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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1892
Page
2
A hodgepodge of items includes editorial reflections on language and character, a note on presidential candidate Buarse, stray anecdotes about trains and kerosene, plus an advertisement for Beavoexin's Pitts remedies. The page blends opinion, trivial items, and medical claims with dated humor and social commentary.
Plainfield trustees announce a lecture series to shore up funds for the public library. Four speakers from Amherst College Henry Richardson and Bishop Vincent will discuss biology Niebelunges Lied interior architecture and a talk about tomorrow. Tickets sold at library Heynolds drug store and local trustees urge every family to buy one or two to add thousands of volumes this year.
Mrs Ellen Nolan, alias The Cuckoo, deliberately attempted to end her life at North Avenue station as a 4.20 from New York began. The engineer stopped the train within feet, dragged her clear, and Officer Cooney arrested her. Dr Jenkins and a hired man were in a buggy crash on East Front Street. both occupants uninjured, horse ran away but was later caught on West Front Street.
A marine railway in Elizabethport New Jersey can lift vessels in nine minutes. Arkansas and Missouri stocking California gray trout shows progress. Vaccination benefits horser which has glanders. used in France, Germany, and Nigeria. Coal substitutes emerging in Europe. A steamer from Auckland brings beef and cattle to London at lower prices than American fare. Russian wheat export bans and unemployment rise. Black Sea shipping shifts. A coal substitute from briquetted jellied charcoal and coal tar is developed. Mexico’s high tablelands may boost wheat. rations and rail build expected. German trout introduced and growing. a nine and a half pound specimen caught. Southern cotton mills consumed 100,000 bales. iron ore production in 1880 equals a quarter of Great Britain’s output.
A jumble of quips and snippets from a New York Weekly page mocks morals and manners. It mocks sensibilities with lines about a woman selling her baby for ten cents and a physician doubting biblical ages while referencing local gossip and comic characters.
The piece strings together a rash of quirky phrases about aging skin, growing populations, barber shaves, horse exercise, revolutions from printing presses, and odd moral musings. It mixes garbled names and unclear anecdotes, presenting as a tasteless collage of detached lines.
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