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Studded with good middle-class suburbs are Morris and Union counties in New Jersey. Together they compose the State's 5th Congressional district, hold 10% of its population. Elizabeth is an industrial entity unto itself but in Morristown, Mendham, Madison, Summit. Plainfield et al. live countless families whose heads have 9:30-to-4:30 o'clock jobs in the city, who are not quite so socially smart as the residents of Somerset County (Far Hills, Bernardsville, Peapack) with 10-to-4 o'clock jobs, but who do hold a higher head than...
Seaton Pippin, by Marlboro, out of Phosphate, by Polonius, holds the world's record as a hackney. She has won more championships than any other horse in her class, has never been defeated in single harness nor in hand. Named (like the Moore stables, Seaton Hackney Farm at Morristown, N. J.) for Lady Seaton, international hackney champion who was retired in 1917. she was foaled eleven years ago and shown for the first time three years later. At five, she won the reserve championship. Since then, she has won the $2,000 harness horse stake at the National Horse Show...
...years the Morristown (N. J.) Jerseyman (circulation: 6,686) supported Prohibition. Last June U. S. Wets rejoiced at and nationally publicized the fact that Publisher Edward S. Little had changed the little paper's policy by writing this editorial: "We salute the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States as an experiment undertaken as a glorious adventure: we say farewell to our journalistic support of it as we would say farewell to a shattered ideal. But a shattered ideal is not of much practical use." Last week the Jerseyman floundered into receivership, but not, Publisher Little insisted...
...automobile was ordered to take him driving. Waiting for it, the 84-year-old inventor suddenly seemed to doze off. He had collapsed. Sons Theodore, Thomas Alva Jr., Charles and Mr. Edison's daughter & son-in-law, Mr. & Mrs. John Eyre Sloan, bustled about excitedly.* Doctors arrived from Morristown, N. J. and Riverdale, N. Y. in a jiffy. Dr. Hubert Shattuck Howe, who has attended Mr. Edison all summer, was playing golf on Long Island. He hired an airplane, flew to Newark, hurried to the bedside. Together the physicians issued a statement revealing that their charge had been suffering...
passed his tests for U. S. citizenship at Morristown, N. J. Meantime, Stratospherist Piccard flew from Zurich to Paris in an airplane, his first plane flight, complained of the bumpy air of low altitudes...