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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1892
Page
2
A mosaic of anecdotes and satire touches on politics, advertising, and European affairs. It notes Icelandic population decline, the Reichstag’s limits on the German emperor, Harvard ad writers, London ink usage, and royal eating habits. It muses on hoteling churches, rail lines affecting electricity, and a lighting of curiosities amid commodity humor about an elephant on one’s back.
The Elwood Building lease gives the Salvation Army exclusive use of Elkwood Hall for every night of the year, embarrassing two lodge groups that had arranged events for April 21 and 26. Knights of Pythias, Uniformed Rank, and Odd Fellows face disruption as they scramble for a new venue and consider their options amid looming deadlines.
Miller brothers secure five year lease for Force's Hotel on North Avenue with sole management by George and Wallace V. Miller. Plans include iron balcony, remodel, complete papering and repainting. Also notes a high society wedding, advertising puff for a medical plaster, a church choir figure, and a remark on German clerks vs English workers.
Editorial notes how the Fanshau Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad have boosted Philadelphia commerce. It cites $15,400,000 absorbed locally over a decade, $5,000 daily corporate effects, and $52,000,000 state expansion in 1891, underscoring broader benefits to trade, industry, and urban growth.
This item catalogs flowers and symbolic meanings from apples to roses, pairing each bloom with moods or traits such as affection remembrance cheerfulness and fidelity. It includes notes on how colors and varieties signal love longing sorrow or virtue.
A miscellany of odd items mentions native populations near El Paso and Reston, neolithic bone and horn crafts, a Washington patent electro propelled tricycle, a Keokuk marriage after a brief meeting, jail reform and steel cell debates in Kansas, early Chinese suspension bridges in Yunnan, a Georgia sword find, and a Toronto woman unknowingly borrowing her husband's trousers for church.
A garbled miscellany cites George J. Longfellow near Hexton N, George Hanlon abandoning the stage for the pulpit after hearing Talmage and Jordan. Col James H Lane of Lane's Brigade leads civil engineering at Kerientvarai and Mechanical College Auburn. Mentions Tennyson, Cedarcroft near Kennett Square now owned by Dr Lewis heirs. Henry W Grady remains moved to a Westview cemetery vault.
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