Fishing Contest Prizes From Middletown Times-Press
The Middletown Times-Press announces prizes for the heaviest lake trout speckled trout big mouth bass small mouth bass and pickerel. Open to anglers in New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania counties. Contest ends September 1 for trout and October 1 for bass and pickerel with winners announced October 15.
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New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Times-Press
Abbie and Imbrie
New York City
Ibbotson
Utica
N.Y
N. Y
Orange
Sullivan
Delaware
Ulster
Chenango and
Rockland
Sussex
Morris and Warren
Wayne and Pike
Ayres and Galloway Hardware Co
Middletown
Sporting Goods
Yesterday's Results and Anecdotes From London Papers
National League games cited with Cincinnati and New York 4 to 2 in Brooklyn a 7 to 5 note Philadelphia 2 St Louis 3 in American League St Louis 2 Cleveland 1. Also a miscellany of quotes and notes on Disraeli childhood fashion and 19th century London trades and society, including the Butchers of Olden Times and a Dickens reference.
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Cincinnati
New York
Brookin
Bostes
Philadelphia
St Loui
Butchers’ Company
James I
London
Dilory
Daniel Defoe
London Mirror
Washington
Cleveland
Chicago
Ates
Trolt
St. Louis
Newark Celebrates Citys Five Hundredth Birthday Pageant
Newark New Jersey marks its five hundredth birthday with a grand pageant and industrial exposition. A major music festival and citywide celebrations run through October, featuring a night pageant lit by new effects and a Mary Porter Beegle led barefoot dance cast.
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United States
Newark
New Jersey
Unis
Citr
Robert Treer
Mary Porter Beegle
Barnard College
Newark Pageant of 1916 Aims for World’s Greatest Spectacle
Ex Governor Franklin Murphy heads the Committee of One Hundred overseeing a four night pageant in Weequahic park Newark beginning Memories Day. Henry Wack executive adviser and general manager leads 4000 performers, with Thomas Wood Stevens author of the pageant music by Keary Hadler and costumes by Newark volunteers. Fifty thousand attendees expected per night.
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Franklin Murphy
Committee of One Hundred
Henry Wellington Wack
Wack
Matthias Stratton
Newark
One Hundred
Robert Treat
Weequahic Park
Thomas Wood Stevens
Division of Dramatic Arts
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Pittsbursh
Keary Hadler
Pageant House
Flouse
John Cotton Dara
Frances Hays
A. J. Dennis
F.C. Jacobson
H. A. Guenther
F. W. Cann
William Diamond
J. Victor D’aloia
A. R. Bianchi
Patrick C. O'Brien
Sophie Wilds
Newark plans vast birthday celebration and monuments
Newark will host more than 200 parades conventions and ceremonies as part of a national stage celebration. The city spends 250000 on civic events and 1500000 on a memorial building with total outlay for monuments decorations and entertainment to exceed 4000000.
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New Jersey
Newark
Theatrical Stratton and Alhambra Showcases
The Stratton house hosts Singer's Midgets with Lillinutian coaching, Anna Neider, Carl Becker, Dora Vieg, Carl Florien, Nemo and Toto, midget boxing, and acrobats, with seats still available at the box office. Feature film The Love Mess with Cleo Ridgeley and Wallace Reid begins Monday. Muriel Ostrich headlines the Alhambra tonight in Circus Romance, with Mondar and George Behan in The Pawn of Fate. A West Philadelphia hostess recalls a guest praising her coffee and tea after a recent entertainment.
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Stratton
Singer
Paramount
Cleo Ridgeley
Wallace Reid
West Philadelphia
Brown
Philadelphia Ledger
Blackbird Days and the Feast of the Transformation
A brief note explains the so called Blackbird Days January 30 31 and February 1 in Constantinople Brescia and along the Danube and Rhine with a legend that white grack ies became black from cold and a Brescia feast named Triorni della mella celebrates the transformation of the bird.
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Constantinople
Brescia
Alang
Rhine
Europe
Herrick Dies in Cemetery Inmate of Local Homes
Herrick died in his room on Mill street after a life spent in and out of state hospitals. He worked for Swift & Co. as a carpenter, later living at Orange Farm. Survived by wife, sister Mrs. C. E. Oneil of Pasadena, sister Miss Carrie C. Herrick of San Francisco, brothers Edward and Fred, and son Frank H. Herrick Jr. of Los Angeles. Parents James Edward Herrick and Esther Cogdill, both from Widdietown, with notes of prior livery business and a restaurant in this city.
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Mill Street
Herrick
State Hospital
Swift & Co
Orange Farm
C. E. Oneil
Pasadena
Cal
Carrie C. Herrick
San Francisco
Edward
Fred
Newcity
Philea
Frank H. Herrick, Jr
Los Angeles
James Edward Herrick
Esther Cogdill
Widdietown
Erie West Main Street
Destiny and Hope in a Sudden Shock
A fragmented excerpt quotes Herder on destiny guiding the good man and the return of genius through unexpected change. It contrasts resilience with despair and advises adjusting course until balance is restored, then shifts to a scene of a wife’s sudden shock and a doctor’s questioning remark.
Good Companions Emphasized Over Wealth and Style
Emerson notes that in recalling five years, outward comforts matter little. What endures is having had good companions and how one acted. The remark foregrounds character over possessions as time fades.
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Emerson
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Red Sea
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Cash Hunter
Billingsgate
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Dickens
Smallweed
London Standard
Maude
Boston Transcript
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Noy
Phiadelphia
Boston O Eee
Chicago Pittsburgh
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James Corner
King Street
Wee Eo
Golf Shop
Golf Repairs
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