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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1890
Page
1
A collage of 19th century notes reports on European literacy, Southern exhibitions, steamship progress, Siam rail plans, Irish emigration, German horses, Texas land deals, cannibal myths, hypnotism claims, dental gold, and a memoir fragment about oil prospecting and a piano surprise. The items mingle statistics, inventions, and social curiosities with brief anecdotes and international items.
Frank Leslie's presents a hopeful verse urging a weary reader to endure sorrow. It promises that patience and courage will be rewarded as sunlight eventually reaches them, guided by divine angels through tomorrow and beyond.
A narrator recalls learning the dangers of intimate ties and the slow path to success through labor. Abigail is described as the last of a line of close friends, while a grandmother mocks schooling but hints at practical wisdom about restraint and self-control.
In Klisheva near Moscow, a June discovery of a spring spurred a popular cult. An old woman’s dream claimed curative waters, drawing many peasants and children who paid coins beneath a cross. Two dead frogs in a bottle marked the miracle, as officials struggle to control crowds.
An editor muses on the value of ink and paper in a reflective note. The fragment hints at a broader literary struggle to assess creative worth and material costs in a bygone era. The exchange evokes a period voice and a sense of drafting toward a final evaluative judgment.
A Tonquin desperado Lun-Ky leads a ferocious bandit horde near Dong-tien Tonquin. Two French captives Costa and Roque were ransomed for 100 pieces of silk 12 watches and 50000 in coin. Lun-Ky vows to seize his old sweetheart and kill her husband, an ominous threat noted by observers.
A compilation notes Lady Sherbrooke in the Lords gallery aiding her husband, the first American woman railroad president Mrs. Charles D. Haines, Austrian progress with women in posts, a wire dress brush invention, a New York dentist employing a lady assistant, and fashion notes on hats, ribbons, stockings, and lace. It also covers second-crop crops for farms including clover sorghum and millet with farming guidance.
A collection of kitchen tips and recipes includes a Take one bunch of radishes salad with egg and milk dressing, a New Orleans bouillabaisse method with saffron and sauterne, and an improvised minute pudding. Also features housekeeping tidbits on stain removal windows and mosquito bites.
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