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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1892
Page
2
A chaotic column surveys political quips about Cleveland Breckinridge and Duvis, notes a fire hero Reed at North Elizabeth, mocks rivalry and fencing with anecdotes of lovers Shepard and Hart, and explains a new uniform municipal election law aimed at separating city from national races for clearer local debate.
Be Hot Be Deceived. A memo about weak lungs warns wear an Altcock’s Ponous Plastea over the chest and between the shoulders in cold weather. Red cocx’s plaster praised as reliable. Also announces Anchor Lodge meeting at Masonic Hall 10 East Front Street Tuesday evening February 33 at 7.45 for F OC degree work.
A long list of upcoming services and Sunday School times across numerous churches in Plainfield is announced. Churches include Park Avenue Baptist, Park Chapel, Church of the Heavenly Rest, West Seventh Street Hemach, East Third Street Mission, First Unitarian, German Church, Church of the Holy Cross, Grace Church, Warren Union Mission, First Church of Christ, Free Methodist, Crescent Avenue Church, First Baptist, and Our Saviour. Readings cover morning prayers, sermons, Sunday School, communion, and youth gatherings with specific times and pastors named.
In a coast town Ridley recalls the seafarer Jackson and a dog Warksom, noting a memorial obelisk carved with a caboose motif. He recounts a voyage from Porto Alegre to the Thames amid calms and gales, with a captain who nailed a horsehoe as superstition before a perilous night watch.
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