Gardening - Trimming Back Some Stuff

When I realized…

Just one can of napalm…would solve this entire mess.

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Wisdom from the State of New Jersey 😀

Big mildew problem.

I called Vinnie...he's Mafia.

Vinnie says..."Jersey Lightning."

Moi - "huh?"

V: "Arson, baby, Arson...will clear that all right up."

Arson - for your difficult mildews...😀

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TURNS ON FAUCET, GETS APPLEJACK Enjoyed Until Cider Maker Finds New Dump for Refuse in Reading, Pa. Reading, Pa.—For some weeks the city water bureau lias noticed an amazing increase in the water used in this city. Inspectors and registrars alike were unable to account for it. People who seldom used water except to wash in have been seen indulging in amazing quantities. Men who have not used it as a tipple for a long time have been forsaking bars and clinging to water attachments in public places in lieu of pumps. Analysis of the water discovered a peculiar taste. It was like three fingers of Bourbon diluted to the eighth degree. This failed to solve the mystery, however, as no one supposed for a moment that a distillery had been located near any of the reservoirs. By accident the key to the puzzle has just been found. One of the inspectors of the state health board patrolling the water shed found several cider mills along the Maiden creek, which supplies the city, were dumping the waste and pulp from the apples used in making cider into the stream. This pulp, fermenting in the shallow places, produced the alcoholic juice that lent its peculiar applejack flavor later noticed in the city water. Even the fish showed the effects. Fishermen reported that the fish would not bite, but seemed to be running around recklessly in the water and indulging in antics that no fish in its right mind would think of.

Perth Amboy Evening News (Perth Amboy, N.J.), September 30, 1915 - Pg. 4 of 10

TURNS ON FAUCET, GETS APPLEJACK
(I’m very skeptical of this story)

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#Applejack #JerseyLightning

Boys Not Suffering At Training Camp Camp Dix, Wrightstown.—Just to make things a little different, “General Booze,” who is about to be placed on the retired list as far as Camp Dix is concerned, stirred up a commotion in camp this week. According to government edict, all persons who sold beer or any of the fifty seven varieties of John Barleycorn within five miles of the cantonment were supposed to shut up shop. It was impossible for the few truants who conducted gilded palaces to grasp the war condition idea, and the result is that at Wrightstown, New Egypt and Pemberton the “old applejack” was flowing as freely as ever this week. At Wrightstown, the Brick Hotel, of which Brose E. Smith is proprietor, was doing business at the same old stant. At New Egypt two of the bars are closed and a third remained open. Brown’s Mills was closed up tight and one of the two saloons at Cookstown had the lid on.

Palisadian (Cliffside Park, N.J.), September 29, 1917

Boys Not Suffering At Training Camp

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#Applejack #JerseyLightning #WWI

Faded clip of a 1897 “news” article in the Mount Holly News: John Nordenweck, living near Atsion, had an encounter last week with two rattlesnakes along a ditch near tbe New Jersey Southern Railroad. He killed one of the reptiles and was bitten on the arm by the other. Nordenweck swallowed a large quantity of applejack, which counteracted the venom and saved his life. FYI: Atsion is a community within Shemong, NJ. Personally, I’ve never heard of either of them.

The Mount Holly News, June 08, 1897

Page 3 of 4, under “Local News,” 2/3 of the way down in the THIRD column, sandwiched between a report of a falling tree limb & a listing for the monthly meeting of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society.

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MITZENIUS DRINKS APPLEJACK NOW.
A Nine-inch Eel in the Water Pipe Made Him Change His Drink.
Mr. Charles Mitzenius of Ocean and Danforth avenues has on exhibition in a large jar of water, in his store, an eel measuring nine inches in length, which dropped out of the hydrant, in his apartments, Saturday afternoon. The eel is sporting about in the glass jar as though he never went through the trying experience of passing through a faucet. Mrs Mitzenius, who was using the hydrant at the time, received a shock when the slimy member of the finny tribe introduced himself. The water pipe was choked while be was fighting his way into the world, and Mrs. Mitzenius, unable to get water, pounded on the pipe in order to shake out whatever choked It. When the eel dropped out she nearly fainted. She hastily summoned her husband, who was in the store below. Charlie, when he saw the eel, was as much surprised as his wile; but after be assured himself that be had not compounded any prescription calling for “spirit Fermenti” during the day he summed up enough courage to pick up the mudfish, it seemed to be dead; but, after he placed it in water, it revived and soon began to wiggle about. Its body is as thick as a lead pencil and has a very pointed tail. I don’t approve of over indulgence in intoxicants.” said Mr. Mitzenius to a reporter of The Jersey City News yesterday, "but when we get such things as these in our water you can put me down for one vote for applejack.”

The What’s History feed has a lot of eel related stories… so here we are

The Jersey City News (Jersey City [N.J.]), November 20, 1893

MITZENIUS DRINKS APPLEJACK NOW.
A Nine-inch Eel in the Water Pipe Made Him Change His Drink.

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PANIC ON HORSECAR.
A Drunken Driver Holds Up the Passengers With a Revolver.
Henry Owens, a car driver on the belt line of the J. C. & B. R. R., became loaded with Jersey applejack yesterday and when he started in to work last evening he had a “still jag.” When his car reached Pacific and Communipaw avenues he pulled a revolver from his pocket and brandishing it in the air declared he would shoot every one in the car. Patrol man Gibney happened to be near by and arrested him. Justice Kimmerly this morning lined him $10 ana gave him a good lecture.

The Jersey City News, Sep 06, 1892, LAST EDITION

PANIC ON HORSECAR.
A Drunken Driver Holds Up the Passengers With a Revolver.

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“Eighty chickens got drunk on the refuse of an applejack distillery in New Jersey a few days ago, and have no doubt since been laying egg-nogg in shells.”

Goodwin's Weekly : A Thinking Paper for Thinking People
Salt Lake City, UT - July 28, 1906

#Cheers #JerseyLightning #NJ #Applejack

“Eighty chickens got drunk on the refuse of an applejack distillery in New Jersey a few days ago, and have no doubt since been laying egg-nogg in shells.”

And every farmer who was anybody would have five to ten barrels in his cellar maturing, these being the product of his own apples, distilled for him at the nearest still-house. Yet many old fellows affirm that "in them days" there was little or no drunkenness-surely not so much as now, anyhow. While its consumption out of the state seems to have increased much, its quality certainly has not been de-based, as anyone can testify who drinks the old Monmouth liquor in company with the usually poor substitute served by so many otherwise first-class cafes in this city. The Monmouth man drinks it straight, and uses it in place of rye in mixtures such as cocktails, julips, high-balls, etc. He particularly delights in the Sunset, or Jersey Sunset, which is applejack on chipped ice and water, in a long glass, with a swish of lemon peel and a dash of Angostura on top, the latter being allowed to float on top for its sunset hue. The apple jack mint julip is without doube a delicious concoction. In

“He particularly delights in the Sunset, or Jersey Sunset, which is applejack on chipped ice and water, in a long glass, with a swish of lemon peel and a dash of Angostura on top, the latter being allowed to float on top for its sunset hue.”

#JerseyLightning #Applejack #NJ