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Cranbury Press

Location

Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America

Date

Apr 02, 1897

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Vast costs rise for ves cals and global ventures

The article notes ves cals at Lake shipyards costing about 3 million dollars versus 2 million a year ago, and cites other 19th century global observations including emigration of Russian Jews, rail links Americas, and reforms in vacant lot farming. It also mentions a deaf operas device and English farm distress under lordly estates.

Lake Ship Yards Pingres Detroit Michile Boston Brooklyn Duluth East Orange Minneapolis

Remembering a Lost Loved One in Quiet Weights

The verse recalls lingering grief after a loved one dies and the way small details return memories. A reader notes that even after years the familiar shade of hair, voice, or gesture can revive a sense of the person once known, easing the ache through recollection.

Log Edan

A Jaunting Car Ride in Old Town Ireland

Miss Briggs and Emily tour a quaint Irish town on a jaunting car. A tourist photographer causes a stir, hinting at a past romance with Mr Powell. An accident on a drunken driver’s wagon leads to a rekindled hope and a renewed romance as the couple depart with a blessing.

Emily O'Brien Atreck Amail Mss Briggs Miss. Briggs Imps Bs Journoy Shandon Churchyard Miss Briggs Qaroline Briggs Mr. Lamb Hullo Fritzie Hal Niel Briggs Fredat Serger Old Town Shandon Tower Blarney Castle Dr. Powell Castle Ireland Misa Briggs Caroline Hope Moneily Miss Riggs Corry Corr Rascal Sorr

Scientific and Industrial Inquiries and Inventions

Ibia estimates two million tons of pure silver in earth’s waters. Newfoundland shores built from northern sand ice and stone. Ocean steamers’ speed up threefold in fifty years, horsepower rising from 700 to 10,000. Astronomer says sun gives light equal to 680000 full moons. Tesla on sunburn from X rays notes ozone reaction. Gypsum roofing material drives use in Big Horn County Wyoming. Asphalt deposits in Tamaulipas Mexico attract San Antonio company leasing property for fifty years. Kansas inventor patent for cyclone resistant house fastening with rods and turnbuckles. German telegraph findings claim telephone lines reduce lightning strikes. observed towns with phones show far fewer strikes.

Ibia Newfoundland Nicola Tesla Big Horn County Wyoming San Antonio Texas Tamaulipas Mexico United States von Vilenberg Matamoros Kansas German Telegraph Department

Child Seeks Release For Mom In Court

A seven year old golden haired girl pleaded with a New Jersey judge in a police court to release her alcoholic mother. The child, tearful yet loving, asked if the judge ever had a mother and begged for her mother’s release, prompting the judge to order her release after a display of emotion.

New Jersey Plander

Cruetty to Gold Fish Dish Cites Cruelty in Captivity

A fragment laments cruelty in keeping goldfinches noting high mortality from insufficient relief and glare. It describes finches in a glass vessel wandering desperately seeking light, tiring themselves until weariness ends their lives.

Thief Hurls Hook Through Window in Monterey Described

A thief using a hook smashed an open window at a Monterey residence waking the sleeping homeowner. The intruder scattered bedclothes in the act and fled, leaving no further details about motive or capture.

Monterey Mexico

Women lawyers in Canada and fashion notes mix

The piece surveys women entering law in Ontario with dress rules and recounts fashion and social trends across urban society. It highlights Canadian suffrage, women's professional advances, and vivid portraits of attire from shirts to gowns, hats, and cycling skirts, plus profiles of notable women in law, education, and business.

Canada Ontario Law School

Gloucester Heroic Fisherman Blackburn Silent Guardian

Howard Blackburn, a Gloucester fisherman, endured a brutal storm with dory mate Welch. He saved his dying comrade by sharing warmth and then rowed four days with the corpse, losing hands and feet to frostbite but earning local respect for kindness, bravery, and charity to the sick and needy.

Gloucester Howard Blackburn Bays Washington Star Welch Burges Bank Newfoundland Blackburn Howard Hallon Bill Dancan Street

Romantic Dakota wedding of Myrtle Morrison and Frank Dupree

Myrtle Morrison the noted bronco bunter marries Frank Dupree a well educated mixed-blood Sioux. Their courtship featured bold bronco stunts and a perilous buffalo ride that tested Dupree’s nerve and balance as a rider on the prairie.

South Dakota Myrtle Morrison Bronco Bunter Frank Dupree Sho Dupree Myrtle Prank Frank

Courage Beneath Deck in Halifax Ship Evacuation

An English bark carrying a regiment was wrecked off Halifax in July 1842. With water rising, officers ordered 200 men to stay on the lower deck to preserve order while women and children and other sailors were evacuated, ensuring all survived.

Colonel Beaton Halifax

Californian Fruit Pioneer and Early California Orchards

The Pittsburg Dispatch notes that Mr. Wolfskill planted eighty acres of apricots and peaches and six thousand grapes in Winters Selena County in 1851, with the first apricots from these trees sold in 1855, highlighting his role in establishing California fruit raising.

Wolfskill Winters Selena County Pittsburg Dispatch

Horse Meat Test and Bouillon Color Reactions

The Paris correspondent of the Medical Record notes fear of horse meat being offered by butchers. A bouillon made from the meat reportedly colors violet on a reaction paper, whereas beef and mutton bouillon yield different shades when treated with iodine.

Paris The Medical Record

X Ray Search for Ring in Cake Sparks Curiosity

An English woman misplaced a ring inside a baked cake and used X rays to locate it rather than slicing the cake or risking swallowing. John Sutton of Denver, Colorado, lent $330,000 for a church project on the condition to live in the tower and serve as sexton.

Cuba Havana Cubs Libre Senson Umey Lerakd John ©. Sutton Denver Col

Washington Items Show Public Printer Appointed and Tariff Debate

Washington items report Frank W Palmer of Illinois named Public Printer and Republican Ways and Means panel plans to make Dingley tariff duties retroactive to April 2. Also noted are disputes with Peru over an American sailor Ramsay, calls for a monetary commission, drownings in New York and Illinois, fires, and various diplomatic tensions and legislative moves shaping the period.

Washington Frank W. Palmer Ilinois Ways and Means Committee Foraker United States Ramsay McKenzie State Department Ashington Callao Peru Tral Sherman Joseph P. Smith Ohio Bureau of American Republics Ways and Huse Spain Oabs New York Gago House McKenna United States Supreme Court Circuit Court Appeala Thedoint Teofile Association

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