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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1889
Page
1
A sweep of items notes expanding pure food associations, suffrage results, New York City budgets, Mahdism doubts, California gold era markers, and tech notes on ball design, saccharine bans, ancient pigments, Chinese telegraph costs, and naval propeller innovation amid imperial caution.
Alfred J. Hough cites perseverance through hardship with lines urging action before the sun goes down. The verse frames duty, resilience, and moral resolve as the day ends, urging steadfast effort and leaving nothing undone until twilight.
A California hotel kept near a railroad terminal hosts miners and teamsters. A laundry worker Julia steals a child’s silver dollar bank, is jailed, and her husband Indian Jack vows revenge. Jack abducts the narrator’s son, but miners intervene, freeing her and banishing Jack. The miners replace the bank, the narrator leaves the state, and the tale ends with reflections on the near-fatal encounter.
A couple leaves the theatre and shares a bite at Delmonico's. He ponders aloud why he feels like the moon and jokes about being "on my last quarter" as she jokes about his fullness.
Vintage fashion column traces the first American silk dress gifted by Governor Oglethorpe to the Queen of George III, notes on silk revival, and features on jet fashion, embroidery books, courtship tales, and spring attire including colors, fabrics, and accessories from New York and London fashion scenes.
Professor Whitfield of the American Museum of Natural History unveils Phenacodus primevus, an early hoofed mammal fossil found in Wyoming’s Wind River. The specimen, remarkably preserved, links to ancestor forms of horses and rhinoceroses, with a full five-toed foot and horselike skull.
The Commercial Advertiser notes Captain Ericsson did not pursue wealth. money was secondary to his work. He left many inventions unfinished but gave explicit directions to his engineer W. F Lasscoe and secretary S. W. Taylor to complete them and provided funds in his will for ongoing development.
Lucia Zara, the renowned Mexican midget among Dime Museum curiosities, earns a high salary and travels with a maid and interpreter. She funds her family and enjoys luxury hotels, expensive car rides, and lavish dinners, earning more than many operatic stars despite her small stature.
George Tune describes a native Ram house as a gigantic beehive thirty five feet in diameter and a hundred in circumference. It is supported by short posts at four foot intervals all around and closed at night with plaited cocoanut leaf blinds. The floor sits on rough stones and pebbles with coconut mats above. In the center stand two to three posts extending to support the ridgepole.
News notes from the capital cover a formal dinner with the Chinese Minister and U S officials, jokes about language, and later presidential postmaster appointments across several states. The items include replacements due to deaths resignations and term ends, plus reserve-agent selections for multiple national banks.
A decision by Windom states foreign manufacturer machinery cannot enter free of duty to transport entire plants to the U S and moving workers with the plant violates the Contract Labor law. Emancipation Day parade in Washington features dignitaries and speeches by Stew W Derrick and Frederick Douglass amid large civic and military participation.
Assistant Treasurer Ellis H. Roberts begins official duties as fifteen Washington experts start counting cash in the U S Sub Treasury vaults New York. The process covers paper money gold and silver certificates bonds and other securities totaling about 25 million in notes 105 million in gold and 332 million in silver with counting to take three weeks to a month.
The report catalogs a string of tragedies and official actions: GesenaL Cranes Emap Guaran dies of pneumonia at Laurel House Lakewood New Jersey aged sixty five. Conshohocken Worsted Company assigns with three mills and large payroll. A Pittston widow commits suicide. a Minneapolis mayor and others die by self-inflicted causes. Governor of South Carolina pardons two colored lynchers. A farmer near Ann Arbor shoots his son. A child in Mostly District of Colombia dies by hanging. A cyclone in Alabama kills two. a Patrick County forest fire devastates. Official remarks note Justice Matthews death resolutions and various political and international items.
A freight train along the Cairo Short Line near Belleville sank the road bed two miles from town. The engine and cars vanished ten feet into the earth after the surface collapsed over Marsh's cow mine. Two brakemen were seriously injured as the train crew escaped with minor bruises.
Hannah Battersby of Frankford near Philadelphia died after weeks of illness. Born in Vermont in the early 1800s she rapidly grew fat after adolescence. She was exhibited with her husband John Battershy as the greatest living anomaly.
A brief cartoonish exchange shows a young man admitting she cried after a poem about a blotched pet, and the editor tells him to go home and vow not to write more poems, hoping his mother will be pleased at least.
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