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Today in New Jersey history - December 24
Discussion published by Marc Mappen on Tuesday, December 23, 2014
[From author Joe Bilby]
December 24, 1814: The Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812, was signed in Belgium. New
Jersey militiamen continued to stand guard along the state’s coastline from Sandy Hook to Delaware
Bay into the new year of 1815, however, since the United States Senate did not ratify the treaty until
February.
December 24, 1940: James Mannix of Jersey City was sentenced to six months in the New York City
workhouse for impersonating New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals judge Frank Hague Jr., son of
Jersey City mayor Frank Hague, in order to defraud “restaurants, hotels and nightclubs,” in “dozens
of petty swindles.” Mannix, who resembled the younger Hague, would tell merchants to send bills for
goods or services rendered to him to the judge’s address.
December 24, 1995: The New York Times announced that “the theft of Tannenbaum-sized
evergreens from the waysides and berms and embankments of the state's highways has all but
ceased.” New Jersey’s practice of spraying the trees with a repellant “that causes them to stink
mightily at living room temperatures,” was apparently the cause.
Citation: Marc Mappen. Today in New Jersey history - December 24. H-New-Jersey. 07-01-2015. https://networks.hnet.org/node/14785/discussions/56258/today-new-jersey-history-december-24
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