New Plan Proposes Senate by County Classification
A Trenton report outlines a plan to reallocate New Jersey Senate seats by county class, boosting total seats from 21 to 36. Hudson and Essex would get three each, Bergen Atlantic Camden Burlington Cumberland Mercer Middlesex Monmouth Passaic Union two each, and Cape May Gloucester Hunterdon Somerset Salem Sussex Ocean Warren one each. This would redraw power toward smaller counties and provoke opposition from North Jersey and a possible extra legislative clash over constitutional convention plans.
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Trenton
Senate
Hudson
Essex
Bergen
Atlantic
Camden
Burlington
Cumberland
Mercer
Middlesex
Monmouth
Morris
Passaic
Union
Cape May
Gloucester
Hunterdon
Somerset
Salem
Sussex
Ocean
Warren
South Jersey
North Jersey
Hennessy
Carpenter Fractures Collarbone In Scaffold Fall
Charles Reed, a carpenter at the Commercial cafe, fell from a scaffold a few feet high and fractured his left collarbone. He was helped up and left work for the day. Dr. Jams Chasey treated the injury at the Reed home on Lipplingott avenue.
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Charles Reed
Jams Chasey
Reed
Lippincott Avenue
Stork Brings Two Newborns to Oceanport Homes
Last week in Oceanport a baby girl arrived at the home of Joseph Wolcott on Saturday morning and a baby boy at Daniel Millers. Both fathers receive congratulations from family and neighbors.
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Stork
Oceanport
Joseph Wolcott
Daniel Miller
The Tyranny of Some Day and the Man of Action
A Philadelphia Ledger reflection argues that postponing action fuels procrastination. It contrasts the elusive “some day” with the decisive man who plans briefly, acts quickly, and accepts fallibility without boasting.
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Philidelphia Ledger
Quick witted prisoner poses as Duke of Modena
In the Italian campaign Napoleon I. captures a young Italian cavalry officer who pretends to be a duke to gain better treatment. Napoleon and the real Duke of Modena are amused by the ruse and the impersonator is forgiven for his deception.
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Napoleon
Modena
Italy
Napoleon I
Brittany's Hair Harvest at Easter Time
The traveling Brittany hair merchants visit villages to buy Breton women’s hair for transformations and fringes used in adornments. Country girls sell their tresses to fund fair visits, though the harvest is said to be weaker as education and display increase.
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Brittany
Jess
Wide World Magazine
Dread of New Dances Reflected in 1817 Letter
A Christmas 1817 letter from a London friend criticizes modern rapid dances. She laments the disappearance of mazurkas gayettes minuets and fears valses will soon vanish from respectable society, finding them out of keeping with propriety and modesty for young ladies.
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Betty
London Telegraph
Not Him Described Man Sought By Woman At Bar
A woman asks the bartender if her husband has been in, describing a tall red faced man without an overcoat and soft hat. The bartender recalls a man matching the description who drank a half pint of whisky about ten minutes earlier.
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St. Louis Post-Dispateh
His Limit. Houston Post dialogue teaser
A brief dialogue exchange shows intent to die for love and a humorous take on domestic chores. The punchline rests on the idea that dying is the speaker’s limit, while the partner objects to beating eggs.
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Houston Post
Spoiled speech and satire in a Detroit Free Press excerpt
A clipped quotation highlights a spoiled public figure and a critique of elite listening. The fragment suggests social satire of privilege and the idea that power corrupts enjoyment at formal events.
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Detroit
Free Press
Say Pop Explains Lull Before the Storm
A playful dialogue frames a father answering his son about the lull before the storm. The exchange pivots on humor as the father calls the honeymoon the calm before upheaval.
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Tommy
A Canal Encounter Beside a Dramatic Duel at Sea
The observer recalls a winter voyage from Colon to the Isthmus of Panama where American tourists crowd the dock and a mixed race rival plots to lure a canal engineer. A dark skinned rival draws a knife on the rival, and the narrator intervenes to avert a tragedy before informing the engineer of the perilous scene.
Happiness and the Patient Farm Hand Singer
A tablet style line recalls happiness as a state of mind and notes a long working farm hand who sang while laboring fifteen hours daily. The reflection ties joy to endurance and daily toil.
Land of Yesterday lane echoes in Don Marquis verse
A fragment from Don Marquis in the New York Evening Sun questions if one could return to the past. The speaker imagines finding the beloved in the land of yesterday, hoping the roses, phlox, and cherry trees still remember, then abandons the idea with the line there is no way back.
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Lane
Don Marquis
New York
Evening Sun
Chinese Newspapers Becoming Prosperous Across Major Cities
The New York Journal notes a surge in Chinese newspaper publishing from sparse beginnings to about twelve papers in Hong Kong, twenty in Canton and Shanghai, and others in interior cities. English language papers reach about twenty titles for Europeans. Old European papers are widely consumed by Chinese as wall coverings and even waistcoats, prompting heavy imports in 1911.
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Ching
Hongkong
Canton
Shanghai
New York Journal
China
Newehwang
Ten Commandments for Lawyers From Vice President’s Speech
The speech at George Washington University Law School outlined moral and professional guidelines for young lawyers. Ten paraphrased rules warn against prioritizing fees, advise peacemaking, discourage ambulance chasing, condemn contingent fees, oppose advance divorce fees, and urge using influence to ensure justice while protecting client privacy.
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Marshall
George Washington University Law School
Nebras ka to Get First Skunk Farm in State
J C Goodbrod and Harve Woodworth of Utica plan to own Nebraska's first skunk farm, raising skins for profit. Skunks will be kept in a fenced yard with underground burying for safety and odor control. In a separate note, Joseph Lofard died after attempting self cure by sleeping between a circus elephant’s legs in Glen Jean West Virginia.
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J. C. Goodbrod
Harve Woodworth
Utica
Neb
Nebraska
Joseph Lofard
Glen Jean
W. Va
Practical Teaching of Box Furniture in New York
A settlement worker in New York City has specialized in teaching boys to craft furniture from repurposed packing boxes. The program emphasizes practical skills and creative reuse, offering a constructive outlet for youth in the community.
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New York City
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