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News from New Egypt, 1905

New Egypt Press 21 Apr 1905: The Tuckahoe River is the favorite haunt of many Philadelphia anglers. The Carpenters and Joiners Local Union, of Millville, celebrated its sixteenth anniversary with a banquet on Monday night. Struck by a Jersey Central train at Greenwich yesterday, 14 year old Robert E. LEAMING had a leg cut off. He was taken to Bridgeton Hospital. There is a slight improvement in the glass condition of South Jersey and manufacturers say the factories now in operation will continue to the end of the blast, June 30. The Board of Freeholders of Cape May County has awarded the contract of regraveling the new county road across teh meadow, from Five Mile Beach to the mainland, to former Senator Hand. It is believed at Paterson that the woman who committed suicide in Altoona, PA Monday by throwing herself under a freight train was Mrs. Fannie LONG of Paterson. She had gone to Altoona to see her husband, who was ill in a hospital.