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Newspaper
Washington Star
Location
Washington, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1903
Page
10
The Newark News proclaims itself independent in politics and public affairs. It asserts freedom from party bosses and corporate influence and pledges fair coverage and fearless reporting focused on people’s welfare and honest government.
The report highlights that the Legislature’s work is covered with discrimination, skipping routine details to focus on major bills and their impact on public welfare. It promises unbiased political analysis, preserving the newspaper’s esteemed reputation for thorough, public oriented coverage.
An editorial sketch contemplates Budapest as a river city poised between ancient landmarks and modern enterprise. It envisions portraits of investors on walls of a steel-era house and laments the tension between preserving historic sites like Liberty and Old South church and advancing new utilities and commerce along the Danube and across European capitals.
A fragmented reminiscence quotes Frederica Bremer and Miss Cramer on beauty, youthfulness, trust, and plainness. It spirals into obscure anecdotes about speech, aging, manners, and a bizarre animal and human voting anecdote, showing a memorypiece voice with outdated travel and theater imagery.
A garbled OCR style fragment references a marginal literary line and a stray mock quote from Lippincott's Magazine. Details are unclear. readable bits mention a tone of reflection and a brief cue about a musical or poetic line.
Readable fragments describe the Williamsburg bridge as a monumental steel span joining Manhattan and Long Island cities, surpassing the Brooklyn Bridge in width and strength. It notes four cables with 10 309 No. 8 wires each, breaking strength about 25 000 tons, and a suspension capacity far above anticipated traffic. The piece also mentions related social notes and local happenings.
The article details a colossal bridge project replacing an older structure. It notes the new bridge’s channel span about 1,000 feet and total length around 2,200 feet, with towers roughly 80 feet taller than the Brooklyn Bridge spires. Four trolley tracks could carry 850 cars hourly, versus 70,000 per hour on the old bridge, and the work involved 125,000 cubic yards of concrete masonry and 80,000 cubic yards of stone.
Colubia reports a Blaiks town furniture dealer Tot Ingle weeks with guests from France and a dinner party hosted by Mrs Blain. Miss Marin Dietrich returns home after months with friends at the arts. Rev Bing attends a Sunday service. weather hindered plans. Various visits and health mentions include Miss Mamie Wast with Mrs Corwin Binds and Frank Davison fallering with rheumatism.
Two Warren County almshouse inmates eloped and married in an experiment to curb pauperism. After repeated escapes, officials let them go, only to return briefly before leaving again. The editorial questions whether such unions can cure poverty and urges close watching of the outcome in hopes of a humane, yet dubious, solution.
Chief Engineer Lincoln Hush leads Tadlawa and raitreat in a morning operation to shift a 220 foot long double deck drawbridge across the Passaiv river between Newark and Tarvison. Enormous screws and levers were used to lift the structure under a rainstorm, settling the 986 tons load into place on stone piers.
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