08 Aug 1902
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1902
Page
1
Dr I K Funk argues Americans rely on rough dates and generalities, preferring quick practical results over exact details. He contrasts American style with Germany and England, praising swift action, decisive leadership, and notching success through execution rather than plan and theory.
The text argues defective moral control accompanies intellectual disorders such as idiocy and insanity. It notes some children are cruel or dangerous despite normal intellect, suggesting moral defects are linked to brain disease or impairment. Temporary moral lapses may fade, while early training could improve the residual moral sense to avert a grim future.
Edwin Markham denounces wealth worship as a ruinous force eroding character. He cites gold’s temptations and social flattery, warns thatMoney power corrupts, and urges steadfast character and culture as lasting inheritance beyond riches.
A journalist notes tips at New York restaurants where waiters pool and share tips. One server saved for twenty years, averaging about 1300 dollars annually. The piece contrasts American individualism with family stakes. Also covered are a 700-dollar sale of a Hawaiian postal item and other auction highlights including early stamps and an art dispute in Vienna with a 1000 crown award.
Fragmentary verse from the Springfield Republican laments mortality and shadows. It ponders the likeness of shadows to people, asks if actions and deeds leave a legacy, and whether future souls will remember the living after death.
A transient Englishwoman arrives with a baby at a Rougemont inn seeking shelter. She hides a recent marriage ring and claims she fled her past to avoid her family. She dies soon after, and the village gathers as the cure announces a quiet, improvised marriage for the child’s sake.
In a small Rougemont scene a man presents a ring inscribed Rosie and Apple Septem ber 20 1900 claiming a marriage and christening will fix the child’s name Teste after the mother and Rougemont after the village. Paul will collect offerings at the church door after the ceremony.
An excerpt describes a fisherman's noonday meal cooked on hot stones beside a spring with trout and bread. It shifts to anecdotes on dogs needing meat and water, then to a New Orleans Times-Democrat piece on rabies, and finally to vivid geography of snakes in Dutch Guiana and a note about New York Central train grades.
Miss Mahalo Terry of Limebury Conn. marks her hundredth birthday in her brown silk dress made in 1870. Despite deafness and lameness, she hosts callers at home and recalls a long life linked to the Revolution. The feature discusses fashion trends and a gas company campaign alongside social commentary on women’s roles in Germany and dress details.
A collage of women’s achievements and fashion notes from early 1900s society. Peacocks aged near 100, Miss Maddox becoming Maryland’s first woman lawyer, and Miss Clark named Tuskegee’s women principal. Clara Barton urged to organize Red Cross in Mexico. new pedestrian memorials. Elmira College’s Lertha Burgett as top baseball thrower. and a shipboard incident with Captain Millburn’s family aiding in firefighting efforts.
A fragment describes wrist bracelets with silver accents and rhinestone belts, a delicate powdering hat with bows, silk stockings with open work stripes, and fancy buckles in gun metal or jeweled styles. It notes feathered hats with velvet ribbons and a fleur de lys motif.
A garbled collage of proverbs and quotes from multiple origins including Portuguese Dutch French and German, with stray spellings. The text weaves reflections on public service faithfulness happiness and gentleness, mixed with misprints and inconsistent capitalization.
A garbled OCR fragment describes a Sunday service scene with about forty singers on church steps and references to hair, love, fear, and a preacher. The text is largely unreadable, with many garbled names and phrases that do not form a coherent event.
State Department informed that Cuban House King secured a loan of 35 million dollars. Reports cover naval expansion, hazing incidents, sewers, Philippine affairs, and various international updates including Spain Portugal and the United States, with multiple named figures and places.
South Haven Michigan Mr and Mrs John Shandrow adopt a whole orphans asylum's twenty two children sent from the Smith Foundling Hospital Minneapolis They plan to raise all of them as their own with eight baptized at once by a local minister.
American Representative at Berlin Andrew D White announced his resignation to take effect November 7. He will remain in Hamburg through month end. Rumors swirl about a possible successor and shifts in diplomatic posts as Berlin awaits formal notice.
Rumored and reported in London and confirmed locally, a large British Canadian steel alliance is planned to challenge United States Steel. Dominion Steel Company and Nova Scotia Steel Company areCanadian partners with a major English group controlling mills in Midlands and South Wales.
The Renney Con dor from Puerto Cortez Honduras reports Britain has withdrawn sovereignty claims to the Bay Islands Urilan-Ruatni Barreeon Guanaja Felin and Baratland. The withdrawal follows treaties with the United States in 1850 and 1800. Island population is mostly British origin with some Americans. English spoken. The islands conduct a large fruit trade with New Orleans and the U S. maintains the sole consul presence.
The report notes over 50,000 pension claims from the Spanish American War era remain in process with about 46,500 granted, a ten percent yearly rise. Average annual pensions now near 153.50 dollars, while Roosevelt hints at church reform in the Philippines.
News notes Newark milk sellers oppose a new ordinance effective Sept. 1 requiring licenses. Dealers fear an added burden and possible prosecutions for misstatements about milk sources, risking small shops closing and harming poor families who rely on small grocers for milk in limited quantities.
Professor William H. Holmes, curator at the National Museum, travels to Ohio and Indiana to study reported palaeolithic remains along the Ohio Valley. He will inspect regional mounds and related relics from the season while evaluating objects found in such contexts.
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