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Ned Larkin injured, 1906

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 New Egypt Press 3 Aug 1906

Colliers Mills news, 1901

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New Jersey Courier 28 Feb 1901

News From Prospertown 24 Oct 1901

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John Parker obituary, 1910

from the New Egypt Press 4 Feb 1910 John Parker, aged about 69 years, died at the home of his son Charles Parker, near Cookstown, on Wednesday evening, after a lingering illness. Mr. Parker was sawyer at Hauche Miche for many years. He is survived by two sons, George and Charles and three daughters, Mrs. Jennie Grover of Davisville, Mrs. Rhoda Cawley of near Cookstown, and Miss Anna Parker of near Pasedena, N.J.

News From Colliers Mills, 1900

New Jersey Courier 4 Oct 1900: The seven year old daughter of Alfred Southard has been very sick with the whooping cough and pneumonia, but is somewhat better now. There are one hundred twenty five Italians picking cranberries at this place. Mrs. Caroline Smith of Trenton has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Jennie Reynolds the past week. Henry Lewis is suffering with a boil on his nose. Wiliam Cawley expects to get done picking cranberries this week. He will not have more than one hundred and fifty boxes, where he generally has five to eight hundred boxes. James Buckalew, George Vannote, and Benjamin Buckalew killed nine wood duck Saturday last.

Murder at Ellisdale, 1937

New Jersey Mirror 28 Jul 1937: Enraged because his wife had bobbed her hair, Joseph Cawley, 55 years old, a laborer, of Ellisdale, shot and severely wounded her on Monday, and then committed suicide with a shotgun. Mrs. Cawley, 45 years old, and the mother of four grown children, was hurried to Mercer Hospital, Trenton, by her son-in-law, Arthur Grover, of Extonville, where it was found that her right hand had been shot three times, and that she had suffered numerous bruises of her face and body where the enraged husband had kicked her. The argument occurred in front of the Cawley home and was witnessed by neighbors. As told by Mrs. Cawley to Grover, the husband asked her to step outside to discuss the matter. They walked through the yard, talking and arguing when suddenly Mrs. Cawley tripped over a broom that she had been carrying.. Without warning, according to Grover, Cawley pulled a .22-calibre revolver from his pocket, pointed it at her head and pulled the trigger. The shot fai