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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1892
Page
3
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A garbled late 19th century page reports varied items: theatre at Palmer's Theatre with Dixey's Lorenzo and other pieces, local weddings, personal notes, travel plans, and public notices. Mentions Miss Karner visiting Bloomsbury, a Jersey Knights encampment, and a science note about Mars nearest Earth, plus routine society news from Plainfield and Bound Brook.
The Board of Fire Engineers issues General Order 30 naming which Engine Company No. 1 and Hook and Ladder No. 1, plus Alert Hose Company No. 1 boxes, will answer first alarms from August noon. Other companies to respond to second alarms, and unused boxes assigned. The order keeps special signals unchanged.
Ellen Nolan, committed to Morris Pislot Insane Asylum, claimed ownership of four big houses in England and a large tract of land behind Somerset Street. She said she was thirty three, her husband living in Plaine Geld, but records show her husband is dead and she is about sixty. The officer noted her age and asserted she appeared insane, underscoring the danger of judging age as proof of madness.
The Arlingtons beat the Giants of North Plainfield 18 to 7 on Park Avenue grounds Thursday morning. Van Horg fanned 12 while Fairey struck out seven for the Giants. Suiphen caught for the Giants. The game featured three Arlingtons runs in the early innings and a steady late offense. Plainfield judged the play well, though Somerville fans felt slighted by the final outcome.
Frank Callahan of 39 East Third Street died after leaping onto a Baltimore & Ohio fast freight and being struck near the Pence Street bridge. The twenty year old, once a telegraph trainee and night worker on the High Bridge branch, had a history of jumping on trains and was taken to the morgue after the incident. his father fainted on seeing the scene.
Emma Leos, 17, daughter of Mark Lees of North Plainfield, and George Naylor of Scotch Plains, privately married at the Baptist Parsonage in Scotch Plains on Wednesday evening at 7:30. The couple had planned to wed in Westfield but opted for Scotch Plains to avoid parental intervention, drawing ire from Emma’s parents after the secrecy and elopement.
William J. Deggins was arraigned in City Court on a charge of confiscating $104 from a post office writing shelf. The accuser, Joanne Nash, says she withdrew $100 from City National Bank and $4 in other money, all taken while buying postage. Deggins proclaims innocence and retained counsel. Bail set at $150 for Tuesday hearing. Also notes a Netherwood Hotel concert program and an Epworth League meeting planned for Ocean Grove on August 10 with delegates from multiple conferences.
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