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Newspaper
Plainfield Record
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1918
Page
3
News announces a travel program titled Hunting the Kodiak bear and other northern adventures with H Howe presenting at the Pidldeld on Wednesday and Thursday. It promises educational value and entertainment featuring exotic scenes, carnival acts, animated caricatures, and a mix of travel lore and novelty.
The upcoming Hello America burlesque with Lewis and Cody features a dramatic stage set with Liberty and a steamer, showing a theft of a diamond garter on a European voyage. The production proceeds through scenes on a North River pier and a stage door entrance to the Republic Theatre.
The Manning Sisters headline a revived vaudeville bill at Plainfield Theatre featuring 50 performers in a new burlesque program. Highlights include a Heroins of our Present World's War act, a Capitol Washington scene, and a 30 girl chorus with Lewis and Dody. The cast also presents Dranee's The Hottentott Hotel, Oracle Emmit and Reeperns, the Two Emersons, and a Pathé feature Alimony forthcoming.
A damaged text fragment references an ot plea urging elimination of effects of falatere to allow scrupulous lawyers to win easy money divorce decrees via the refere system.
A Plainfield community paper accuses local residents of hypocrisy and liquor use at home while condemning others publically. It alleges a newspaper editor and a Board of Education employee abused the crisis to profit by selling coal above federal limits, prompting scrutiny of their actions.
State Board of Education confirmed Wesley A. O Leary, director of the County Vocational School of Esser, to succeed Lewis H Carris as Assistant State Commissioner for industrial education. The position pays 4500 dollars annually.
Harry B. Mingle president of the Standard Aircraft Corporation hosted a dinner at the Bayway plant dining room to thank the Elizabeth Home Guard for their quick response to a potential crisis a month ago.
A wartime letter from Sergeant William B. Magaine asks to stay in France after injury, hoping for transfer to a safer post and staying with the U.S. forces. He recalls volunteers, a visit by Mrs. X, and expresses loyalty to his unit, Company FP Eleventh Engineers, and U S Army.
The forename merchant Hirsch, fined $50 by Judge James C Conpelly after a misrepresentation conviction, plans to appeal. The case grew from complaints tied to a Plainfield business practice and its alleged misleading price claims.
Notice shows an ordinance to lay out and open Emma Street from West Front Street to Myrtle Avenue. Introduced by the Common Council, read, engrafted for third reading, and set for discussion at the regular meeting on April 1, 1918. Citizens may be heard prior to adoption at the Council Chamber, Wa. 24 North Ave. at 12:30 PM.
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