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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1893
Page
4
Nat Goodwin starts his season at New York Pilul Avenue theater on Aug 3 with Augustus Thomas play In Missour. The article notes Goodwin's varied turf topics and references elsewhere. Also mentions horses, breeding, and racing industry tidbits, plus scattered historical and social commentary tones.
The passage references Donker Hill fame and a distinguished medical family. Brigham Young Jr. is noted as among the descendants, with a mention of Mor d’Alene and Johannesburg to oversee Brent gold mines of the Barnat brothers. Rev Ralph Swinburn, from Cungleston West Virginia, is described as the oldest railroad man in the country. The essay highlights striking personal traits such as lengthy walks, keen hearing, and night reading without glasses.
A compact chronicle traces English postal history from 1680 bids for post office contracts to 1719 when English mails began moving by coaches. It notes 1681 Lemdon penny post by Robert Murray, 1726 widespread use of letter envelopes, 1740 talks of London Edinburgh post cut, and the London to St Louis mail milestone.
The report notes ten lines competing for eastbound bus service. A belt for Brooklyn City Electric Railway measures 116 feet long and 2 inches wide, weighing 1800 pounds, with 120 hides used in tie manufacture. Plans consider a belt line around Columbus with portions of right of way secured. Boston and Maine tracks in Boston will gain sheds, while a new Central Railroad of New Jersey station at Atlantic Highlands is finished as a premier facility in the state.
A jumble of historical notes cites Missouri Inada leading world in lead production, etymology of the name bank from banca, earliest death punishment for forgery, German use of gunpowder for blasting, coin depreciation over 16 years, Eiffel Tower suicides, stamp finds in the United Kingdom, and a quirky line about Mechamian Owtriets and Susso-Clocks with fragmented phrasing and misprints airing miscellaneous curiosities.
The text fragment references Lane ob ARES in a pore area near a PM time and mentions Laure Piahutahd atT.20, 045, 0. imu. A cryptic line reads Fai aa weerwame Fel Sane eaten, Catan Sagva. Leave ae. 13 a omeae 5 Bere For Perth.
A jumbled OCR snapshot mixes social notes, science curiosities, and scattered reports. It mentions Siam beauty in harsh satire, a Boston Globe item about Marcie and anniversaries, a street scene with doctors and patients, a race track murder case, moonshine issues in Maryland, and a penitent escape tale from a New York village, all in garbled form.
A damaged OCR fragment recounts a commercial traveler falling ill with cholera like symptoms and being helped by a remedy labeled Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Relief. The text is incomplete and hard to parse but implies the patient felt better after taking the medicine.
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