scoffs that the second Napoleon was not impressive.
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Broadway
Bath Avenue
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Keansburg
Fort Monmouth
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