Gordon Langdon hit by car, 1920
Lakewood Times and Journal 30 April 1920
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The plight of Barnegat Pier in 1916
New Jersey Courier 14 Jul 1916 The fishing season at Barnegat Pier just about opened this week. The fleet can be found there mornings waiting for parties. The Pier is not as good a stand as it was five years ago. Now all the parties from up the beach resorts, come by auto, and either stop at Seaside Park,or else come down the main shore road to Forked River, Waretown, or Barnegat. This leaves only the Philadelphia and Camden and vicinity trade for Barnegat Pier. To make it worse, the railroad is all the time advertising the south Jersey fishing resorts, like Stone Harbor, and Anglesea, but will do nothing to exploit Barnegat Pier. If the railroad would take a hand, and help, the business at the Pier could be built up in a couple of summers far surpassing anything that it ever was in the past, for there are thousands of fishermen in Philadelphia who would come down if they knew about the place.
Charles Anderson's new hearse, 1916
New Jersey Courier 14 Jul 1916 Charles P. Anderson has a new automobile hearse. It was built at Piqua, Ohio, by Meteor Motor Car Company, a concern which builds nothing but hearses, and is 148 inch wheel base, 45 hp. Continental engine, Tymkin axles, Delco ignition system, with electric lights and self starter, and is a jet black over all. The growing use of the automobile at funerals, Mr.Anderson says, convinced him that a hearse of this kind was a necessity.
car overturned in 1913
New Jersey Courier 11 Jul 1913 While speeding on the Lakewood-Toms River road at sixty miles an hour gait, an auto driven by Mr. Adams of New York on Saturday afternoon, July 6, struck the soft sand in the side of the road and turned turtle. Mrs. Adams, who was with her husband, was caught under the heavy car, her hip dislocated, and she was otherwise injured. Onlookers said the car was going at least sixty miles an hour;that another car coming about the same speed from the opposite direction reached a wagon loaded with gravel, bound for Lakewood, at the same time Adams' car did; that Adams, trying to avoid hitting the wagon or the car, took the side of the road, hit soft sand, and his car turned over. The driver of the car himself is reported as saying that the driver of the wagon caused the trouble by failing to turn out for the automobile.