11 Aug 1893
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1893
Page
1
A collage of early 20th century observations covers Europe’s fiscal strains Italy and Spain, US farming price trends, Oregon lumber exports to Australia, and copyright quirks in photography. It notes railroading growth, Vanderbilt land gains, sheep industry shifts, and hydrophobia treatment updates with 104 patients and no deaths reported.
A broad digest covers prison ratios in India versus Britain and a Navy admiral’s view of tech decline. It notes antique property values in Chicago, Sir Samuel Baker’s ram flotilla plan, Berkeley County soil changes after an earthquake, and the likelihood of Siam falling to France or England. It comments on Vandeerbilts, New York physicians born south of a line, textile industry trends, and World’s Fair finances and home trade advocates.
A heavy rain and electric storm drenched Middlesborough Kentucky, showering sun perch fish from one and a half to three inches on Chamberlain Avenue. Several measured four inches, with origin speculated as from a storm that moved from the northwest over Canada Mountain, the town’s surrounding high range, though no water sources are nearby.
Fragmented poem stanza praising nature and happiness. Quoted lines celebrate blooms night fall and cheerful creatures, urging joy despite gloom. Attributed to Dora Real Goodale with garbled text.
In a Boston garret, Annice Crump, a pretty, poised girl loved by her adopted father William Crump, faces a peril as her biological father George Wilson appears seeking her. Annice chooses to stay with William, rejecting wealth for a family built on care, while Wilson accepts the outcome and offers support.
A Philadelphia Record piece argues for diet over drugs, urging daily milk consumption to improve vitality and recover lost powers. It extols wholesome foods, notes milk’s safety when boiled, and claims ten days of milk diet can improve many ailments. It ends with an Arab superstition about storks signaling household happiness.
A collage of quips and exchanges from old newspapers shows short exchanges about love, work, and society. It features a cautious couple bargaining affection and a playful gibe about diamonds and chemistry amid World’s Fair imagery.
In a stark tale from two papers the wife reveals poverty that grips their home. A hand organ man exposes their lack of money and the husband vows to steal if needed to spare his wife further suffering.
The article traces the potato’s spread from South America to Europe and Africa, noting early misnamings like Irish potato and Virginia potato. It scraps the Raleigh-Virginia myth and explains wild North American tubers are small and unused by eastern tribes.
The famed Jer sey bull Lisgar St Lambert at J J Doughty’s Idlewilde farm in Augusta Georgia was struck and killed instantly when tied to a cedar post. The post splintered as the bolt hit, with no other damage to the building. Once prized at four hundred dollars, the bull was valued near a thousand dollars at death and was well known across America.
Doeter R.8 Evans, a leading physician living at Wheelsing near the Georgia line, is noted for peculiar relics including about two hundred rattlesnakes collected from various sources. A seven-foot-four inch quake with a four-inch back was fatal to none after a man named Miller was bitten while plowing. he walked home leading his horse and survived, thirty years ago, as cited by the Atlanta Constitution.
Describes Anthony's Nose on a Mo hawk River tributary in Montgomery County New York as a 300 feet long natural curiosity with human-like shape. Mentions another Nose on the Hudson opposite Fort Montgomery and notes Berlin streets are exceptionally clean with disease prevention measures.
President Cleveland sends a message to Congress calling an emergency session to address financial distress. He argues the Sherman silver purchase law harms the economy, endangers the gold standard, and demands rapid repeal to stabilize currency and protect workers and capital.
A collage of fragments mentions Evreos the inventor as vegetarian, Tie Sboh of Perala with many children, Yorks receiving wedding gifts, and royalties to Mane Twars for Innocents Abroad. Other items note political figures, court titles, and speculative royal successions with names and places scattered throughout.
An explosion aboard the German steamship Baden at Kiel killed Lieutenant Oclavvr and Zembsoh and seven seamen while injuring seventeen. A grenade removed from the magazine detonated, destroying much of the armoured cruiser. Prince Henry of Prussia and Vice Admiral Schroider aided in relief efforts on the bridge.
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