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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1893
Page
3
A jumble of parish and community items, including roadh end gossip, hunters, weather cautions, railroad project updates, a McAll Maxillary meeting, a theater rehearsal, and social notices. Mentions Honeybrook, Neafle, Johnson and Bolton, a concert rehearsal, and local personalities like John Hogan and Mr Bellew amid scattered plans and routines.
Obituary notes the death of Gep Frazee at Mahlenburg Hospital after stomach cancer. Born 1819, he married Sophia Rikman of New Brunswick and had a son William Donn. Frazee prospected gold in California in 1849, forming mining ventures with Hathaway and later a silver-nitrate business, then served in the Custom House until his death. funeral attended by Custrom House employees.
The second lecture in the series on The Life of Christ by Rev. De Haribot at the Methodist Episcopal Church featured an illustrated stereopticon show. The space was packed as large images lit the white screen while Mr. Hurlbut spoke, drawing insights from each picture and the audience sang along with projected frauch readings.
New York Feb 6. The bearing of arguments by Mr. Howe for a new trial for Carlyle W Harris the murderer of his wife was postponed by Recorder Smyth until next Monday. The delay is due to the Gardner case length and a report from Ocean Grove cites that Harris was mentioned during the May term of the Monmouth county grand jury for infanticide.
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers excursion tickets from Newport to Washington on March 2 and 3, valid to March 7, for four dollars round trip. Other points to the same date are two cents per mile. A North Pisnfield Township Committee meeting is planned for 1892 with Horace J. Martin handling payment actions. A horse incident near a telegraph pole and trolley car frightened the animal, causing it to leap. A large stationery shipment for the Postal Company arrived from New York for spring use. Pister Parks of the Baptist Oberch Heateh Pisina delivered a specimen.
A devotional piece emphasizes trusting Christ as commander over worldly pleasures and sin, likening faith to a traveler with a nation’s flag at his back. It recalls steadfastness, courageous witness like Kosath, and urges reliance on Christ in daily pilgrim life amid a Christian Endeavor session. The day’s service, postponed from Thursday, lasted about an hour, with offerings earmarked for missionary work at Jersey coast life-saving stations.
Father John Cushing resigns as assistant priest at St Mary's Church after a farewell sermon. Catholi Young Men's Lyceum votes sentiment as he departs and presents a $600 purse. Club members recall his leadership, noting prior decline and hoped future parish service. Also mentions Sweeney’s $3,000 pledge and plans for World’s Fair coins sale. Court Pride ball at Cresment Rink and a Plainfield review of Zole Therese.
A badly injured boy, reportedly son of Henry M. Harris, a George Street laborer, faces possible amputation as doctors at a local hospital strive to save his life. He was brought to the depot after exposure to acids and severe trauma, with condition described as critical but improving with treatment.
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In a port event on September 23 a man named Dominico killed Pal lek Kiley and was jailed for twenty years. The article notes the ground bog and city street care crews addressing safety as the Warress Engine Company No. 1 works through the week. Also mentions Brooklyn Academy slides at the Camera Club, Clinton Avenue expansion debates, and a new post envelope urging handwritten requests.
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