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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1892
Page
2
A garbled column weaves satire and opinion from a 19th century American press. It mocks New Jersey legislators, race track bills, and imperial Russia while quoting Rev. Charles Spurgeon on faith and hypocrisy. The piece blends political, religious, and social commentary with scattered historical references.
A fragment from Greenfield Massachusetts echoes a 1790s newspaper era. It recounts a 100 year anniversary of the Greenfield Gazette and Courier and samples from early ads like Daniel Forbes and Isaac Merriam selling goods and urging debtors to settle by a specified date.
The leading article discusses national pride in the new navy with a full report titled Our Naval Strength. It covers ships, portraits of the Miantonomah and torpedo ram Alarm, and lists all vessels in the fleet including those under construction. Additional notes cover the Mexican Border War with officers and scenes, and features include Sarah Bernhardt as Joan of Arc and a portrait of Secretary Tracy.
W J Arkell of Judge and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper notes in New York on January 14 1991 that after about three weeks using Alt cook's Perous Plasters for chest cold coughs and pains the results were entirely satisfactory. The ad touts Aunt Fanny's Health Restorer and several patently dubious claims including relief for dispepsia liver and kidney ailments urging readers to call LW Handolph for a free trial package.
The Courter publishes a daily coupon promising two cents value for every fifty cent cash purchase at participating business houses. Subscribing costs wn cents weekly, with potential weekly gain of two cents by reader coupons. Courrier notes signatories are first class readers and hints at a correspondent hunt linked to Phillipsburg Telegram.
Miss Vanhel Watem a missionary from Hurma will address the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society in the Bible Class rooms adjoining the lecture room of the Baptist Church on Wednesday February 3 at 3 PM An invitation is extended to women of other churches to attend.
Mortgage for 10 million dollars on the Lehigh Valley Railroad and branches recorded in New York City. Lake Shore Line upgrades between Cleveland and Chicago projected at over 1 million dollars. New car deco material hail chroie touted for depots. Wabash to equip passenger trains with Westinghouse air signals replacing bells. Division superintendents seek civil service physical exams alongside mental tests. Engineers draft new fast passenger loco plans amid time-cutting efforts by several roads. Albert Johnson of Healeigh is the longest-serving locomotive engineer, dating to 1836. A notable parental sacrifice story from Mobile features a mother saving her child from a 20-foot fall, hip dislocation resulting. Sherry’s Fifth Avenue ballroom to host a benefit concert and dance for Working Girls vacations, featuring Nora M. Green pupils and patronage from Four Hundred.
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