From the Sept. 13 edition of the Register-News
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125 years ago
Bordentown Female College opened last Wednesday. In addition to the improvements mentioned in our last issue, President Bowen has also refurnished the capacious hall for the pupils.
The furniture came from the warerooms of the manufacturer, L.R. Cheeseman, Trenton. Mr. C. manufactures school, church, hall and office furniture, and the specimens of his stock now in the Female College will be appreciated in this section.
The Board of Freeholders have passed a resolution requiring persons committing lunatics to the asylum as paupers to pay all expenses attending the committal. The Board shouldn’t be too hard on lunatics, judging from recent events.
110 years ago
The picture of the three famous Hopkinsons was lately placed in the United States Circuit Courtroom, Philadelphia. The pictures are of three generations grandfather, father and grandson who for many years sat on the Admiralty Bench.
The elder (Thomas) was Judge of Admiralty under a royal warrant in the Province of Pennsylvania. His son Francis succeeded him, and at the time the war was declared with England, a signed of the Declaration of Independence and the writer of the ballad "The Battle of the Kegs."
President Harrison passed through Bordentown Saturday afternoon. He had a special train, consisting of a locomotive and three Pullmans.
The trip was made very quickly, the President evidently being tired from his numerous visits and speeches in the New England states. He still holds his cottage in Cape May.
100 years ago
Taylor Opera House, Trenton, has several Bordentonians last Tuesday night to see Hoyt’s "Bunch of Keyes," a play chockfull of fun.
As the amusement season has opened, it may be in order to remark that the management of Taylor theatre hasn’t half the energy of many of Trenton’s leading merchants, else it would each week through these columns announce coming performances and give the scale of prices.
Bartholomew Glaney, an inveterate tramp in spite of his high-sounding cognomen, met with a serious accident last Saturday night.
Bartholomew by profession is a roving tinker and umbrella mender, and the fates threw him in Bordentown on the night mentioned.
Whether he preferred the open air to the quarters allotted tramps, or whether he considered his welcome worn out, his couch on the narrow stone wall on Park Street bridge and there fell into the arms of Morpheus.
While enjoying his unique berth he must have become restless, for when he woke up he found himself in the mud and water some 20 feet below.
The fall had also injured his constitution, as he found himself really unable to assume an erect position.
He, however, mustered up sufficient strength to crawl out of his receptacle, and drag himself on all fours to Second and Park streets, where some humane people found him lying along the fence.
Overseer Thorn conveyed him in a wagon to more desirable quarters, where his wounds were examined.
No bones were broken, but he was badly bruised about the body. He said he had been a tramp for ten years, and had in all that time never left Burlington County.
75 years ago
The Bordentonians and Lotus Clubs will meet his evening in what may be the final game of the second half. The league has ruled that these two teams should play, as the Lotus is the only club which can possibly tie the Bordentonians.
George Barrett, radio operator on the USS Cummings has just completed an enlistment of one year and has returned to his home here.
(Compiled by Vanessa Sarada Holt from the Bordentown Register, 1875-1926.)

