Don’t Carry a Safe Around with You
A brief caution urges readers to deposit money rather than carry safes or valuables on person. No further details provided.
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Newspaper
Washington Star
Location
Washington, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1904
Page
6
A brief caution urges readers to deposit money rather than carry safes or valuables on person. No further details provided.
The First National Bank of Easton offers a secure vault solution to prevent fire and theft concerns. Customers are urged to use check payments to settle transactions, avoiding the need to carry large sums of cash and enabling precise records of receipts and disbursements.
A physician from Marderburch N Y cites Calpurn Solvent as a preventive and cure for appendicitis after four doctors advised hospitalization. The patient Owen was reportedly saved from surgery by the solvent, with his attack previously described as severe and dangerous.
Dated items report licenses, new projects, and incidents across Hunterdon and surrounding counties. Topics include hotel safety, a Henry Augustus Craig venture, a Martin's Ferry rail bridge, a tram fire at Lake Hopatcong, trials of J L Allen, Fourth of July plans, canal and road improvements, burglaries, a monument theft and return, a labor day fair by Knights of Pythias, church and bridge ceremonies, a tragic accident at Spongum, and local business updates on stores, mills, and farms with names of residents and entities.
New Jersey items report plans for an Orange club house complex in Newark style. Trenton to add ten new violin machines for fall elections. the State House in Trenton to get a new decorative redesign. A Plainfield missionary records a thirty day fast with weight change noted. The Lone of America ponders a home for aged members at Ocean City convention on August 17. Samuel A Blackwell of Princeton and Nelson D Blackwell of Hopewell declared bankrupt. A $25,000 appropriation earmarked for New Jersey Day at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition with 22 NJ attendees registered. A Burlington County case records a harsh sentence for a group convicted of assault and robbery. John Raebling & Sons plans a large plant east of Providence Forks, and a Tren tan contractor sells three large farm tracts for the project. Funeral instructions from Alga W. Clevenger outline a simple burial with no flowers and brief services.
Ninety two men at the Lackawanna car shops in East Dover were laid off last week as the railroad plans cut staff. Lehigh Valley President departed for Europe for two months, and Scranton layoffs neared one hundred in Lackawanna shops. An East Steadsburg brake man injured a hand at Gravel Place. Proponents propose Lackawanna control of Wilkes-Barre and Luzerne to handle growing traffic. Lehigh Valley adds Pullman sleeping cars for the Diamond Express. Plans for Montclair branch trebling and depot changes carry a $7,200,000 cost with Bloom’s stake at $3,819,41 and an $8,501 share for Public Service Corporation.
Real estate transfers lodged since July and August list several conveyances. Names include Horschild and wife to George H Harms Phillipsburg. Winthrop Rutherford and wife to John Dunn Allamuchy. Armilliua CG Hart to Roscos J Hart Hackettstown. Empire Street Trust Company to Edward R Bowlt New York. boosts mention Plummerto William D King Hackettstown. Dates range July 2 to July 14 1904 with varying sums.
General news notes recount a court opinion on ice delivery as a necessary service in Philadelphia, reference the death of Dom Pan Ernger, former South African Boers president, in Switzerland from senile pneumonia at age 79, and mention an electric milking device claimed to outpace milk as a fire extinguisher. The piece also lists rural mail carrier route pay scales and several 1904-95 property deeds in Philipsburg and Oxford with conveyance details.
Basement sale notice for Latbase’s Barston Pennsylvania lists enamel ware kitchen items such as pots kettles boilers dishes pitchers breakfast sets and more at significantly reduced prices. Also offers refrigerators and china ware with many bargains on dinnerware and houseware. The event begins Friday July 22 with date mentions and early bargains promoted.
A fragment notes accommodations for transients with CHUL stained yy lth moderny conveniences and a well stocked bar. The text mentions a tine table and comfortable vues, reflecting a period card style.
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