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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1893
Page
4
A garbled dispatch blends reports of a fatal rail yard accident near Ivorydale, a murderers capture tale from Kansas, a churchman jailed over a death inquiry, and a comic rail station sketch about trains and fares. The misspelled prose mixes names Patrick Fitzgerald and Wells Farge with Proctor & Gamble and Hydra crime notes, plus a humorous street scene.
The Wichita and Oklahoma Company has had a charter filed in Texas. The Lake Charcre territory now holds 2,686.41 miles of track with 3,517.28 miles steel laid. The firm claims ownership of 604 lots. A huge diamond at Jagersfontein, Mexico, is stated to weigh 672 carats. The note adds that 4,000,000 pins are used daily in the United States, with a reference to Redditch.
Local shoppers were urged to try Chamberlains Cough Remedy after a tested recommendation. Reypolds Pharmacy at Park and North avenues advertised six bottles for 50 cents, under the management of T S Armstrong.
Fragmented OCR notes mention an arrest in Camden and a burglary in Philadelphia. The text wanders through references to a race track, a World’s Fair pedestal, and a Mexican race event. Specific names, dates, or coherent facts are unclear in the readable fragments.
A fragmented OCR note mentions Valley loans and a post office time notice. It references a Sunday date and a string of unreadable text, with scattered references to payments, responses, and public notices. The legible items include a placeholder for a date and a postal or banking context.
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