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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1901
Page
2
The Cranbury Press notes spring cleaning as timely for homes and yards, urging thorough work to curb contagion and improve health. It also critiques farmers who feed unbalanced rations, comparing feed costs by protein content and urging smarter budgeting using bran, gluten, cottonseed, and oil meal to balance cows’ diets for better dairy economics.
A list of local notices includes the Eatoni stown Methodist Church fifty year celebration on May 19. Also mentioned are church events at Pho Hightstown Baptist Church, a newborn in Raritan township, medical and theft items across towns, and various community notes from Hightstown to Asbury Park.
A country station journey shows a plucky old woman on her first rail trip as others smile. She plans to sit back and enjoy herself yet fusses over luggage, missing a lake sign and the voyage’s simple pleasures. The tale rails against delaying life for future riches as the trip ends too soon.
An advertisement extols Cham Berlain s Stomach and Liver Tablets as a superior blood purifier and offers 25 cent samples at N F Clayton s drug store. It also lists Pennsylvania Railroad reduced rates to Buffalo for the Pan American Exposition with multiple excursion options from Washington Baltimore Philadelphia and other points, including special through trains and date ranges.
The six day tour to Old Point Comfort Richmond and Washington via the Pennsylvania Railroad departs New York and Philadelphia on Saturday April 27. Tickets from New York Brooklyn and Newark are 34.00, 82.60 from Trenton, 31.00 from Philadelphia with proportionate rates from other stations. Optional Old Point Comfort return includes hotel and board for six days at 15.00 from New York 18.60 from Trenton 12.50 from Philadelphia and proportionate from others. itineraries at ticket agents Tourist Agent 1198 Broadway New York 4 Court Street Brooklyn 789 Broad Street Newark.
A catalog of women’s dresses features 150 dozen options in light and dark percales and lawns with lace or embroidery. Styles include Bebop sleeves, banded collars, flounce skirts, and colorways in blue pink lavender and white. White and black striped batiste wrappers trimmed with embroidery or braid offered at 1.69. Pin-stripe and polka dot lawn wrappers with collar brettelles cuffs and flounce trim shown in pink blue lavender black on white.
Special offer highlights a well made shirt waist with full front and bishop sleeve paired with a gored skirt featuring a neat ruffe. Dress fabric described as fancy striped lawn in pink blue and lavender, presented as a rare seasonal treat.
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