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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1900
Page
1
The poem recalls a girl named Niona Irving reflecting on a boyish figure in uniform, a cherished memory of a child beloved by the speaker. The lines contrast a heroic image with a tender longed-for innocence, expressing enduring affection as years pass.
A woman recalls choosing to marry Gus Waters after a love triangle. She rejects Robert Carpenter, notes Hattie Tindo's vanity, and reveals Gus proposes a swift elopement following a quarrel and a newspaper engagement notice. They marry at once and end the tale.
A diverse roundup of ideas and notes including electric water blasting for rock, heated shoes with underfoot tubes, shifting patient ages in Michigan asylums across decades, innovative trolley wire powered autos near Paris, plant migration via rail yards, Algol stars and their light densities, the rise of Japanese paper handkerchiefs in English markets, and wry editorial quips from Philadelphia Times and Puck on social behavior and the gag of the kicker.
A collector writes of dangerous encounters with lions while tracking boars and hunting in Africa. The piece details a feverish hunter's near catastrophe, black porters fleeing, a lion’s close approach, and the hunter’s narrow escape. Includes brief notes on child heroes and other perilous feats abroad.
The verse recounts two sisters, one ambitious and educated, the other plain and married, contrasting fashion and duty. The speaker, a reflective observer, laments wasted knowledge as dust while noting a social embrace of domestic life. A moral urges women to value virtue over vanity and heed enduring truths.
A collage of jokes and quips from various papers includes humor about funerals, servants, secret engagements, editors and poets. It also hops to a brief science snippet on Earth's early heat and a note on Helen Hunt Jackson's grave on Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, with sparse travel detail.
The Republican State Convention met at Grand Central Palace to elect delegates to the National Convention in Philadelphia and presidential electors. Theodore Roosevelt and others were named for future nomination. Governor Roosevelt backed by the platform as McKinley’s administration receives emphatic support and praise.
Swarthmore College girl students in Philadelphia fear no intimation of ban on secret societies at term end. Three women's groups exist Kappa Kappa Gamma Kappa Alpha Phi and Pi Beta Phi. Board of Managers think societies harm campus social life though few will join. male students back the effort to have the order withdrawn as fraternities may be next.
War dispatches describe Boer raiding parties active in the southern sector of the Orange Tree Blaze near Queen Wilhelmina in Holland. Mentions a seasonal sympathy letter from a king, a deadly lung illness among oxen in Natal, and various war-time reports from South Africa.
The report covers a Pan American Congress launch in Mexico, war department armament funding, navy reallocations, ships in Mediterranean patrols, and measles quarantines. It notes Guam cultivation, Manila customs gains, Philippine military presence, and Guam copper extraction. Other items include Forthcoming Cuba admin changes, a Boston embezzlement plea, and various global events with names and numbers.
In Washington a major diplomatic crisis over Armenian outrages prompts talks on forcing Turkey to honor payments for destroyed property. Officials note earlier promises and judgments exist, but execution is pending. severing relations could be considered if Turkey refuses.
Boston reports Miss Corlonn Shattuck, a missionary of twenty three years in Armenia, arrives back after years in Turkey and Corfa. She helped refugees and the wounded during the brutal massacres of 1895, earning the title The Heroine of the Armenian Massacres.
The Frankfort county grand jury returned first indictments against Jim and Barry Howard Youtsey Harlan Whittaker Combs alias Tallow Dick for murder and Charles Finley W H Culton Wharton Golden along with accessories Green Golden Governor WB Taylor John Davin. Golden is the chief witness for the State. Dalton and Youtsey are under arrest with others to be state witnesses. Caleb Powers is under arrest with Holland Whitaker. John Powers Finley Berry and Jim Howard have not been arrested. Judge Cantrill ruled in favor of minor Democratic petitioners for rightful state offices. Warrants issued for those indicted who have not surrendered and they were sent to respective counties.
A British observer describes India facing severe famine with ten million natives dependent on government aid. The land is barren, water scarce, and tanks and reservoirs have dried up, turning vast areas into a brown desert with little grain. Concurrent briefs report Fatal tenement fire in Wampum, Pennsylvania killing four Italians and obituaries and varied baseball and sports notes from Chicago to Scranton.
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