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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1907
Page
4
The piece surveys a range of topics from an imagined war airship and postwar diplomacy at The Hague to ideas for growing tea at home, alongside notes on synthetic camphor, dreams research, Adriatic sharks, banana flour imports, and the Sahara’s expanse. It closes with a medical ad and a price rise for whalebone over a century.
An 70 year mariner Captain Harry Rockhill recounts life as a Civil War blockade runner sailing the Laughing Lass from Charleston. In a fog bound escape on February 17 1864 the crew slipped past blockading ships with careful stealth while a guard ship loomed nearby. The mission relied on silence and skill, aided by a dog kept in a boat and a slow favorable breeze as they pressed toward freedom.
In dense fog near dawn a guardship orders the Laughing Lass to heave to. Fire bursts erupt toward a dog’s howls as guardships fire. a rocket lights the night and a longboat escapes. At first light the blockade runner is gone with no smoke trail in the horizon.
The Social Register Locater catalogs 84 500 names of prominent Americans across twenty cities. It highlights surname concentrations from Smiths numbering 556 in total to Browns 346, with regional tallies in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. The piece notes spelling differences and recurring family lines like Biddle Cabot and Adams.
A fragmented miscellany of maxims on time vanity pride and gender roles cites varied voices from The Gentles Cynfer in the New York Times and others. The bits touch on honesty pride aging romance and social status in a dense collage of aphorisms.
Reported sound proof blocks use a mixture of rye flour with sawdust coke and ash requiring some chemical skill. A Himalayan summit record by Dr Longstadle and guides is noted. Mosquito color preference observed with dark hues favored over pale. Milk stone production emerging in Europe as cheaper non inflammable substitute for celluloid. A Boston firm relocates a seven room house by barge from Prison Point to Winthrop Highlands for use as a summer cottage.
American style silos near Geneva showcase silage to Swiss farmers as several are planned after two seventy five ton silos fed cattle on twelve acres of corn. In London, engineers tour a vast underground reservoir at Honor Oak, part of a new sixty million gallon system under the Thames with arches, caverns, and future garden potential.
The article explains cowboy boots feature high narrow heels and decorative stitching. Heels rise to keep the rider’s foot in the stirrup and provide stability when roping. On the ground the tall heels anchor footing as the animal pulls, securing balance during work. Kansas City Star.
A Irish youth applied for work with a Cairo farmer after visiting Western Milneip. The farmer, impressed by his cheerful manner, asked if he could cradle and, noting no immediate need, inquired about other duties. The exchange reflects a lighthearted job request and social dialogue from a local weekly.
Mrs New Tiwed cries out mean and brutal words as she disputes baking and feeding. The exchange reveals tension over domestic duties and bread making, with a husbandly retort that underscores the conflict. The Philadelphia Press reports the couple's row as a slice of everyday life.
A clipped Chicago Record Herald item notes a remark about a woman who once declined marriage, followed by a light jab about her intelligence, reflecting a sharp, tongue in cheek local voice.
George KE Roberts ex director of the mint arrives in Chicago to lead Commercial National Bank announcing the country is more prosperous than ever. He cites strong capital investment and resilient national resources, while Dun's Review editor notes no retrograde movement with higher bank exchanges and stronger railway earnings and commodity prices.
Maine farmers report heavy crop damage as two days of rain are needed to avert irreparable growth loss. Prices rise as many shift to higher mil for relief. Salmon Run disappoints with forecasts of only about 190000 cases, and Texas Farmers Union estimates cotton this season at 12 million bales, well short of the 14 million needed.
Chester County farmers report an astonishing yield across wheat and hay crops. They say the bumper season makes their future labor needs appear manageable and the overall progress seems practically safe for many years ahead.
The report cites the lack of heavy tame this season affecting New England summer resort proprietors, with concern over impact on crops including potatoes and corn. Rust in wheat observed in some areas, with debate over next thirty days weather spreading the rust. damage noted since 1904. Railway to Fight Nebraska Land Assessments by Union Pacific Railways plans to challenge current land valuation methods.
The Farmers' Union shows readiness to regulate the market as offers for 12 cent cotton are refused. The union operates 318 Texas warehouses with capacity for over one million bales, including 150 new warehouses built last year. Pittsburg Cut Nail Association raises wrought cut nails five cents to $2.10 per keg.
Four men drown when the Savoy launch sinks off Port Monmouth near Raritan Bay after a pump blowout caused by the fly wheel strike. Gastave Metzger, 60, a Newark chemist, dies saving his son. Charles Guenther leads the party but perishes with Weber and Schrierer. Only the Metzger son and a few others survive. bodies recovered include Metzger elder and Guenther missing. Rescue by Handy Valet boat reaches seven survivors and one body.
Norfolk report states the Jamestown Centennial Exposition is practically finished with minor details to be completed in ten days. Director James Barr praised the exhibit, buildings, and Hampton Roads setting. In Portland, Oregon, jeweler Harry Liebe killed his wife and then himself.
In Mayfield Kentucky two young white boys named Junter and Escape, with accomplices Noah Coffee and Don Frasier, were jailed for store breaking. They reportedly fastened the keeper in his cell and escaped over the wall, prompting a search as the jailer was released about an hour later.
Yellow fever spreads within the Cuban garrison at Cienfuegos with ten cases. Eight more are reported, triggering strict precautions to halt spread. In Texas, Washington County cotton pickers form a union demanding 60 to 75 cents per 100 pounds, but farmers retaliate and disband the group. Additional reports discuss Standard Oil monopoly exposure and eight weeks of peace conference progress from an American perspective.
An Irish man in a Western market town carries a live turkey under his arm. The turkey squawks loudly, disturbing him until at last he pokes it and scolds in a broad Irish accent asking why it should walk when he is willing to carry it. This humorous vignette from Harper's Monthly reflects social caricature and lightfolk humor.
A long joke in Yonkers Statesman riffs on a proverb about marriage described as a high risk bet from 12 to 2. Patrice explains the phrase means taking a 12 to 2 chance, reflecting a playful exchange on marriage and fate.
A fragment reflecting White's Sayings on advertising and price, noting Boston as a cosmopolitan city. It cites Samuel M Crother's Outdoor Boston in the Century, describing persistent civic tradition amid a large immigrant population shift and a Puritan city transformed yet retaining its core type.
A veteran, Frank Doremus of Roosevelt Ave Indianapolis, recalls kidney trouble after army service in 1897. He suffered severe headaches, sleeplessness, dropsy and weight loss before Doan's Kidney Pills relieved swelling and pain, restoring health after nine years. Sold by dealers, 60 cents for 2 boxes from Foster Milburn Co. Also reports on Francis Wing organizing a four million bean trust using Interstate Product Company to control bean elevators, and a Cedar and Pine study linking Cedrus cedar to pine ancestry with primitive Absetinace traits.
A traveler asks for socks in a village store but only one size is kept. The clerk explains that if socks are too long they are pulled up at the heels, if too short they are pulled down at the toes. The tale preserves humorous regional speech in a period voice.
A Philadelphia Press snippet narrates a perilous bite episode as a veteran James Wisman using pork tied to a string to extract a lodged bone, with a cautious second attempt. The piece includes Navy banter from Punch and a remark on profits from tornado lands, plus a boast about a world’s smartest dog bred in Mexico.
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