21 Apr 1905
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1905
Page
1
The passage surveys Easter traditions from Derbyshire sugar cupping to German kinderking and English university closings. It notes Easter rites, egg rolling in Washington, Rome’s celebrations with the Pope, and shifts in gift customs away from eggs toward jewelry and small tokens.
Readable fragments evoke a religious tableau with spring imagery. The verses reference martyrs, the cross, and desert sorrow, blending scents of balm incense and flowering boughs with faith and loss in a contemplative, poetic mood.
A illustrated piece notes worshipers dressing for Easter and explores beliefs about Easter sun, water, and moon hare legends from Britain and Europe. It describes customs in England Spain Russia Germany Bohemia and mentions verses from Youth's Companion about the risen Christ and symbols of the holiday.
The article quotes Dr. Osler at Johns Hopkins University addressing men over forty and sixty. It examines his critique of aging professors and his idea of fixed periods of study twenty five, forty, and sixty years, with retirement and chloroform for sixty. It notes Trollope's mock proposal and contrasts with Osler's cautious stance.
The article recounts John Jacob Astor and his son overseeing business at a one story building on Prince Street. Greno Lilegk-Marco Bozaiths Tal legk, Halleck, served as clerk for ISG for seventeen years. Astor warned secrecy about wealth and valued frenemy Walleck as a trustee of the Astor Library.
The Queen noted that ivory stocks at London docks average an annual African elephant slaughter of about 20,000. Letters rebut the figure claiming 85 percent is old store ivory from hoarded tusks and cemetery finds, some hundreds of years old, while a New Orleans item recounts an elevator delay anecdote.
Local health official Dr HH Page warns cancer deaths rise across Somerset towns. He notes 458 deaths in one year and rate increases over two decades from twenty to thirty four. He cites Yeovil Frome and surrounding towns with higher figures and says the rise seems real, not just due to data.
The U S Supreme Court held New York ten hour day and sixty hour week laws unconstitutional in Lochner v New York ruling. Justices Peckham White and Day delivered the majority opinion with Harlan Holmes dissenting. The decision upholds the freedom to contract labor under the Fourteenth Amendment, affecting state contracts and the barge canal project.
A woman who rode in a looping loop auto in Paris died from brain congestion. The Paris Prefect of Police banned similar performances.
A great fire in Pisagua Chile caused nearly 2 million dollars in damage. Fifteen blocks of buildings including the town hall and several banks were destroyed. The fire, believed to have originated at night, left a ruinous scene across the city.
After a conference between Secretary Morton and Acting Secretary Loomis a declaration was reached to bring the remains of John Paul Jones unearthed by Ambassador Porter in Paris to the United States aboard a naval vessel with a proper convoy. Daughters of the American Revolution dedicated Memorial Continental Hall in Washington. A special commission on river disputes was appointed, with Judge Penfield, M C Burel, and Professor F I Newell named.
In a Greenwich Avenue shop, 18 year old Lilian Bartles battled an escaped orangutan weighing about 110 pounds. Reinforcements, including three men and Miss Bartles's cousin, subdued the animal after a chase through the store and up to the Bartles residence. Miss Bartles sustained minor scratches while a male helper was bitten and treated at a drugstore.
Antwerp reports Prince Albert, son of King Leopold’s brother the Count of Vilanders, will be publicly proclaimed heir to the throne on the 75th anniversary of Belgian independence. The Count’s health prevents him from succession, a tacit understanding long in place but never officially sanctioned.
In Limoges France striking laborers locked out at the Haviland porcelain works attacked the plant and other factories. They sacked Theodore Enviland's works and destroyed a valuable automobile. Several policemen were injured while trying to shield property.
The body of W. H. Ainsiey, special representative of the Choctaw Indians in Washington, D. C., was discovered in a grind bar in the Arkansas River, five miles from Fort Smith after he disappeared from a local hotel.
A Saigon dispatch reports Admiral Loyxo’s warships failed to seize a large number of colliers off the Cochinchina coast, noting no substantial captures.
The Highlanders beat Macor 1 to 0 and Giants won over Col 9 to 4. Giants also topped Jersey City in a Polo Ground test. Napier boats led a 100 kilometre race with W Shield’s Oaklane winning. Camden hosts a doubles prize in S C. Open golf went to Donald Ross at Pinehurst 116. An auto parade date moved to April 20. Sands of New York defeated Stane in Boston court tennis.
Police in Trenton respond to a mystery as a three year old girl wanders into the First Precinct. A frightened sergeant and officers face a chaotic sequence of alarms, signaling devices, and a troublesome ruse before discovering the child and settling her at the station. Meanwhile a murder trial opens in Newark as five asylum attendants go on trial for Patrick Corrigan’s death.
Early morning blast at Bernardsville National Bank in a two story building on Claremont Road aroused a family upstairs. The outer safe door was blown, two inner doors intact, burglars used nitroglycerin and blankets to muffle the noise, escape believed via railroad on two handcars with local residents alarmed by the explosion.
Obituary notes James M. Seymour eighty eight? sixty eight? years old former three-time Newark mayor and Democratic gubernatorial nominee. He remained active in Newark’s machine manufacturing business until about two months ago. He began in public service on the Aqueduct Board 1884 90 and rose to popularity leading to repeated mayoral elections.
A Western railway based college aims to train men for detailed railway work with practical equipment, libraries, and lectures delivered by experts, largely through correspondence. The text notes a German Bible printed in 1660 weighing fifteen pounds, owned by Edwin Miller of Reading, Pennsylvania.
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