Today in New Jersey history: March 25, 1670: With quitrent payments to colonial proprietors in England due, an organization of settlers was formed in Elizabethtown to resist payment. March 25, 1845: Dorothea Dix’s New Jersey campaign for a state mental hospital paid off as the state senate and assembly passed a law establishing the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, to be built in Ewing Township. March 25, 1942: George K. Batt, president of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce and vice president of Dugan Brothers Bakery, announced that Dugan had developed a wooden tire coated with “wear-resistant brake lining” for its trucks to help remedy a wartime rubber shortage. Batt maintained that trucks with the new tires “steer even easier than with rubber tires but jolt, as did the old-fashioned wagon wheel, on cobblestones.” Photo: The wooden-tired truck.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:15:12 +0000
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