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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1892
Page
2
The West End Club opens in the Miss May Vanderveer property on New Year’s Day. The new facility features a formal parlor, a smoking and reading room, a billiard and pool hall, a bowling alley, and a large historic fire place with a crane for cooking duties once common to earlier generations.
Mrs Anthony Danneberger the eldest woman in Elizabethport died at age ninety after living there for nearly thirty five years. Born in France she came to the United States young and lived in New Orleans shortly before the war. Her sons Andrew John and Joseph entered the Calon army and served throughout the Civil War. Her son in law Curt Braeu led emigrant work for Pennsylvania Railroad at Castle Garden New York and later Philadelphia. A Cranford note mentions local newspapers and Union County’s strong paper presence.
Town resident quotes a dated herbal claim that Aunt Fanny's Health Tea can treat dyspepsia liver complaint and indigestion. The plea urges readers to keep their blood in healthy condition using this product.
The notice urges buyers to demand genuine Allcock's Porous Plaster, warning against inferior imitations described as “just as good” or with claimed superior ingredients. It cites Henry A. Mott Jr. confirming its value and superiority over other plasters and instructs consumers to request Allcock's without substitutions.
Notice announces a public hearing before the Common Council on a proposed ordinance to widen Pease Street from its current limits to the east and south, with measuring and taking of land for the project. The plan details the exact street lines and destination points, and outlines the legal process for property appropriations and bids.
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