Local News Notes From Lafayette Street Area
Mr and Mrs Levi B Van Nest and Grace visit in Saugatuck Conn. Junior choir sang in church. Sacrament of the Lord's Supper at Pres byterian. Marie Wella and Ida Freitag join Nar амatta Council Pocahontas. Woodrow Wilson noted. Measles absences in school. Ladies Aid supper at Flint street six to nine. Sup per postponed due to fireman dinner. Oceanic Fire Company oyster stew to celebrate mortgage payoff. Eight boys join local Boy Scout troop. Flag raised daily at Presbyterian church grounds. Scouts visited Red Hawk Troop. Mrs Finigan and son return to Newark after visit. Benjamin Cook at Monmouth Beach. Mrs Coombs and Dorothy visit New York. others visiting Lincolnroft and Fenton homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levi B. van Nest
Grace
Lafayette Street
Percy Hicks
Saugatuck Conn
Presbyterian Church
Marie Wella
Ida’ Freitag
Naramatta Council
Pocahontas
Jackson Conover
Ina SP
Woodrow Wilson
Washington
Ladies’ Ald Society
Goodwill Methodist Chw
Andrew Brower
Flint Street
Oceanic Fire Company
Boy Scouts
Jacob Buchanan
Percy Harvey
Elwood Jennings
Philip Roberts
William Trner
Thomas Wilson
Clarence Hulse
Clark Marks
William Metzdorf
Bingham Avenue
Red Hawk
William Finigan
Joseph
Newark
Finigan
James B. Bogle
Benjamin Cook
Jesse Cook
Monmouth Beach
Harry Coombs
Dorothy
New York
Whitney Williams
Charles Allen
Bessie
Edward F. Fenton
Lincroft
Shrewsbury News Highlights Local Activities
Mrs Aaron Armatronge spent a day in New York. Charles H Hurley rents his paint shop to Howard Hutchinson of Red Bank. Pattersones return from wintering with daughter Mrs Frank K Fairchild of Brooklyn. Leroy Bennett visits grandfather Hurley. Aaron Armstrong receives oranges from son in Florida. Local residents host and visit in Red Bank Crawford's Corner Colts Neck Eatontown Rumson Long Branch and Tinton Falls. The Young People's Missionary Society to hold mite box opening. Ralph Wiederholt sidelined by grip. Westminster Circle meets. Saguerton Jr of Long Branch visits. Antonides and son of Atlantic Highlands visit. Morris and Wyckoff visit New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aaron Armatronge
New York
Charles H. Hurley
Howard Hutchinson
Red Bank
Charles M. Patterson
Frank K. Fairchild
Brooklyn
Leroy Bennett
Nut Swamp
Aaron Armstrong
Charles
Florida
Howard A. Guillandeau
Crawford's Corner
Elisha Woolley
A. C. Wiederbolt
Dorothy
Phyllis Conlover
Colt’s Neck
Willian IL. Green
James H. Covert
Eatontown
H. A. Caesar
Rumson
Carrie Rogers
Long Branch
Florence Hippensteel
Young People's Missionary Soliety
Ralph Wiederholt
Edwin ‘Hobbs
Westminster Circle
John Saguerton, Jr
Ira Antonides
Serum Cure Sparks Tour and Frontage for Tuberculosis
Dr Frederick Friedmann arrives in New York with a claimed serum to treat tuberculosis by intravenous muscular or subcutaneous injection using a turtle bacillus. He vows free distribution and a New York sanitarium with plans to teach physicians nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. F. Friedmann
New York
Frederick Frang Friedmann
Berlin
Bme
A. ©. H. Friedmann
Colorado Springs
Colo
Charles J. Finlay
Aetna National Bank
New York City
Charles de Vidal Hundt
Chicago
Friedmann
Mr. Hundt
United States
Dr. Friedmann
Hundt
Finlay
Egg yields safety pin in Ashland County breakfast
Frank Reed and Otto Hornburger found a safety pin embedded through yolk and white in a hard boiled egg during breakfast in Ashland County. The egg half with the pin remains for public inspection. Edmund Antrobus offers Stonehenge property sale in Wiltshire England conditioned on national preservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashland County
Frank Reed
Otto Hornburger
Reed
Stenshenge
Air Edmund Antrobus
Wiltstire
England
Stonehenge
Rossmores Banshee and the Death of Lord Rossmere
The tale recounts a Dublin birth of Robert Keesmore, a third Harren Kesmore and the Barringtons in Mount Kennedy. A banshee wail at night precedes a fatal death reported as occurring near 2:30 AM after a supposed disturbance in the castle. The incident mystifies Sir Jonah Barrington and his wife as they hear the eerie cries and knock at the door from Lawler the servant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tonsmore
Dublin
Haren Kesmore
Josaphine Lloyd
Parrinvory
Robert Keesmore
Jonah
Barrington
Rosemore
Harringtons
Mount Kennedy
Lady Barrington
Rossmore
Sir Jonah
Lawler
Lost In The Last Lap The Letter Writer And The Railroad Boss
Detroit history features a daily letter writer to President Ledyard of Michigan Central. Russell offers a bribe to stop the writer for a year. Eleven months pass smoothly until a wreck prompts new letters. Ledyard declines further pay, revealing the cost of quelling dissent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Ledyard
Michigan Central Railroad
Russell
Saturday Evening Post
Miles and Miles Says Report At Once After Tele Message
A telegraph from General Miles prompts a subordinate on furlough to report immediately, after a harsh reply to a vague unavoidable circumstances message. A hospital reply says train off and legs off, delaying ride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelson A. Miles
Fastidious Authors and the Comma Quest in Print
A humorous survey of editors and authors famed for punctuation zeal. Dickens Tennyson Hugo Carlyle Campbell Gray are noted for exacting standards, with Gray’s line and the printer’s comma change shaping a famous opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Campbell
Dickens
Tennyson
Terhnpa
Thomas Carlyle
Victor Hugo
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Gray
Hiegr
Gray
What If Mirabeau Had Lived A Momentous Question
An excerpt from Strand Magazine argues that key leaders such as Julius Caesar Henry of Navarre William the Silent and Clive might have altered history if spared Mirabeau is presented as the singular figure who could have averted the French Revolution and possibly prevented Napoleon and Robespierre, reshaping Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Caesar
Henry of Navarre
France
Europe
William the Silent
Spain
Clive
Mirabeau
Napoleon
World
Robespierre
Strand Magazine
A Growsome Toy in the 1793 Nursery
A historical note recalls a German child receiving a toy guillotine for Christmas in 1793. Goethe asked his mother in Frankfurt to send a similar instrument to a boy friend, while Mme Goethe protested and refused to buy such an infamous machine of slaughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goethe
Frankfort
Mme
All Consuming Passions and Language Barriers
A collection of brief clippings shows romantic lines and misunderstandings. An Italian count kisses a woman who cannot speak Hallan, provoking surprise and humor. The excerpt contrasts intense attraction with practical miscommunication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel
Hallan
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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