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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1912
Page
9
A tired nurse treats Mrs Darrell in a neurasthenic state. She uses kindness and fairy tale talk to comfort the patient and coax truth from the husband about his poverty. The plan ends as the wife accepts hardship and vows to reunite with love, aided by the nurse’s intervention.
Idle speculation about a man named Biffers riding his new motorcycle just a few days after purchase. The exchange questions whether he is driving at 40 miles per hour because he cannot stop it or has already become an expert speeder.
The article profiles Emiliano Zapata describing him as an itinerant merchant and peddler who rose to lead a growing rebel force. It notes his literacy, schooling, shrewdness, magnetism, and bravery, and states he commanded substantial forces driving the government to deploy many troops by February.
The piece discusses impending loss of Native American culture as Alaska Indians face health and assimilation pressures. It urges government support for Modern Historic Records association to preserve culture through writings, photographs by E S Curtis for J Pierpont Morgan, and other efforts documenting customs, arts, and social life.
Rev. Herbert 8. Bigelow, president of Ohio's constitutional convention in Columbus, is a Congregational minister and former Cincinnati pastor. A Indiana native, 42, Western Reserve University graduate, he has long led reform efforts and backed Tom L. Johnson. The convention began January 9, 1912, with lawyers in the minority.
Inventor Hudson Maxim forecasts a world future with three nations dividing the globe into the United States of Asia, Africa, and America. He cites rapid Chinese progress and warns of potential major wars amid tense relations among Germany Britain Japan and the United States.
Poem calls the south wind to wake spring growth and scent. The speaker imagines vines, grass, blossoms and trees responding to the warm breeze. Refrains invite revival, bees, and a mingling of dream and reality as nature's rhythm returns with summer's promise.
An amused piece describes a canned oyster in a church social skit dreaming of high life. The oyster imagines mingling with lobsters and crabs, then is plated on a shell and presented to a waiter, finally reaching the blue point degree before being served to a diner.
The dialogue notes meat prices have risen while the leather market remains firm, with a stance that the increase will not affect their plans.
A vivid, fragmentary scene describes a fierce mosquito on a cheek, its form likened to a camel humps and a beak like enamel. The quirky phrasing suggests a humorous, painterly moment from a bygone page.
A humorous exchange features a heavy thinker pondering whether an Eton jacket belongs in the same style category as a dinner coat. The dialogue plays on distinctions in formal attire.
The fragment suggests a proverb about a person who boasts or harms an owl harr and ends up sidelined or demoted to a lesser role. The text hints at consequence for overreaching behavior.
An American in Jerusalem travels a motor boat around the Dead Sea describing fertile ghors near Engedi and a vivid Masada fortress landscape. He notes the salt mountain Usdum with a cave and polished rock salt formations and mentions the apple of Sodom near Masada in the Ghor el Mizra region.
Harper's Weekly notes that Swiss families measure rank by cheese age and honor guests with hard cheese. Cheese named for newborn heirs is kept until marriage, then shared by guests with toasts to the couple.
Chicago man Lloyd Moulds and farmer from the North Side observed an old water tower at risk of loss. Con men attempted a sale for 626 dollars but a timely police arrival stopped the deal and saved the buyer’s money.
Police arrest Victor Weiss after a 1,000 foot film reel was wound around his body during the alleged robbery of a film company. The incident ends with Weiss in custody as authorities investigate the theft.
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