News of Other Days

From the Dec. 23 edition
115 years ago
   Peter De Camp, a Georgetown farmer, was unable to deliver a big lot of turkeys last week according to agreement. Thieves stole the whole flock the night before killing day.

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   As Dr. Jemison will remove from Bordentown about New Year’s, there will be three vacancies in the Board of Health. The editor of The Register, having served 4 or 6 years, has positively declined to serve a third time.

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   Several rather illegible letters have been already mailed to Santa Claus. Chimneys are the favorite post offices, although some have been sent through the mails, and the supplies are sure to come in good time and give general satisfaction.
100 years ago
   A variety show, under the management of Fred Ruhlman, Christmas afternoon, was preceded by a performance on a wire stretched from the tower of Park Street Hall to the large yard of Steele’s livery stable.
   The performer was Harry Harrison of Trenton, a man who has done the sliding act at Coney Island, Trenton and Mount Holly fairs. The act consists of sliding down an inclined wire, while holding on by his teeth to a strap attached to a pulley running on the wire.

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   Quite a number of merry girls from Trenton came down on the trolley Saturday and Monday, going through to Kinkora in quest of holly for Christmas. A fine large turkey is displayed at Kenner’s grocery. Every housekeeper is invited to make one guess at its weight before next Monday evening. It will be made a present to the one coming nearest to the correct weight. Brakeley’s caning factory in Second Street is now busy making mince meat.

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   A good many people who ate a big Christmas dinner, and had to attend strictly to business the next day, found it necessary to counteract the effects of pastry especially by a strong dose of peppermint.
75 years ago
   Bordentown stores are well prepared for Christmas and an unusually attractive variety of gifts, useful and otherwise, may be found in our up-to- date shops. The recent stock market trouble and other financial depressions is not bothering local merchants; they know their trade; they realize this is going to be a banner year for useful gifts and they are doing their part in splendid fashion.
65 years ago
   William Woodington and Clarence S. McNinney, active members of the Fieldsboro Civic Association, have started a movement in the Borough to organize a volunteer fire company. If organized it will be the first in the history of Fieldsboro, which has always depended upon Bordentown for fire protection.
   The Fieldsboro volunteer fire unit would not replace the protection afforded by Bordentown’s five companies, but would increase the protection, since the borough volunteers would be available at a minute’s notice, while it takes the Bordentown companies from 5 to 8 minutes to answer an alarm at Fieldsboro. It is likely that if the company is organized, its first equipment will consist of a hose cart and hose.

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   The Bordentown Banking Company has installed a new photographic accounting system this week, which makes it possible to preserve for an indefinite time a photograph of every check which passes through the bank.