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Service. In Trenton, N.J., Edward Wiley wandered into police headquarters, loudly ordered a beer, was served with two months in jail, for drunkenness...
...issue had come to a head in Ewing Township, N.J., hereto fore chiefly noted because Washington's men marched through its woods and fields on thier way to victories at Trenton and Princeton. For some years, Ewing Township had been reimbursing parents out of tax money for bus fares paid by their children traveling to & from school. Several thousands of dollars a year were refunded to parents of public-school children. Then, under a 1941 state law, $357.74 (for a half year) went to parents who sent their children to Roman Catholic schools. The amount was trifling, but the principle...
...countryside between Trenton and Princeton was gentle to the eye, but frozen and cruelly hard to the ill-shod men of Washington's rabble in arms. The back road by which the Continental General hoped to outflank Lord Cornwallis was full of tree stumps-which made heavy work for the cannoneers wrestling the rag-muffled wheels. Perhaps the General, flushed with his Christmas Night victory at Trenton, was now going...
Marching out of Princeton came three British regiments of foot, gleaming in scarlet and gold. These were no mercenaries, like the Hessians beaten at Trenton; these were seasoned and loyal troops. From a striking force of perhaps 2,500 men, Washington detached a skeleton brigade led by General Hugh Mercer to destroy the bridge over Stony Brook. But it was too late. The British regulars shattered and scattered the raw American irregulars, gave Mercer a fatal wound. His panicked men infected Washington's main body...
This year scouts had their eye on Trenton's 185-lb. first baseman, Dick Geidlin, batting an impressive .464. He promptly bounced a triple off the rightfield wall to break a tie, and beat Los Angeles in the fourth game. But Dick was only 16, and by baseball rules the scouts couldn't even talk to him until he was 17 and no longer eligible to play Legion ball. Another whose name may some day shine in big league lights, Jack Carmichael, was a lanky righthander from Los Angeles with a burning fast ball. He fanned twelve...