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...Trenton, N. J., celebrates 250th anniversary of its settlement...
...aware of Hun aid was one Princetonian, according to legend, that, upon graduating, he asked Crammer Hun to sign his name under those of the Uni versity Trustees and President. Legend adds Crammer Hun signed. This week another Hun enterprise was inaugurated: a country day school for students from Trenton, N. J., and vicinity. . . . Time-honored though the custom be, this year, for the first time, Princeton public school children will get no holiday when it rains. . . . Among the Cyr.us Fogg Brackett lecturers this year at Princeton University will be Fred Wesley Sargent, president of Chicago & North Western Railway; Jesse...
Samuel C. Hildreth, 63, oldest U. S. race horse trainer, longtime handler of Harry Ford Sinclair's Rancocas stables (Zev), owner of Strombolt Farm (Trenton, N. J.), entered a Manhattan hospital for observation and intestinal operation...
Stowaway. A would-be stowaway, remained behind in the Lakehurst guardhouse. He, one Morris Roth, 18, plumber's helper, of Trenton, N. J., was caught crawling along a high girder in the Lakehurst hangar. He had a 175-ft. rope with him and had planned to slide down it to the top of the Graf Zeppelin. The covering of the airship is of fabric. He might have broken through and caused disaster when she was in the air. The stowaway who crossed from Germany to the U. S., one Albert Buschko, 19, Dusseldorf baker's apprentice, was sent home...
...near Barnegat and took the field against the U. S. Army. The invaders pushed forward to Rancocas Creek where they encountered a defensive force of 200,000. A fierce engagement on a 40-mile front ensued. The U. S. centre was badly broken. Mt. Holly and Camp Dix fell. Trenton was bombed to bits. Philadelphia and New York lay open to attack. Then with supreme courage and vigor the U. S. forces rallied and in a fine display of open warfare threw themselves savagely upon the enemy, driving him back and back. All losses were recovered. A "lemon squeezer" movement...