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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1894
Page
4
Tomorrow night in Park Avenue Baptist Church members of the Junior Consets of Unis city will be addressed by the Reverend J W Richard who will speak on the order's principles.
A group of Plainfield women urge the city to ban the Decadent stage shows and lewd billboards citing the Black Crook and similar plays as a threat to youth. The Courier-News notes mayoral powers to license or block such exhibitions and urges council to pass a strong decency ordinance.
A mangled advertisement shows Salerwegs Beded using Mucyen's Remedy to claim cures for acute muscular rheumatism lameness and swollen joints. The note touts rapid relief in hours and promotes eye glasses from Collier at 103 Park Avenue with free examinations. Also mentions Keeley of La Grande Avenue and a horse named Grant with death speculated from a recent wounding.
A jumble of social notices lists Alonzo Ayers recovering at home, S. E. Boss returning from a Western trip, and families visiting relatives in Newark Somerset Street East Fifth Street and Watchung avenue. Various births illnesses visits and Thanksgiving gatherings are noted from Grant Avenue to Chester New Jersey and beyond.
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