09 Mar 1910
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Newspaper
Perth Amboy Evening News
Location
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1910
Page
1
Regular meeting shows business community supports placards and stricter quarantines for contagious diseases. Health officials urged enforcement. doctors who fail to report should be removed from practice. Perth Amboy public sentiment backs the Board of Health to enforce rules.
Hoboken Observer notes spring weather boosts building activity across North Hudson with plans for flats stores and tenements. It urges towns especially West Hoboken and nearby communities to adopt a building code to regulate new construction and protect residents and property holders.
The piece argues workers should oppose labor leaders urging a quiet return to work and instead use the election ballot to oust political leaders tied to transit bosses. It warns the strike is timed with politics and urges a turnout that defeats the “rascals” at the ballot box.
Residents of Ocean Grove, leasing from the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, face tax obligations on leased property after a supreme court ruling. They seek to form a borough to gain self government, but the camp meeting association resists, working to block legislation in New Jersey's Trenton. The issue echoes taxation without representation amid governance disputes.
Advertisement notes interwoven half hose in fresh spring shades priced at 25 cents per pair, retailing at 50 cents for the lot. Includes emphasis on color variety and affordable price point for hosiery fashion.
A listing of fire alarm boxes by street intersections followed by the operating procedure. It details how to send an alarm via box lever, how many taps signify each unit or action, and the correct steps to await firemen. It also notes an alternative telephone method and specifies taps for various fire companies and the police.
A list of community events from March to April including Dana Relief Society in Dana Hall Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church events Epworth League lectures by Col Bain postposed to March 26 5 Oyster Supper at Presbyterian Chapel Shamrock Dinner at Simpson M B H Church Days of Yore at Simpson SS and other balls and dances at Washington Hall and Reed venues featuring Singing Society Concordia Puritan B B and local baseball team events.
Schedule excerpt lists New Jersey Central trains running Sundays and weekdays between Newark and Perth Amboy with services to Philadelphia and Trenton via Brook and Asbury Park. Timings include morning and afternoon departures and connections, with agents Besler and Hope noted.
A midtown style advertisement urges a business reader to cut expenses and trust a low rate, quick service combination. It promotes a 11:00 A M steamer from Pier 9 Hast River New York to Perth Amboy arriving 2:30 P M, with a second steamer leaving New York at 2:30 P M arriving in Perth Amboy at 6:00 P M. Also references the New York & New Jersey Steamboat Co and J O Tice, Agent, Perth Amboy, plus a Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway timetable dated October 4 1909.
Perth Amboy public notices publish a transit timetable with start times and intervals for various routes, plus a March moon phase record. The same section includes a bid invitation from the Board of Water Commissioners for a pumping engine foundation at Runyon, with bid opening March 16, 1910, a $100 bid bond, 80 working days for completion, and bid rejection rights.
Perth Amboy Trust Company promotes opportunities for wage earners and moderate income earners by accepting deposits as low as one dollar and offering 3 percent interest. It is a legal depository for funds of New Jersey State, Middlesex County, and Perth municipal funds.
C M Peterson one of Perth Amboy's leading self made businessmen rose from shoe cobbler to coal and wood trader. Arriving in 1872 with nothing he built a store on Smith street and later expanded into coal with his son forming C M Peterson & Son. He credits square methods and full fair payment as keys to success.
In Washington on March 9 the house delayed adjournment as Republican leader Payne slept through the session. Richard Wayne Parker pressed a late bill, and a page was sent to wake Payne, who demanded to know why adjournment occurred without his motion. The next day the incident was explained by Uncle Joe Cannon, restoring party harmony. A health ad follows about VINOL and iron for blood strength.
Chicago based Obbac Co promotes a vegetable treatment that claims to cure blood poison by driving it from the body without mineral poisons. It offers a free month trial and urges readers to write for a confidential case history and details of the “Driving Out Blood Poison” method.
Sealed proposals due 8 30 P M March 16 1910 at Perth Amboy City Hall for a 40 by 6 foot pump house project. Bidder must furnish a $600 certified check and a $1000 bond. Plans and specs from Board of Water Commissioners or engineer S J Mason. By order W Guy Weaver.
A humorous dialogue pokes fun at opinion polls and petty commerce. A Senator jokes about statistics while a secretary and customers debate stamps, a drug clerk offers a two-cent stamp, a fairy customer criticizes envelope shade, and a dentist explains extra charges for gai.
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