Building Material Shortage Lifts Costs Across Rail-Linked Markets
Eastern building trades report shortages of sand gravel and stone as barges are diverted for war work. Prices rise for Hudson brick Portland cement and plaster products while second hand steel and glass stocks tighten. Recovery expectations grow with Morgan call loans easing credit and construction activity edging toward spring 1919.
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Boston
Philadelphia
Newark
New York
J. P. Morgan & Company
Dow Service
Hudson and Raritan
Portland
Rosendale
Eastern Sea Board
Rushing Work on Big Aviation Field for Standard Plant
Elizabeth to host large scale airplane tests as Standard Aviation Field accelerates work. Four hundred army officers to test De Haviland and Langley models at the plant and Mineola training grounds. Bayway prosthetic pace and barracks construction paused by Government orders amid testing.
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Elizabeth
Standard Aviation Field
Army
de Haviland
Bayway Plant
Edward Waldron Construction Company
Newark
Standard
General Pershing
Europe
Langley
Standard Field
Mineola
Edward Walker
England
Bayway
South Broad Street
Heavy Penalties For Sugar Violations In Elizabeth Dairy
The State Administrator imposed strict penalties on two: Abram Abraham of 425 South Park Street Elizabeth and Joseph Blum of Jersey City. Abraham faces a month closure from next Saturday or surrendering 3500 pounds of sugar plus surrender of sugar certificates and no new certificates until October 1. Blum must close for one week starting Saturday midnight and display a window sign announcing the closure for food administration violations after selling 112 pounds of sugar.
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Tyler
Elizabeth d
Abram Abraham
South Park Street
Joseph Blum
Jersey City
Elizabeth
Abraham
The
Food Administration
Harry Zurav
Blum
Rules for Prisoners on State Road Work
Commissioner Lewis promulgates draft rules for prisoner road work with staged wage payments and parole merits. Inmates chosen from Grade A as a reward receive road camp assignment, plus daily records of effort and conduct to determine promotion.
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Commissioner of Charities and Corrections
Lewis
Parole Merit System Details for Inmates
Weekly reports go to the principal keeper. Until a standard system is adopted, inmates receive letter ratings A B C for effort conduct and performance. Decrements from sentences depend on actual conduct effort and performance ratings.
Miss Elsie Moore Returns to Yonkers Hospital Duties
Miss Elsie Moore, formerly of this city and now a pupil nurse at St. John's Hospital Yonkers New York, returns to her duties this week after a three week visit in town spent largely with her sister Miss Amy J L Moore of Park Avenue Avon Park.
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Elsie Moore
St. John’s Hospital
Yonkers
N. Y
Amy JL. Moore
Park Avenue
Avon Park
Industry Placed in Class of Essentials for War
The industry was designated essential to the war effort. Movie production figures into economy rules. new picture theatres will not be built during the war. A board ruling limits each film to one negative to save film stock, with further economies in tin and iron.
New Building Planned For County Jail Farm
A county board proposes constructing a fireproof stone and concrete building at the jail farm to house up to 200 prisoners, with initial work on one wing. Prisoners would perform most labor, while the facility would provide night confinement to reduce escapes. An $8,500 appropriation is requested to fund the project and farm improvements. Judge Pierce praised the farm, noting low prisoner numbers and ongoing efforts.
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Gen Farm
Union To
Board of Freeholders
Charles
Freeholders
Thomas F. Haviland
Ees
Carlton B. Pierce
Houghson
Election Officers Declining The Job
Several election officers designated by the county board of elections have written to decline service at the upcoming primary and general election. The secretary notes the board lacks authority to accept changes while warrants for appearance must be served, and penalties of 100 dollars may apply for failure to appear unless exempted by a judge.
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Cou Board of Blecto
George J. Stewart
Warner
of Common Pleas
I Ude
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Pem
Family group to return from lake trip next week
Wir and Mrs Hug Fynn with daughters Florence and Helen are due back from Lake ng after a month at Camp sland.
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Wir
Hug Fynn
Faughters
Florence
Helen
Berckmanst
Lakeng
Camp Sland
Theatre Parlor Bedroom And Bath A Comedy Hits Main Stage
News of the Theatre Parlor Bedroom And Bath a Comedy Full of Laughs scored more laughs than any other comedy on the boards last year. Described as a farce frolic in three acts the plot follows an unsophisticated young benedict forced to play Don Juan to please his wife. A notable cast brings the play to New York audiences with praise comparing it to Fair and Warmer.
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New York
C.W. Bell
Mark Swan
Benedict
Don Juan
New York Tribune
Gail Kane Stars in When Men Betray at Plainfield Theatre
Gail Kane headlines a photoplay and vaudeville program at the Plainfield Theatre for the rest of the week. The leading actress, known for her work here, is backed by Stuart Holmes Gertrude Braun Tallulah Bankhead Hazel Washburn and Juliet Moore in a story about a faithless husband and the downfall of his neglected wife and family. The tale is presented with dramatic intensity and ends in a pleasing climax.
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Plainfield Theatre
Gail Kane
Stuart Holmes
Gertrude
Braun
Tallulah Bankhead
Hazel Washburn
Juliet Moore
Vaudeville Bill Delights Audiences With Rising Acts
A vaudeville bill presented yesterday drew praise for a mix of acts. Highlights included the Singing Specialty by Superprice Streets Sisters, Ed and Trene Yoyr performing Bits of Musical Comedy, The Morning Glories, and Cameron and Clark in song and dance.
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Superpice Streets Sisters
Trene Yoyr
Cameron and Clark
Bringing Up Father at Home heads Plainfield Labor Day bill
Cartoon comedy brings the popular comic strip character to the Plainfield Theatre for Monday matinee and night showings. Walter Vernon returns as the Irish Father with Louise Earle as Mother and J. W. Clifford as Dinty Moore. The production promises lively episodes, songs, ensembles, and a chorus of fifteen women, hailed as a peak in musical comedy.
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Father
Plainfield Theatre
Walter Vernon
Gus Hill
Local Man Walter Hamilton joins Going Up cast in Syracuse debut
Walter F. Hamilton of Verdon Street known as Doc joins Cohan Harris musical comedy Going Up. The cast of sixty opens tonight in Syracuse then tours Detroit St Paul Minneapolis before Pacific coast run. Hamilton has four years of musical comedy experience.
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Walter F. Hamilton
Verdon Street
Doc
Cohan & Harris
New Productio
Syracuse
Broadway
Detroit
Stop
St. Paul
Mindeapolis
Pacific Coast
Mr. Hamilton
Thas
Laddis Clift
Sewanee
Government selects aviation camps for new air squadrons
Houston and Long Island win sites for forty new air squadrons with Hazelhurst field as main Long Island base. Four camps in Houston and thirty six on Long Island with five sites to be named. Training conditions will mirror those in France.
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Houston
Tex
Minelo
L. L
Camsmack
L. I
Wantaugh
Babylon
Long Island
Hazelhurst Field
France
Local Residents Enlistments and Hometown Updates
Harold Goeller of 148 New Street has enlisted in the Marine Corps and awaits call. The Walter Netfield family and children have moved to their home on East Front after a three week stay at Quanberg Hospital. Miss Eleanora McCarthy of Led Place has returned home from surgery for appendicitis and is improving rapidly.
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Marines
Harold Goeller
148
New Street
Marine Corps
Walter
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