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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1909
Page
4
The article describes a famine in China caused by heavy rice exports and a prolonged drought. Prices rise while supplies shrink, with people scavenging for herbs, families starving, and some turning to opium. A fast and prayers for rain are ordered, and officials assist at the City Temple.
A garden note describes a long stretch of wild rose varieties on the Payne Whitney estate in Manhasset Long Island, valued for its winter appeal due to red stems and hips. A joke from Success Magazine features a Baltimore teacher explaining recuperate with a child named Charley reacting to the idea of night and a tired father.
A movement to fund a monument for Francis E. Spinner, former U S Treasurer, highlights women in government service since 1862. Spinner faced backlash yet expanded the workforce to several hundred. Also noted is The London Lancet’s call for a national fly control crusade recommending a weak formaldehyde solution as an exterminator, claiming it kills flies without poisoning, aiding disinfection.
A Richmond Virginia woman chronicles drastic health changes after stopping coffee. She praises Postum and Grape-Nuts, noting weight gain, restored sight in one eye, and renewed energy and memory, urging others to try the products for better health.
Billy Henderson, a red haired boy with blue eyes, is hired as an assistant express messenger by Mr Booth of the Great Western Express Company. Merrihew, a harsh clerk, doubts a boy can handle the job and pressures him. On the first night the night mail is robbed when a masked bandit enters the car and forces Merrihew to surrender.
A description of Montenegro customs contrasts the horo and kolo dances with Balkan warlike traits. Observers note stern Montenegrin manners, frequent vendettas, and feats like bomb throwing to defend clans and villages. The piece recalls Albanian depictions and the perilous courage of Montenegrin fighters.
On a moving express, Billy assists Merrihew in subduing a robber. A second bandit flees as the train crew is alerted. The next morning police parade the captured man, who praises Billy for his bravery. Merrihew praises Billy's nerve and loyalty.
A collection of humorous maxims on gender, social behavior, and habits. Observations touch on women and newspapers, marriage, honesty, temper, shopping frugality, and human folly, attributed to Pointed Paragraphs in the Chicago News.
A quixotic exchange recalls a forgotten object, a pint pot, tied to memories of a worker from four years ago. The dialogue hints at memory, loss, and a human likened to a growing figure, suggesting bleak, reflective overtones.
A guide describes a summery handbag of heavy white filet net with en broidered scrolls and a white braid handle. It also offers home hacks from restoring yellowed white silk to enamelning syrup-tin storage bottles and cross stripe curtains, with laundering and mending advice for fabrics and tablecloths.
A collection notes progress across fields from Calcutta mill refuse to new uranium ore handling in Bohemia. It cites Lillienthal berry varieties, Shachelton Antarctic findings on magnetic pole shifts, and France’s Tuilieres hydro electric works. It also reports on American college athletes growing taller heavier with larger chests and lung capacity.
A historical kitchen note outlines asparagus cakes fried in butter, baked eggs with dry whites and yolk hollows, bread puffs fried in hot lard, strawberry trifle with whipped cream, tempting tomatoes fried with ham on buttered toast, and decorative parsley garnish.
A new British electro metallurgist invention enables continuous production of copper wire and sheets in varying sizes in one operation. It yields purer, stronger copper than rolling or drawing, with tubes and sheets achieving high tensile strengths and the process ten times faster than electro deposition. A German firm plans large scale exploitation.
An automobilist stops, picks up a hen killed by his car, and rings a farmhouse doorbell. A woman answers and jokes she has been trying to catch the hen for three days to cook for dinner, thanking him for the mishap.
The side show manager showcases a young man described as a dyed in the wool Indiana poet. He has written a year of poems this spring and has not mentioned the word Mshings New York Globe, drawing curious questions from the audience.
In a London Chronicle account, Mine Novikort recalls Kinglike praising war to prevent world emasculation. He notes a remark about population density and contrasts Bright’s controversial comment on Crimean affairs, urging a textual edit proposal.
