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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1893
Page
2
Fragmentary report from 1808 recounts Crescent Pioneers at Baleabet with a disputed entertainment night. Names like J. Deane appear in a tattered note describing makeup, credit issues, and a fortune tied to a scribe or witness.
Fragmentary OCR yields a public notice about an event titled in a misread form. Names like Kean and Hoo J I Je appear alongside references to a public event and a Supreme Dictator figure, with unclear dates and places.
Fragmentary OCR text suggests an athletics or meet report with garbled names and phrases. No clear persons, teams, dates, or outcomes are resolvable from the readable content.
Boston mourns as Harvard and Grace Church Newton honor Bishop Phillipe Brooks who appeared at a January 15 church dinner with Grace Guild and ninety boys. The event, described with personal recollections, ends with Brooks seeking his homeward ride and expressing throat pain before boarding a train.
A fox hunt near Benners coed house between Nether wood and Fanwood drew about a hundred locals yesterday afternoon. The fox, once caught on Terrill Road weeks earlier, was pursued by ten dogs along Ash Gwamp and nearby routes, with riders including Ree Seite Sack and Phillip Cuterell among others. The chase lasted about twenty minutes ending with the quarry's capture near a hotel, amid scattered cheers and rider activity.
A fragmented OCR passage describes a discussion on liquor traffic led by Mr Vem with views on specimens of crank Inston amid a largely unproductive public hearing. It mentions civil ball renters gaining track access and an appropriation item for surveying public lands as the main target of attack, with Holman and committee members debating increases from 100000 to 600000.
A garbled set of items mentions a senate urging, a Rome bank scandal, subsidies to newspapers, and court filings. It cites a Bellevue hospital death connected to a crime, an escape from jail after a guard’s failure to replenish a tire, and a fatal freight train accident near Badgemoore. No clear dates or places are consistently readable.
Twenty to twenty five property owners met in Lorraine on Wednesday night and organized a Board of Trade with Silas J Drake named president. Committees were appointed to acquire a frealia n fre spparatos and to install street plug connections and to establish a public school, aiming to bring the town up to city standards.
Roselle may become a new township formed from the portion of Roselle bordering the Central Railroad to be named Roselle. A bill to create the township has been drafted and will be presented soon. The long effort has met with opposition that now appears to have subsided.
A fire broke out shortly after seven last evening at the A. Smith & Co. coal and lumber merchants building in Fanwood. The blaze caused damage to the office and a small shed, with a loss not exceeding 1,000 dollars. The blaze was traced to an over-chested stove.
The Ladies Club policy and Proctor’s venue draw large crowds each afternoon and evening for shopping and sightseeing. Inclement weather presses attendees to wait or deter visits as entrances run crowded and seating becomes limited.
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