New Jersey Briefs From Early 1900s State News
Overcrowded state prison holds 1 700 inmates. Only 418 072 dividend paying trolley firms in the state last year. Governor Murphy mobilizes 10 253 506 military reserves. Widow of Hobart View to wed Bonator Frye of Maine. Carnegie offers Jersey City libraries if ground is provided. Mass dye works to open in Raritan with 600 workers. Jones H. McGraw donates 12500 to Madison Y M C A with 25000 needed for grounds. Bound Brook ferry burned to water’s edge. Vice Chanel editor Henry O Pitney may be reappointed. Trenton man shoots robin and crow for twenty dollars each. Somerville man fined twenty dollars for rabbit shot. Morris Prison holds 1601 patients plus 200 employees. State Daughters of Liberty meet in Trenton April 21 with 13008 members statewide. Real estate tax share 846 in New Jersey. personal estate 13145. Exposition exhibit will replica Ford tavern in Morristown costing 20000. Historic Morristown bell cracked and lowered for preservation. Antisweat league forms in Würffelle with fines funding Sunday school books. Oath costs rise from five cents to one dollar. Essex grand jury indicts North Jersey Traction officials for 1900 trolley crash. motorman and conductor not charged.
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Atvon
Murphy
Bam
View
Hobart
Bonator Frye
Maing
Mzo
Andrew Carnegie
Jersey City
Massachusetts
Raritan
Somerset County
Madison
Bound Brook
Central Railroad
Chanel
Henry O. Pitney
Trenton
Somerville
Gegson
State Council
Daughters of Liberty
New Jerecy
State Board of Assessors
St. Louis
Ford Tavern
General Weabingtons
Morristown
Belfray
First Presbyterian Church
Wurffelle
Essex County
North Jersey Traction Company
Ates High School
Lackawanna Crossing
Cliftonayooue
Rail developments and regional notices reshape daily logistics
The Lackawanna rail line plans 1000 new freight cars built in Dayton Ohio and expands yard work. Wage increases gain approval for brakemen and telegraphers on several systems. A vast Washington terminal project nears start with a 4 million dollar station and a mile long tunnel. Nearby counties report bank openings and local industry growth with multiple town updates and notable marriages deaths and civic events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lackawanna Ia
Dayton
Ohio
Contra Railroad
Erie Railroad Company
Lackawanna
Scranton
Winola
Montrosé County
Lackawanna Company
Erie Company
Beneft
Plyno
Lackawanon Railroad
Exstern
Thean
Depants Effage
Union
Washington
Baltimore Ohio
Pennsylvetia
United States
Massachusetts Avouno
Capitol Hi
Unclear Outfield Plans and Local Baseball Drama
Local notes list Bohafer Miller Mauch Mattes and Wallon as two of the outfielders while Fitesha et al show to a Bavion Opera House event. A bout between Ingersoll players Jeck McCarron and Jim Lavolle ended with Lavolle bleeding after a bite, prompting McCarron to quit the game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bohafer
Hano
Miller
Mauch
Mattes
Wallon
Fitesha
Bavion Opera House
Ingersoll
Jeck McCarron
Jim Lavolle
Lavolle
McCarron
Gems
Crabiil
Bingham “Ton
Bines
Kos
Patchwork of local notes and oddities from North Warren
Community items recount oddities and small stories from North Warren area including a cement business hint, farm yields, a charity knitting effort, a Delaware catfish haul, a high court docket note, social clubs, local marriages, a washed bridge in Northampton, and a trance death in Morris County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tha New National Bank
Portland
Alpha Baa
Joseph H. Firth
Chillipnburg
Martins, Creek
Hemis ‘Missionary Society of the Pregbytary
Marnton
Belvidere
Jacob “Tyndall
Stillwater
George A. Staley
Homa Staley
Johnsonsburg
Northampton County
Baudta Eddy
Early Baseball Buds and Dover Flags New Looming Season
Local teams and players prepare for spring, with Morris Plains fielding a strong squad and Dover's Molfo tem contributing 76 points in a day. Names such as Lavelle Qaughran and Switzgable surface as standout figures in a muddled, early-season report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Plains
Dover
George Laldy
Phillipsburg
Alabama
Hela
Orlaane
Tard
Lavelle
Qaughran
Nitebéi
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Colt
Hay’s Shoe
OPERA
Northampton Street
Easton, Penna
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Satishiei
Wien
Cornish CB
Ishington
Ene
W. D. Gulick
Natcong
Busineus Yeaterday
Salvation Army
Neas
J. Stover Shiva
Clinton
Iiss
Blanche Patchwey
Watertown
Hudson Dlanchard
Coton Wounell
Boonton
Iron Company
J. Philip Exton
Glen Gardner
Mins
M. Elsie Baker
Win
B. Baker
Oliaton
David Moory
Old Fifteenth Regiment
Andersonville
Libby
Newton
Bowman
South Branch
Tre
Loas
Newton Board of Trade
R. C. & H. B. Good Company
Newark
Waterloo
Lockawanos Company
Granberry Lake
H. McCarter
Potter
Andover
Thera
Grovenend
McCarter
Morris Lake
Sussex County
Heamada
Sparta
John Shields
Flemington
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Lancaster
A. 8
Tan Byak
North Bramale
Mies Joasla E. Pierson
Lambertville
Hunterden
Sussex
Mra. Panny A. Schwartz
Eugene J. Schwartz
New Jerey
New Jareby
Naughright
John Thomay
Garman Valley
Pred Miller
Hoighta
Pahaquarry
North Warren
Apaxgenberg
James
Charies Hummer
Timnayilte
Delaware
Walter
Woyl
Susannah Philhower
Pioster
Potteravilis
Jacob Little
Near Newton
Gray
Hewida
Doo
Bia
Vicinity Notes
Tichmond Parson Hobson
Merriwac
Ta Te
Elven
Atroudsburg
U. S. Navy
Klasing
Phillipebury
Fintest Industris
Ingernoll
Cntier
Morris County
Reeve
Chan
M. Willamsngton
Dorothy Dodd
Manhattan
J. B. Hampton
Belvidere Avenue
W. Washington Avenue
Christine
Masting One AvEnue
Ture Delvery
John W. S
Chicago
Opera Heasse
Washington, NJ
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