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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1893
Page
2
Fragmented OCR reveals a Newark Evening News anniversary note amid cholera concerns and labor unrest. It cites Senate confirmation of Consul Deme rent's appointment, mentions New Jersey health response, and quotes a Plainfield machinist on shifts, reflecting partisan political tension between Republicans and Democrats.
Notices from the County Clerk at President Ginna’s request announce a special City Council meeting on Tuesday evening September 5 to replace the regular session. The agenda includes reading and voting on ordinances, reports from city officials, and committee recommendations, plus arrangements for the Crescent Division Uniform Band’s Freehold Mayday Day exercises train trip.
Five years past MB Leavitt organized The Spider and Fly a pretentious show whose instant success led him to meet vast crowds in search of war abroad and to secure lavish costumes in London and Paris. The production blends spectacle music opera comedy and vaudeville with principal artists from two continents and striking electric effects and armor.
Sunday services and outings fill Asbury Park. pastors and leaders from First Baptist, First Presbyterian, Crescent Avenue and other churches prepare sermons and summer visits. Local families, merchants, and public figures return from travels to New York, Gloversville, Newark, and Niagara area. baseball notes, engagements, and parkside events pepper the weekend schedule.
The Epworth League met at Vincent Chapel to reorganize for the coming year and an entertainment is planned at Giermes Ubarch on Craig Place west Tuesday evening with Miss Josephine Sthater and Mina Denonet. A car ran off Park Avenue and Moodsy's ball game with the Cuban Giants is slated for 1000 PM sharp with earlier football. Charles B. Brown, former real estate figure, now Assistant Superintendent of Minneapolis YMOC, will run Bible classes at First Baptist Church.
A long column lists Sunday services across multiple churches including Morning prayer at 11, preaching by various pastors, Sunday schools, and evening services. It mentions Bethel M E Mission, East Third Street Mission, All Souls Church, Park Avenue, and other congregations with times, locations, and duties noted. It includes a brief discussion on diet and aging from a periodical excerpt and a short piece on dueling in France followed by an advertisement for health tonics.
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