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...thousands of motorists bound for South Jersey's shore resorts, the Valiant turned down U. S. Route No. 9, preceded by an automobile to clear traffic. The coach tooled along at a fine rate to the leafy little hamlet of Marlboro, site of the second change. At Freehold the party paused for luncheon, just two miles short of the best hamburg stand between Newark and Cape May. Tearing through Toms River, but not fast enough to become enmeshed in the speed traps just south of that place or embroiled with the neighborhood's notoriously strict taxidermist-justice...
...Freehold, N. J., Joseph J. Schwark, new Democratic warden, reported to Harold Height, new Democratic sheriff, on disconcerting conditions in the Monmouth County jail. Of the 90 prisoners, 35 had electric cookers, sauce pans, broilers, cutlery & napery in their cells. They all entertained guests at any hour of day or night, kept late hours, gave parties at whim. Prisoners George Parker, Elijah Thompson, John Leddy, Charles High, John Walling were absent. (Later the night keeper found Parker who "when we counted them in the cells, was in the kitchen. When we counted them in the kitchen, Parker...
...elder Brisbane bought at advertising rates a front-page column in Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, wrote therein every day for two years of Fourier's plans for the development of small cooperative communities (called Associations), in which manual labor should be dignified, social distractions nonexistent. At Freehold, N. J. Albert Brisbane founded such a community, forerunner of famed Brook Farm at West Roxbury, Mass...
...Women's North American Clay Target championship: won by Mrs. J. A. Murphy of Freehold, N. J., with...
...wishing to attract undue attention to himself, Author Roosevelt assures readers that "Our family is certainly no different in any material way from hundreds of thousands of others from Walla Walla to New York." He weaves a fabric of enchanted mediocrity about the venerable Roosevelt freehold, "Sagamore" (Oyster Bay, L. I.), in a book that is a medley of anecdotage about his clan's everyday affairs, many of which have been set down in his father's letters or elsewhere. The burial of pets, camping, meals, games, sports are all dealt with in a fair approximation...