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Newspaper
Washington Star
Location
Washington, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1895
Page
5
A long-winded local column recounts visits, family news, church services, mischief, and community happenings in Belvidere and neighboring towns. It lists moving families, weathered events, school opinions, civic notices, and personal details, with multiple names and addresses interwoven.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions several names and places including Newnan Jones and Walter Rush, with advertising language for a patent medicine. It references consumption deaths, a Mr Hess in Pennsylvania, and H. Fy Bucklen & Co claims of health benefits. The passage is highly corrupted and yields few clear events or dates.
A Newport man Josiah Apgar, 42, is critically ill with slim hopes of recovery. Township matters at Num phey’s hotel and district petitions surface. Miss Eda visits neighbors, and local sales boast cheap goods, horses sold for modest sums. Our Gun Club plans a return shoot at Cokesbury, while Hay Gardner hosted by Eugend Cowell. Notices include Chamberlain’s Pain Balm praise and varied local ads from Washington MA to Carter’s Drug Store.
The item lists residents and visitors including A Le Atigha of New York City and George A V Monkason of Little Falls. It mentions a Belvidere opera, plans for a Senior American Machines branch, a snow road project to avoid Bowers Hill, a glass accident at Bes C B Shum’s place, and a wedding at the Cohatble Mt EB parsonage.
Local items report Andrew Bloomsbulty Celaman moving his family to Blairstown this week, with Fiotalng to occupy the vacated house. Williams family depart for Rahsas for summer, Anni Binur buried, Dr. R. C. Smith dies, funeral at Presbyterian church. Mrs. Powell preaches, Miss Clara Heaney visiting Boston. Others moving into and out of town, including John Bail, Shuler, and Dennis Folkner planning relocations.
An OCR fragment promotes guaranteed paint quality urging use of a single well-established brand of pure white lead pure linseed oil and colors. It touts an Old Dutch process as the standard and claims the brand is always absolutely reliable.
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