From the Sept. 20 edition of the Register-News
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125 years ago
The peach merchants missed it on Saturday night. People were expecting a large supply in the markets, but the dealers having been previously bitten by stock rotting in their cellars on Sunday were too careful and failed to purchase sufficient quantities to meet the demand.
Some people complain because they never see their name in the paper. Easy enough to get there, however. Just become a tax delinquent.
Everybody agrees that the lower station of the Pennsylvania R.R. is a very good one. It has comfortable saloons for ladies and gentlemen, and the platform takes a long sweep; it has its neat ticket office and like the New York post office its pie stand; but in one extremely important point it is terribly lacking. There is not a single seat on that platform with a long sweep. Being the principal station now-a-days, a large number of persons may be seen there waiting the arrival of every train. The ledge and the trucks are always patronized, in the absence of better accommodations, but those who rest upon that 4-inch ledge are martyrs, and in their behalf we pen this item, in the hope that the wide-awake Superintendent will come to their relief.
110 years ago
James Tantum won the silver pitcher chanced off Tuesday evening last by the Humane Fire Company No. 1. The tickets were only 10 cents each, but the Humane cleared 18 or 20 dollars.
Edward Stahle Jr. has returned from Browns-Mills-in-the-pines. He says the season there has been the most successful in the history of the place. Mr. Stahle was the director of the music at the large hotel presided over by ex-Senator Pfeffer of Camden. One hundred rooms are to be added to the hotel.
The Freeholders of Mercer and Burlington Counties have decided to build a new bridge over the Crosswicks Creek on the road from Trenton to Bordentown. It will be a good thing in more than one respect for the old covered structure is an unsightly affair.
100 years ago
Ripening: grapes. Small crop. Will be a large one the cranberry crop. Almost a total failure the Bartlett pear crop.
While driving to town Monday with a lot of milk for shipment, John Hackett, Chesterfield, lost his horse. As he neared this city, the animal dropped dead.
Last Saturday a $75 cow of S.E. Burr died, and later was carted off to Neldt’s soap factory on the Crosswicks creek.
The recent heavy rain caused the dam to burst at Harrison Hutchinson’s mill, between Newton and Windsor. The main bridge was washed away.
The Delaware was full after the downpour of rain on Saturday and ran along kicking up trouble from Easton to Trenton. One of those inevitable dams was burst wide open at Easton; the little run at Cadwallader Park, Trenton, assumed elephantine proportions and invaded many cellars; the Morrisville basin was overflowed and more cellars were made swimming pools for rats, while riffraff was sent whizzing down the river making Joe Patchen time as it darted by this point.
(Compiled by Vanessa Sarada Holt from the Bordentown Register, 1875-1901).

