Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Four Square Pulpit and cast themselves upon the bosom of the Lord. The meagerness of thank offerings collected on the first night was disheartening. Worse still, a mere 2,000 slummy people paid admission the second evening. Worst of all, there came a rival female evangelist from New Jersey, a resolute woman with the mien of an inspired laundress-the Reverend "Bishop" Mrs. Mollie Alma White, founder and primate of the Pillar of Fire Church. Bishop White, who has thousands of disciples ("Holy Jumpers") in the British Isles, clearly regarded Mrs. McPherson as a poacher upon her preserves or worse...
...which was properly reported in boxed press notices. Manhattan viewers had themselves thrilled to vicarious trans-Atlantic flying. Baltimore loomed and was drawn away from Philadelphia and its identifying rivers, the Schuylkill and the Delaware, guided the ship toward Trenton. With Commander Rosendahl at the bridge, familiar upper-New Jersey hillets and meadows revolved like a slow treadmill, until the heterogeneous mass of the Manhattan topography was seen waiting. Manhattan-on-the-roof facetiously commented upon the alcoholic content of the ship's beverage supply. Many a snippy monoplane, a half-dozen biplanes swirled like fleas about the elephantine Zeppelin...
Simultaneous with the release of Secretary Kellogg's opium note, a Federal customs squad in Jersey City went sniffing through the Dollar liner President Harrison, just back from a world cruise with stops in China. The ship's crew included 131 Chinamen, who smiled stupidly when Inspector John Stirling ordered his men to cast the President Harrison's 90-fathom anchor chains out of their locker in the bows. Beneath the chains was a false partition. Behind the partition were 15,990 ounces of high-grade opium - the "Rooster" and "Kein Chung" brands- worth some...
Jacob Goodale Lipman studied at the Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School in New Jersey. That was 34 years ago. At Rutgers College he got his bachelor of science degree. Later he was to get doctorates, in science and philosophy. He became a soil chemist and bacteriologist. He has taught at Rutgers since 1902. He is now both director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experimental Station and also Rutgers' dean of agriculture...
Delaware 3 New Jersey...