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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1892
Page
2
A garbled pastiche preserves scattered notes on a Newark crime, Queen Victoria, Columba’s anchor, and Methodist conferences. It muses on capital punishment, moral decay, and wealth worship, contrasting Victorian era anxieties with social life and self-interest.
Courier correspondent urges local merchants to support home industries by keeping promises and delivering prompt service. He warns that failure to meet agreements drives customers away, noting distrust harms home trades and suggesting storefronts display We do as we agree to attract and retain patrons.
The English writer Augustus Sala, visiting Australia, wrote to the London Daily Telegraph recalling a voyage during which a maritime doctor treated him for bronchitis and spasmodic asthma sparked by fog near San Francisco. He notes prescriptions and warmth of the tropics, especially two Alloch’s Porous Plasters, aiding his recovery.
A garbled scene shows the Duke and the Countess strolling through Plainfield's Four Hundred. The Countess whispers a cryptic secret about remedies and a mysterious phrase implying spring and draughts, with references to Dr. Howes and Arabian Blast.
A long list of church services and event notes across multiple congregations including First Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal, Modern World Congregational, Grace Church, Trinity Reformed, Lane Day School, First Unitarian, Warren Union Mission, Church of Our Saviour, St Mary’s, and others. The items cover preaching times, Holy Communion, Sunday Schools, evening services, weekly prayers, and special anniversaries, with pastors' names and locations such as Park Place, West Seventh Street, Craig Place, and Netherwood.
A garbled yearbook style note reports a shark twenty to twenty feet in the harbor with thick skin and a five pound bass. It mentions Orange County and Lake and includes stray names and fragments about a bin and shed.
The report cites unions in San Francisco and Chicago seeking eight hour days, with a New York law affecting hours and a building loan association. It notes printers, laborers, and tailors unions, expulsions of union men from a church, and a Toledo wage advance for longshoremen, reflecting era labor tensions and shifts in policy.
A fragmentary household hints item advises on lemon treatment and cleaning methods using odd terms like sassafras vermin deterrents and jelly bags. The readable text suggests avoiding soap for certain bags and discusses stain removal with water and fumes, ending with garbled phrases about hot grass and corrosive substances.
A fragmented note discusses the deposit date on a certain issue, estimates Canada will export 28,500,009 units of wheat for the year, mentions the World's Pain display not entering the rugs, and questions American branding and an Eiffel tower copy. It reads as a collection of random observations and inquiries.
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