New York City reports suggest winter wheat yields may reach 400,000,000 bushels with chances of 405,000,000. Spring wheat faces critical Northwest conditions with risks from weather and rust. notable yields in Illinois range 15–36 bushels per acre. Market notes cover steel, rice, tea, cheese, and poultry amid varied price pressure and production signals.
Korosha Wisconsin judge Joseph R Clarkson of Baker and Clarkson vanished from his home. Police asked to search at relatives' urging. He had previously disappeared for five months from Omaha years ago during a lapse of memory and later returned.
Munyon's eminent doctors offer a free medical examination by mail requests. Readers obtain a blank to fill and return for diagnosis with no obligation. The Philadelphia address is Munyon's 53d and Jefferson Sts. The ad includes a quip about piano keys from elephants in a patent medicine almanac.
An advertisement extols Donn's Kidney Pills for kidney derangement and irregularities, citing Robert G. Miller of Danville Pennsylvania as a cured patient. The ad urges purchase for 60 cents a box and notes Foster Milburn Co. as the maker. It also reports San Diego building activity totaling $182,000 for three new schools and a separate $220,000 high school project.
A testimonial from Charles T Bauer of Volant Pa claims twelve years of eczema on hands and feet healed rapidly after using Cuticura Remedies. He swore previous salves and doctors failed and praises Culicura as the turning point. The Nashville American note adds local fishing trivia from Trenton correspondence.
Marla Ward Brown presents Memoria of Dan Rice the Clown of Our Daddies a 600 page collection of jokes lectures anecdotes songs and satirical bits from Dan Rice famed One Horse Show era with Civil War era humor. Priced postpaid at $1.50 from Book Publishing House 134 Leonard street New York City.
The text urges women to spend time outdoors in gardens and countryside trips while noting the joy of outdoor life. It also recounts a public school Flag Day scene where a boy struggles to say a simple phrase and a towheaded six year old arrives for instruction, illustrating school ceremony preparations and student missteps.
An Indian named Noble Star, while bathing in Cache Creek, spotted a fish shadowing him and hauled in a nearly 200 pound catfish. The creature stretched over five feet, with a head weighing fourteen pounds.
Sir Robert Hart compares Western and Chinese marriage customs using a tale of a great scholar. He notes the foreign method warms by marriage then cools, while the Chinese method starts cold and grows warmer after wedlock, ending in long lifelong affection.
In a London drawing room a hostess questions a widow about her winter tour in the sunny South. The widow, Mia, reflects vaguely on Rome while her daughter Ethel confirms the trip and recalls a memorable shopping moment with silk stockings.
A German grower near Berkeley after twenty years of experiments has developed two new strawberries, one of them white. The fruit is seed speckled on the exterior and otherwise distinct from typical strawberries. The plant yields through winter in mild climates and can bear into December when framed. The berries are large with excellent flavor, rivaling Parson and Royal Sovereign.
The Melbourne Age wonders why women’s rush to earn wages hasn’t sparked broad disturbances, attributing it to women developing new feminine industries. Harper’s Weekly describes freezing as the best flower preservation during transport, keeping buds fresh for weeks. Everybody’s Magazine recalls Dr. Francis Patton’s whiskers and a wife’s playful reaction to shaving.
A countryman letters his college son with frugal advice and odd gifts. The piece mixes humor and domestic detail, mentioning breeches and socks, a modest fifty percent money gift, and a caution about family illness. It includes anecdotes on weather questions in British Columbia and a quirky Moon and Sun claim by the King of Siam.
A scene depicts a young woman boasting about reading Dumas Hugo and Ivanhoe while a companion praises Scott. The exchange is framed by satirical narration about urban life, followed by a vignette of a boy amid a tobacco shop and a philanthropist joking about tobacco to kill bugs.
Meeker confides in Blecker about a morning quarrel with his wife. Blecker offers a proverb about storms clearing the air, while Meeker quips that a lightning strike suits a man already struck by trouble. Reported in the Chicago News.
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