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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1892
Page
2
Fragmented notice listing several names such as W Runyon Falter and Preprisier plus East Promr Stamer and Smoose Pion. It mentions postage at the post office and subscriptions offered for five dollars for eight years. Includes a Saturday December 24, 1892 date line.
The Baliot Box staffers of Hudson County, thirty inmates tied to a large political conspiracy of 1889, were pardoned by the Court of Pardons and released to their families. Allan L. McDermott, chairman of the Democratic State Committee, led the effort, with release at two o'clock after debate. Chancellor McGu and Judge John Clement opposed, but the parole marks the state’s largest jail delivery, all part of Democratic influence.
Spares and strikes fill the page as C U M L fields a bowling team to Rahway for a league match at the Opera House alleys. J Lays leads the squad with 12 players listed, while Kenney posts a high score of 19 pins. Trinity Reformed music plans include Te Deum and Sing O Heaven amid church services. Also noted are weather chatter, St Mary’s Darsh decor, and Andrew Vanderbeek’s going out of business sale.
A derailment near Newark injured several passengers after ice on the rails caused the crash. The day also reports on organ recitals in Newark, church weddings, and local society notes including Rev Dr Pingry’s upcoming marriage to Mina Hixsia. Additional items mention ex-postmaster Force health updates, trips, and community rehearsals.
A late news item reports the Etruria and the City of Paris racing across the ocean with times around 450 m and 6.46 respectively. The Greenville wreck injuries are mentioned as an update, while other city notes touch on local goods and silver prices, with miscellaneous chatter about an ice crop this winter.
The piece extols ham and aged cuts as vital to meals. It praises Perris hams as near perfect in a fragmentary defense of cooking and dining, noting the appeal of sandwiches from our allied circle and the joy of a baked ferrie ham for dinner as a morale booster.
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