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Newspaper
Plainfield Record
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1918
Page
7
The page records names and ties involving Madison Avenue and Grove Street residents. Items include student returns to primacy studies, enlistments and service details, hospital patients, engagements, dinner gatherings, and a fire department member’s illness, reflecting community life and local institutions.
A city campaign urges residents to prepare gardens now with paper plans detailing spaces and crop dates. Experienced gardeners offer guidance while novices should start small, protect plots, and share knowledge to expand local planting. The effort includes a city survey, land use, and manure resources to support a robust, cooperative spring garden.
Assemblyman Arthur N. Piersons municipal manager bill creates wide interest at public hearings and in Plainfield and Trenton as advocates outline the Walsh act framework and the potential shift to a city manager system for municipalities, towns and villages. The bill defines council manager structure, election rules, budget control, and appointment powers while detailing referendum processes and term limits amid debate over adoption by local governments.
Poem recounts frogs around Watchung logs and rivers, with a rustic narrator recalling a night of revelry. The verses mention Ben Bly, Tuttte, and various places including Dunellen Netherwood. The tone is comic and rural, noting frog voices growing faint.
The piece argues against war propaganda in Chautauqua and urges rapid action on the vehicular tunnel project linking Jersey City and New York. It notes Governor Edge and Governor Whitman’s discussions on harbor development and highway financing, including a New Jersey share funded by a four year delay, and stresses the tunnel’s economic and welfare significance for North Jersey.
The notice lists registrants to be notified and accommodated in batches for a draft portending orders. It mentions David G. Turner and an exempted individual with a dependent wife, tied to a pulmonary condition, awaiting further instructions as the slated avenue school prepares for tomorrow.
Prospects of the Nott pumping engine returning to service in the city fire department were boosted by the arrival of a new Vincontin motor. East Second street auto mobile man Join Cline will install it in his garage and test it before adding to headquarter equipment. The motor, ordered by the Fire Board last year, cost about 1800 dollars, with installation possibly raising the total.
A fragmented note extols a toast titled Drink It in Tea with Van Dyt's Teas. It suggests choosing a Tea to evoke the toast's enthusiasm and wishes against a backdrop of a jovial, ceremonial nod. The readable text centers on beverage-themed celebration and branded tea imagery.
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