Word: matawan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maintained as shrines, some are not. Joyce Kilmer's, at New Brunswick, N. J., owned by the American Legion, has nary a tree on the place. Stephen Crane's in Newark was being torn down; Malone got it a reprieve until December. Philip Freneau's near Matawan, N. J. is for sale: $35,000 with his grave; $29,000 without it. Most rousing hospitality awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used...
...Matawan, N. J., Judson Van Arsdale, 59, advertised for a wife. Out of 80 replies he picked May Meyers, 57, of Washington, D. C., sent her railway fare. Before they were married, May went home to see her daughter. Impatient, Judson sent railway fare to another candidate, Nellie Davis, 44, of Paris, Ill. May and Nellie arrived at the same time. Unable to make up his mind, Judson permitted both to keep house and cook his meals for three weeks. One day he received a letter from Philip Bauer of Brooklyn. "I would like to correspond with the lady...
...Around Boston and in Pawtucket, R. I. four cinema houses were bombed. New York police found no clue to the disappearance of $590,000 worth of treasury notes from a Wall Street bank. The victim of a New Jersey "ride'' was found frozen in a ditch near Matawan. And in Washington, 600 of the nation's leading criminologists, legalites, Government officials, social workers and law enforcement officers met for Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings' four-day conference on crime...
...Jersey's dozen districts renominated their present representatives; in the third district regular Republican Thomas M. Gopsill is to run against Democratic William H. Sutphin, Wartime airman, onetime Mayor of Matawan (when aged 28). In the ninth district Peter A. Cavicchia, Newark lawyer and school board member, won the Republican nomination to succeed Franklin William Fort who was defeated in the Senate contest (see below). Onetime (1919-21, 1923-25) Democratic Congressman Daniel Francis Minahan will run against...