08 Apr 1892
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1892
Page
1
Michigan plans to furnish over a million dollars in lumber for World’s Fair buildings and four hundred fifty thousand dollars for Michigan contractors. The article discusses costs, immigrant trends, farming advice, and a French tale of Brigitte and a miser as side items.
A lyrical verse extols a beloved sweetheart Marie with ornate imagery of blue eyes violet purples and rose petals. The speaker vows eternal love and devotion, promising endless affection and beauty in a tender, romantic tone.
A collage of fashion briefs discusses camel hair goods, pink shades, and hat trends. It covers Empress diaries and the rise of hats with bold strings, plus a satirical look at English girls in Siam’s schooling and Parisian punctuation in bonnets.
In an excerpt from St Nicholas on Mistérie Dwarfs a dwarf named Jeffrey serves the king by appearing from a giant venison pie at Burleigh. Buckingham schemes with a joke as the court laughs while the dwarf is honored before Queen.
A Chicago News note describes women in the South making a delicate penetrating perfume named for the Vicatom. They fill scent bottles with orange blossom potris, pour in pure spirit, and add more flowers as it shrinks, creating a concentrated perfume at minimal cost.
Nutritional tips mix with recipes for calf liver and lamb liver with butter and lemon juice. Recipes span Wafers to Lemon Jumbles and Dimples with almonds and rose water. Also included are notes on animal behavior and sunflower seed production in Russia.
A giant mastodon skeleton was unearthed in the Snake River delta between Boise and Weiser in Ada County. A ten foot long bone and thickest point about ten inches remain, but exposure hastens decay and hinders excavation. Earlier finds along the Smoke River and a Blackfoot site in Bingham County also decayed after exhumation.
Two massive fires in New Orleans nearly simultaneous destroyed about 63 000 bales of cotton and 11 blocks of property. Losses reached around 3.5 million pounds with presses and mills heavily damaged. fire department reduced to a fraction of its former size hampered efforts.
A compact digest of varied items including trade, diplomacy, and weather. Reports note Venezuela unrest, Chilean army action, France duelling activity, iron trade stagnation, Italy budget deficit, Texas wheat prospects, Bell Telephone earnings, Mississippi World’s Fair funding, and Russian relief aid. Also cited are U.S. political shifts, frost damage in Wisconsin, naval concentration near San Francisco, American land issues with Mexico, and census sugar data.
Exposition plans reveal 7000 carloads of building materials on the grounds and a sister village exhibit spanning 700 000 square feet on Aid way Plaisance. Foreign country appropriations exceed 4 509 000 dollars with Italy and Norway funding exhibits. Canada, Australia, Ireland, and Montana contribute displays and wildlife cases. Leather, rail, and utilities buildings rise costing hundreds of thousands, and a dedicated two story construction HQ in Jackson Park will host departments and a hospital. Public and private funds push state appropriations to over 5 million across Maryland New York New Jersey Iowa and Massachusetts.
Smoke less powder trials at the Indian Head proving ground near Washington show increased projectile velocities with about half the usual powder and no chamber pressure rise. Naval officials note potential use in six inch calibers and smaller, citing four inch and eight inch gun results with velocities up to 2100 to 2415 feet per second and pressures around 14.6 to 18.6 tons. Results compare favorably with foreign tests under better conditions.
Joseph Lytle, who defended his wife and two daughters, is dragged from Findlay County Jail by about 100 men. The mob battering the door hangs him on an iron cross at Main Street Bridge, a revolver shot snaps the rope, and the body is shot twenty times before being placed at a telegraph pole. Lytle had written that his body be given to his brother for burial beside his mother.
Reports describe balloons over Polish territory and frontier areas with bright sky flashes misread as comets. Officials warn aerial balloons could alter warfare while residents recall nightly balloons near cities and stations along the frontier.
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