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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1894
Page
4
Official temperature at the Plainfield Weather Observing Station reports November 1893 and rainfall totals. New York Press critiques President Cleveland and Wilson. politics tilt as views diverge. Publication previews by Courier-News promise forthcoming stories by Coven Doyle and others, praising a bright female author.
The Sunshine Mission Band of Crescent Avenue Church schedules its annual fair likely the week before Christmas. Under Miss Bonnell and another supervisor, the group aims to make this event the most successful yet and hopes old friends will rally to support the cause.
East Front street resident Elvie Ven Name was clam digging this morning when he found a most peculiar mark. The incident, noted in local records, attracted attention from neighbors and prompted curiosity about its origin.
A garbled list describes a range of 19th century items from September 1652 to 1874 including a Mechanic's Institute benefit in Melbourne, a Chinese ticket, Bryant's Minstrels in New York, and the charter list of the Criterion Club. Names such as Gas. Williams, Tony Pastor, George Thatcher, Robson, and Crane appear among actors and club leaders.
A fragment describes Wilbur L Hale and a claimed cure called Favorite Remedy. It asserts steady improvement and a permanent cure for salt rheum and claims success for scrofula nervousness kidney and liver complaints and other diseases caused by bad blood and shattered nerves.
The Span of Life will be staged at Music Hall next Friday night with a plot about Richard Blunt and his wife pursued to Africa. An old foe named Dunstan Leech uses Arab followers to threaten them as Blunt and his family flee through the wilderness. A trio of friends form a living bridge to save the mother and child at a gorge, inspiring the show’s title.
Local notes report crackers arriving from Falper on West Front street and multiple upcoming events. Elizabeth Athletic Club faces Princeton Seminary, Jeru salem Lodge works Fellowcraft degree, and Plainfield Bowling Club to Elizabeth for a Journal League game.
A letter from L. B. Morgan dated Nov. 21, 1894 questions the propriety of a primary held in a bar room atmosphere with a cigar in the presiding officer’s mouth. It asks whether such conduct is fit for teaching a boy approaching manhood about voting responsibilities.
Almost every rheumatic pain type is claimed to be cured by Rheumatism Care from one to five days. The ad asserts rapid relief for back breast arms legs and joints with a money back guarantee and sells through Munyons Homeopathic Home Remedy Company of Philadelphia at about 25 cents a bottle.
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