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Newspaper
Washington Star
Location
Washington, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1914
Page
12
A scanned page lists assorted items from Washington and surrounding towns including social notices, foreclosures, school events, cemetery and funeral details, road projects, and miscellaneous community updates. Names, ages, and local places recur, with occasional mentions of local officials and residents.
A broad, clipped regional notice page lists sales and offerings including seeds, sewing needles, a wagon, fresh produce, a sawmill, and livestock. Multiple names and locations appear such as Brooklyn NY, Warrsville OH, and Great Meadows NJ, with dates and contact hints for auctions and sales.
The piece critiques a Wall Street fraud by A. L. Wisner & Co that ran mining and oil schemes, taking about three million dollars from small investors. It notes government action after two years costing $200 000 to convict the swindlers and warns that many hopefuls fall for speculative ventures driven by greed and lack of knowledge.
A garbled OCR itemization lists various goods and brands such as baking powder and confectionery terms. The readable fragments mention items like wax, candy, flour, cake, and polish with scattered brand-like names and prices. The line is largely indecipherable but indicates a miscellaneous goods catalog or advertisement from a historic newspaper page.
James H. Johnston offers Regular Clover Alsike Clover Alfalfa Timothy Millet seed and lawn grass mixes. Landreth seeds include peas beans corn and Maine grown seed potatoes plus assorted Sudds 8 payers Owlor Sets and other seed items.
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