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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1894
Page
5
Community notes from Plainfield recount church services, Christmas trees at the Sunday school, a pigeon shoot planned for Christmas afternoon, and revival attendees. Local residents return from trips, property work proceeds, and a large parsnip wins a garden banner while hunters resume after a season.
Seventh Day Baptist Church held a prayer meeting last Saturday afternoon led by Miss Birdie Gaskill with Miss La e Davis to read next Saturday afternoon. Mr Drake of South Plainfield has fully recovered from typhoid fever after care by Dr Whitford. Schubert Club plans next entertainment in Friendship Hall on Monday evening December 3. Dr Nelson, a sportsman, often carries his gun on calls and seldom misses when shooting.
Local notes report a D of P council election set for Thursday night. Other items include bowling standings, new walk paving near North Avenue, and a charity dance planned for New Year’s Eve at Sanger hall.
Velvet is the approved winter millinery material and fur trims feature on jackets and bonnets. Wide skirts and shoulder lines dominate, with velvet brims on bonnets and otter fur jackets. The period tone highlights dainty bodices and fashionable, economical dress variations.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a goal and guarantee related to cures but lacks clear names, places, or events to identify a specific news item. The readable content centers on assurances of permanent cures and a stated objective.
The article recounts various historical portraits and curiosities including President Casimir Porter and Byron, a Rome bust in the senate chamber, Theodore Weld of Boston in antislavery circles, Dr Honsoldt's claim about the Prince of Vance, and Duke of Fife’s photograph frame gifted by Princess Louisa. It mentions Sir Julia Pamboester’s age, Rubinstein’s vanity, Ira Ward and wife’s wedding anniversaries, and Barthelemy St Hilairé as a Paris to Passy figure connected to Josephine Napoleon’s letter birth news.
A collage of citations naming Louis Bourdalonne John Adams and Richelieu with nicknames such as Father of History and Colossus of Independence. It includes moral maxims on honesty, sympathy, and life’s brevity, plus a Beecham’s Pills advertisement and a contact note for Allen Co. 365 Canal New York.
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