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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1892
Page
3
A Plainfield page notes a lawn festival at 112 West Eighth Street, a grand Venetian carnival in town, jail inmates numbered forty seven, and various local happenings. Mentions include weather observations by Observer Neagle, travel and guest registrations at Asbury Park and Lake George, a police incident with a Salvation Army disturbance, and streetcar and railway car trials.
At St Marys Hall in Plainfield a small Democratic gathering heard Mayor William J. Saunders discuss tariff and nationalism while James E. Martine, the parlor orator, expounded on tariffs with wit and energy. The event drew about fifty four attendees, including youths, with Vincent L. Prasee introducing speakers. The session closed after a vote of thanks and adjournment, followed by notices of local theatre, cycling enforcement, baseball league managers meeting, street repairs, and tax arrears enforcement.
Fem Mears Yarnall J C Martin A T Hinrichs G Mahon will race at Asbury Park Friday and Saturday with Mahon Hinrichs and Hut son competing in women events. A 10 mile open bicycle race on Wesfield course set for Thursday August 1 for entrants under 18 will be run. entries via Harry Milligan Rogers Bicycle on West Fifth Street after August 10. City ordinance on riding on sidewalks to take effect August 15 prompts calls for leniency on West Front Street and Grant Avenue. The Courier defends a chewing gum story about a wheel accident, noting Mahon says it happened thirty miles from home with gum used, witnesses present. Murphy pitches Crescenta this afternoon. Hudson and Hopking umpire. Brighton Athletics vs Crescents at North Plainfield today. Gerry to pitch. Artingtons vs Giants of North Pininficid at Mark Avenue ground tomorrow at 10. The M O L A offers a good chance to win Central N J League pennant under Captain Bowes as they remain in the race.
A garbled promotional notice offers cash, a gold watch, and harness as prizes to readers who mail subscriptions and artwork samples. The ad claims a broad audience reach in Canada and the United States, with a request for thirty cents or two US stamps for trial mailing. Nearby items note street lamps reactivating in North Plainfield and a horse accident in Broadway, plus other local chatter.
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