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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1922
Page
7
Fashion writers note sport skirts and jackets as summer staples with gray homespun, blue chenille neck detailing, and pale tint accents. Millinery models emphasize wide brims and floral motifs with orchid, gooseberry green, and nasturtium tones, including hats decorated with flowers, beads, and ribbons.
Practical kitchen notes from a 1920s era column. It extols water cress as a purifying tonic, with preparation and a water-cress soup recipe. It then lists affordable, nourishing dishes including bean soup custards puddings and a baked apple dessert, with stepwise cooking guidance and garnish ideas.
A Quaker whose patriotism overrode religious scruples goes to war. He crawls through No Man's Land and spots a German soldier. He shouts a warning then fires, explaining the danger to the other man before delivering the shot.
A Kansas City Star item recounts Gap Johnson of Bumpus Ridge declining to join a posse chasing robbers at Tomlinville. He cites illnesses and a humorous misadventure with clothing, aside from a wedding unrelated to the chase. The piece ends with a quip on distinguishing victory from defeat and a Browne quote.
A Kansas City Star item describes a community revival near Mount Piggy that sparks public confessions and relationship gossip. A wife’s elopement plan comes to light, a husband confronts the alleged lover, and several men leave the area, fostering talk of private matters becoming public.
A Dubica to Agram train was halted by a large pack of hungry wolves after leaving the station in heavy snow. The wolves leaped onto the engine and coaches, passengers barricaded themselves and used rifles and revolvers. Many wolves were killed as the train sped away, reaching Agraum bloodstained with remains of wolves.
A quirky, playful quip contrasts marriage and bachelor life as a wife eases trouble and a man forgets worries. The lines tease relationship dynamics with light humor and a warning about possible bigger mistakes.
A Pennsylvania widower, no longer young, disrupts a wedding by misreading ritual lines. He refuses to repeat after the minister and blurts out a quip about long absence from marriage, unsettling the clergyman with his stubborn humor and misremembered vows.
A fragment argues that removing berry bush thorns prompts the plant to adapt by developing new protection. It links berry seeds’ survival to thorny stems and compares evolution to a turtle’s shell, implying possible bitter fruit as a later defense.
A witty exchange shows a loud talker called ignorant, the wife retorts she is not deaf, and a quip about freedom of speech being curbed by public opinion except gossip.
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