Social Notes Highlight Local Holiday Visits and Events
Social notes recount holiday entertainments at 87 Hawthorne Ave and Prospect Street homes, engagements and births in local families, club activities at Masonic Hall and Camp Merritt from Theta Delta Club, and residents returning from trips or illness. Names include Miss Josephine Angelot, Miss Helen Keyes, Mrs. Emil Muller, Mrs. John Powers, Ensign Hill, and others from Newark, Hillside, Rahway, Montclair, and Long Island.
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Helen Keyes
Masonic Hall
Welch
Emil Muller
Bird
John O. Powers
Arthur Dickinson
Local residents noted in scattered social items
Numerous brief notices describe residents and visitors from Whitford Avenue Nutley Avenue Chestnut Street and other locales. Highlights include dismissals from the navy, travel to the South and New York visits, family dinners, and shifts in residence among townspeople and their guests.
Local Marines Arrive Home and Prep for Paris Island
Corpl John Somoracki of Ent at Newport News Va returns from France and expects to be home soon. Lt and Mrs William Chase have returned from Maine and stay at Kingsley. Hugh Gillingham of 33 Melrose St will leave next week for Paris Island SC. Marine O Gillingham serves as Adjutant at Camp Kendrick with another brother in service.
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Corporal John Somoracki
Ent
Newport News
France A
Hugh Gillingham
Melrose Street
Paris Island
S. C
D. S. Marine
O. Gillingham
Camp Kendrick
Antegree Cross Motor Transportation
Three Dollar Gold Pieces Coinage History
The $3 gold piece was authorized February 21, 1808, and the act discontinuing it passed September 24, 1800. Between 1854 and 1889 inclusive, 680,792 coins were minted. Most surviving pieces are held by collectors.
Tree crown holds key for growth and digestion
The article argues that the crown is the most vital part of a tree, hosting reproduction, digestion, and the tree's lungs and stomach, while roots are less important. It contrasts soil coal bed depths and notes strange geological details about anthracite deposits.
Taste and Imagination Say Taste Tied to Imagination
Scientists claim taste is linked to imagination. They cite experiments where chopped onions were misidentified as raw potatoes due to faulty smelling apparatus. The piece notes people do not truly know what tastes are.
Early to bed and rise advised for nervous patients
The article extols early bedtime as a health maxim for nervous patients, stressing ample fresh air in the bedroom and a hot bath before retiring to relax nerves and aid sleep. The tone is instructional and focused on simple personal health remedies.
Copenhagen Firm Pioneers Seaweed Paper Making
A Copenhagen paper maker develops a method to blend seaweed with wood pulp to produce inexpensive paper of high quality. Danish government tests confirm the material meets strong standards.
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Copenhagen
Chinese Observe Goat Festival
Chinese observers mark the Goat Festival with dragon boat paddies used to propel long boats on streams across China. The practice links traditional paddling to regional river celebrations and cultural heritage.
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China
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Josephine Angel Ot
At Street
George
Newark
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Key West
Hill
Richard Hill
Vreeland
Peesey
Woman's Club
Een Vlantan
Dorothy Meyer
Hillside
B.O.B
Eleanor Parsons
Avenue
Wells
James Weider
Bead
Arno T
Oak Ridge Avenue
Conover
John Street
J. W. Merrill
Philhave
Fes-Te-Lan
Horace Tantum
Sylvan
William Morris
Asbury
Tantum
Smiree
Richard B. Dean
Passaic
Seshoe
Ernest Pulsford
Pierre P. Lahens
Ter
Vernon Lahens
Lahens
Blankarn
William Wy
W. G. Sloan
M Out
Iélia Hoffman
Short
Caroline Johnson
Brooklyn
Power
Plainfield
Bernetta Crawford
Kie Dabney
Margaret Dickjeanor Lambert
Louiser
Alan Shaw
Thin Town
Montclair
Edward
Edwin C. Sharp
Iorthwaite Avenue
Navaiet
Ppa
Pres- East Street
Bloomfield
T. Davidson Brown
Thomas Brown
Weston
Laurel Springs
Mrs. Brown
Florence Shaper
East Orange
H. 8. SP Ceee
Goucher Leweeras
Mrs
Seesph D. Litele
A. C. Rutan, Jr
Brookway
Theta Delta Club
Camp Merritt
Ruth Collins
Ms. Faulkner
Whitford Avenue
Frederic Clements
Prospect Street
O— Theodore H. Sterling
Hawthorne Avenue
San Francisco
Ran
James C. Bolger
W. T. Coeyman
Harry Paxton
Franklin Avenue
Navy
Mabel Eldredge
Elm Place
Fleesée
Virginia Dentin
New York
Henry W. Goodrich
Nutley Avenue
Arthur B. Preal
The
R. Ranney Adama
U. 8
Calvin Dietrich
Sanes
Emil Tauchert
North Road
Francis I. Bennett
Arthur Crane
Archidale Sharp
Hampton Place
Thomas Wheatley
Earle Wheatley
Dewey Straus
Harrison
Lawrence Whitney
South Norwalk, Conn
Goldthwaite Dorr
Satterthwaite Avenue
Wright Sutcliffe
Ralph McClintock
Pee Street
Edgewood Ave
Major Sloan
Finurance
Betty Brown
Burton Brown
Passaic General Hospital
W. W. Edwards
Miss Ida Edwards
Roland Victor Fitzroy
Springfield
Mass
Jasper Nicolls
Florence Martell
Sheldon S. Wells
Assembly
Charles B. Reyes
Washington
Mrs. Royce
Kingsley House
George E. Pell
Hillside Avenue
Racine, Wis
H. H. Meyer
Allenhurst
Mary Davis
Roslyn
Long Island
Helen, Cumming
Sylvan Place
Ruth Blum
Norman Newits
New - Dan
Louis S. Thurston
Schnectady
Thomas Clements
Chatham
Edgar Clements
Ney
Madrid
Chathesa
Helen Cumming
Given Place
Lieutenant
Mra
William Chase
Kingsley
Hazel Owen
Nutley
Board of Assessors
Town of
N. J
P. F. Guthrie
HighGeld Lane
Nutley Station
Clark
Celia A. Clark
Globe Wernicke
Berdan
Main Ave
Washington Pi
Tredemart
Racers Peet Company
Broadway
Warren
New York City
Joe Ciccone
Nutley, N. J
Bedell
C. R&bedell
Franklin Ave
Igland Ave
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