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...They simply laid down on the ground when night came. They were bloodthirsty. They liked to drink the warm blood of animals they killed, as you would a glass of milk. They talked to each other with some sort of grunts-umfa umfa-glug glug." Thus did a Perth Amboy, N. J. public school teacher read last week to her sixth grade pupils. One little girl was immeasurably shocked & revolted, went home and told her father. He, Rev. Byron Christopher Nelson, vigorous young Lutheran minister, bounced off to a Kiwanis Club luncheon, read passages from the book, A Child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Umfa Umfa, Glug Glug | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

Married. Morgan Foster Larson, 48, Governor of New Jersey; and Ada Schmidt, 25, Danish companion & secretary of Governor Larson's mother; in a surprise wedding at a family party; in Perth Amboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 1, 1930 | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

Engaged. Esta, daughter of President William F. R. Murrie of Hershey Chocolate Co.; and James Logan Clevenger of Perth Amboy, N. J.; at Hershey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 6, 1930 | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

Governor Morgan F. Larson of New Jersey, motoring by night from Trenton to Perth Amboy was startled as he passed through Princeton to have a rock crash through his car's window. Undergraduates swarmed about him, stopped his car, booed and jeered they knew not whom. Gravely Governor Larson got out, examined the shattered window, learned that the rioting students had just come from Cane Spree.* Goodnaturedly the Governor drove on, not waiting to see the students try to undress a besieged policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...greater part of the permanent exhibition is of framed photographs, such as those of locomotives, stations, a Camden and Amboy engine with driving wheels nine feet in diameter and a smoke-stack ten feet high, and special train of flat cars carrying a consignment of 30 horse-drawn coaches from Concord, N. H. to Omaha, Nebraska...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 12/5/1928 | See Source »

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