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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1891
Page
3
The Plainfield crowd voices oppose bonds and urge a public vote, citing pay as you go as the city’s best financial path. Local councilmen and Republican candidates reiter call for a special election before any bonded debt is issued.
Letters from Plainfield residents state opposition to city bonding for sewers and improvements without prior majority consent. Mayor Lee and Republican councilmen affirm they will not issue bonds unless the people decide at the polls. They emphasize serving the people's will and decry accusations of backing bonds without approval.
Tips cover preparing eggs and buttermilk to deter mildew and sun dry, refreshing leather with white orange, estimating butter by weight, making a soap paste for soaking, testing bread rise by finger pressure, preheating new baking tins, safely removing a broken window pane, and annealing nails by red heat followed by cooling.
The Dry Goods Chronicle notes Cheveril gloves with four buttons and a pew bonnet named the Cart wheel. Buckles adorn dresses as a garni ture, with curved bangs, two-wrist button kid gloves, and varied border designs for handkerchiefs. Chatelaines in steel and oxidized silver appear in new patterns, plus star pendant bracelets detachable for the throat.
A collage of humorous maxims and quotes on character travel and work. Highlights include playful lines about old flames elastic steps and glowing salaries. Harvard University reports 2,618 students this year, up 361 from last year.
The article discusses the vast scale of U S paper money production and loss. It notes the weight and handling of notes, redemption efforts, and how counterfeit bites, mice, and fires cause periodic replacements. It recounts a swindle by a bank employee and highlights the skill of women money examiners.
A South method called Ploughing With Dynamity aims to loosen soil to two or three feet and boost water absorption for drought resilience. Inventors plant explosive charges three feet deep, five feet apart, about a thousand per acre, then tamp and connect to a battery for detonation.
Archduke Joseph, Austrian royal commander, funds and conducts ethnographic work on Gypsies in Hungary and Romania. He notes origins in the Himalayas, 1417 first European appearance, beliefs about devils and afterlife, fluid religion, and a baptism rite tied to clan elders. Gypsy creed distribution includes 24,000 Orthodox and 23,000 Greek Catholic in Hungary.
The Anhalter station in Berlin is described as the costliest railway hub, reportedly $4,000,000, with a vast front building and a six track train house. It surpasses Washington and London stations in grandeur, serving routes to Erfurt Magdeburg Carlsbad Kassel Frankfurt and other points. Heavy luggage uses hydraulic elevators while elevated tracks lead out to a grand first floor restaurant and waiting areas.
An inventor in Buffalo New York has devised a process to make ice by using the cold from expanding natural gas. In a test plant gas at 10 psi drives a small engine, its exhaust cools a closed box, forming three inch slabs of ice up to three quarters of a ton daily. The method aims to scale to broader use.
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